Re: pgsql: Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, t

From: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <akapila(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, t
Date: 2019-02-28 02:15:29
Message-ID: CACPNZCtje4RH_ZFp8pcb4gcGA_7kgAh_LN=Nha6BeC9asrJR+g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:24 AM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > The flaw in my thinking was treating extension too similarly too
> > finding an existing block. With your patch clearing the local map in
> > the correct place, it seems the call at hio.c:682 is now superfluous?
>
> What if get some valid block from the first call to
> GetPageWithFreeSpace via local map which has required space? I think
> in that case we will need the call at hio.c:682. Am I missing
> something?

Are you referring to the call at line 393? Then the map will be
cleared on line 507 before we return that buffer.

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