Re: Hash Indexes

Mithun Cy <mithun.cy@enterprisedb.com>

From: Mithun Cy <mithun.cy@enterprisedb.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-06-24T09:08:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
 wrote:

I have a question regarding code changes in *_hash_first*.

+        /*
+         * Conditionally get the lock on primary bucket page for search
while
+        * holding lock on meta page. If we have to wait, then release the
meta
+         * page lock and retry it in a hard way.
+         */
+        bucket = _hash_hashkey2bucket(hashkey,
+
 metap->hashm_maxbucket,
+
 metap->hashm_highmask,
+
 metap->hashm_lowmask);
+
+        blkno = BUCKET_TO_BLKNO(metap, bucket);
+
+        /* Fetch the primary bucket page for the bucket */
+        buf = ReadBuffer(rel, blkno);
+        if (!ConditionalLockBufferShared(buf))

Here we try to take lock on bucket page but I think if successful we do not
recheck whether any split happened before taking lock. Is this not
necessary now?

Also  below "if" is always true as we enter here only when outer "if
(retry)" is true.
+                        if (retry)
+                        {
+                                if (oldblkno == blkno)
+                                        break;
+                                _hash_relbuf(rel, buf);
+                        }

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Mithun C Y
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Remove _hash_wrtbuf() in favor of calling MarkBufferDirty().

  2. Fix race introduced by 6d46f4783efe457f74816a75173eb23ed8930020.

  3. Improve hash index bucket split behavior.

  4. Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for btree scans.