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

vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>

From: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-01-06T06:22:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 at 08:24, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> The patches here aren't fully polished (as will be evident). But they should
> be more than good enough to discuss whether this is a sane direction.

The patch does not apply on top of HEAD as in [1], please post a rebased patch:
=== Applying patches on top of PostgreSQL commit ID
f2857af485a00ab5dbfa2c83af9d83afe4378239 ===
=== applying patch
./v1-0001-wip-lwlock-fix-quadratic-behaviour-with-very-long.patch
patching file src/include/storage/proc.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 217.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/include/storage/proc.h.rej
patching file src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 988 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 1047.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 1076.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 1104.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 1117.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 1141.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 1775.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 1790.
7 out of 8 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c.rej

[1] - http://cfbot.cputube.org/patch_41_3993.log

Regards,
Vignesh



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.