Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Cc: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-20T07:52:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 5:36 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Clearly 018_wal_optimize.pl is flapping

Correction, 019_replslot_limit.pl, discussed at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/83b46e5f-2a52-86aa-fa6c-8174908174b8%40iki.fi
.



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