Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-09T20:45:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 8:37 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> Did you see this?
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/GV0P278MB0483490FEAC879DCA5ED583DD2739%40GV0P278MB0483.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
>
> I meant to mail you so you could include it in the same commit, but forgot
> until now.

Done, thanks.



Commits

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  1. Fix recovery_prefetch docs.

  2. Prefetch data referenced by the WAL, take II.

  3. Add circular WAL decoding buffer, take II.

  4. Fix generation of ./INSTALL for the distribution tarball

  5. Revert recovery prefetching feature.

  6. Sync guc.c and postgresql.conf.sample with the SGML docs.

  7. Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats.

  8. Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."

  9. Add circular WAL decoding buffer.

  10. Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.

  11. Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

  12. Provide ReadRecentBuffer() to re-pin buffers by ID.

  13. Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.

  14. Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.

  15. Rationalize GetWalRcv{Write,Flush}RecPtr().

  16. Support PrefetchBuffer() in recovery.

  17. Prevent hard failures of standbys caused by recycled WAL segments