Re: index prefetching

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

To: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>

Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Georgios <gkokolatos@protonmail.com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

Date: 2025-08-28T23:57:17Z

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Commits

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aio: io_uring: Trigger async processing for large IOs
- a9ee66881744 19 (unreleased) landed
read stream: Split decision about look ahead for AIO and combining
- 8ca147d582a5 19 (unreleased) landed
read_stream: Only increase read-ahead distance when waiting for IO
- f63ca3379025 19 (unreleased) landed
read_stream: Prevent distance from decaying too quickly
- 6e36930f9aaf 19 (unreleased) landed
Reduce ExecSeqScan* code size using pg_assume()
- b227b0bb4e03 19 (unreleased) cited
Fix rare bug in read_stream.c's split IO handling.
- b421223172a2 19 (unreleased) cited
Fix multiranges to behave more like dependent types.
- 3e8235ba4f9c 17.0 cited
Add EXPLAIN (MEMORY) to report planner memory consumption
- 5de890e3610d 17.0 cited
Optimize nbtree backward scan boundary cases.
- c9c0589fda0e 17.0 cited
Increment xactCompletionCount during subtransaction abort.
- 90c885cdab8b 14.0 cited
Add nbtree Valgrind buffer lock checks.
- 4a70f829d86c 14.0 cited
Add nbtree high key "continuescan" optimization.
- 29b64d1de7c7 12.0 cited
Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for btree scans.
- 2ed5b87f96d4 9.5.0 cited
Teach btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively.
- 9e8da0f75731 9.2.0 cited

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> wrote:
> Use this branch:
>
>   https://github.com/tvondra/postgres/commits/index-prefetch-master/
>
> and then Thomas' patch that increases the prefetch distance:
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGL2PhFyDoqrHefqasOnaXhSg48t1phs3VM8BAdrZqKZkw%40mail.gmail.com
>
> (IIRC there's a trivial conflict in read_stream_reset.).

I found it quite hard to apply Thomas' patch. There's actually 3
patches, with 2 earlier patches needed for earlier in the thread. And,
there were significant merge conflicts to work around.

I'm not sure that Thomas'/your patch to ameliorate the problem on the
read stream side is essential here. Perhaps Andres can just take a
look at the test case + feature branch, without the extra patches.
That way he'll be able to see whatever the immediate problem is, which
might be all we need.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan