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Alexander Korotkov
bc1e2092eb Revert: Custom reloptions for table AM
This commit reverts 9bd99f4c26 and 422041542f per review by Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240410165236.rwyrny7ihi4ddxw4%40awork3.anarazel.de
2024-04-11 15:46:35 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov
422041542f Fill CommonRdOptions with default values in extract_autovac_opts()
Reported-by: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Pavel Borisov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLZzLR50RBvuqOO3MZ%3DF54ETz-rTp1PDX9uDGP_GqyYqA%40mail.gmail.com
2024-04-08 12:18:23 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov
9bd99f4c26 Custom reloptions for table AM
Let table AM define custom reloptions for its tables. This allows specifying
AM-specific parameters by the WITH clause when creating a table.

The reloptions, which could be used outside of table AM, are now extracted
into the CommonRdOptions data structure.  These options could be by decision
of table AM directly specified by a user or calculated in some way.

The new test module test_tam_options evaluates the ability to set up custom
reloptions and calculate fields of CommonRdOptions on their base.

The code may use some parts from prior work by Hao Wu.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdurb9ycV8udYqM%3Do0sPS66PJ4RCBM1g-bBpvzUfogY0EA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AMUA1wBBBxfc3tKRLLdU64rb.1.1683276279979.Hmail.wuhao%40hashdata.cn
Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Matthias van de Meent, Jess Davis
2024-04-08 11:23:28 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov
867cc7b6dd Revert "Custom reloptions for table AM"
This reverts commit c95c25f9af4bc77f2f66a587735c50da08c12b37 due to multiple
design issues spotted after commit.

Reported-by: Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11550b536211d5748bb2865ed6cb3502ff073bf7.camel%40j-davis.com
2024-04-02 11:29:00 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov
c95c25f9af Custom reloptions for table AM
Let table AM define custom reloptions for its tables.  This allows to
specify AM-specific parameters by WITH clause when creating a table.

The code may use some parts from prior work by Hao Wu.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdurb9ycV8udYqM%3Do0sPS66PJ4RCBM1g-bBpvzUfogY0EA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AMUA1wBBBxfc3tKRLLdU64rb.1.1683276279979.Hmail.wuhao%40hashdata.cn
Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Matthias van de Meent
2024-03-30 22:36:25 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
dbbca2cf29 Remove unused #include's from backend .c files
as determined by include-what-you-use (IWYU)

While IWYU also suggests to *add* a bunch of #include's (which is its
main purpose), this patch does not do that.  In some cases, a more
specific #include replaces another less specific one.

Some manual adjustments of the automatic result:

- IWYU currently doesn't know about includes that provide global
  variable declarations (like -Wmissing-variable-declarations), so
  those includes are being kept manually.

- All includes for port(ability) headers are being kept for now, to
  play it safe.

- No changes of catalog/pg_foo.h to catalog/pg_foo_d.h, to keep the
  patch from exploding in size.

Note that this patch touches just *.c files, so nothing declared in
header files changes in hidden ways.

As a small example, in src/backend/access/transam/rmgr.c, some IWYU
pragma annotations are added to handle a special case there.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/af837490-6b2f-46df-ba05-37ea6a6653fc%40eisentraut.org
2024-03-04 12:02:20 +01:00
Bruce Momjian
29275b1d17 Update copyright for 2024
Reported-by: Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz

Backpatch-through: 12
2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
12cf3ac7f3 doc Improve C GUC-related comments
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEG8a3LZHTR5S+OPZCbZvECwsqdbx=pBRFZZyDjKaAtgoALOQQ@mail.gmail.com

Author: Junwang Zhao

Backpatch-through: master
2023-10-27 19:05:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
e53a611523 Message wording improvements 2023-07-10 10:47:24 +02:00
Tom Lane
0245f8db36 Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.

This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical.  We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop).  We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up.  Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov
cd115c3530 Fix custom validators call in build_local_reloptions()
We need to call them only when validate == true.

Backpatch to 13, where opclass options were introduced.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2656633.1681831542%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Pavel Borisov
Backpatch-through: 13
2023-04-23 13:58:41 +03:00
Peter Geoghegan
6c6b497266 Revert "Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM."
This reverts commit 4d417992613949af35530b4e8e83670c4e67e1b2.  Broad
concerns about regressions caused by eager freezing strategy have been
raised.  Whether or not these concerns can be worked through in any time
frame is far from certain.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230126004347.gepcmyenk2csxrri@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-01-25 22:22:27 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan
4d41799261 Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM.
Eager freezing strategy avoids large build-ups of all-visible pages.  It
makes VACUUM trigger page-level freezing whenever doing so will enable
the page to become all-frozen in the visibility map.  This is useful for
tables that experience continual growth, particularly strict append-only
tables such as pgbench's history table.  Eager freezing significantly
improves performance stability by spreading out the cost of freezing
over time, rather than doing most freezing during aggressive VACUUMs.
It complements the insert autovacuum mechanism added by commit b07642db.

VACUUM determines its freezing strategy based on the value of the new
vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold GUC (or reloption) with logged tables.
Tables that exceed the size threshold use the eager freezing strategy.
Unlogged tables and temp tables always use eager freezing strategy,
since the added cost is negligible there.  Non-permanent relations won't
incur any extra overhead in WAL written (for the obvious reason), nor in
pages dirtied (since any extra freezing will only take place on pages
whose PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit needed to be set either way).

VACUUM uses lazy freezing strategy for logged tables that fall under the
GUC size threshold.  Page-level freezing triggers based on the criteria
established in commit 1de58df4, which added basic page-level freezing.

Eager freezing is strictly more aggressive than lazy freezing.  Settings
like vacuum_freeze_min_age still get applied in just the same way in
every VACUUM, independent of the strategy in use.  The only mechanical
difference between eager and lazy freezing strategies is that only the
former applies its own additional criteria to trigger freezing pages.
Note that even lazy freezing strategy will trigger freezing whenever a
page happens to have required that an FPI be written during pruning,
provided that the page will thereby become all-frozen in the visibility
map afterwards (due to the FPI optimization from commit 1de58df4).

The vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold default setting is 4GB.  This is a
relatively low setting that prioritizes performance stability.  It will
be reviewed at the end of the Postgres 16 beta period.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkFok_6EAHuK39GaW4FjEFQsY=3J0AAd6FXk93u-Xq3Fg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-25 14:15:38 -08:00
Bruce Momjian
c8e1ba736b Update copyright for 2023
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
Tom Lane
4f981df8e0 Report a more useful error for reloptions on a partitioned table.
Previously, trying to set storage parameters on a partitioned table
always led to "unrecognized parameter foo", because the code expected
there might be some valid parameters; but there aren't any.  The docs
make clear that it's intended that there never will be any, so let's
replace this useless search with a more to-the-point message.

Simon Riggs and Karina Litskevich

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-H=eZ9kTR9mUgKGK0Qv9uXP=U+dQg3rinQHfTdFMhBA2A@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-09 12:28:34 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan
bfcf1b3480 Harmonize parameter names in storage and AM code.
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in storage, catalog,
access method, executor, and logical replication code, as well as in
miscellaneous utility/library code.

Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.  Later commits will do the
same for other parts of the codebase.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-19 19:18:36 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera
6710e83a67
Remove useless pstrdups in untransformRelOptions
The two strings are already a single palloc'd chunk, not freed; there's
no reason to allocate separate copies that have the same lifetime.

This code is only called in short-lived memory contexts (except in some
cases in TopTransactionContext, which is still short-lived enough not to
really matter), and typically only for short arrays, so the memory or
computation saved is likely negligible.  However, let's fix it to avoid
leaving a bad example of code to copy.  This is the only place I could
find where we're doing this with makeDefElem().

Reported-by: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220909142050.3vv2hjekppk265dd@alvherre.pgsql
2022-09-13 11:59:31 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
d746021de1 Add construct_array_builtin, deconstruct_array_builtin
There were many calls to construct_array() and deconstruct_array() for
built-in types, for example, when dealing with system catalog columns.
These all hardcoded the type attributes necessary to pass to these
functions.

To simplify this a bit, add construct_array_builtin(),
deconstruct_array_builtin() as wrappers that centralize this hardcoded
knowledge.  This simplifies many call sites and reduces the amount of
hardcoded stuff that is spread around.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2914356f-9e5f-8c59-2995-5997fc48bcba%40enterprisedb.com
2022-07-01 11:23:15 +02:00
Andres Freund
09cd33f47b Add 'static' to file-local variables missing it.
Noticed when comparing the set of exported symbols without / with
-fvisibility=hidden after adding PGDLLIMPORT to intentionally exported
symbols.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220512164513.vaheofqp2q24l65r@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-05-12 12:39:33 -07:00
Dean Rasheed
7faa5fc84b Add support for security invoker views.
A security invoker view checks permissions for accessing its
underlying base relations using the privileges of the user of the
view, rather than the privileges of the view owner. Additionally, if
any of the base relations are tables with RLS enabled, the policies of
the user of the view are applied, rather than those of the view owner.

This allows views to be defined without giving away additional
privileges on the underlying base relations, and matches a similar
feature available in other database systems.

It also allows views to operate more naturally with RLS, without
affecting the assignments of policies to users.

Christoph Heiss, with some additional hacking by me. Reviewed by
Laurenz Albe and Wolfgang Walther.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b66dd6d6-ad3e-c6f2-8b90-47be773da240%40cybertec.at
2022-03-22 10:28:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera
6f8127b739
Revert analyze support for partitioned tables
This reverts the following commits:
1b5617eb844cd2470a334c1d2eec66cf9b39c41a Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables
0e69f705cc1a3df273b38c9883fb5765991e04fe Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables
41badeaba8beee7648ebe7923a41c04f1f3cb302 Document ANALYZE storage parameters for partitioned tables
0827e8af70f4653ba17ed773f123a60eadd9f9c9 autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables

There are efficiency issues in this code when handling databases with
large numbers of partitions, and it doesn't look like there isn't any
trivial way to handle those.  There are some other issues as well.  It's
now too late in the cycle for nontrivial fixes, so we'll have to let
Postgres 14 users continue to manually deal with ANALYZE their
partitioned tables, and hopefully we can fix the issues for Postgres 15.

I kept [most of] be280cdad298 ("Don't reset relhasindex for partitioned
tables on ANALYZE") because while we added it due to 0827e8af70f4, it is
a good bugfix in its own right, since it affects manual analyze as well
as autovacuum-induced analyze, and there's no reason to revert it.

I retained the addition of relkind 'p' to tables included by
pg_stat_user_tables, because reverting that would require a catversion
bump.
Also, in pg14 only, I keep a struct member that was added to
PgStat_TabStatEntry to avoid breaking compatibility with existing stat
files.

Backpatch to 14.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210722205458.f2bug3z6qzxzpx2s@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-16 17:27:52 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan
cc8033e1da Make vacuum_index_cleanup reloption RELOPT_TYPE_ENUM.
Oversight in commit 3499df0d, which generalized the reloption as a way
of giving users a way to consistently avoid VACUUM's index bypass
optimization.

Per off-list report from Nikolay Shaplov.

Backpatch: 14-, where index cleanup reloption was extended.
2021-08-03 21:53:41 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan
3499df0dee Support disabling index bypassing by VACUUM.
Generalize the INDEX_CLEANUP VACUUM parameter (and the corresponding
reloption): make it into a ternary style boolean parameter.  It now
exposes a third option, "auto".  The "auto" option (which is now the
default) enables the "bypass index vacuuming" optimization added by
commit 1e55e7d1.

"VACUUM (INDEX_CLEANUP TRUE)" is redefined to once again make VACUUM
simply do any required index vacuuming, regardless of how few dead
tuples are encountered during the first scan of the target heap relation
(unless there are exactly zero).  This gives users a way of opting out
of the "bypass index vacuuming" optimization, if for whatever reason
that proves necessary.  It is also expected to be used by PostgreSQL
developers as a testing option from time to time.

"VACUUM (INDEX_CLEANUP FALSE)" does the same thing as it always has: it
forcibly disables both index vacuuming and index cleanup.  It's not
expected to be used much in PostgreSQL 14.  The failsafe mechanism added
by commit 1e55e7d1 addresses the same problem in a simpler way.
INDEX_CLEANUP can now be thought of as a testing and compatibility
option.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznrBoCST4_Gxh_G9hA8NzGUbeBGnOUC8FcXcrhqsv6OHQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-18 20:04:07 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera
0827e8af70
autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables
Previously, autovacuum would completely ignore partitioned tables, which
is not good regarding analyze -- failing to analyze those tables means
poor plans may be chosen.  Make autovacuum aware of those tables by
propagating "changes since analyze" counts from the leaf partitions up
the partitioning hierarchy.

This also introduces necessary reloptions support for partitioned tables
(autovacuum_enabled, autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor,
autovacuum_analyze_threshold).  It's unclear how best to document this
aspect.

Author: Yuzuko Hosoya <yuzukohosoya@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKkQ508_PwVgwJyBY=0Lmkz90j8CmWNPUxgHvCUwGhMrouz6UA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 01:19:36 -04:00
Amit Kapila
26acb54a13 Revert "Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..."."
To allow inserts in parallel-mode this feature has to ensure that all the
constraints, triggers, etc. are parallel-safe for the partition hierarchy
which is costly and we need to find a better way to do that. Additionally,
we could have used existing cached information in some cases like indexes,
domains, etc. to determine the parallel-safety.

List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:

ed62d3737c Doc: Update description for parallel insert reloption.
c8f78b6161 Add a new GUC and a reloption to enable inserts in parallel-mode.
c5be48f092 Improve FK trigger parallel-safety check added by 05c8482f7f.
e2cda3c20a Fix use of relcache TriggerDesc field introduced by commit 05c8482f7f.
e4e87a32cc Fix valgrind issue in commit 05c8482f7f.
05c8482f7f Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...".

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1lMiB9-0001c3-SY@gemulon.postgresql.org
2021-03-24 11:29:15 +05:30
Amit Kapila
c8f78b6161 Add a new GUC and a reloption to enable inserts in parallel-mode.
Commit 05c8482f7f added the implementation of parallel SELECT for
"INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..." which may incur non-negligible overhead in
the additional parallel-safety checks that it performs, even when, in the
end, those checks determine that parallelism can't be used. This is
normally only ever a problem in the case of when the target table has a
large number of partitions.

A new GUC option "enable_parallel_insert" is added, to allow insert in
parallel-mode. The default is on.

In addition to the GUC option, the user may want a mechanism to allow
inserts in parallel-mode with finer granularity at table level. The new
table option "parallel_insert_enabled" allows this. The default is true.

Author: "Hou, Zhijie"
Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow, Amit Langote, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1K-cW7svLC2D7DHoGHxdAdg3P37BLgebqBOC2ZLc9a6QQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cXnB5cnMKqWEp2E2z7Mvcd04iLVmV=qpFJrR3AcrTS3g@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-18 07:25:27 +05:30
Peter Geoghegan
effdd3f3b6 Add back vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor parameter.
Commit 9f3665fb removed the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor storage
parameter.  However, that creates dump/reload hazards when moving across
major versions.

Add back the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor parameter (though not the
GUC of the same name) purely to avoid problems when using tools like
pg_upgrade.  The parameter remains disabled and undocumented.

No backpatch to Postgres 13, since vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor was
only disabled by REL_13_STABLE's version of master branch commit
9f3665fb in the first place -- the parameter already looks like this on
REL_13_STABLE.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YEm/a3Ko3nKnBuVq@paquier.xyz
2021-03-11 12:42:46 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan
9f3665fbfc Don't consider newly inserted tuples in nbtree VACUUM.
Remove the entire idea of "stale stats" within nbtree VACUUM (stop
caring about stats involving the number of inserted tuples).  Also
remove the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC/param on the master
branch (though just disable them on postgres 13).

The vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor/stats interface made the nbtree AM
partially responsible for deciding when pg_class.reltuples stats needed
to be updated.  This seems contrary to the spirit of the index AM API,
though -- it is not actually necessary for an index AM's bulk delete and
cleanup callbacks to provide accurate stats when it happens to be
inconvenient.  The core code owns that.  (Index AMs have the authority
to perform or not perform certain kinds of deferred cleanup based on
their own considerations, such as page deletion and recycling, but that
has little to do with pg_class.reltuples/num_index_tuples.)

This issue was fairly harmless until the introduction of the
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold feature by commit b07642db, which had
an undesirable interaction with the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
mechanism: it made insert-driven autovacuums perform full index scans,
even though there is no real benefit to doing so.  This has been tied to
a regression with an append-only insert benchmark [1].

Also have remaining cases that perform a full scan of an index during a
cleanup-only nbtree VACUUM indicate that the final tuple count is only
an estimate.  This prevents vacuumlazy.c from setting the index's
pg_class.reltuples in those cases (it will now only update pg_class when
vacuumlazy.c had TIDs for nbtree to bulk delete).  This arguably fixes
an oversight in deduplication-related bugfix commit 48e12913.

[1] https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2021/01/insert-benchmark-postgres-is-still.html

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoA4WHthN5uU6+WScZ7+J_RcEjmcuH94qcoUPuB42ShXzg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 13-, where autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold was added.
2021-03-10 16:27:01 -08:00
Bruce Momjian
ca3b37487b Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
Alexander Korotkov
911e702077 Implement operator class parameters
PostgreSQL provides set of template index access methods, where opclasses have
much freedom in the semantics of indexing.  These index AMs are GiST, GIN,
SP-GiST and BRIN.  There opclasses define representation of keys, operations on
them and supported search strategies.  So, it's natural that opclasses may be
faced some tradeoffs, which require user-side decision.  This commit implements
opclass parameters allowing users to set some values, which tell opclass how to
index the particular dataset.

This commit doesn't introduce new storage in system catalog.  Instead it uses
pg_attribute.attoptions, which is used for table column storage options but
unused for index attributes.

In order to evade changing signature of each opclass support function, we
implement unified way to pass options to opclass support functions.  Options
are set to fn_expr as the constant bytea expression.  It's possible due to the
fact that opclass support functions are executed outside of expressions, so
fn_expr is unused for them.

This commit comes with some examples of opclass options usage.  We parametrize
signature length in GiST.  That applies to multiple opclasses: tsvector_ops,
gist__intbig_ops, gist_ltree_ops, gist__ltree_ops, gist_trgm_ops and
gist_hstore_ops.  Also we parametrize maximum number of integer ranges for
gist__int_ops.  However, the main future usage of this feature is expected
to be json, where users would be able to specify which way to index particular
json parts.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d22c3a18-31c7-1879-fc11-4c1ce2f5e5af%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, revised by me
Reviwed-by: Nikolay Shaplov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
2020-03-30 19:17:23 +03:00
David Rowley
b07642dbcd Trigger autovacuum based on number of INSERTs
Traditionally autovacuum has only ever invoked a worker based on the
estimated number of dead tuples in a table and for anti-wraparound
purposes. For the latter, with certain classes of tables such as
insert-only tables, anti-wraparound vacuums could be the first vacuum that
the table ever receives. This could often lead to autovacuum workers being
busy for extended periods of time due to having to potentially freeze
every page in the table. This could be particularly bad for very large
tables. New clusters, or recently pg_restored clusters could suffer even
more as many large tables may have the same relfrozenxid, which could
result in large numbers of tables requiring an anti-wraparound vacuum all
at once.

Here we aim to reduce the work required by anti-wraparound and aggressive
vacuums in general, by triggering autovacuum when the table has received
enough INSERTs. This is controlled by adding two new GUCs and reloptions;
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold and
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor. These work exactly the same as the
existing scale factor and threshold controls, only base themselves off the
number of inserts since the last vacuum, rather than the number of dead
tuples. New controls were added rather than reusing the existing
controls, to allow these new vacuums to be tuned independently and perhaps
even completely disabled altogether, which can be done by setting
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold to -1.

We make no attempt to skip index cleanup operations on these vacuums as
they may trigger for an insert-mostly table which continually doesn't have
enough dead tuples to trigger an autovacuum for the purpose of removing
those dead tuples. If we were to skip cleaning the indexes in this case,
then it is possible for the index(es) to become bloated over time.

There are additional benefits to triggering autovacuums based on inserts,
as tables which never contain enough dead tuples to trigger an autovacuum
are now more likely to receive a vacuum, which can mark more of the table
as "allvisible" and encourage the query planner to make use of Index Only
Scans.

Currently, we still obey vacuum_freeze_min_age when triggering these new
autovacuums based on INSERTs. For large insert-only tables, it may be
beneficial to lower the table's autovacuum_freeze_min_age so that tuples
are eligible to be frozen sooner. Here we've opted not to zero that for
these types of vacuums, since the table may just be insert-mostly and we
may otherwise freeze tuples that are still destined to be updated or
removed in the near future.

There was some debate to what exactly the new scale factor and threshold
should default to. For now, these are set to 0.2 and 1000, respectively.
There may be some motivation to adjust these before the release.

Author: Laurenz Albe, Darafei Praliaskouski
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Masahiko Sawada, Chris Travers, Andres Freund, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8t%2Bj36G_bLF%3D%2B0iMo6jGNWnLnWb1tujXuJr-%2Bx8ZCCTqoQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-28 19:20:12 +13:00
Thomas Munro
fc34b0d9de Introduce a maintenance_io_concurrency setting.
Introduce a GUC and a tablespace option to control I/O prefetching, much
like effective_io_concurrency, but for work that is done on behalf of
many client sessions.

Use the new setting in heapam.c instead of the hard-coded formula
effective_io_concurrency + 10 introduced by commit 558a9165e08.  Go with
a default value of 10 for now, because it's a round number pretty close
to the value used for that existing case.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-16 17:14:26 +13:00
Tom Lane
3ed2005ff5 Introduce macros for typalign and typstorage constants.
Our usual practice for "poor man's enum" catalog columns is to define
macros for the possible values and use those, not literal constants,
in C code.  But for some reason lost in the mists of time, this was
never done for typalign/attalign or typstorage/attstorage.  It's never
too late to make it better though, so let's do that.

The reason I got interested in this right now is the need to duplicate
some uses of the TYPSTORAGE constants in an upcoming ALTER TYPE patch.
But in general, this sort of change aids greppability and readability,
so it's a good idea even without any specific motivation.

I may have missed a few places that could be converted, and it's even
more likely that pending patches will re-introduce some hard-coded
references.  But that's not fatal --- there's no expectation that
we'd actually change any of these values.  We can clean up stragglers
over time.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16457.1583189537@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-04 10:34:25 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan
0d861bbb70 Add deduplication to nbtree.
Deduplication reduces the storage overhead of duplicates in indexes that
use the standard nbtree index access method.  The deduplication process
is applied lazily, after the point where opportunistic deletion of
LP_DEAD-marked index tuples occurs.  Deduplication is only applied at
the point where a leaf page split would otherwise be required.  New
posting list tuples are formed by merging together existing duplicate
tuples.  The physical representation of the items on an nbtree leaf page
is made more space efficient by deduplication, but the logical contents
of the page are not changed.  Even unique indexes make use of
deduplication as a way of controlling bloat from duplicates whose TIDs
point to different versions of the same logical table row.

The lazy approach taken by nbtree has significant advantages over a GIN
style eager approach.  Most individual inserts of index tuples have
exactly the same overhead as before.  The extra overhead of
deduplication is amortized across insertions, just like the overhead of
page splits.  The key space of indexes works in the same way as it has
since commit dd299df8 (the commit that made heap TID a tiebreaker
column).

Testing has shown that nbtree deduplication can generally make indexes
with about 10 or 15 tuples for each distinct key value about 2.5X - 4X
smaller, even with single column integer indexes (e.g., an index on a
referencing column that accompanies a foreign key).  The final size of
single column nbtree indexes comes close to the final size of a similar
contrib/btree_gin index, at least in cases where GIN's posting list
compression isn't very effective.  This can significantly improve
transaction throughput, and significantly reduce the cost of vacuuming
indexes.

A new index storage parameter (deduplicate_items) controls the use of
deduplication.  The default setting is 'on', so all new B-Tree indexes
automatically use deduplication where possible.  This decision will be
reviewed at the end of the Postgres 13 beta period.

There is a regression of approximately 2% of transaction throughput with
synthetic workloads that consist of append-only inserts into a table
with several non-unique indexes, where all indexes have few or no
repeated values.  The underlying issue is that cycles are wasted on
unsuccessful attempts at deduplicating items in non-unique indexes.
There doesn't seem to be a way around it short of disabling
deduplication entirely.  Note that deduplication of items in unique
indexes is fairly well targeted in general, which avoids the problem
there (we can use a special heuristic to trigger deduplication passes in
unique indexes, since we're specifically targeting "version bloat").

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_vacuum changed.

No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since the representation of posting list
tuples works in a way that's backwards compatible with version 4 indexes
(i.e. indexes built on PostgreSQL 12).  However, users must still
REINDEX a pg_upgrade'd index to use deduplication, regardless of the
Postgres version they've upgraded from.  This is the only way to set the
new nbtree metapage flag indicating that deduplication is generally
safe.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/55E4051B.7020209@postgrespro.ru
    https://postgr.es/m/4ab6e2db-bcee-f4cf-0916-3a06e6ccbb55@postgrespro.ru
2020-02-26 13:05:30 -08:00
Bruce Momjian
7559d8ebfa Update copyrights for 2020
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Michael Paquier
4cb658af70 Refactor reloption handling for index AMs in-core
This reworks the reloption parsing and build of a couple of index AMs by
creating new structures for each index AM's options.  This split was
already done for BRIN, GIN and GiST (which actually has a fillfactor
parameter), but not for hash, B-tree and SPGiST which relied on
StdRdOptions due to an overlap with the default option set.

This saves a couple of bytes for rd_options in each relcache entry with
indexes making use of relation options, and brings more consistency
between all index AMs.  While on it, add a couple of AssertMacro() calls
to make sure that utility macros to grab values of reloptions are used
with the expected index AM.

Author: Nikolay Shaplov
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera, Dent John
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4127670.gFlpRb6XCm@x200m
2019-11-25 09:40:53 +09:00
Michael Paquier
50d22de932 Cleanup code in reloptions.h regarding reloption handling
reloptions.h includes since ba748f7 a set of macros to handle reloption
types in a way similar to how parseRelOptions() works.  They have never
been used in the core code, and we have more simple methods now to parse
and fill in rd_options for a given relation depending on its relkind, so
remove this interface to simplify things.

Per discussion between Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera and me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE6zbNO92az6pp5GiTw4tr-9rfCE0t84whQSP+YwSKjMQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-14 13:59:59 +09:00
Michael Paquier
1bbd608fda Split handling of reloptions for partitioned tables
Partitioned tables do not have relation options yet, but, similarly to
what's done for views which have their own parsing table, it could make
sense to introduce new parameters for some of the existing default ones
like fillfactor, autovacuum, etc.  Splitting things has the advantage to
make the information stored in rd_options include only the necessary
information, reducing the amount of memory used for a relcache entry
with partitioned tables if new reloptions are introduced at this level.

Author:  Nikolay Shaplov
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1627387.Qykg9O6zpu@x200m
2019-11-14 12:34:28 +09:00
Michael Paquier
3534fa2233 Refactor code building relation options
Historically, the code to build relation options has been shaped the
same way in multiple code paths by using a set of datums in input with
the options parsed with a static table which is then filled with the
option values.  This introduces a new common routine in reloptions.c to
do most of the legwork for the in-core code paths.

Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGsoSn_uTPPYT19WrtR7oYpYtv4CdS0xuedTKiHHWuk_g@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-05 09:17:05 +09:00
Michael Paquier
fbfa566488 Fix lockmode initialization for custom relation options
The code was enforcing AccessExclusiveLock for all custom relation
options, which is incorrect as the APIs allow a custom lock level to be
set.

While on it, fix a couple of inconsistencies in the tests and the README
of dummy_index_am.

Oversights in commit 773df88.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190925234152.GA2115@paquier.xyz
2019-09-27 09:31:20 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera
773df883e8 Support reloptions of enum type
All our current in core relation options of type string (not many,
admittedly) behave in reality like enums.  But after seeing an
implementation for enum reloptions, it's clear that strings are messier,
so introduce the new reloption type.  Switch all string options to be
enums instead.

Fortunately we have a recently introduced test module for reloptions, so
we don't lose coverage of string reloptions, which may still be used by
third-party modules.

Authors: Nikolay Shaplov, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Nikita Glukhov, Aleksandr Parfenov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/43332102.S2V5pIjXRx@x200m
2019-09-25 15:56:52 -03:00
Michael Paquier
69f9410807 Allow definition of lock mode for custom reloptions
Relation options can define a lock mode other than AccessExclusiveMode
since 47167b7, but modules defining custom relation options did not
really have a way to enforce that.  Correct that by extending the
current API set so as modules can define a custom lock mode.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190920013831.GD1844@paquier.xyz
2019-09-25 10:13:52 +09:00
Michael Paquier
736b84eede Fix failure with lock mode used for custom relation options
In-core relation options can use a custom lock mode since 47167b7, that
has lowered the lock available for some autovacuum parameters.  However
it forgot to consider custom relation options.  This causes failures
with ALTER TABLE SET when changing a custom relation option, as its lock
is not defined.  The existing APIs to define a custom reloption does not
allow to define a custom lock mode, so enforce its initialization to
AccessExclusiveMode which should be safe enough in all cases.  An
upcoming patch will extend the existing APIs to allow a custom lock mode
to be defined.

The problem can be reproduced with bloom indexes, so add a test there.

Reported-by: Nikolay Sharplov
Analyzed-by: Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190920013831.GD1844@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2019-09-25 10:07:23 +09:00
Robert Haas
8b94dab066 Split tuptoaster.c into three separate files.
detoast.c/h contain functions required to detoast a datum, partially
or completely, plus a few other utility functions for examining the
size of toasted datums.

toast_internals.c/h contain functions that are used internally to the
TOAST subsystem but which (mostly) do not need to be accessed from
outside.

heaptoast.c/h contains code that is intrinsically specific to the
heap AM, either because it operates on HeapTuples or is based on the
layout of a heap page.

detoast.c and toast_internals.c are placed in
src/backend/access/common rather than src/backend/access/heap.  At
present, both files still have dependencies on the heap, but that will
be improved in a future commit.

Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-09-05 13:15:10 -04:00
Michael Paquier
23bccc823d Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues with code
comments, variable names and unreferenced variables.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dff75442-2468-f74f-568c-6006e141062f@gmail.com
2019-07-22 10:01:50 +09:00
Michael Paquier
ce59b75d44 Add toast-level reloption for vacuum_index_cleanup
a96c41f has introduced the option for heap, but it still lacked the
variant to control the behavior for toast relations.

While on it, refactor the tests so as they stress more scenarios with
the various values that vacuum_index_cleanup can use.  It would be
useful to couple those tests with pageinspect to check that pages are
actually cleaned up, but this is left for later.

Author: Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCqs8iN04RX=i1KtLSaX5RrTEM04b7NHYps4+rqtpWNEg@mail.gmail.com
2019-06-25 09:09:27 +09:00
Amit Kapila
92c4abc736 Fix assorted inconsistencies.
There were a number of issues in the recent commits which include typos,
code and comments mismatch, leftover function declarations.  Fix them.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Alexander Lakhin, Amit Kapila and Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ef0c0232-0c1d-3a35-63d4-0ebd06e31387@gmail.com
2019-06-08 08:16:38 +05:30
Tom Lane
8255c7a5ee Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent.  This formats
multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with
additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match
where the first line's left parenthesis is.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
Michael Paquier
d87ab88686 Fix typos in reloptions.c
Author: Kirk Jamison
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D09B13F772D2274BB348A310EE3027C6493463@g01jpexmbkw24
2019-04-12 12:56:38 +09:00