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Kevin Grittner 2ed5b87f96 Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for btree scans.
Even though the main benefit of the Lehman and Yao algorithm for
btrees is that no locks need be held between page reads in an
index search, we were holding a buffer pin on each leaf page after
it was read until we were ready to read the next one.  The reason
was so that we could treat this as a weak lock to create an
"interlock" with vacuum's deletion of heap line pointers, even
though our README file pointed out that this was not necessary for
a scan using an MVCC snapshot.

The main goal of this patch is to reduce the blocking of vacuum
processes by in-progress btree index scans (including a cursor
which is idle), but the code rearrangement also allows for one
less buffer content lock to be taken when a forward scan steps from
one page to the next, which results in a small but consistent
performance improvement in many workloads.

This patch leaves behavior unchanged for some cases, which can be
addressed separately so that each case can be evaluated on its own
merits.  These unchanged cases are when a scan uses a non-MVCC
snapshot, an index-only scan, and a scan of a btree index for which
modifications are not WAL-logged.  If later patches allow  all of
these cases to drop the buffer pin after reading a leaf page, then
the btree vacuum process can be simplified; it will no longer need
the "super-exclusive" lock to delete tuples from a page.

Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas and Kyotaro Horiguchi
2015-03-25 14:24:43 -05:00
config Add, optional, support for 128bit integers. 2015-03-20 10:26:17 +01:00
contrib Revert commit 843cd0bfe6 2015-03-24 22:35:05 -04:00
doc PL/pgSQL docs: recommend format() for query construction 2015-03-24 21:10:36 -04:00
src Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for btree scans. 2015-03-25 14:24:43 -05:00
.dir-locals.el Update Emacs configuration 2013-08-13 20:08:44 -04:00
.gitattributes Add functions for dealing with PGP armor header lines to pgcrypto. 2014-10-01 16:03:39 +03:00
.gitignore Ignore leftover artifacts from ecpg testsuite runs on Windows. 2015-03-09 18:48:44 +01:00
aclocal.m4 Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
configure Add, optional, support for 128bit integers. 2015-03-20 10:26:17 +01:00
configure.in Add, optional, support for 128bit integers. 2015-03-20 10:26:17 +01:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
GNUmakefile.in Add TAP tests for client programs 2014-04-14 21:33:46 -04:00
HISTORY Improve text of stub HISTORY file. 2014-02-12 18:16:17 -05:00
Makefile Allow make check in PL directories 2011-02-15 06:52:12 +02:00
README Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore. 2014-02-10 20:48:04 -05:00
README.git Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore. 2014-02-10 20:48:04 -05:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

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