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

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(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: 2026-09-23 21:21:43
Message-ID: CAAKRu_byZAQSMa3r5GD84S_q1qQPaYxwDu-kEJ3rO=qjbb-6=Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 12:18 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I've tightened up the commit messages in the latest version and
> changed 0002 as you suggested. I'll commit 0001-0003 after beta4 is
> tagged tomorrow. 0004 I'm going to think about just a bit longer (and
> would be master only).

I've committed all but v2-0004. That turned out to have a bug where I
updated the prune_xid to newest_live_xid even when there were dead
items (because that code runs before we set all-visible to false due
to dead items. Attached v3 fixes that and has a patch to replace
foreach with foreach_int and foreach_node which David suggested a long
time ago and I never got around to. 0001 targets master only, 0002
targets 19 and master. I'll commit 0002 very shortly since it's so
trivial.

- Melanie

Attachment Content-Type Size
v3-0001-Retain-newest-live-xid-as-prune-hint-after-visibi.patch text/x-patch 1.9 KB
v3-0002-Use-typed-foreach-macros-for-planner-relation-lis.patch text/x-patch 1.9 KB

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