RE: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist

tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>

From: "tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com" <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
To: "k.jamison@fujitsu.com" <k.jamison@fujitsu.com>
Cc: 'Kyotaro Horiguchi' <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "amit.kapila16@gmail.com" <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, "tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "andres@anarazel.de" <andres@anarazel.de>, "robertmhaas@gmail.com" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com" <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-10-21T07:36:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
RelationTruncate() invalidates the cached fork sizes as follows.  This causes smgrnblocks() return accurate=false, resulting in not running optimization.  Try commenting out for non-recovery case.

    /*
     * Make sure smgr_targblock etc aren't pointing somewhere past new end
     */
    rel->rd_smgr->smgr_targblock = InvalidBlockNumber;
    for (int i = 0; i <= MAX_FORKNUM; ++i)
        rel->rd_smgr->smgr_cached_nblocks[i] = InvalidBlockNumber;


Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa




Commits

  1. Fix size overflow in calculation introduced by commits d6ad34f3 and bea449c6.

  2. Optimize DropRelFileNodesAllBuffers() for recovery.

  3. Optimize DropRelFileNodeBuffers() for recovery.

  4. Cache smgrnblocks() results in recovery.

  5. Add a check to prevent overwriting valid data if smgrnblocks() gives a