Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables

曾文旌 (义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com>

From: 曾文旌(义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tomas Vondra" <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, "Konstantin Knizhnik" <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Julien Rouhaud" <rjuju123@gmail.com>, "Dean Rasheed" <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, 蔡松露(子嘉) <zijia@taobao.com>, Cai, Le <le.cai@alibaba-inc.com>, 萧少聪(铁庵) <shaocong.xsc@alibaba-inc.com>
Date: 2020-01-23T16:22:31Z
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  1. PageAddItemExtended(): Add LP_UNUSED assertion.

  2. Remove temporary files after backend crash

  3. Fix comment in indexing.c

  4. Fix failure to ignore leftover temp tables after a server crash.


> 2020年1月22日 下午2:31,Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> 写道:
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> st 22. 1. 2020 v 7:16 odesílatel 曾文旌(义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com <mailto:wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com>> napsal:
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>> 2020年1月22日 上午2:51,Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com <mailto:pavel.stehule@gmail.com>> 写道:
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>> út 21. 1. 2020 v 9:46 odesílatel 曾文旌(义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com <mailto:wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com>> napsal:
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>>> 2020年1月12日 上午4:27,Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com <mailto:pavel.stehule@gmail.com>> 写道:
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>>> Hi
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>>> so 11. 1. 2020 v 15:00 odesílatel 曾文旌(义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com <mailto:wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com>> napsal:
>>> Hi all
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>>> This is the latest patch
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>>> The updates are as follows:
>>> 1. Support global temp Inherit table global temp partition table
>>> 2. Support serial column in GTT
>>> 3. Provide views pg_gtt_relstats pg_gtt_stats for GTT’s statistics
>>> 4. Provide view pg_gtt_attached_pids to manage GTT
>>> 5. Provide function pg_list_gtt_relfrozenxids() to manage GTT
>>> 6. Alter GTT or rename GTT is allowed under some conditions
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>>> Please give me feedback.
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>>> I tested the functionality
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>>> 1. i think so "ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS" should be default mode (like local temp tables).
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>> ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS is default mode now.
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>> Thank you
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>> * I tried to create global temp table with index. When I tried to drop this table (and this table was used by second instance), then I got error message
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>> postgres=# drop table foo;
>> ERROR:  can not drop index when other backend attached this global temp table
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>> It is expected, but it is not too much user friendly. Is better to check if you can drop table, then lock it, and then drop all objects.
> I don't understand what needs to be improved. Could you describe it in detail?
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> the error messages should be some like 
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> can not drop table when other backend attached this global temp table.
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> It is little bit messy, when you try to drop table and you got message about index
It has been repaired in global_temporary_table_v7-pg13.patch

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>> * tab complete can be nice for CREATE GLOBAL TEMP table
> Yes, I will improve it.
It has been repaired in global_temporary_table_v7-pg13.patch

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>> \dt+ \di+ doesn't work correctly, or maybe I don't understand to the implementation.
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> postgres=# create table t(a int primary key);
> CREATE TABLE
> postgres=# create global temp table gt(a int primary key);
> CREATE TABLE
> postgres=# insert into t values(generate_series(1,10000));
> INSERT 0 10000
> postgres=# insert into gt values(generate_series(1,10000));
> INSERT 0 10000
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> postgres=# \dt+
>                             List of relations
>  Schema | Name | Type  |    Owner    | Persistence |  Size  | Description 
> --------+------+-------+-------------+-------------+--------+-------------
>  public | gt   | table | wenjing.zwj | session     | 384 kB | 
>  public | t    | table | wenjing.zwj | permanent   | 384 kB | 
> (2 rows)
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> postgres=# \di+
>                                   List of relations
>  Schema |  Name   | Type  |    Owner    | Table | Persistence |  Size  | Description 
> --------+---------+-------+-------------+-------+-------------+--------+-------------
>  public | gt_pkey | index | wenjing.zwj | gt    | session     | 240 kB | 
>  public | t_pkey  | index | wenjing.zwj | t     | permanent   | 240 kB | 
> (2 rows)
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>> I see same size in all sessions. Global temp tables shares same files?
> No, they use their own files.
> But \dt+ \di+ counts the total file sizes in all sessions for each GTT.
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> I think so it is wrong. The data are independent and the sizes should be independent too
It has been repaired in global_temporary_table_v7-pg13.patch.


Wenjing




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> Wenjing
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>> Regards
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>> Pavel
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>> Wenjing
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>>> I tested some simple scripts 
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>>> test01.sql
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>>> CREATE TEMP TABLE foo(a int, b int);
>>> INSERT INTO foo SELECT random()*100, random()*1000 FROM generate_series(1,1000);
>>> ANALYZE foo;
>>> SELECT sum(a), sum(b) FROM foo;
>>> DROP TABLE foo; -- simulate disconnect
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>>> after 100 sec, the table pg_attribute has 3.2MB
>>> and 64 tps, 6446 transaction
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>>> test02.sql
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>>> INSERT INTO foo SELECT random()*100, random()*1000 FROM generate_series(1,1000);
>>> ANALYZE foo;
>>> SELECT sum(a), sum(b) FROM foo;
>>> DELETE FROM foo; -- simulate disconnect
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>>> after 100 sec, 1688 tps, 168830 transactions
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>>> So performance is absolutely different as we expected.
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>>> From my perspective, this functionality is great.
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>>> Todo:
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>>> pg_table_size function doesn't work
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>>> Regards
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>>> Pavel
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>>> Wenjing
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>>>> 2020年1月6日 上午4:06,Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com <mailto:tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>> 写道:
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>>>> Hi,
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>>>> I think we need to do something with having two patches aiming to add
>>>> global temporary tables:
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>>>> [1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/26/2349/ <https://commitfest.postgresql.org/26/2349/>
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>>>> [2] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/26/2233/ <https://commitfest.postgresql.org/26/2233/>
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>>>> As a reviewer I have no idea which of the threads to look at - certainly
>>>> not without reading both threads, which I doubt anyone will really do.
>>>> The reviews and discussions are somewhat intermixed between those two
>>>> threads, which makes it even more confusing.
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>>>> I think we should agree on a minimal patch combining the necessary/good
>>>> bits from the various patches, and terminate one of the threads (i.e.
>>>> mark it as rejected or RWF). And we need to do that now, otherwise
>>>> there's about 0% chance of getting this into v13.
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>>>> In general, I agree with the sentiment Rober expressed in [1] - the
>>>> patch needs to be as small as possible, not adding "nice to have"
>>>> features (like support for parallel queries - I very much doubt just
>>>> using shared instead of local buffers is enough to make it work.)
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>>>> regards
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>>>> -- 
>>>> Tomas Vondra                  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/>
>>>> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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