postgresql/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstatapprox.c

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * pgstatapprox.c
 *		  Bloat estimation functions
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2014-2026, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 *
 * IDENTIFICATION
 *		  contrib/pgstattuple/pgstatapprox.c
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
#include "postgres.h"

#include "access/heapam.h"
#include "access/htup_details.h"
#include "access/relation.h"
#include "access/visibilitymap.h"
#include "catalog/pg_am_d.h"
#include "commands/vacuum.h"
#include "funcapi.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "storage/bufmgr.h"
#include "storage/freespace.h"
#include "storage/procarray.h"
#include "storage/read_stream.h"

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pgstattuple_approx);
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pgstattuple_approx_v1_5);

Datum		pgstattuple_approx_internal(Oid relid, FunctionCallInfo fcinfo);

typedef struct output_type
{
	uint64		table_len;
	double		scanned_percent;
	uint64		tuple_count;
	uint64		tuple_len;
	double		tuple_percent;
	uint64		dead_tuple_count;
	uint64		dead_tuple_len;
	double		dead_tuple_percent;
	uint64		free_space;
	double		free_percent;
} output_type;

#define NUM_OUTPUT_COLUMNS 10

/*
 * Struct for statapprox_heap read stream callback.
 */
typedef struct StatApproxReadStreamPrivate
{
	Relation	rel;
	output_type *stat;
	BlockNumber current_blocknum;
	BlockNumber nblocks;
	BlockNumber scanned;		/* count of pages actually read */
	Buffer		vmbuffer;		/* for VM lookups */
} StatApproxReadStreamPrivate;

/*
 * Read stream callback for statapprox_heap.
 *
 * This callback checks the visibility map for each block.  If the block is
 * all-visible, we can get the free space from the FSM without reading the
 * actual page, and skip to the next block.  Only the blocks that are not
 * all-visible are returned for actual reading after being locked.
 */
static BlockNumber
statapprox_heap_read_stream_next(ReadStream *stream,
								 void *callback_private_data,
								 void *per_buffer_data)
{
	StatApproxReadStreamPrivate *p =
		(StatApproxReadStreamPrivate *) callback_private_data;

	while (p->current_blocknum < p->nblocks)
	{
		BlockNumber blkno = p->current_blocknum++;
		Size		freespace;

		CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();

		/*
		 * If the page has only visible tuples, then we can find out the free
		 * space from the FSM and move on without reading the page.
		 */
		if (VM_ALL_VISIBLE(p->rel, blkno, &p->vmbuffer))
		{
			freespace = GetRecordedFreeSpace(p->rel, blkno);
			p->stat->tuple_len += BLCKSZ - freespace;
			p->stat->free_space += freespace;
			continue;
		}

		/* This block needs to be read */
		p->scanned++;
		return blkno;
	}

	return InvalidBlockNumber;
}

/*
 * This function takes an already open relation and scans its pages,
 * skipping those that have the corresponding visibility map bit set.
 * For pages we skip, we find the free space from the free space map
 * and approximate tuple_len on that basis. For the others, we count
 * the exact number of dead tuples etc.
 *
 * This scan is loosely based on vacuumlazy.c:lazy_scan_heap(), but
 * we do not try to avoid skipping single pages.
 */
static void
statapprox_heap(Relation rel, output_type *stat)
{
	BlockNumber nblocks;
	BufferAccessStrategy bstrategy;
	TransactionId OldestXmin;
	StatApproxReadStreamPrivate p;
	ReadStream *stream;

	OldestXmin = GetOldestNonRemovableTransactionId(rel);
	bstrategy = GetAccessStrategy(BAS_BULKREAD);

	nblocks = RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(rel);

	/* Initialize read stream private data */
	p.rel = rel;
	p.stat = stat;
	p.current_blocknum = 0;
	p.nblocks = nblocks;
	p.scanned = 0;
	p.vmbuffer = InvalidBuffer;

	/*
	 * Create the read stream. We don't use READ_STREAM_USE_BATCHING because
	 * the callback accesses the visibility map which may need to read VM
	 * pages. While this shouldn't cause deadlocks, we err on the side of
	 * caution.
	 */
	stream = read_stream_begin_relation(READ_STREAM_FULL,
										bstrategy,
										rel,
										MAIN_FORKNUM,
										statapprox_heap_read_stream_next,
										&p,
										0);

	for (;;)
	{
		Buffer		buf;
		Page		page;
		OffsetNumber offnum,
					maxoff;
		BlockNumber blkno;

		buf = read_stream_next_buffer(stream, NULL);
		if (buf == InvalidBuffer)
			break;

		LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE);

		page = BufferGetPage(buf);
		blkno = BufferGetBlockNumber(buf);

		stat->free_space += PageGetExactFreeSpace(page);

		if (PageIsNew(page) || PageIsEmpty(page))
		{
			UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
			continue;
		}

		/*
		 * Look at each tuple on the page and decide whether it's live or
		 * dead, then count it and its size. Unlike lazy_scan_heap, we can
		 * afford to ignore problems and special cases.
		 */
		maxoff = PageGetMaxOffsetNumber(page);

		for (offnum = FirstOffsetNumber;
			 offnum <= maxoff;
			 offnum = OffsetNumberNext(offnum))
		{
			ItemId		itemid;
			HeapTupleData tuple;

			itemid = PageGetItemId(page, offnum);

			if (!ItemIdIsUsed(itemid) || ItemIdIsRedirected(itemid) ||
				ItemIdIsDead(itemid))
			{
				continue;
			}

			Assert(ItemIdIsNormal(itemid));

			ItemPointerSet(&(tuple.t_self), blkno, offnum);

			tuple.t_data = (HeapTupleHeader) PageGetItem(page, itemid);
			tuple.t_len = ItemIdGetLength(itemid);
			tuple.t_tableOid = RelationGetRelid(rel);

			/*
			 * We follow VACUUM's lead in counting INSERT_IN_PROGRESS tuples
			 * as "dead" while DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuples are "live".  We don't
			 * bother distinguishing tuples inserted/deleted by our own
			 * transaction.
			 */
			switch (HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum(&tuple, OldestXmin, buf))
			{
				case HEAPTUPLE_LIVE:
				case HEAPTUPLE_DELETE_IN_PROGRESS:
					stat->tuple_len += tuple.t_len;
					stat->tuple_count++;
					break;
				case HEAPTUPLE_DEAD:
				case HEAPTUPLE_RECENTLY_DEAD:
				case HEAPTUPLE_INSERT_IN_PROGRESS:
					stat->dead_tuple_len += tuple.t_len;
					stat->dead_tuple_count++;
					break;
				default:
					elog(ERROR, "unexpected HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum result");
					break;
			}
		}

		UnlockReleaseBuffer(buf);
	}

	Assert(p.current_blocknum == nblocks);
	read_stream_end(stream);

	stat->table_len = (uint64) nblocks * BLCKSZ;

	/*
	 * We don't know how many tuples are in the pages we didn't scan, so
	 * extrapolate the live-tuple count to the whole table in the same way
	 * that VACUUM does.  (Like VACUUM, we're not taking a random sample, so
	 * just extrapolating linearly seems unsafe.)  There should be no dead
	 * tuples in all-visible pages, so no correction is needed for that, and
	 * we already accounted for the space in those pages, too.
	 */
	stat->tuple_count = vac_estimate_reltuples(rel, nblocks, p.scanned,
											   stat->tuple_count);

	/* It's not clear if we could get -1 here, but be safe. */
	stat->tuple_count = Max(stat->tuple_count, 0);

	/*
	 * Calculate percentages if the relation has one or more pages.
	 */
	if (nblocks != 0)
	{
		stat->scanned_percent = 100.0 * p.scanned / nblocks;
		stat->tuple_percent = 100.0 * stat->tuple_len / stat->table_len;
		stat->dead_tuple_percent = 100.0 * stat->dead_tuple_len / stat->table_len;
		stat->free_percent = 100.0 * stat->free_space / stat->table_len;
	}

	if (BufferIsValid(p.vmbuffer))
	{
		ReleaseBuffer(p.vmbuffer);
		p.vmbuffer = InvalidBuffer;
	}
}

/*
 * Returns estimated live/dead tuple statistics for the given relid.
 *
 * The superuser() check here must be kept as the library might be upgraded
 * without the extension being upgraded, meaning that in pre-1.5 installations
 * these functions could be called by any user.
 */
Datum
pgstattuple_approx(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
	Oid			relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);

	if (!superuser())
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGE),
				 errmsg("must be superuser to use pgstattuple functions")));

	PG_RETURN_DATUM(pgstattuple_approx_internal(relid, fcinfo));
}

/*
 * As of pgstattuple version 1.5, we no longer need to check if the user
 * is a superuser because we REVOKE EXECUTE on the SQL function from PUBLIC.
 * Users can then grant access to it based on their policies.
 *
 * Otherwise identical to pgstattuple_approx (above).
 */
Datum
pgstattuple_approx_v1_5(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
	Oid			relid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);

	PG_RETURN_DATUM(pgstattuple_approx_internal(relid, fcinfo));
}

Datum
pgstattuple_approx_internal(Oid relid, FunctionCallInfo fcinfo)
{
	Relation	rel;
	output_type stat = {0};
	TupleDesc	tupdesc;
	bool		nulls[NUM_OUTPUT_COLUMNS];
	Datum		values[NUM_OUTPUT_COLUMNS];
	HeapTuple	ret;
	int			i = 0;

	if (get_call_result_type(fcinfo, NULL, &tupdesc) != TYPEFUNC_COMPOSITE)
		elog(ERROR, "return type must be a row type");

	if (tupdesc->natts != NUM_OUTPUT_COLUMNS)
		elog(ERROR, "incorrect number of output arguments");

	rel = relation_open(relid, AccessShareLock);

	/*
	 * Reject attempts to read non-local temporary relations; we would be
	 * likely to get wrong data since we have no visibility into the owning
	 * session's local buffers.
	 */
	if (RELATION_IS_OTHER_TEMP(rel))
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
				 errmsg("cannot access temporary tables of other sessions")));

	/*
	 * We support only relation kinds with a visibility map and a free space
	 * map.
	 */
	if (!(rel->rd_rel->relkind == RELKIND_RELATION ||
		  rel->rd_rel->relkind == RELKIND_MATVIEW ||
		  rel->rd_rel->relkind == RELKIND_TOASTVALUE))
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
				 errmsg("relation \"%s\" is of wrong relation kind",
						RelationGetRelationName(rel)),
				 errdetail_relkind_not_supported(rel->rd_rel->relkind)));

	if (rel->rd_rel->relam != HEAP_TABLE_AM_OID)
		ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
						errmsg("only heap AM is supported")));

	statapprox_heap(rel, &stat);

	relation_close(rel, AccessShareLock);

	memset(nulls, 0, sizeof(nulls));

	values[i++] = Int64GetDatum(stat.table_len);
	values[i++] = Float8GetDatum(stat.scanned_percent);
	values[i++] = Int64GetDatum(stat.tuple_count);
	values[i++] = Int64GetDatum(stat.tuple_len);
	values[i++] = Float8GetDatum(stat.tuple_percent);
	values[i++] = Int64GetDatum(stat.dead_tuple_count);
	values[i++] = Int64GetDatum(stat.dead_tuple_len);
	values[i++] = Float8GetDatum(stat.dead_tuple_percent);
	values[i++] = Int64GetDatum(stat.free_space);
	values[i++] = Float8GetDatum(stat.free_percent);

	ret = heap_form_tuple(tupdesc, values, nulls);
	return HeapTupleGetDatum(ret);
}