Re: [HACKERS] Block level parallel vacuum

From: Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Block level parallel vacuum
Date: 2020-01-10 10:21:02
Message-ID: 17809001578651662@vla1-422f52264539.qloud-c.yandex.net
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Hi
Thank you for update! I looked again

(vacuum_indexes_leader)
+ /* Skip the indexes that can be processed by parallel workers */
+ if (!skip_index)
+ continue;

Does the variable name skip_index not confuse here? Maybe rename to something like can_parallel?

Another question about behavior on temporary tables. Use case: the user commands just "vacuum;" to vacuum entire database (and has enough maintenance workers). Vacuum starts fine in parallel, but on first temporary table we hit:

+ if (RelationUsesLocalBuffers(onerel) && params->nworkers >= 0)
+ {
+ ereport(WARNING,
+ (errmsg("disabling parallel option of vacuum on \"%s\" --- cannot vacuum temporary tables in parallel",
+ RelationGetRelationName(onerel))));
+ params->nworkers = -1;
+ }

And therefore we turn off the parallel vacuum for the remaining tables... Can we improve this case?

regards, Sergei

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