Re: eliminate xl_heap_visible to reduce WAL (and eventually set VM on-access)

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Subject: Re: eliminate xl_heap_visible to reduce WAL (and eventually set VM on-access)
Date: 2025-09-05 22:27:05
Message-ID: CAAKRu_ZAwL0aczVKuaH+vKRfuzcuczyTCxE5OyM7_LqpWaq+rQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> small comments regarding new series
>
> 0001, 0002, 0017 LGTM

Thanks for continuing to review!

> In 0015:
>
> Also, maybe GlobalVisXidTestAllVisible is a slightly better name? (The
> term 'all-visible' is one that we occasionally utilize)

Actually, I was trying to distinguish it from all-visible because I
interpret that to mean every thing is visible -- as in, every tuple on
a page is visible to everyone. And here we are referring to one xid
and want to know if it is visible to everyone as no longer running. I
don't think my name ("visible-to-all") is good, but I'm hesitant to
co-opt "all-visible" here.

- Melanie

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