Page at a time index scan
От | Heikki Linnakangas |
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Тема | Page at a time index scan |
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Msg-id | Pine.OSF.4.61.0605012127550.183753@kosh.hut.fi обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Page at a time index scan
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Список | pgsql-patches |
Here's a patch that implements page at a time index scans discussed at pgsql-hackers earlier. See proposal 1 at: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-03/msg01237.php It passes regression tests, and there's no known bugs. There's some minor issues I'd like to point out, though: 1. An index scan now needs to allocate enough memory to hold potentially a whole page worth of items. And if you use markpos/restrpos, twice that much. I don't know if that's an issue, but I thought I'd bring that up. 2. Vacuum is now done in one phase, scanning the index in physical order. That significantly speeds up index vacuums of large indexes that don't fit into memory. However, btbulkdelete doesn't know if the vacuum is a full or lazy one. The patch just assumes it's a lazy vacuum, but the API really needs to be changed to pass that information earlier than at vacuum_cleanup. 3. Before the patch, a scan would keep the current page pinned to keep vacuum from deleting the current item. The patch doesn't change that behaviour, but it now seems to me that even a pin is no longer needed. The patch needs testing and review, to ensure it doesn't brake anything, and to see the effect on performance. It doesn't change disk layout or catalogs, so you can run it using the same data directory as with the unpatched version. - Heikki
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