The test relies on VACUUM being able to mark a page all-visible, but
this can fail when autovacuum in other sessions prevents the visibility
horizon from advancing. Making the test table temporary isolates its
horizon from other sessions, including catalog table vacuums, ensuring
reliable test behavior.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2b09fba6-6b71-497a-96ef-a6947fcc39f6%40gmail.com
lazy_scan_prune() previously had two separate cases that called
visibilitymap_set() after pruning and freezing. These branches were
nearly identical except that one attempted to avoid dirtying the heap
buffer. However, that situation can never occur — the heap buffer cannot
be clean at that point (and we would hit an assertion if it were).
In lazy_scan_prune(), when we change a previously all-visible page to
all-frozen and the page was recorded as all-visible in the visibility
map by find_next_unskippable_block(), the heap buffer will always be
dirty. Either we have just frozen a tuple and already dirtied the
buffer, or the buffer was modified between find_next_unskippable_block()
and heap_page_prune_and_freeze() and then pruned in
heap_page_prune_and_freeze().
Additionally, XLogRegisterBuffer() asserts that the buffer is dirty, so
attempting to add a clean heap buffer to the WAL chain would assert out
anyway.
Since the “clean heap buffer with already set VM” case is impossible,
the two visibilitymap_set() branches in lazy_scan_prune() can be merged.
Doing so makes the intent clearer and emphasizes that the heap buffer
must always be marked dirty before being added to the WAL chain.
This commit also adds a test case for vacuuming when no heap
modifications are required. Currently this ensures that the heap buffer
is marked dirty before it is added to the WAL chain, but if we later
remove the heap buffer from the VM-set WAL chain or pass it with the
REGBUF_NO_CHANGES flag, this test would guard that behavior.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5CEAA162-67B1-44DA-B60D-8B65717E8B05%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ZWx5gCbeCf7PWCv8p5%3D%3Db7EEws0VD2wksDxpXCvCyHvQ%40mail.gmail.com
Since 82a4edabd2 we can bulk extend relations. The bulk relation extension
logic has a heuristic component. Normally the heurstic does not trigger in the
occasionally-failing test case, as the relation is only extended once. But
with very small shared_buffers the limits for the number of buffers pinned at
once prevent the extension from happening at once. With the second "bulk"
extension, the heuristic kicks in, and the relation ends up one block bigger.
That's ok from a correctness perspective, but changes the results of the test
query due to one additional block.
We discussed a few more expansive fixes, but for now have decided to avoid
this by making the table a bit smaller.
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reported-by:
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29c74104-210b-ef39-2522-27a6aa7a704f@iki.fi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230916000011.2ugpkkkp7bpp4cfh@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 16-, where the new relation extension logic was added
By default VACUUM will skip pages that it can't immediately get
exclusive access to, which means that even activities as harmless
and unpredictable as checkpoint buffer writes might prevent a page
from being processed. Ordinarily this is no big deal, but we have
a small number of test cases that examine the results of VACUUM's
processing and therefore will fail if the page of interest is skipped.
This seems to be the explanation for some rare buildfarm failures.
To fix, add the DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING option to the VACUUM commands
in tests where this could be an issue.
In passing, remove a duplicated query in pageinspect/sql/page.sql.
Back-patch as necessary (some of these cases are as old as v10).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/413923.1611006484@sss.pgh.pa.us
Make sure COPY FREEZE marks the pages as PD_ALL_VISIBLE and updates the
visibility map. Until now we only marked individual tuples as frozen,
but page-level flags were not updated, so the first VACUUM after the
COPY FREEZE had to rewrite the whole table.
This is a fairly old patch, and multiple people worked on it. The first
version was written by Jeff Janes, and then reworked by Pavan Deolasee
and Anastasia Lubennikova.
Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Pavan Deolasee, Jeff Janes
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh, Jeff Janes, Tomas Vondra, Masahiko Sawada,
Andres Freund, Ibrar Ahmed, Robert Haas, Tatsuro Ishii,
Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdN-ptGv0mZntrK2Q8OtfUuAjqaYMGmkdU1dCKFtUxVLrg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU%3D1w3osJJ2FneELhhNRLxfZitDgp9FPHee08NT2FQFmz_pQ%40mail.gmail.com
TOAST tables have a visibility map and a free space map, so they can
be supported by pgstattuple_approx just fine.
Add test cases to show how various pgstattuple functions accept TOAST
tables. Also add similar tests to pg_visibility, which already
accepted TOAST tables correctly but had no test coverage for them.
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/27c4496a-02b9-dc87-8f6f-bddbef54e0fe@2ndquadrant.com
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.
To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.
Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN.
Future servers accept older WAL, so this bump is discretionary.
Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.
To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.
Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.
Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As
always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)
Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
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
