Re: [PoC] Improve dead tuple storage for lazy vacuum

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 2:24 PM John Naylor
<john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 12:14 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 8:47 PM John Naylor
> > <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> > These 4 patches make sense to me.We can merge them into 0002 patch
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> Okay, then I'll squash them when I post my next patch.
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> > and I'll do similar changes for functions for leaf nodes as well.
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> I assume you meant something else? -- some of the differences between inner and leaf are already abstracted away.

Right. If we template these routines I don't need that.

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> In any case, some things are still half-baked, so please wait until my next patch before doing work on these files.
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> Also, CI found a bug on 32-bit -- I know what I missed and will fix next week.

Thanks!

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> > > 0010 and 0011 template a common implementation for both leaf and inner nodes for searching and inserting.
> > >
> > > 0012: While at it, I couldn't resist using this technique to separate out delete from search, which makes sense
andmight give a small performance boost (at least on less capable hardware). I haven't got to the iteration functions,
butthey should be straightforward. 
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> Two things came to mind since I posted this, which I'll make clear next patch:
> - A good compiler will get rid of branches when inlining, so maybe no difference in code generation, but it still
looksnicer this way. 
> - Delete should really use its own template, because it only _accidentally_ looks like search because we don't yet
shrinknodes. 

Okay.

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> > What do you
> > think about how we can expand this template method to deal with DSA
> > memory? I imagined that we load say radixtree_template.h with some
> > macros to use the radix tree like we do for simplehash.h. And
> > radixtree_template.h further loads xxx_impl.h files for some internal
> > functions.
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> Right, I was thinking the same. I wanted to start small and look for opportunities to shrink the code footprint.

Thank you for your confirmation!

Regards,

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