Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-10T02:28:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think eight is enough.  Committed with some cosmetic changes.
>
> Buildfarm thinks eight wasn't enough.
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=clam&dt=2017-03-10%2002%3A00%3A01
>

Will look into this, though I don't have access to that machine, but
it looks to be a power machine and I have access to somewhat similar
machine.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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.