Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg S <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
Date: 2016-03-08 00:50:35
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaVzQnZVnfkMWJdmmBkCAWFH3qYa+J7qcdFCFp=vuzxBQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I actually think end-users might well want to use it. Also, I created
>> it by hacking up pg_freespacemap, so it may make sense to have it in
>> the same place.
>> I would also be tempted to add an additional C functions that scan the
>> entire visibility map and return counts of the total number of bits of
>> each type that are set, and similarly for the page level bits.
>> Presumably that would be much faster than
>
> +1.
>
>> I am also tempted to change the API to be a bit more friendly,
>> although I am not sure exactly how. This was a quick and dirty hack
>> so that I could test, but the hardest thing about making it not a
>> quick and dirty hack is probably deciding on a good UI.
>
> Does it mean visibility map API in visibilitymap.c?

Here's an updated patch with an API that I think is much more
reasonable to expose to users, and documentation! It assumes that the
patch I posted a few hours ago to remove PD_ALL_FROZEN will be
accepted; if that falls apart for some reason, I'll update this. I
plan to push this RSN if nobody objects.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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