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Re: Pluggable Storage - Andres's take

Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>

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From: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Asim R P <apraveen@pivotal.io>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2019-01-22T00:51:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 1:01 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2018-12-10 18:13:40 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2018-11-26 17:55:57 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > FWIW, now that oids are removed, and the tuple table slot abstraction
> > > got in, I'm working on rebasing the pluggable storage patchset ontop of
> > > that.
> >
> > I've pushed a version to that to the git tree, including a rebased
> > version of zheap:
> > https://github.com/anarazel/postgres-pluggable-storage
> > https://github.com/anarazel/postgres-pluggable-zheap
>
> I've pushed the newest, substantially revised, version to the same
> repository. Note, that while the newest pluggable-zheap version is newer
> than my last email, it's not based on the latest version, and the
> pluggable-zheap development is now happening in the main zheap
> repository.
>

Thanks for the new version of patches and changes.


> Todo:
> - consider removing scan_update_snapshot
>

Attached the patch for removal of scan_update_snapshot
and also the rebased patch of reduction in use of t_tableOid.


> - consider removing table_gimmegimmeslot()
> - add substantial docs for every callback
>

Will work on the above two.

While I saw an initial attempt at writing smgl docs for the table AM
> API, I'm not convinced that's the best approach.  I think it might make
> more sense to have high-level docs in sgml, but then do all the
> per-callback docs in tableam.h.
>

OK, I will update the sgml docs accordingly.
Index AM has per callback docs in the sgml, refactor them also?

Regards,
Haribabu Kommi
Fujitsu Australia

Commits

  1. Add default_table_access_method to postgresql.conf.sample.

  2. tableam: Avoid relying on relation size to determine validity of tids.

  3. tableam: Don't assume that every AM uses md.c style storage.

  4. Allow pg_class xid & multixid horizons to not be set.

  5. Fix slot type issue for fuzzy distance index scan over out-of-core table AM.

  6. tableam: comment and formatting fixes.

  7. table: docs: fix typos and grammar.

  8. tableam: basic documentation.

  9. Only allow heap in a number of contrib modules.

  10. tableam: Add table_finish_bulk_insert().

  11. tableam: sample scan.

  12. tableam: bitmap table scan.

  13. tableam: Move heap specific logic from estimate_rel_size below tableam.

  14. tableam: VACUUM and ANALYZE support.

  15. tableam: relation creation, VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER, SET TABLESPACE.

  16. tableam: Support for an index build's initial table scan(s).

  17. tableam: Add table_get_latest_tid, to wrap heap_get_latest_tid.

  18. tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding table tuples exist.

  19. tableam: Add and use table_fetch_row_version().

  20. tableam: Use in CREATE TABLE AS and CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW.

  21. Ensure sufficient alignment for ParallelTableScanDescData in BTShared.

  22. Don't reuse slots between root and partition in ON CONFLICT ... UPDATE.

  23. Use a virtual rather than a heap slot in two places where that suffices.

  24. Store tuples for EvalPlanQual in slots, rather than as HeapTuples.

  25. Use slots in trigger infrastructure, except for the actual invocation.

  26. Store table oid and tuple's tid in tuple slots directly.

  27. Allow to use HeapTupleData embedded in [Buffer]HeapTupleTableSlot.

  28. Add ExecStorePinnedBufferHeapTuple.

  29. Add ArchiveOpts to pass options to ArchiveEntry

  30. Rename RelationData.rd_amroutine to rd_indam.

  31. Rephrase references to "time qualification".

  32. Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c.

  33. Move generic snapshot related code from tqual.h to snapmgr.h.

  34. Remove superfluous tqual.h includes.

  35. Don't duplicate parallel seqscan shmem sizing logic in nbtree.

  36. Move vacuumlazy.c into access/heap.

  37. Support parallel bitmap heap scans.