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

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>, Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Subject: Re: eliminate xl_heap_visible to reduce WAL (and eventually set VM on-access)
Date: 2026-03-16 14:53:32
Message-ID: CAAKRu_b8m+iuupm4ZX+2_V5Xj5u4jCTrU=Tv=epg6p4H2SMkFQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I've pushed a few more of the trivial commits in the set. Attached v38
> has the remaining patches.

Looks like cfbot wasn't able to rebase v38 on its own for some reason.
v39 attached.

- Melanie

Attachment Content-Type Size
v39-0001-Fix-visibility-map-corruption-in-more-cases.patch text/x-patch 18.6 KB
v39-0002-Add-pruning-fast-path-for-all-visible-and-all-fr.patch text/x-patch 4.5 KB
v39-0003-Use-GlobalVisState-in-vacuum-to-determine-page-l.patch text/x-patch 11.4 KB
v39-0004-Keep-newest-live-XID-up-to-date-even-if-page-not.patch text/x-patch 14.8 KB
v39-0005-Eliminate-XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE-from-vacuum-phase-I.patch text/x-patch 24.7 KB
v39-0006-Eliminate-XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE-from-empty-page-vac.patch text/x-patch 2.6 KB
v39-0007-Remove-XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE-entirely.patch text/x-patch 25.0 KB
v39-0008-Track-which-relations-are-modified-by-a-query.patch text/x-patch 5.8 KB
v39-0009-Thread-flags-through-begin-scan-APIs.patch text/x-patch 28.1 KB
v39-0010-Pass-down-information-on-table-modification-to-s.patch text/x-patch 14.5 KB
v39-0011-Allow-on-access-pruning-to-set-pages-all-visible.patch text/x-patch 10.5 KB
v39-0012-Set-pd_prune_xid-on-insert.patch text/x-patch 10.9 KB

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