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Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-09-28T23:59:57Z
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> So, is 300 too little? I don't think so, because Dilip saw some benefit from
> that. Or what scale factor do we think is needed to reproduce the benefit?
> My machine has 256GB of ram, so I can easily go up to 15000 and still keep
> everything in RAM. But is it worth it?

Dunno.  But it might be worth a test or two at, say, 5000, just to see
if that makes any difference.

I feel like we must be missing something here.  If Dilip is seeing
huge speedups and you're seeing nothing, something is different, and
we don't know what it is.  Even if the test case is artificial, it
ought to be the same when one of you runs it as when the other runs
it.  Right?

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.

  2. Improve 64bit atomics support.

  3. Add ProcArrayGroupUpdate wait event.

  4. Make the different Unix-y semaphore implementations ABI-compatible.

  5. Fix broken ALTER INDEX documentation

  6. Code and docs review for commit 3187d6de0e5a9e805b27c48437897e8c39071d45.

  7. Partition the freelist for shared dynahash tables.

  8. Correct StartupSUBTRANS for page wraparound

  9. Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.

  10. contrib/sslinfo: add ssl_extension_info SRF

  11. Reduce ProcArrayLock contention by removing backends in batches.

  12. Fix `make installcheck` for serializable transactions.

  13. Lockless StrategyGetBuffer clock sweep hot path.

  14. Reduce sinval synchronization overhead.