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Previously, we used a simple array for storing dead tuple IDs during lazy vacuum, which had a number of problems: * The array used a single allocation and so was limited to 1GB. * The allocation was pessimistically sized according to table size. * Lookup with binary search was slow because of poor CPU cache and branch prediction behavior. This commit replaces that array with the TID store from commit 30e144287a. Since the backing radix tree makes small allocations as needed, the 1GB limit is now gone. Further, the total memory used is now often smaller by an order of magnitude or more, depending on the distribution of blocks and offsets. These two features should make multiple rounds of heap scanning and index cleanup an extremely rare event. TID lookup during index cleanup is also several times faster, even more so when index order is correlated with heap tuple order. Since there is no longer a predictable relationship between the number of dead tuples vacuumed and the space taken up by their TIDs, the number of tuples no longer provides any meaningful insights for users, nor is the maximum number predictable. For that reason this commit also changes to byte-based progress reporting, with the relevant columns of pg_stat_progress_vacuum renamed accordingly to max_dead_tuple_bytes and dead_tuple_bytes. For parallel vacuum, both the TID store and supplemental information specific to vacuum are shared among the parallel vacuum workers. As with the previous array, we don't take any locks on TidStore during parallel vacuum since writes are still only done by the leader process. Bump catalog version. Reviewed-by: John Naylor, (in an earlier version) Dilip Kumar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAfOZvmfR0j8VmZorZjL7RhTiQdVttNuC4W-Shdc2a-AA%40mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
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