Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>

From: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-12-17T03:09:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
The actual hardware of this machine is a Mac Mini Core 2 Duo. I'm not
really clear how the emulation is done and whether it makes a
reasonable test environment or not.

    Hardware Overview:

      Model Name: Mac mini
      Model Identifier: Macmini2,1
      Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed: 2 GHz
      Number Of Processors: 1
      Total Number Of Cores: 2
      L2 Cache: 4 MB
      Memory: 2 GB
      Bus Speed: 667 MHz
      Boot ROM Version: MM21.009A.B00



Commits

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  1. Fix recovery_prefetch docs.

  2. Prefetch data referenced by the WAL, take II.

  3. Add circular WAL decoding buffer, take II.

  4. Fix generation of ./INSTALL for the distribution tarball

  5. Revert recovery prefetching feature.

  6. Sync guc.c and postgresql.conf.sample with the SGML docs.

  7. Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats.

  8. Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."

  9. Add circular WAL decoding buffer.

  10. Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.

  11. Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

  12. Provide ReadRecentBuffer() to re-pin buffers by ID.

  13. Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.

  14. Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.

  15. Rationalize GetWalRcv{Write,Flush}RecPtr().

  16. Support PrefetchBuffer() in recovery.

  17. Prevent hard failures of standbys caused by recycled WAL segments