Re: [Proposal] Allow users to specify multiple tables in VACUUM commands

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Allow users to specify multiple tables in VACUUM commands
Date: 2017-09-05 04:19:18
Message-ID: CAD21AoBD_f7XkJ-wHCGQPyQr7k+Ri+isQVM5iS7N-kQzpAGS2w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> In get_rel_oids() we often switch the memory context to vac_context
>> and switch back. As a result almost code in get_rel_oids() is working
>> in vac_context. Maybe we can switch memory context before and after
>> the calling get_rel_oids?
>
> I thought about that as well, and it seemed to me that the current
> patch approach is less bug-prone for the future if get_rel_oids() gets
> called in some future code paths.

Okay, I agree. Also I found that dedupe_relations() eventually
allocates the list in current memory context that may not be
vac_context and set it to *relations at the end of that function. I
think we should switch the memory context to vac_context before doing
that. Or to more simplify the code maybe we can do the all treatment
of the relations list after switching to vac_context. For example,

oldcontext = MemoryContextSwtichTo(vac_context)
relations = copyObject(relations);
get_rel_oids(&relations);
check_colums_exist(relations);
dedupe_relations(&relations);
MemoryContextSwtichTo(oldcontext);

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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