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 <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-05-25T02:48:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 6:58 PM John Naylor
<john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:52 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Overall, radix tree implementations have good numbers. Once we got an
> > agreement on moving in this direction, I'll start a new thread for
> > that and move the implementation further; there are many things to do
> > and discuss: deletion, API design, SIMD support, more tests etc.
>
> +1
>

Thanks!

I've attached an updated version patch. It is still WIP but I've
implemented deletion and improved test cases and comments.

> (FWIW, I think the current thread is still fine.)

Okay, agreed.

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
EDB:  https://www.enterprisedb.com/

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