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2017-03-26Blindly attempt to fix sepgsql tests #2.Andres Freund
2017-03-26Blindly attempt to fix sepgsql tests.Andres Freund
Due to b8d7f053c5c some permission checks are now happening even on empty tables, and some of the checks move around. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95bdb608-093c-160f-c6be-983a36ccd7f9@joeconway.com
2017-03-25Faster expression evaluation and targetlist projection.Andres Freund
This replaces the old, recursive tree-walk based evaluation, with non-recursive, opcode dispatch based, expression evaluation. Projection is now implemented as part of expression evaluation. This both leads to significant performance improvements, and makes future just-in-time compilation of expressions easier. The speed gains primarily come from: - non-recursive implementation reduces stack usage / overhead - simple sub-expressions are implemented with a single jump, without function calls - sharing some state between different sub-expressions - reduced amount of indirect/hard to predict memory accesses by laying out operation metadata sequentially; including the avoidance of nearly all of the previously used linked lists - more code has been moved to expression initialization, avoiding constant re-checks at evaluation time Future just-in-time compilation (JIT) has become easier, as demonstrated by released patches intended to be merged in a later release, for primarily two reasons: Firstly, due to a stricter split between expression initialization and evaluation, less code has to be handled by the JIT. Secondly, due to the non-recursive nature of the generated "instructions", less performance-critical code-paths can easily be shared between interpreted and compiled evaluation. The new framework allows for significant future optimizations. E.g.: - basic infrastructure for to later reduce the per executor-startup overhead of expression evaluation, by caching state in prepared statements. That'd be helpful in OLTPish scenarios where initialization overhead is measurable. - optimizing the generated "code". A number of proposals for potential work has already been made. - optimizing the interpreter. Similarly a number of proposals have been made here too. The move of logic into the expression initialization step leads to some backward-incompatible changes: - Function permission checks are now done during expression initialization, whereas previously they were done during execution. In edge cases this can lead to errors being raised that previously wouldn't have been, e.g. a NULL array being coerced to a different array type previously didn't perform checks. - The set of domain constraints to be checked, is now evaluated once during expression initialization, previously it was re-built every time a domain check was evaluated. For normal queries this doesn't change much, but e.g. for plpgsql functions, which caches ExprStates, the old set could stick around longer. The behavior around might still change. Author: Andres Freund, with significant changes by Tom Lane, changes by Heikki Linnakangas Reviewed-By: Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161206034955.bh33paeralxbtluv@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-03-23Allow for parallel execution whenever ExecutorRun() is done only once.Robert Haas
Previously, it was unsafe to execute a plan in parallel if ExecutorRun() might be called with a non-zero row count. However, it's quite easy to fix things up so that we can support that case, provided that it is known that we will never call ExecutorRun() a second time for the same QueryDesc. Add infrastructure to signal this, and cross-checks to make sure that a caller who claims this is true doesn't later reneg. While that pattern never happens with queries received directly from a client -- there's no way to know whether multiple Execute messages will be sent unless the first one requests all the rows -- it's pretty common for queries originating from procedural languages, which often limit the result to a single tuple or to a user-specified number of tuples. This commit doesn't actually enable parallelism in any additional cases, because currently none of the places that would be able to benefit from this infrastructure pass CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK in the first place, but it makes it much more palatable to pass CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK in places where we currently don't, because it eliminates some cases where we'd end up having to run the parallel plan serially. Patch by me, based on some ideas from Rafia Sabih and corrected by Rafia Sabih based on feedback from Dilip Kumar and myself. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobXEhvHbJtWDuPZM9bVSLiTj-kShxQJ2uM5GPDze9fRYA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-23Logical replication support for initial data copyPeter Eisentraut
Add functionality for a new subscription to copy the initial data in the tables and then sync with the ongoing apply process. For the copying, add a new internal COPY option to have the COPY source data provided by a callback function. The initial data copy works on the subscriber by receiving COPY data from the publisher and then providing it locally into a COPY that writes to the destination table. A WAL receiver can now execute full SQL commands. This is used here to obtain information about tables and publications. Several new options were added to CREATE and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION to control whether and when initial table syncing happens. Change pg_dump option --no-create-subscription-slots to --no-subscription-connect and use the new CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ... NOCONNECT option for that. Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> Tested-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-03-22Refactor GetOldestXmin() to use flagsSimon Riggs
Replace ignoreVacuum parameter with more flexible flags. Author: Eiji Seki Review: Haribabu Kommi
2017-03-21Add btree_gin support for enum typesAndrew Dunstan
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Anastasia Lubennikova Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/56EA8A71.8060107@dunslane.net
2017-03-21Add btree_gist support for enum types.Andrew Dunstan
This will allow enums to be used in exclusion constraints. The code uses the new CallerFInfoFunctionCall infrastructure in fmgr, and the support for it added to btree_gist in commit 393bb504d7. Reviewed by Tom Lane and Anastasia Lubennikova Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/56EA8A71.8060107@dunslane.net
2017-03-21Use CallerFInfoFunctionCall with btree_gist for varlena typesAndrew Dunstan
Follow up to commit 393bb504d7 which did this for numeric types.
2017-03-21Use CallerFInfoFunctionCall with btree_gist for numeric typesAndrew Dunstan
None of the existing types actually need to use this mechanism, but this will allow support for enum types which will need it. A separate patch will adjust the varlena types support for consistency. Reviewed by Tom Lane and Anastasia Lubennikova Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/27220.1478360811@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-17pageinspect: Add page_checksum functionPeter Eisentraut
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
2017-03-17pageinspect: Add test for page_header functionPeter Eisentraut
2017-03-16postgres_fdw: Push down FULL JOINs with restriction clauses.Robert Haas
The previous deparsing logic wasn't smart enough to produce subqueries when deparsing; make it smart enough to do that. However, we only do it that way when necessary, because it generates more complicated SQL which will be harder for any humans reading the queries to understand. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/c449261a-b033-dc02-9254-2fe5b7044795@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-15Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8Stephen Frost
This adds in support for EUI-64 MAC addresses by adding a new data type called 'macaddr8' (using our usual convention of indicating the number of bytes stored). This was largely a copy-and-paste from the macaddr data type, with appropriate adjustments for having 8 bytes instead of 6 and adding support for converting a provided EUI-48 (6 byte format) to the EUI-64 format. Conversion from EUI-48 to EUI-64 inserts FFFE as the 4th and 5th bytes but does not perform the IPv6 modified EUI-64 action of flipping the 7th bit, but we add a function to perform that specific action for the user as it may be commonly done by users who wish to calculate their IPv6 address based on their network prefix and 48-bit MAC address. Author: Haribabu Kommi, with a good bit of rework of macaddr8_in by me. Reviewed by: Vitaly Burovoy, Kuntal Ghosh Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcUi8ZH+KkK+=TctNQ+EfkeCEHtMU_yo1mvX8hsk_ghNQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14Improve isolation tests infrastructure.Andres Freund
Previously if a directory had both isolationtester and plain regression tests, they couldn't be run in parallel, because they'd access the same files/directories. That, so far, only affected contrib/test_decoding. Rather than fix that locally in contrib/test_decoding, improve pg_regress_isolation_[install]check to use separate resources from plain regression tests. That requires a minor change in pg_regress, namely that the --outputdir is created if not already existing, that seems like good idea anyway. Use the improved helpers even where previously not used. Author: Tom Lane and Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170311194831.vm5ikpczq52c2drg@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-03-14amcheck: Harden tests against concurrent autovacuums.Andres Freund
The previous coding of the test was vulnerable against autovacuum triggering work on one of the tables in check_btree.sql. For the purpose of the test it's entirely sufficient to check for locks taken by the current process, so add an appropriate restriction. While touching the test, expand it to also check for locks on the underlying relations, rather than just the indexes. Reported-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30354.1489434301@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-14hash: Add write-ahead logging support.Robert Haas
The warning about hash indexes not being write-ahead logged and their use being discouraged has been removed. "snapshot too old" is now supported for tables with hash indexes. Most importantly, barring bugs, hash indexes will now be crash-safe and usable on standbys. This commit doesn't yet add WAL consistency checking for hash indexes, as we now have for other index types; a separate patch has been submitted to cure that lack. Amit Kapila, reviewed and slightly modified by me. The larger patch series of which this is a part has been reviewed and tested by Álvaro Herrera, Ashutosh Sharma, Mark Kirkwood, Jeff Janes, and Jesper Pedersen. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JOBX=YU33631Qh-XivYXtPSALh514+jR8XeD7v+K3r_Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14Spelling fixesPeter Eisentraut
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-14Spelling fixes in code commentsPeter Eisentraut
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-13Fix compiler warningPeter Eisentraut
From: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-03-12Use wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() more.Noah Misch
This makes almost all core code follow the policy introduced in the previous commit. Specific decisions: - Text search support functions with char* and length arguments, such as prsstart and lexize, may receive unaligned strings. I doubt maintainers of non-core text search code will notice. - Use plain VARDATA() on values detoasted or synthesized earlier in the same function. Use VARDATA_ANY() on varlenas sourced outside the function, even if they happen to always have four-byte headers. As an exception, retain the universal practice of using VARDATA() on return values of SendFunctionCall(). - Retain PG_GETARG_BYTEA_P() in pageinspect. (Page images are too large for a one-byte header, so this misses no optimization.) Sites that do not call get_page_from_raw() typically need the four-byte alignment. - For now, do not change btree_gist. Its use of four-byte headers in memory is partly entangled with storage of 4-byte headers inside GBT_VARKEY, on disk. - For now, do not change gtrgm_consistent() or gtrgm_distance(). They incorporate the varlena header into a cache, and there are multiple credible implementation strategies to consider.
2017-03-12Fix pg_file_write() error handling.Noah Misch
Detect fclose() failures; given "ln -s /dev/full $PGDATA/devfull", "pg_file_write('devfull', 'x', true)" now fails as it should. Don't leak a stream when fwrite() fails. Remove a born-ineffective test that aimed to skip zero-length writes. Back-patch to 9.2 (all supported versions).
2017-03-12Assume deconstruct_array() outputs are untoasted.Noah Misch
In functions that issue a deconstruct_array() call, consistently use plain VARSIZE()/VARDATA() on the array elements. Prior practice was divided between those and VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR()/VARDATA_ANY().
2017-03-11Fix ancient connection leak in dblinkJoe Conway
When using unnamed connections with dblink, every time a new connection is made, the old one is leaked. Fix that. This has been an issue probably since dblink was first committed. Someone complained almost ten years ago, but apparently I decided not to pursue it at the time, and neither did anyone else, so it slipped between the cracks. Now that someone else has complained, fix in all supported branches. Discussion: (orig) https://postgr.es/m/flat/F680AB59-6D6F-4026-9599-1BE28880273D%40decibel.org#F680AB59-6D6F-4026-9599-1BE28880273D@decibel.org Discussion: (new) https://postgr.es/m/flat/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6ADF8C@G01JPEXMBYT05 Reported by: Jim Nasby and Takayuki Tsunakawa
2017-03-10dblink: Change some StringInfo to StringInfoDataPeter Eisentraut
For consistency with other code and to avoid wasting some small amount of memory. From: Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-03-10dblink: Replace some macros by static functionsPeter Eisentraut
Also remove some unused code and the no longer useful dblink.h file. Reviewed-by: Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-03-10Fix hard-coded relkind constants in assorted other files.Tom Lane
Although it's reasonable to expect that most of these constants will never change, that does not make it good programming style to hard-code the value rather than using the RELKIND_FOO macros. I think I've now gotten all the hard-coded references in C code. Unfortunately there's no equally convenient way to parameterize SQL files ... Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11145.1488931324@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-10amcheck: editorialize variable name & comment.Andres Freund
No exclusive lock is taken anymore...
2017-03-10Add .gitignore to contrib/amcheck.Tom Lane
Oversight in commit 3717dc149.
2017-03-10pgstattuple: Fix typo partitiond -> partitionedStephen Frost
Pointed out by Michael Paquier
2017-03-10Add amcheck extension to contrib.Andres Freund
This is the beginning of a collection of SQL-callable functions to verify the integrity of data files. For now it only contains code to verify B-Tree indexes. This adds two SQL-callable functions, validating B-Tree consistency to a varying degree. Check the, extensive, docs for details. The goal is to later extend the coverage of the module to further access methods, possibly including the heap. Once checks for additional access methods exist, we'll likely add some "dispatch" functions that cover multiple access methods. Author: Peter Geoghegan, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Thomas Munro, Anastasia Lubennikova, Robert Haas, Amit Langote Discussion: CAM3SWZQzLMhMwmBqjzK+pRKXrNUZ4w90wYMUWfkeV8mZ3Debvw@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-09Add relkind checks to certain contrib modulesStephen Frost
The contrib extensions pageinspect, pg_visibility and pgstattuple only work against regular relations which have storage. They don't work against foreign tables, partitioned (parent) tables, views, et al. Add checks to the user-callable functions to return a useful error message to the user if they mistakenly pass an invalid relation to a function which doesn't accept that kind of relation. In passing, improve some of the existing checks to use ereport() instead of elog(), add a function to consolidate common checks where appropriate, and add some regression tests. Author: Amit Langote, with various changes by me Reviewed by: Michael Paquier and Corey Huinker Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ab91fd9d-4751-ee77-c87b-4dd704c1e59c@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-08Support XMLTABLE query expressionAlvaro Herrera
XMLTABLE is defined by the SQL/XML standard as a feature that allows turning XML-formatted data into relational form, so that it can be used as a <table primary> in the FROM clause of a query. This new construct provides significant simplicity and performance benefit for XML data processing; what in a client-side custom implementation was reported to take 20 minutes can be executed in 400ms using XMLTABLE. (The same functionality was said to take 10 seconds using nested PostgreSQL XPath function calls, and 5 seconds using XMLReader under PL/Python). The implemented syntax deviates slightly from what the standard requires. First, the standard indicates that the PASSING clause is optional and that multiple XML input documents may be given to it; we make it mandatory and accept a single document only. Second, we don't currently support a default namespace to be specified. This implementation relies on a new executor node based on a hardcoded method table. (Because the grammar is fixed, there is no extensibility in the current approach; further constructs can be implemented on top of this such as JSON_TABLE, but they require changes to core code.) Author: Pavel Stehule, Álvaro Herrera Extensively reviewed by: Craig Ringer Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRAgfzMD-LoSmnMGybD0WsEznLHWap8DO79+-GTRAPR4qA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-07Support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication (RFC 5802 and 7677).Heikki Linnakangas
This introduces a new generic SASL authentication method, similar to the GSS and SSPI methods. The server first tells the client which SASL authentication mechanism to use, and then the mechanism-specific SASL messages are exchanged in AuthenticationSASLcontinue and PasswordMessage messages. Only SCRAM-SHA-256 is supported at the moment, but this allows adding more SASL mechanisms in the future, without changing the overall protocol. Support for channel binding, aka SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS is left for later. The SASLPrep algorithm, for pre-processing the password, is not yet implemented. That could cause trouble, if you use a password with non-ASCII characters, and a client library that does implement SASLprep. That will hopefully be added later. Authorization identities, as specified in the SCRAM-SHA-256 specification, are ignored. SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION provides more or less the same functionality, anyway. If a user doesn't exist, perform a "mock" authentication, by constructing an authentic-looking challenge on the fly. The challenge is derived from a new system-wide random value, "mock authentication nonce", which is created at initdb, and stored in the control file. We go through these motions, in order to not give away the information on whether the user exists, to unauthenticated users. Bumps PG_CONTROL_VERSION, because of the new field in control file. Patch by Michael Paquier and Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed at different stages by Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, David Steele, Aleksander Alekseev, and many others. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRbR3GmFYdedCAhzukfKrgBLTLtMvENOmPrVWREsZkF8g%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSMXU35g%3DW9X74HVeQp0uvgJxvYOuA4A-A3M%2B0wfEBv-w%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/55192AFE.6080106@iki.fi
2017-03-07Refactor SHA2 functions and move them to src/common/.Heikki Linnakangas
This way both frontend and backends can use them. The functions are taken from pgcrypto, which now fetches the source files it needs from src/common/. A new interface is designed for the SHA2 functions, which allow linking to either OpenSSL or the in-core stuff taken from KAME as needed. Michael Paquier, reviewed by Robert Haas. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTGKuTM5jiZriHrNaQeVqp5e_iT3X4BFLWY_HyHxLvySQ%40mail.gmail.com
2017-03-01Move atooid() definition to a central placePeter Eisentraut
2017-02-27chomp PQerrorMessage() in backend usesPeter Eisentraut
PQerrorMessage() returns an error message with a trailing newline, but in backend use (dblink, postgres_fdw, libpqwalreceiver), we want to have the error message without that for emitting via ereport(). To simplify that, add a function pchomp() that returns a pstrdup'ed string with the trailing newline characters removed.
2017-02-25Remove useless duplicate inclusions of system header files.Tom Lane
c.h #includes a number of core libc header files, such as <stdio.h>. There's no point in re-including these after having read postgres.h, postgres_fe.h, or c.h; so remove code that did so. While at it, also fix some places that were ignoring our standard pattern of "include postgres[_fe].h, then system header files, then other Postgres header files". While there's not any great magic in doing it that way rather than system headers last, it's silly to have just a few files deviating from the general pattern. (But I didn't attempt to enforce this globally, only in files I was touching anyway.) I'd be the first to say that this is mostly compulsive neatnik-ism, but over time it might save enough compile cycles to be useful.
2017-02-23Consistently declare timestamp variables as TimestampTz.Tom Lane
Twiddle the replication-related code so that its timestamp variables are declared TimestampTz, rather than the uninformative "int64" that was previously used for meant-to-be-always-integer timestamps. This resolves the int64-vs-TimestampTz declaration inconsistencies introduced by commit 7c030783a, though in the opposite direction to what was originally suggested. This required including datatype/timestamp.h in a couple more places than before. I decided it would be a good idea to slim down that header by not having it pull in <float.h> etc, as those headers are no longer at all relevant to its purpose. Unsurprisingly, a small number of .c files turn out to have been depending on those inclusions, so add them back in the .c files as needed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26788.1487455319@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27694.1487456324@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-23Remove now-dead code for !HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP.Tom Lane
This is a basically mechanical removal of #ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP tests and the negative-case controlled code. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26788.1487455319@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-22Fix contrib/pg_trgm's extraction of trigrams from regular expressions.Tom Lane
The logic for removing excess trigrams from the result was faulty. It intends to avoid merging the initial and final states of the NFA, which is necessary, but in testing whether removal of a specific trigram would cause that, it failed to consider the combined effects of all the state merges that that trigram's removal would cause. This could result in a broken final graph that would never match anything, leading to GIN or GiST indexscans not finding anything. To fix, add a "tentParent" field that is used only within this loop, and set it to show state merges that we are tentatively going to do. While examining a particular arc, we must chase up through tentParent links as well as regular parent links (the former can only appear atop the latter), and we must account for state init/fin flag merges that haven't actually been done yet. To simplify the latter, combine the separate init and fin bool fields into a bitmap flags field. I also chose to get rid of the "children" state list, which seems entirely inessential. Per bug #14563 from Alexey Isayko, which the added test cases are based on. Back-patch to 9.3 where this code was added. Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170222111446.1256.67547@wrigleys.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8816.1487787594@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-22Fix incorrect typecast.Robert Haas
Ashutosh Sharma, per a report from Mithun Cy. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OujgqNNnCujeFTmKpjNu+W4smS8Hbi=RcWAhf1ZUs3H4WA@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-21Drop support for Python 2.3Peter Eisentraut
There is no specific reason for this right now, but keeping support for old Python versions around indefinitely increases the maintenance burden. The oldest supported Python version is now Python 2.4, which is still shipped in RHEL/CentOS 5 by default. In configure, add a check for the required Python version and give a friendly error message for an old version, instead of relying on an obscure build error later on.
2017-02-15Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index scans.Robert Haas
In combination with 569174f1be92be93f5366212cc46960d28a5c5cd, which taught the btree AM how to perform parallel index scans, this allows parallel index scan plans on btree indexes. This infrastructure should be general enough to support parallel index scans for other index AMs as well, if someone updates them to support parallel scans. Amit Kapila, reviewed and tested by Anastasia Lubennikova, Tushar Ahuja, and Haribabu Kommi, and me.
2017-02-13Remove contrib/tsearch2.Robert Haas
This module was intended to ease migrations of applications that used the pre-8.3 version of text search to the in-core version introduced in that release. However, since all pre-8.3 releases of the database have been out of support for more than 5 years at this point, we expect that few people are depending on it at this point. If some people still need it, nothing prevents it from being maintained as a separate extension, outside of core. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob5R8aDHiFRTQsSJbT1oreKg2FOSBrC=2f4tqEH3dOMAg@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-09Remove all references to "xlog" from SQL-callable functions in pg_proc.Robert Haas
Commit f82ec32ac30ae7e3ec7c84067192535b2ff8ec0e renamed the pg_xlog directory to pg_wal. To make things consistent, and because "xlog" is terrible terminology for either "transaction log" or "write-ahead log" rename all SQL-callable functions that contain "xlog" in the name to instead contain "wal". (Note that this may pose an upgrade hazard for some users.) Similarly, rename the xlog_position argument of the functions that create slots to be called wal_position. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+Tgmob=YmA=H3DbW1YuOXnFVgBheRmyDkWcD9M8f=5bGWYEoQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-09pageinspect: Fix hash_bitmap_info not to read the underlying page.Robert Haas
It did that to verify that the page was an overflow page rather than anything else, but that means that checking the status of all the overflow bits requires reading the entire index. So don't do that. The new code validates that the page is not a primary bucket page or bitmap page by looking at the metapage, so that using this on large numbers of pages can be reasonably efficient. Ashutosh Sharma, per a complaint from me, and with further modifications by me.
2017-02-09Allow index AMs to cache data across aminsert calls within a SQL command.Tom Lane
It's always been possible for index AMs to cache data across successive amgettuple calls within a single SQL command: the IndexScanDesc.opaque field is meant for precisely that. However, no comparable facility exists for amortizing setup work across successive aminsert calls. This patch adds such a feature and teaches GIN, GIST, and BRIN to use it to amortize catalog lookups they'd previously been doing on every call. (The other standard index AMs keep everything they need in the relcache, so there's little to improve there.) For GIN, the overall improvement in a statement that inserts many rows can be as much as 10%, though it seems a bit less for the other two. In addition, this makes a really significant difference in runtime for CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS tests, since in those builds the repeated catalog lookups are vastly more expensive. The reason this has been hard up to now is that the aminsert function is not passed any useful place to cache per-statement data. What I chose to do is to add suitable fields to struct IndexInfo and pass that to aminsert. That's not widening the index AM API very much because IndexInfo is already within the ken of ambuild; in fact, by passing the same info to aminsert as to ambuild, this is really removing an inconsistency in the AM API. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27568.1486508680@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-07Cache hash index's metapage in rel->rd_amcache.Robert Haas
This avoids a very significant amount of buffer manager traffic and contention when scanning hash indexes, because it's no longer necessary to lock and pin the metapage for every scan. We do need some way of figuring out when the cache is too stale to use any more, so that when we lock the primary bucket page to which the cached metapage points us, we can tell whether a split has occurred since we cached the metapage data. To do that, we use the hash_prevblkno field in the primary bucket page, which would otherwise always be set to InvalidBuffer. This patch contains code so that it will continue working (although less efficiently) with hash indexes built before this change, but perhaps we should consider bumping the hash version and ripping out the compatibility code. That decision can be made later, though. Mithun Cy, reviewed by Jesper Pedersen, Amit Kapila, and by me. Before committing, I made a number of cosmetic changes to the last posted version of the patch, adjusted _hash_getcachedmetap to be more careful about order of operation, and made some necessary updates to the pageinspect documentation and regression tests.
2017-02-06Fix typo also in expected output.Heikki Linnakangas
Commit 181bdb90ba fixed the typo in the .sql file, but forgot to update the expected output.