Re: [PoC] Improve dead tuple storage for lazy vacuum

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2024-03-07T06:27:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 3:20 PM John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 12:59 PM John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 12:55 PM John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 6:59 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > + /* Find the control object in shared memory */
> > > > > + control = handle;
> > > >
> > > > I think it's mostly because of readability; it makes clear that the
> > > > handle should be castable to dsa_pointer and it's a control object. I
> > > > borrowed it from dshash_attach().
> > >
> > > I find that a bit strange, but I went ahead and kept it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 9:13 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The 0001 patch looks good to me. I have some minor comments:
> > >
> > > > +PGFILEDESC = "test_radixtree - test code for src/backend/lib/radixtree.c"
> > > > +
> > > >
> > > > "src/backend/lib/radixtree.c" should be updated to
> > > > "src/include/lib/radixtree.h".
> > >
> > > Done.
> > >
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/src/test/modules/test_radixtree/README
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> > > > +test_integerset contains unit tests for testing the integer set implementation
> > > > +in src/backend/lib/integerset.c.
> > > > +
> > > > +The tests verify the correctness of the implementation, but they can also be
> > > > +used as a micro-benchmark.  If you set the 'intset_test_stats' flag in
> > > > +test_integerset.c, the tests will print extra information about execution time
> > > > +and memory usage.
> > > >
> > > > This file is not updated for test_radixtree. I think we can remove it
> > > > as the test cases in test_radixtree are clear.
> > >
> > > Done. I pushed this with a few last-minute cosmetic adjustments. This
> > > has been a very long time coming, but we're finally in the home
> > > stretch!
> > >
> > > Already, I see sifaka doesn't like this, and I'm looking now...
> >
> > It's complaining that these forward declarations...
> >
> > /* generate forward declarations necessary to use the radix tree */
> > #ifdef RT_DECLARE
> >
> > typedef struct RT_RADIX_TREE RT_RADIX_TREE;
> > typedef struct RT_ITER RT_ITER;
> >
> > ... cause "error: redefinition of typedef 'rt_radix_tree' is a C11
> > feature [-Werror,-Wtypedef-redefinition]"
> >
> > I'll look in the other templates to see if what they do.
>
> Their "declare" sections have full typedefs. I found it works to leave
> out the typedef for the "define" section, but I first want to
> reproduce the build failure.

Right. I've reproduced this build failure on my machine by specifying
flags "-Wtypedef-redefinition -std=gnu99" to clang. Something the
below change seems to fix the problem:

--- a/src/include/lib/radixtree.h
+++ b/src/include/lib/radixtree.h
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ typedef struct RT_RADIX_TREE_CONTROL
 }          RT_RADIX_TREE_CONTROL;

 /* Entry point for allocating and accessing the tree */
-typedef struct RT_RADIX_TREE
+struct RT_RADIX_TREE
 {
    MemoryContext context;

@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ typedef struct RT_RADIX_TREE
    /* leaf_context is used only for single-value leaves */
    MemoryContextData *leaf_context;
 #endif
-}          RT_RADIX_TREE;
+};

 /*
  * Iteration support.
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ typedef struct RT_NODE_ITER
 }          RT_NODE_ITER;

 /* state for iterating over the whole radix tree */
-typedef struct RT_ITER
+struct RT_ITER
 {
    RT_RADIX_TREE *tree;

@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ typedef struct RT_ITER

    /* The key constructed during iteration */
    uint64      key;
-}          RT_ITER;
+};


 /* verification (available only in assert-enabled builds) */

>
> In addition, olingo and grassquit are showing different kinds of
> "AddressSanitizer: odr-violation" errors, which I'm not sure what to
> make of -- example:
>
> ==1862767==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: odr-violation (0x7fc257476b60):
>   [1] size=256 'pg_leftmost_one_pos'
> /home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/port/pg_bitutils.c:34
>   [2] size=256 'pg_leftmost_one_pos'
> /home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/port/pg_bitutils.c:34
> These globals were registered at these points:
>   [1]:
>     #0 0x563564b97bf6 in __asan_register_globals
> (/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/pgsql.build/tmp_install/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/inst/bin/postgres+0x3e2bf6)
> (BuildId: e2ff70bf14f342e03f451bba119134a49a50b8b8)
>     #1 0x563564b98d1d in __asan_register_elf_globals
> (/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/pgsql.build/tmp_install/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/inst/bin/postgres+0x3e3d1d)
> (BuildId: e2ff70bf14f342e03f451bba119134a49a50b8b8)
>     #2 0x7fc265c3fe3d in call_init elf/dl-init.c:74:3
>     #3 0x7fc265c3fe3d in call_init elf/dl-init.c:26:1
>
>   [2]:
>     #0 0x563564b97bf6 in __asan_register_globals
> (/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/pgsql.build/tmp_install/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/inst/bin/postgres+0x3e2bf6)
> (BuildId: e2ff70bf14f342e03f451bba119134a49a50b8b8)
>     #1 0x563564b98d1d in __asan_register_elf_globals
> (/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/pgsql.build/tmp_install/home/bf/bf-build/olingo/HEAD/inst/bin/postgres+0x3e3d1d)
> (BuildId: e2ff70bf14f342e03f451bba119134a49a50b8b8)
>     #2 0x7fc2649847f5 in call_init csu/../csu/libc-start.c:145:3
>     #3 0x7fc2649847f5 in __libc_start_main csu/../csu/libc-start.c:347:5

I'll look at them too.

Regards,

-- 
Masahiko Sawada
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Commits

  1. radixtree: Fix SIGSEGV at update of embeddable value to non-embeddable.

  2. Get rid of anonymous struct

  3. Teach radix tree to embed values at runtime

  4. Teach TID store to skip bitmap for small numbers of offsets

  5. Use bump context for TID bitmaps stored by vacuum

  6. Fix alignment of stack variable

  7. Use TidStore for dead tuple TIDs storage during lazy vacuum.

  8. Rethink create and attach APIs of shared TidStore.

  9. Fix inconsistent function prototypes with function definitions.

  10. Fix a calculation in TidStoreCreate().

  11. Fix potential integer handling issue in radixtree.h.

  12. Add TIDStore, to store sets of TIDs (ItemPointerData) efficiently.

  13. Fix link error for test_radixtree module on Windows

  14. Blind attempt to fix ODR violations

  15. Fix incorrect format specifier for int64

  16. Fix redefinition of typedefs

  17. Add template for adaptive radix tree

  18. Fix signedness error in 9f225e992 for gcc

  19. Introduce helper SIMD functions for small byte arrays

  20. Optimize vacuuming of relations with no indexes.

  21. Add bound check before bsearch() for performance

  22. Allocate consecutive blocks during parallel seqscans