Re: [RFC] Removing "magic" oids

Hi,

On 2019-07-20 11:21:52 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:12:57AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2019-07-07 10:00:35 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > > +# Test concurrent OID generation via pg_enum_oid_index.  This indirectly
> > > +# exercises LWLock and spinlock concurrency.
> > > +my $labels = join ',', map { "'l$_'" } 1 .. 1000;
> > >  pgbench(
> > >      '--no-vacuum --client=5 --protocol=prepared --transactions=25',
> > >      0,
> > >      [qr{processed: 125/125}],
> > >      [qr{^$}],
> > > -    'concurrent insert workload',
> > > +    'concurrent OID generation',
> > >      {
> > >          '001_pgbench_concurrent_insert' =>
> > > -          'INSERT INTO insert_tbl SELECT FROM generate_series(1,1000);'
> > > +          "CREATE TYPE pg_temp.e AS ENUM ($labels); DROP TYPE pg_temp.e;"
> > >      });
> > 
> > Hm, perhaps we should just do something stupid an insert into a catalog
> > table, determining the oid to insert with pg_nextoid?  That ought to be a
> > lot faster and thus more "stress testing" than going through a full
> > blown DDL statement?  But perhaps that's just too ugly.
> 
> I expect the pg_nextoid strategy could have sufficed.  The ENUM strategy
> wastes some time parsing 1000 label names, discarding odd-numbered OIDs, and
> dropping the type.  The pg_nextoid strategy wastes time by performing the
> insertion loop in the executor instead of dedicated C code of
> EnumValuesCreate().  Hard to say how to weight those factors.

Fair enough. Are you planning to commit your changes?

Greetings,

Andres Freund