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

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>

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From: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-12-01T08:49:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 3:03 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
wrote:
> >
> > The bigger question in my mind is: Why is there an atomic variable in
backend-local memory?
>
> Because I use the same radix_tree and radix_tree_control structs for
> non-parallel and parallel vacuum. Therefore, radix_tree_control is
> allocated in DSM for parallel-vacuum cases or in backend-local memory
> for non-parallel vacuum cases.

Ok, that could be yet another reason to compile local- and shared-memory
functionality separately, but now I'm wondering why there are atomic
variables at all, since there isn't yet any locking support.

--
John Naylor
EDB: http://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