Re: refactoring relation extension and BufferAlloc(), faster COPY

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>

From: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-04-05T03:15:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 7:32 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

> > Portability nit: mdzeroextend() doesn't know whether posix_fallocate()
was
> > used in FileFallocate().
>
> Fair point. I would however like to see a different error message for the
two
> ways of extending, at least initially. What about referencing
FileFallocate()?

Seems logical.

--
John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. lwlock: Fix quadratic behavior with very long wait lists

  2. Support RBM_ZERO_AND_CLEANUP_LOCK in ExtendBufferedRelTo(), add tests

  3. Use ExtendBufferedRelTo() in XLogReadBufferExtended()

  4. hio: Use ExtendBufferedRelBy() to extend tables more efficiently

  5. heapam: Pass number of required pages to RelationGetBufferForTuple()

  6. Convert many uses of ReadBuffer[Extended](P_NEW) to ExtendBufferedRel()

  7. Use ExtendBufferedRelTo() in {vm,fsm}_extend()

  8. bufmgr: Introduce infrastructure for faster relation extension

  9. bufmgr: Support multiple in-progress IOs by using resowner

  10. bufmgr: Acquire and clean victim buffer separately

  11. bufmgr: Add Pin/UnpinLocalBuffer()

  12. bufmgr: Add some more error checking [infrastructure] around pinning

  13. Add smgrzeroextend(), FileZero(), FileFallocate()

  14. Don't initialize page in {vm,fsm}_extend(), not needed

  15. bufmgr: Remove buffer-write-dirty tracepoints

  16. hio: Release extension lock before initializing page / pinning VM

  17. bufmgr: Fix undefined behaviour with, unrealistically, large temp_buffers

  18. Fix memory leak and inefficiency in CREATE DATABASE ... STRATEGY WAL_LOG

  19. pgstat: Track more detailed relation IO statistics

  20. Use unnamed POSIX semaphores on Cygwin.

  21. Include RelFileLocator fields individually in BufferTag.