Make nbtree backwards scans optimistically access the next page to be read to the left by following a prevPage block number that's now stashed in currPos when the leaf page is first read. This approach matches the one taken during forward scans, which follow a symmetric nextPage block number from currPos. We stash both a prevPage and a nextPage, since the scan direction might change (when fetching from a scrollable cursor). Backwards scans will no longer need to lock the same page twice, except in rare cases where the scan detects a concurrent page split (or page deletion). Testing has shown this optimization to be particularly effective during parallel index-only backwards scans: ~12% reductions in query execution time are quite possible. We're much better off being optimistic; concurrent left sibling page splits are rare in general. It's possible that we'll need to lock more pages than the pessimistic approach would have, but only when there are _multiple_ concurrent splits of the left sibling page we now start at. If there's just a single concurrent left sibling page split, the new approach to scanning backwards will at least break even relative to the old one (we'll acquire the same number of leaf page locks as before). The optimization from this commit has long been contemplated by comments added by commit |
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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