Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch. When enabled, look ahead in the
WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading of referenced data blocks
that are not yet cached in our buffer pool. For now, this is done with
posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats. Since not all OSes have
that system call, "try" is provided so that it can be enabled where
available. Better mechanisms for asynchronous I/O are possible in later
work.
Set to "try" for now for test coverage. Default setting to be finalized
before release.
The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size limits the distance we can look ahead in
bytes of decoded data.
The existing GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number
of concurrent I/Os allowed, based on pessimistic heuristics used to
infer that I/Os have begun and completed. We'll also not look more than
maintenance_io_concurrency * 4 block references ahead.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
Change two macros to be static inline functions instead to keep the
data type consistent. This avoids a "comparison is always true"
warning that was occurring with -Wtype-limits. In the process, change
the names to look less like macros.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407063505.njnnrmbn4sxqfsts@alap3.anarazel.de
Allow extensions to specify a new custom resource manager (rmgr),
which allows specialized WAL. This is meant to be used by a Table
Access Method or Index Access Method.
Prior to this commit, only Generic WAL was available, which offers
support for recovery and physical replication but not logical
replication.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Bharath Rupireddy, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ed1fb2e22d15d3563ae0eb610f7b61bb15999c0a.camel%40j-davis.com
Teach xlogreader.c to decode the WAL into a circular buffer. This will
support optimizations based on looking ahead, to follow in a later
commit.
* XLogReadRecord() works as before, decoding records one by one, and
allowing them to be examined via the traditional XLogRecGetXXX()
macros and certain traditional members like xlogreader->ReadRecPtr.
* An alternative new interface XLogReadAhead()/XLogNextRecord() is
added that returns pointers to DecodedXLogRecord objects so that it's
now possible to look ahead in the WAL stream while replaying.
* In order to be able to use the new interface effectively while
streaming data, support is added for the page_read() callback to
respond to a new nonblocking mode with XLREAD_WOULDBLOCK instead of
waiting for more data to arrive.
No direct user of the new interface is included in this commit, though
XLogReadRecord() uses it internally. Existing code doesn't need to
change, except in a few places where it was accessing reader internals
directly and now needs to go through accessor macros.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq=AovOddfHpA@mail.gmail.com
wal_compression gains a new value, "zstd", to allow the compression of
full-page images using the compression method of the same name.
Compression is done using the default level recommended by the library,
as of ZSTD_CLEVEL_DEFAULT = 3. Some benchmarking has shown that it
could make sense to use a level lower for the FPI compression, like 1 or
2, as the compression rate did not change much with a bit less CPU
consumed, but any tests done would only cover few scenarios so it is
hard to come to a clear conclusion. Anyway, there is no reason to not
use the default level instead, which is the level recommended by the
library so it should be fine for most cases.
zstd outclasses easily pglz, and is better than LZ4 where one wants to
have more compression at the cost of extra CPU but both are good enough
in their own scenarios, so the choice between one or the other of these
comes to a study of the workload patterns and the schema involved,
mainly.
This commit relies heavily on 4035cd5, that reshaped the code creating
and restoring full-page writes to be aware of the compression type,
making this integration straight-forward.
This patch borrows some early work from Andrey Borodin, though the patch
got a complete rewrite.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220222231948.GJ9008@telsasoft.com
In commit ff9f111bce I mixed up inconsistent definitions of the LSN of
the first record in a page, when the previous record ends exactly at the
page boundary. The correct LSN is adjusted to skip the WAL page header;
I failed to use that when setting XLogReaderState->overwrittenRecPtr,
so at WAL replay time VerifyOverwriteContrecord would refuse to let
replay continue past that record.
Backpatch to 10. 9.6 also contains this bug, but it's no longer being
maintained.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/45597.1637694259@sss.pgh.pa.us
Physical replication always ships WAL segment files to replicas once
they are complete. This is a problem if one WAL record is split across
a segment boundary and the primary server crashes before writing down
the segment with the next portion of the WAL record: WAL writing after
crash recovery would happily resume at the point where the broken record
started, overwriting that record ... but any standby or backup may have
already received a copy of that segment, and they are not rewinding.
This causes standbys to stop following the primary after the latter
crashes:
LOG: invalid contrecord length 7262 at A8/D9FFFBC8
because the standby is still trying to read the continuation record
(contrecord) for the original long WAL record, but it is not there and
it will never be. A workaround is to stop the replica, delete the WAL
file, and restart it -- at which point a fresh copy is brought over from
the primary. But that's pretty labor intensive, and I bet many users
would just give up and re-clone the standby instead.
A fix for this problem was already attempted in commit 515e3d84a0, but
it only addressed the case for the scenario of WAL archiving, so
streaming replication would still be a problem (as well as other things
such as taking a filesystem-level backup while the server is down after
having crashed), and it had performance scalability problems too; so it
had to be reverted.
This commit fixes the problem using an approach suggested by Andres
Freund, whereby the initial portion(s) of the split-up WAL record are
kept, and a special type of WAL record is written where the contrecord
was lost, so that WAL replay in the replica knows to skip the broken
parts. With this approach, we can continue to stream/archive segment
files as soon as they are complete, and replay of the broken records
will proceed across the crash point without a hitch.
Because a new type of WAL record is added, users should be careful to
upgrade standbys first, primaries later. Otherwise they risk the standby
being unable to start if the primary happens to write such a record.
A new TAP test that exercises this is added, but the portability of it
is yet to be seen.
This has been wrong since the introduction of physical replication, so
backpatch all the way back. In stable branches, keep the new
XLogReaderState members at the end of the struct, to avoid an ABI
break.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202108232252.dh7uxf6oxwcy@alvherre.pgsql
The logic is implemented so as there can be a choice in the compression
used when building a WAL record, and an extra per-record bit is used to
track down if a block is compressed with PGLZ, LZ4 or nothing.
wal_compression, the existing parameter, is changed to an enum with
support for the following backward-compatible values:
- "off", the default, to not use compression.
- "pglz" or "on", to compress FPWs with PGLZ.
- "lz4", the new mode, to compress FPWs with LZ4.
Benchmarking has showed that LZ4 outclasses easily PGLZ. ZSTD would be
also an interesting choice, but going just with LZ4 for now makes the
patch minimalistic as toast compression is already able to use LZ4, so
there is no need to worry about any build-related needs for this
implementation.
Author: Andrey Borodin, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3037310D-ECB7-4BF1-AF20-01C10BB33A33@yandex-team.ru
This set of commits has some bugs with known fixes, but at this late
stage in the release cycle it seems best to revert and resubmit next
time, along with some new automated test coverage for this whole area.
Commits reverted:
dc88460c: Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
1d257577: Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
f003d9f8: Add circular WAL decoding buffer.
323cbe7c: Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.
Remove the new GUC group WAL_RECOVERY recently added by a55a9847, as the
corresponding section of config.sgml is now reverted.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOuzzgrn7iKnFRsB4MHp3UisEQAGgZMbk_ViTN4HV4-Ksq8zCg%40mail.gmail.com
6f6f284 has introduced a specific macro to make printf()-ing of LSNs
easier. This takes care of what looks like the remaining code paths
that did not get the call.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YIJS9x6K8ruizN7j@paquier.xyz
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch, disabled by default. When
enabled, look ahead in the WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading
of referenced data blocks that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.
For now, this is done with posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.
Better mechanisms will follow in later work on the I/O subsystem.
The GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number of
concurrent I/Os we allow ourselves to initiate, based on pessimistic
heuristics used to infer that I/Os have begun and completed.
The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size is used to limit the maximum distance we
are prepared to read ahead in the WAL to find uncached blocks.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
Teach xlogreader.c to decode its output into a circular buffer, to
support optimizations based on looking ahead.
* XLogReadRecord() works as before, consuming records one by one, and
allowing them to be examined via the traditional XLogRecGetXXX()
macros.
* An alternative new interface XLogNextRecord() is added that returns
pointers to DecodedXLogRecord structs that can be examined directly.
* XLogReadAhead() provides a second cursor that lets you see
further ahead, as long as data is available and there is enough space
in the decoding buffer. This returns DecodedXLogRecord pointers to the
caller, but also adds them to a queue of records that will later be
consumed by XLogNextRecord()/XLogReadRecord().
The buffer's size is controlled with wal_decode_buffer_size. The buffer
could potentially be placed into shared memory, for future projects.
Large records that don't fit in the circular buffer are called
"oversized" and allocated separately with palloc().
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq=AovOddfHpA@mail.gmail.com
Previously, the XLogReader module would fetch new input data using a
callback function. Redesign the interface so that it tells the caller
to insert more data with a special return value instead. This API suits
later patches for prefetching, encryption and maybe other future
projects that would otherwise require continually extending the callback
interface.
As incidental cleanup work, move global variables readOff, readLen and
readSegNo inside XlogReaderState.
Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> (parts of earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Menjo <takashi.menjo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190418.210257.43726183.horiguchi.kyotaro%40lab.ntt.co.jp
When reading a WAL record fails to find continuation record(s) of the
proper length, report what it expects, for clarity.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200903212152.GA15319@alvherre.pgsql
Including Full in variable names duplicates the type information and
leads to overly long names. As FullTransactionId cannot accidentally
be casted to TransactionId that does not seem necessary.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200724011143.jccsyvsvymuiqfxu@alap3.anarazel.de
The logical decoding infrastructure needs to know which top-level
transaction the subxact belongs to, in order to decode all the
changes. Until now that might be delayed until commit, due to the
caching (GPROC_MAX_CACHED_SUBXIDS), preventing features requiring
incremental decoding.
So we also write the assignment info into WAL immediately, as part
of the next WAL record (to minimize overhead) only when wal_level=logical.
We can not remove the existing XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT WAL as that is
required for avoiding overflow in the hot standby snapshot.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLR_BLOCK_ID_TOPLEVEL_XID.
Author: Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Neha Sharma and Mahendra Singh Thalor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
Since database connections can be used with WAL senders in 9.4, it is
possible to use physical replication. This commit fixes a crash when
starting physical replication with a WAL sender using a database
connection, caused by the refactoring done in 850196b.
There have been discussions about forbidding the use of physical
replication in a database connection, but this is left for later,
taking care only of the crash new to 13.
While on it, add a test to check for a failure when attempting logical
replication if the WAL sender does not have a database connection. This
part is extracted from a larger patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Reported-by: Vladimir Sitnikov
Author: Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-GOWMj1PTPkeUhjqQp-4W3=nW-pXe2Hjax6rJFffB5_Aw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.
Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
* Have both physical and logical walsender share a 'xlogreader' state
struct for tracking state. This replaces the existing globals sendSeg
and sendCxt.
* Change WALRead not to receive XLogReaderState->seg and ->segcxt as
separate arguments anymore; just use the ones from 'state'. This is
made possible by the above change.
* have the XLogReader segment_open contract require the callbacks to
install the file descriptor in the state struct themselves instead of
returning it. xlogreader was already ignoring any possible failed
return from the callbacks, relying solely on them never returning.
(This point is not altogether excellent, as it means the callbacks
have to know more of XLogReaderState; but to really improve on that
we would have to pass back error info from the callbacks to
xlogreader. And the complexity would not be saved but instead just
transferred to the callers of WALRead, which would have to learn how
to throw errors from the open_segment callback in addition of, as
currently, from pg_pread.)
* segment_open no longer receives the 'segcxt' as a separate argument,
since it's part of the XLogReaderState argument.
Per comments from Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200511203336.GA9913@alvherre.pgsql
Code review for 0dc8ead463, prompted by a bug closed by 91c40548d5.
XLogReader's system for opening and closing segments had gotten too
complicated, with callbacks being passed at both the XLogReaderAllocate
level (read_page) as well as at the WALRead level (segment_open). This
was confusing and hard to follow, so restructure things so that these
callbacks are passed together at XLogReaderAllocate time, and add
another callback to the set (segment_close) to make it a coherent whole.
Also, ensure XLogReaderState is an argument to all the callbacks, so
that they can grab at the ->private data if necessary.
Document the whole arrangement more clearly.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200422175754.GA19858@alvherre.pgsql
Before the fix every 2PC commit/abort leaked a file descriptor. As the
files are opened using BasicOpenFile(), that quickly leads to the
backend running out of file descriptors.
Once enough 2PC abort/commit have caused enough FDs to leak, any IO
in the backend will fail with "Too many open files", as
BasicOpenFilePerm() will have triggered all open files known to fd.c
to be closed.
The leak causing the problem at hand is a consequence of 0dc8ead46,
but is only exascerbated by it. Previously most XLogPageReadCB
callbacks used static variables to cache one open file, but after the
commit the cache is private to each XLogReader instance. There never
was infrastructure to close FDs at the time of XLogReaderFree, but the
way XLogReader was used limited the leak to one FD.
This commit just closes the during XLogReaderFree() if the FD is
stored in XLogReaderState.seg.ws_segno. This may not be the way to
solve this medium/long term, but at least unbreaks 2PC.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200406025651.fpzdb5yyb7qyhqko@alap3.anarazel.de
The parameters primary_conninfo, primary_slot_name and
wal_receiver_create_temp_slot can now be changed with a simple "reload"
signal, no longer requiring a server restart. This is achieved by
signalling the walreceiver process to terminate and having it start
again with the new values.
Thanks to Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao for discussion.
Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19513901543181143@sas1-19a94364928d.qloud-c.yandex.net
The signature of XLogReadRecord() required the caller to pass the starting
WAL position as argument, or InvalidXLogRecPtr to continue reading at the
end of previous record. That's slightly awkward to the callers, as most
of them don't want to randomly jump around in the WAL stream, but start
reading at one position and then read everything from that point onwards.
Remove the 'RecPtr' argument and add a new function XLogBeginRead() to
specify the starting position instead. That's more convenient for the
callers. Also, xlogreader holds state that is reset when you change the
starting position, so having a separate function for doing that feels like
a more natural fit.
This changes XLogFindNextRecord() function so that it doesn't reset the
xlogreader's state to what it was before the call anymore. Instead, it
positions the xlogreader to the found record, like XLogBeginRead().
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5382a7a3-debe-be31-c860-cb810c08f366%40iki.fi
XLogReader, walsender and pg_waldump all had their own routines to read
data from WAL files to memory, with slightly different approaches
according to the particular conditions of each environment. There's a
lot of commonality, so we can refactor that into a single routine
WALRead in XLogReader, and move the differences to a separate (simpler)
callback that just opens the next WAL-segment. This results in a
clearer (ahem) code flow.
The error reporting needs are covered by filling in a new error-info
struct, WALReadError, and it's the caller's responsibility to act on it.
The backend has WALReadRaiseError() to do so.
We no longer ever need to seek in this interface; switch to using
pg_pread().
Author: Antonin Houska, with contributions from Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Michaël Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14984.1554998742@spoje.net
If there is the WAL page that the continuation WAL record just fits within
(i.e., the continuation record ends just at the end of the page) and
the LSN in such page is specified with -s option, previously pg_waldump
caused an assertion failure. The cause of this assertion failure was that
XLogFindNextRecord() that pg_waldump -s calls mistakenly handled
such special WAL page.
This commit changes XLogFindNextRecord() so that it can handle
such WAL page correctly.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Andrey Lepikhov
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/99303554-5dd5-06e6-f943-b3005ccd6edd@postgrespro.ru
The state-tracking of WAL reading in various places was pretty messy,
mostly because the ancient physical-replication WAL reading code wasn't
using the XLogReader abstraction. This led to some untidy code. Make
it prettier by creating two additional supporting structs,
WALSegmentContext and WALOpenSegment which keep track of WAL-reading
state. This makes code cleaner, as well as supports more future
cleanup.
Author: Antonin Houska
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera and (older versions) Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14984.1554998742@spoje.net
This function is only used by xlogreader.c itself, so there's no need to
export it. It was introduced by commit 3b02ea4f07 with the apparent
intention that it could be used externally, but I couldn't find any
external code calling it.
I (Álvaro) couldn't resist the urge to sort nearby function prototypes
properly while at it.
Author: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14984.1554998742@spoje.net
In order to be able to work with FullTransactionId values during replay
without increasing the size of the WAL, infer the epoch. In general we
can't do that safely, but during replay we can because we know that
nextFullXid can't advance concurrently.
Prevent frontend code from seeing this new function, due to the above
restriction. Perhaps in future it will be possible to extract the value
entirely from independent WAL records, and then this restriction can be
lifted.
Author: Thomas Munro, based on earlier code from Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BmLmuDjMi6o1dxkKvGRL56Y2Rz%2BiXAcrZV03G9ZuFQ8Q%40mail.gmail.com
Because there is no portable int64/uint64 format specifier and we
can't stick macros like INT64_FORMAT into the middle of a translatable
string, we have been using various workarounds that put the number to
be printed into a string buffer first. Now that we always use our own
sprintf(), we can rely on %lld and %llu to work, so we can use those.
This patch undoes this workaround in a few places where it was
egregiously verbose.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAH2-Wz%3DWbNxc5ob5NJ9yqo2RMJ0q4HXDS30GVCobeCvC9A1L9A%40mail.gmail.com
When asked for a slice of a TOAST entry, decompress enough to return the
slice instead of decompressing the entire object.
For use cases where the slice is at, or near, the beginning of the entry,
this avoids a lot of unnecessary decompression work.
This changes the signature of pglz_decompress() by adding a boolean to
indicate if it's ok for the call to finish before consuming all of the
source or destination buffers.
Author: Paul Ramsey
Reviewed-By: Rafia Sabih, Darafei Praliaskouski, Regina Obe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACowWR07EDm7Y4m2kbhN_jnys%3DBBf9A6768RyQdKm_%3DNpkcaWg%40mail.gmail.com
When reading a new page internally and depending on the way the WAL
reader facility gets used by plugins, the current implementation of the
WAL reader may finish by reading a block multiple times while it is not
actually necessary as the requested data length may be equal to what has
been already read. This can happen for any size, but is more likely to
happen at the end of a page. This can cause performance penalties in
plugins which rely on the block reads to be purely sequential, zlib not
liking backward reads for example. The new behavior also shaves some
cycles when doing recovery.
Author: Arthur Zakirov
Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov, Michael Paquier, Grigory Smolkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddf4a32-517e-d6f4-d992-4a63b6035bfd@postgrespro.ru
When reading a WAL record, its contents are copied into an intermediate
buffer. However, doing so is not necessary if the record fits fully
into the current page, saving one memcpy for each such record. The
allocation handling of the intermediate buffer is also now done only
when a record crosses a page boundary, shaving some extra cycles when
reading a WAL record.
Author: Andrey Lepikhov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c2ea54dd-a1d3-80eb-ddbf-7e6f258e615e@postgrespro.ru
There's a project policy against using plain "char buf[BLCKSZ]" local
or static variables as page buffers; preferred style is to palloc or
malloc each buffer to ensure it is MAXALIGN'd. However, that policy's
been ignored in an increasing number of places. We've apparently got
away with it so far, probably because (a) relatively few people use
platforms on which misalignment causes core dumps and/or (b) the
variables chance to be sufficiently aligned anyway. But this is not
something to rely on. Moreover, even if we don't get a core dump,
we might be paying a lot of cycles for misaligned accesses.
To fix, invent new union types PGAlignedBlock and PGAlignedXLogBlock
that the compiler must allocate with sufficient alignment, and use
those in place of plain char arrays.
I used these types even for variables where there's no risk of a
misaligned access, since ensuring proper alignment should make
kernel data transfers faster. I also changed some places where
we had been palloc'ing short-lived buffers, for coding style
uniformity and to save palloc/pfree overhead.
Since this seems to be a live portability hazard (despite the lack
of field reports), back-patch to all supported versions.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1535618100.1286.3.camel@credativ.de
When a standby's WAL receiver stops reading WAL from a WAL stream, it
writes data to the current WAL segment without having priorily zero'ed
the page currently written to, which can cause the WAL reader to read
junk data from a past recycled segment and then it would try to get a
record from it. While sanity checks in place provide most of the
protection needed, in some rare circumstances, with chances increasing
when a record header crosses a page boundary, then the startup process
could fail violently on an allocation failure, as follows:
FATAL: invalid memory alloc request size XXX
This is confusing for the user and also unhelpful as this requires in
the worst case a manual restart of the instance, impacting potentially
the availability of the cluster, and this also makes WAL data look like
it is in a corrupted state.
The chances of seeing failures are higher if the connection between the
standby and its root node is unstable, causing WAL pages to be written
in the middle. A couple of approaches have been discussed, like
zero-ing new WAL pages within the WAL receiver itself but this has the
disadvantage of impacting performance of any existing instances as this
breaks the sequential writes done by the WAL receiver. This commit
deals with the problem with a more simple approach, which has no
performance impact without reducing the detection of the problem: if a
record is found with a length higher than 1GB for backends, then do not
try any allocation and report a soft failure which will force the
standby to retry reading WAL. It could be possible that the allocation
call passes and that an unnecessary amount of memory is allocated,
however follow-up checks on records would just fail, making this
allocation short-lived anyway.
This patch owes a great deal to Tsunakawa Takayuki for reporting the
failure first, and then discussing a couple of potential approaches to
the problem.
Backpatch down to 9.5, which is where palloc_extended has been
introduced.
Reported-by: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-by: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F8B57AD@G01JPEXMBYT05
Jeff Davis