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Previously the xid horizon was only computed during WAL replay. That had two major problems: 1) It relied on knowing what the table pointed to looks like. That was easy enough before the introducing of tableam (we knew it had to be heap, although some trickery around logging the heap relfilenodes was required). But to properly handle table AMs we need per-database catalog access to look up the AM handler, which recovery doesn't allow. 2) Not knowing the xid horizon also makes it hard to support logical decoding on standbys. When on a catalog table, we need to be able to conflict with slots that have an xid horizon that's too old. But computing the horizon by visiting the heap only works once consistency is reached, but we always need to be able to detect conflicts. There's also a secondary problem, in that the current method performs redundant work on every standby. But that's counterbalanced by potentially computing the value when not necessary (either because there's no standby, or because there's no connected backends). Solve 1) and 2) by moving computation of the xid horizon to the primary and by involving tableam in the computation of the horizon. To address the potentially increased overhead, increase the efficiency of the xid horizon computation for heap by sorting the tids, and eliminating redundant buffer accesses. When prefetching is available, additionally perform prefetching of buffers. As this is more of a maintenance task, rather than something routinely done in every read only query, we add an arbitrary 10 to the effective concurrency - thereby using IO concurrency, when not globally enabled. That's possibly not the perfect formula, but seems good enough for now. Bumps WAL format, as latestRemovedXid is now part of the records, and the heap's relfilenode isn't anymore. Author: Andres Freund, Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181212204154.nsxf3gzqv3gesl32@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20181214014235.dal5ogljs3bmlq44@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de |
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