Re: [PATCH] Don't block HOT update by BRIN index

st 30. 6. 2021 v 1:20 odesílatel Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> napsal:
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> On 6/30/21 12:53 AM, Josef Šimánek wrote:
> > st 30. 6. 2021 v 0:31 odesílatel Josef Šimánek <josef(dot)simanek(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:
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> >> Hello!
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> >> Tomáš Vondra has shared a few ideas to improve BRIN index in czech
> >> PostgreSQL mail list some time ago [1 , in czech only]. This is first
> >> try to implement one of those ideas.
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> >> Currently BRIN index blocks HOT update even it is not linked tuples
> >> directly. I'm attaching the initial patch allowing HOT update even on
> >> BRIN indexed columns. This patch went through an initial review on
> >> czech PostgreSQL mail list [1].
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> > I just found out current patch is breaking partial-index isolation
> > test. I'm looking into this problem.
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> The problem is in RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap - the existing code first
> walks indnatts, and builds the indexattrs / hotblockingattrs. But then
> it also inspects expressions and the predicate (by pull_varattnos), and
> the patch fails to do that for hotblockingattrs. Which is why it fails
> for partial-index, because that uses an index with a predicate.
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> So there needs to be something like:
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> if (indexDesc->rd_indam->amhotblocking)
> pull_varattnos(indexExpressions, 1, &hotblockingattrs);
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> if (indexDesc->rd_indam->amhotblocking)
> pull_varattnos(indexPredicate, 1, &hotblockingattrs);
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> This fixes the failure for me.

Thanks for the hint. I'm attaching a fixed standalone patch.

> regards
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