A follow-up patch will adjust the TAP tests to follow a more-structured
format for option lists in commands, that perltidy is able to cope
better with. Putting the tree first in a clean state makes the next
change a bit easier. v20230309 has been used.
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87jzc46d8u.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
For the purposes of this discussion, row_number() is just as good
as rank(), and its behavior is easier to understand and describe.
So let's switch the examples to using row_number().
Along the way to checking the results given in the tutorial,
I found it helpful to extract the empsalary table we use in the
regression tests, which is evidently the same data that was used
to make these results. So I shoved that into advanced.source
to improve the coverage of that file a little. (There's still
several pages of the tutorial that are not included in it,
but at least now 3.5 Window Functions is covered.)
Suggested-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173737973383.1070.1832752929070067441@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Most were introduced in the 17 timeframe. The ones in wparser_def.c are
very old.
I also changed "JSON path expression for column \"%s\" should return
single item without wrapper" to "JSON path expression for column \"%s\"
must return single item when no wrapper is requested" to avoid
ambiguity.
Backpatch to 17.
Crickets: https://postgr.es/m/202501131819.26ors7oouafu@alvherre.pgsql
In common cases, foreign keys are defined on the toplevel partitioned
table; but if instead one is defined on a partition and references a
partitioned table, and the referencing partition is detached, we would
examine the pg_constraint row on the partition being detached, and fail
to realize that the sub-constraints must be left alone. This causes the
ALTER TABLE DETACH process to fail with
ERROR: could not find ON INSERT check triggers of foreign key constraint NNN
This is similar but not quite the same as what was fixed by
53af9491a0. This bug doesn't affect branches earlier than 15, because
the detach procedure was different there, so we only backpatch down to
15.
Fix by skipping such modifying constraints that are children of other
constraints being detached.
Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Diagnosys-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97GuPh6wQPbxQS-Zpy16Oh+0aMv-w64QcGrLhCOZZ6p+g@mail.gmail.com
If a referenced UPDATE changes the temporal start/end times, shrinking
the span the row is valid, we get a false return from
ri_Check_Pk_Match(), but overlapping references may still be valid, if
their reference didn't overlap with the removed span.
We need to consider what span(s) are still provided in the referenced
table. Instead of returning that from ri_Check_Pk_Match(), we can
just look it up in the main SQL query.
Reported-by: Sam Gabrielsson <sam@movsom.se>
Author: Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com
The test table names gtest11s and gtest12s were way originally chosen
to signify "stored", when the idea was to have virtual columns in the
same test file. This is no longer the idea, so this naming is
irrelevant. (The upcoming feature of virtual generated columns will
have a test file that is initially a copy of generated_stored.sql, and
this random difference will be even more annoying then.) Clean this
up by dropping the suffix.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a368248e-69e4-40be-9c07-6c3b5880b0a6@eisentraut.org
This commit refactors ExecScan() by moving its tuple-fetching,
filtering, and projection logic into an inline-able function,
ExecScanExtended(), defined in src/include/executor/execScan.h.
ExecScanExtended() accepts parameters for EvalPlanQual state,
qualifiers (ExprState), and projection (ProjectionInfo).
Specialized variants of the execution function of a given Scan node
(for example, ExecSeqScan() for SeqScan) can then pass const-NULL for
unused parameters. This allows the compiler to inline the logic and
eliminate unnecessary branches or checks. Each variant function thus
contains only the necessary code, optimizing execution for scans
where these features are not needed.
The variant function to be used is determined in the ExecInit*()
function of the node and assigned to the ExecProcNode function pointer
in the node's PlanState, effectively turning runtime checks and
conditional branches on the NULLness of epqstate, qual, and projInfo
into static ones, provided the compiler successfully eliminates
unnecessary checks from the inlined code of ExecScanExtended().
Currently, only ExecSeqScan() is modified to take advantage of this
inline-ability. Other Scan nodes might benefit from such specialized
variant functions but that is left as future work.
Benchmarks performed by Junwang Zhao, David Rowley and myself show up
to a 5% reduction in execution time for queries that rely heavily on
Seq Scans. The most significant improvements were observed in
scenarios where EvalPlanQual, qualifiers, and projection were not
required, but other cases also benefit from reduced runtime overhead
due to the inlining and removal of unnecessary code paths.
The idea for this patch first came from Andres Freund in an off-list
discussion. The refactoring approach implemented here is based on a
proposal by David Rowley, significantly improving upon the patch I
(amitlan) initially proposed.
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGaH-otvqW_ce-paL=96JvU4j+Xbuk+14esJNDwefdkOg@mail.gmail.com
9aea73fc61 has added support for backend statistics, relying on
PgStat_EntryRef->pending for its data pending for flush. This design
lacks in flexibility, because the pending list does some memory
allocation, making it unsuitable if incrementing counters in critical
sections.
Pending data of backend statistics is reworked so the implementation
does not depend on PgStat_EntryRef->pending anymore, relying on a static
area of memory to store the counters that are flushed when stats are
reported to the pgstats dshash. An advantage of this approach is to
allow the pending data to be manipulated in critical sections; some
patches are under discussion and require that.
The pending data is tracked by PendingBackendStats, local to
pgstat_backend.c. Two routines are introduced to allow IO statistics to
update the backend-side counters. have_static_pending_cb and
flush_static_cb are used for the flush, instead of flush_pending_cb.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/66efowskppsns35v5u2m7k4sdnl7yoz5bo64tdjwq7r5lhplrz@y7dme5xwh2r5
The two callbacks have_fixed_pending_cb and flush_fixed_cb have been
introduced in fc415edf8c to provide a way for fixed-numbered
statistics to control the flush of their data. These are renamed to
respectively have_static_pending_cb and flush_static_cb. The
restriction that these only apply to fixed-numbered stats is removed.
A follow-up patch will make use of them for backend statistics. This
stats kind is variable-numbered, and patches are under discussion to
track WAL data for IO and backend stats which cannot use
PgStat_EntryRef->pending as pending data would be touched in critical
sections, where no memory allocation can happen.
Per discussion with Andres Freund.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/66efowskppsns35v5u2m7k4sdnl7yoz5bo64tdjwq7r5lhplrz@y7dme5xwh2r5
The freshly-released 2025a version of tzdata has a refined estimate
for the longitude of Manila, changing their value for LMT in
pre-standardized-timezone days. This changes the output of one of
our test cases. Since we need to be able to run with system tzdata
files that may or may not contain this update, we'd better stop
making that specific test.
I switched it to use Asia/Singapore, which has a roughly similar UTC
offset. That LMT value hasn't changed in tzdb since 2003, so we can
hope that it's well established.
I also noticed that this set of make_timestamptz tests only exercises
zones east of Greenwich, which seems rather sad, and was not the
original intent AFAICS. (We've already changed these tests once
to stabilize their results across tzdata updates, cf 66b737cd9;
it looks like I failed to consider the UTC-offset-sign aspect then.)
To improve that, add a test with Pacific/Honolulu. That LMT offset
is also quite old in tzdb, so we'll cross our fingers that it doesn't
get improved.
Reported-by: Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z46inkznCxesvDEb@msg.df7cb.de
Backpatch-through: 13
This adds the C type PageData and makes the existing type Page a
pointer to it. This follows the usual PostgreSQL C type naming scheme
of Foo/FooData pairs. (Prior to commit ddbba3aac8, PageData existed
as an unrelated type.) The type definitions are compatible, so this
doesn't change anything except some of the naming.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/692ee0da-49da-4d32-8dca-da224cc2800e@eisentraut.org
If a WaitEventSetWait() caller asks for multiple events, an already set
latch would previously prevent other events from being reported at the
same time. Now, we'll also poll the kernel for other events that would
fit in the caller's output buffer with a zero wait time. This policy
change doesn't affect callers that ask for only one event.
The main caller affected is the postmaster. If its latch is set
extremely frequently by backends launching workers and workers exiting,
we don't want it to handle only those jobs and ignore incoming client
connections.
Back-patch to 16 where the postmaster began using the API. The
fast-return policy changed here is older than that, but doesn't cause
any known problems in earlier releases.
Reported-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z1n5UpAiGDmFcMmd%40nathan
XLogPageRead() checks immediately for an invalid WAL record header on a
standby, to be able to handle the case of continuation records that need
to be read across two different sources. As written, the check was too
generic, applying to any target LSN. Based on an analysis by Kyotaro
Horiguchi, what really matters is to make sure that the page header is
checked when attempting to read a LSN at the boundary of a segment, to
handle the case of a continuation record that spawns across multiple
pages when dealing with multiple segments, as WAL receivers are spawned
they request WAL from the beginning of a segment. This fix has been
proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
This could cause standbys to loop infinitely when dealing with a
continuation record during a timeline jump, in the case where the
contents of the record in the follow-up page are invalid.
Some regression tests are added to check such scenarios, able to
reproduce the original problem. In the test, the contents of a
continuation record are overwritten with junk zeros on its follow-up
page, and replayed on standbys. This is inspired by 039_end_of_wal.pl,
and is enough to show how standbys should react on promotion by not
being stuck. Without the fix, the test would fail with a timeout. The
test to reproduce the problem has been written by Alexander Kukushkin.
The original check has been introduced in 0668719801, for a similar
problem.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kukushkin
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=mozC+e1wGJq0H=0O65goZju+6ab5AU7DEWCSUA2OtwDg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
These have been #ifdef'd out for a long time, and in fact have
been uncompilable since commit 48354581a of 2016-04-10. The
fact that nobody noticed for so long demonstrates their lack of
usefulness, so let's remove them rather than fix them.
Author: Jacob Brazeal <jacob.brazeal@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+COZaB+9CN_f63PPRoVhHjYmCwwmb_9CWLxqCJdMWDqs1a-JA@mail.gmail.com
The PG_UNICODE_FAST locale uses code point sort order (fast,
memcmp-based) combined with Unicode character semantics. The character
semantics are based on Unicode full case mapping.
Full case mapping can map a single codepoint to multiple codepoints,
such as "ß" uppercasing to "SS". Additionally, it handles
context-sensitive mappings like the "final sigma", and it uses
titlecase mappings such as "Dž" when titlecasing (rather than plain
uppercase mappings).
Importantly, the uppercasing of "ß" as "SS" is specifically mentioned
by the SQL standard. In Postgres, UCS_BASIC uses plain ASCII semantics
for case mapping and pattern matching, so if we changed it to use the
PG_UNICODE_FAST locale, it would offer better compliance with the
standard. For now, though, do not change the behavior of UCS_BASIC.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ddfd67928818f138f51635712529bc5e1d25e4e7.camel@j-davis.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27bb0e52-801d-4f73-a0a4-02cfdd4a9ada@eisentraut.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Verite
Since commit e0c2933a76, vacuum_one_database() always uses a
catalog query to discover the tables to process, but this comment
still notes the special case for which we used a catalog query
before that commit. Let's just remove that note.
Also, commit 7781f4e3e7 renamed the "tables" parameter to "objects"
but missed updating this comment. This commit fixes that as well.
This topic wasn't really covered before, so fill in some details.
Author: Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90853055-5BBD-493D-91E5-721677C7C59B@gmail.com
Given a qualified refname, refnameNamespaceItem() will search for a
matching namespace item by relation OID, rather than by name. Commit
80feb727c8 broke this by adding additional namespace items for OLD and
NEW in the RETURNING list, which have the same relation OID, causing
ambiguity. Fix this by ignoring these in the search, which is correct
since they don't match the qualified relation name, and so there is no
real ambiguity.
Reported by Richard Guo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49MBjWYWDROJ8MZ%3DY%2B4UgRQa10wzik1tWrD5yto9eoGXg%40mail.gmail.com
Previously, hex_encode looked up each nibble of the input
separately. We now use a larger lookup table containing the two-byte
encoding of every possible input byte, resulting in a 1/3 reduction
in encoding time.
Reviewed by Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Nathan Bossart, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANWCAZZvXuJMgqMN4u068Yqa19CEjS31tQKZp_qFFFbgYfaXqQ%40mail.gmail.com
Remove the flex version checks from configure and meson. The cutoff
versions are all so ancient that this is no longer relevant, and what
the actual cutoff should be is a bit fuzzy.
This also removes the ancient behavior that configure would also
accept a "lex" program if it is actuall flex. This aligns the check
with meson in this respect.
For future reference, as of this commit, these are relevant flex
versions:
- The hard required minimum is flex 2.5.34 as of commit b1ef48980d,
but this has not actually been tested.
- Prior to this, the minimum enforced by configure/meson was flex
2.5.35, which is the oldest present in the buildfarm right now.
- As of commit 6fdd5d9563, the oldest version that will compile
without warnings due to flex-generated code is flex 2.5.36.
- The oldest version that probably still has some practical relevance
is flex 2.5.37, which ships with CentOS/RHEL 7.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1a204ccd-7ae6-478c-a431-407b5c48ccc6@eisentraut.org
This commit reverts 8f67f994e8 (down to v13) and c3de0f9eed (down to
v17), as these are proving to not be completely correct regarding two
aspects:
- In v17 and newer branches, c3de0f9eed38's check for epoch handling is
incorrect, and does not correctly handle frozen epochs. A logic closer
to widen_snapshot_xid() should be used. The 2PC code should try to
integrate deeper with FullTransactionIds, 5a1dfde833 being not enough.
- In v13 and newer branches, 8f67f994e8 is a workaround for the real
issue, which is that we should not attempt CLOG lookups without reaching
consistency. This exists since 728bd991c3, and this is reachable with
ProcessTwoPhaseBuffer() called by restoreTwoPhaseData() at the beginning
of recovery.
Per discussion with Noah Misch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250116010051.f3.nmisch@google.com
Backpatch-through: 13
It is not clear why these were originally added. One hypothesis is
that an ancient version of MinGW didn't define them. In any case,
they appear to now be superfluous, so let's remove them. If
nothing else, the buildfarm might offer us clues to their origins.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z4chOKfnthRH71mw%40nathan
We should run the expression subtrees of PartitionedRelPruneInfo
structs through fix_scan_expr. Failure to do so means that
AlternativeSubPlans within those expressions won't be cleaned up
properly, resulting in "unrecognized node type" errors since v14.
It seems fairly likely that at least some of the other steps done
by fix_scan_expr are important here as well, resulting in as-yet-
undetected bugs. Therefore, I've chosen to back-patch this to
all supported branches including v13, even though the known
symptom doesn't manifest in v13.
Per bug #18778 from Alexander Lakhin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18778-24cd399df6c806af@postgresql.org
Move the several members of HeapScanDescData which are specific to
Bitmap Heap Scans into a new struct, BitmapHeapScanDescData, which
inherits from HeapScanDescData.
This reduces the size of the HeapScanDescData for other types of scans
and will allow us to add additional bitmap heap scan-specific members in
the future without fear of bloating the HeapScanDescData.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c736f6aa-8b35-4e20-9621-62c7c82e2168%40vondra.me
As written, it was triggering a compilation warning for old versions of
clang, as reported by buildfarm members ayu, batfish and demoiselle.
Forcing a cast with "unsigned int" should fix the warning.
While on it, the macro is moved to pgstat.h, closer to the declaration
of IOOp, per suggestion from Tom Lane.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Tom Lane, Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1272824.1736961543@sss.pgh.pa.us
The protections added by commit 3b00fdba9f introduced race
conditions to this function that can lead to bogus return values.
Since nobody seems to inspect the return value, this is of little
consequence, but it would have been nice to convert it to a void
function to avoid any possibility of a bogus return value. I
originally thought that doing so would have required also modifying
legacy-pqsignal.c's version of the function (which would've
required an SONAME bump), but commit 9a45a89c38 gave
legacy-pqsignal.c its own dedicated extern for pqsignal(), thereby
decoupling it enough that libpgport's pqsignal() can be modified.
This commit also adds an assertion for the return value of
sigaction()/signal(). Since a failure most likely indicates a
coding error, and nobody has ever bothered to check pqsignal()'s
return value, it's probably not worth the effort to do anything
fancier.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z4chOKfnthRH71mw%40nathan
As noted by the comment at the top of port/pqsignal.c, Windows
frontend programs can only use pqsignal() with the 6 signals
required by C. Most places avoid using invalid signals via #ifndef
WIN32, but initdb and pg_test_fsync check whether the signal itself
is defined, which doesn't work because win32_port.h defines many
extra signals for the signal emulation code. pg_regress seems to
have missed the memo completely. These issues aren't causing any
real problems today because nobody checks the return value of
pqsignal(), but a follow-up commit will add some error checking.
To fix, surround all frontend calls to pqsignal() that use signals
that are invalid on Windows with #ifndef WIN32. We cannot simply
skip defining the extra signals in win32_port.h for frontends
because they are needed in places such as pgkill().
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z4chOKfnthRH71mw%40nathan
If a time zone abbreviation used in datetime input is defined in
the currently active timezone, use that definition in preference
to looking in the timezone_abbreviations list. That allows us to
correctly handle abbreviations that have different meanings in
different timezones. Also, it eliminates an inconsistency between
datetime input and datetime output: the non-ISO datestyles for
timestamptz have always printed abbreviations taken from the IANA
data, not from timezone_abbreviations. Before this fix, it was
possible to demonstrate cases where casting a timestamp to text
and back fails or changes the value significantly because of that
inconsistency.
While this change removes the ability to override the IANA data about
an abbreviation known in the current zone, it's not clear that there's
any real use-case for doing so. But it is clear that this makes life
a lot easier for dealing with abbreviations that have conflicts across
different time zones.
Also update the pg_timezone_abbrevs view to report abbreviations
that are recognized via the IANA data, and *not* report any
timezone_abbreviations entries that are thereby overridden.
Under the hood, there are now two SRFs, one that pulls the IANA
data and one that pulls timezone_abbreviations entries. They're
combined by logic in the view. This approach was useful for
debugging (since the functions can be called on their own).
While I don't intend to document the functions explicitly,
they might be useful to call directly.
Also improve DecodeTimezoneAbbrev's caching logic so that it can
cache zone abbreviations found in the IANA data. Without that,
this patch would have caused a noticeable degradation of the
runtime of timestamptz_in.
Per report from Aleksander Alekseev and additional investigation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOATjJqvhnYsui0=CO5XFMF4dvTGH+skzB--jNhqSQu5g@mail.gmail.com
This omission caused it to not recognize the furthest-back zone
abbreviation when working with timezone data compiled with relatively
recent zic (2018f or newer). Older versions of zic produced a dummy
DST transition at the Big Bang, so that the oldest abbreviation could
always be found in the sp->types[] array; but newer versions don't do
that, so that we must examine defaulttype as well as the types[] array
to be sure of seeing all the abbreviations.
While this has been broken for six or so years, we'd managed not
to notice for two reasons: (1) many platforms are still using
ancient zic for compatibility reasons, so that the issue did not
manifest in builds using --with-system-tzdata; (2) the oldest
zone abbreviation is almost always "LMT", which we weren't
supporting anyway (but an upcoming patch will accept that).
While at it, update pg_next_dst_boundary() to use sp->defaulttype
as the time type for non-DST zones and times before the oldest
DST transition. The existing code there predates upstream's
invention of the sp->defaulttype field, and its heuristic for
finding the oldest time type has now been subsumed into the
code that sets sp->defaulttype.
Possibly this should be back-patched, but I'm not currently aware
of any visible consequences of this bug in released branches.
Per report from Aleksander Alekseev and additional investigation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOATjJqvhnYsui0=CO5XFMF4dvTGH+skzB--jNhqSQu5g@mail.gmail.com
With this, we have separate functions to add validation requests to
ALTER TABLE's phase 3 queue for check and foreign key constraints, which
allows reusing them in future commits -- particularly this will allow us
to perform validation of invalid foreign key constraints in partitioned
tables.
We could have let the check constraint code alone since we don't need to
reuse that for anything at this point, but it seems cleaner and more
consistent to do both at the same time.
Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b96Bp=-ZwihPPtuaNX=SrZ0U6ZsXD3+fgARO0JuKa8v2jQ@mail.gmail.com
This allows the RETURNING list of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE queries
to explicitly return old and new values by using the special aliases
"old" and "new", which are automatically added to the query (if not
already defined) while parsing its RETURNING list, allowing things
like:
RETURNING old.colname, new.colname, ...
RETURNING old.*, new.*
Additionally, a new syntax is supported, allowing the names "old" and
"new" to be changed to user-supplied alias names, e.g.:
RETURNING WITH (OLD AS o, NEW AS n) o.colname, n.colname, ...
This is useful when the names "old" and "new" are already defined,
such as inside trigger functions, allowing backwards compatibility to
be maintained -- the interpretation of any existing queries that
happen to already refer to relations called "old" or "new", or use
those as aliases for other relations, is not changed.
For an INSERT, old values will generally be NULL, and for a DELETE,
new values will generally be NULL, but that may change for an INSERT
with an ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE clause, or if a query rewrite rule
changes the command type. Therefore, we put no restrictions on the use
of old and new in any DML queries.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jian He and Jeff Davis.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWx0J0-v=Qjc6gXzR=KtsdvAE7Ow=D=mu50AgOe+pvisQ@mail.gmail.com
This splits out a couple of subroutines from
ATExecAlterConstrRecurse(). This makes the main function a bit
smaller, and a future patch (NOT ENFORCED foreign-key constraints)
will also want to call some of the pieces separately.
Author: Amul Sul <amul.sul@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b962c5AcYW9KUt_R_ER5qs3fUGbe4az-SP-vuwPS-w-AGA%40mail.gmail.com
These facilities were originally in the recovery TAP test
039_end_of_wal.pl. A follow-up bug fix with a TAP test doing similar
WAL manipulations requires them, and all these had better not be
duplicated due to their complexity. The routine names are tweaked to
use "wal" more consistently, similarly to the existing "advance_wal".
In v14 and v13, the new routines are moved to PostgresNode.pm.
039_end_of_wal.pl is updated to use the refactored routines, without
changing its coverage.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Kukushkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=mozC+e1wGJq0H=0O65goZju+6ab5AU7DEWCSUA2OtwDg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Add more comments at the top of vacuumlazy.c on heap relation vacuuming
implementation.
Previously vacuumlazy.c only had details related to dead TID storage.
This commit adds a more general summary to help future developers
understand the heap relation vacuum design and implementation at a high
level.
Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina, Robert Haas, Andres Freund, Bilal Yavuz
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