Re: Pluggable Storage - Andres's take

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Asim R P <apraveen@pivotal.io>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2019-04-11T11:52:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 08/04/2019 20:37, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2019-04-08 15:34:46 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> There were a bunch of typos in the comments in tableam.h, see attached. Some
>> of the comments could use more copy-editing and clarification, I think, but
>> I stuck to fixing just typos and such for now.
> I pushed these after adding three boring changes by pgindent. Thanks for
> those!
> 
> I'd greatly welcome more feedback on the comments - I've been pretty
> deep in this for so long that I don't see all of the issues anymore. And
> a mild dyslexia doesn't help...

Here is another iteration on the comments. The patch is a mix of 
copy-editing and questions. The questions are marked with "HEIKKI:". I 
can continue the copy-editing, if you can reply to the questions, 
clarifying the intention on some parts of the API. (Or feel free to pick 
and push any of these fixes immediately, if you prefer.)

- Heikki

Commits

  1. Add default_table_access_method to postgresql.conf.sample.

  2. tableam: Avoid relying on relation size to determine validity of tids.

  3. tableam: Don't assume that every AM uses md.c style storage.

  4. Allow pg_class xid & multixid horizons to not be set.

  5. Fix slot type issue for fuzzy distance index scan over out-of-core table AM.

  6. tableam: comment and formatting fixes.

  7. table: docs: fix typos and grammar.

  8. tableam: basic documentation.

  9. Only allow heap in a number of contrib modules.

  10. tableam: Add table_finish_bulk_insert().

  11. tableam: sample scan.

  12. tableam: bitmap table scan.

  13. tableam: Move heap specific logic from estimate_rel_size below tableam.

  14. tableam: VACUUM and ANALYZE support.

  15. tableam: relation creation, VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER, SET TABLESPACE.

  16. tableam: Support for an index build's initial table scan(s).

  17. tableam: Add table_get_latest_tid, to wrap heap_get_latest_tid.

  18. tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding table tuples exist.

  19. tableam: Add and use table_fetch_row_version().

  20. tableam: Use in CREATE TABLE AS and CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW.

  21. Ensure sufficient alignment for ParallelTableScanDescData in BTShared.

  22. Don't reuse slots between root and partition in ON CONFLICT ... UPDATE.

  23. Use a virtual rather than a heap slot in two places where that suffices.

  24. Store tuples for EvalPlanQual in slots, rather than as HeapTuples.

  25. Use slots in trigger infrastructure, except for the actual invocation.

  26. Store table oid and tuple's tid in tuple slots directly.

  27. Allow to use HeapTupleData embedded in [Buffer]HeapTupleTableSlot.

  28. Add ExecStorePinnedBufferHeapTuple.

  29. Add ArchiveOpts to pass options to ArchiveEntry

  30. Rename RelationData.rd_amroutine to rd_indam.

  31. Rephrase references to "time qualification".

  32. Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c.

  33. Move generic snapshot related code from tqual.h to snapmgr.h.

  34. Remove superfluous tqual.h includes.

  35. Don't duplicate parallel seqscan shmem sizing logic in nbtree.

  36. Move vacuumlazy.c into access/heap.

  37. Support parallel bitmap heap scans.