Re: [HACKERS] Block level parallel vacuum

From: Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Block level parallel vacuum
Date: 2020-01-09 12:01:44
Message-ID: 12150251578571304@myt4-a1257bff88cb.qloud-c.yandex.net
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Hello

I noticed that parallel vacuum uses min_parallel_index_scan_size GUC to skip small indexes but this is not mentioned in documentation for both vacuum command and GUC itself.

+ /* Determine the number of parallel workers to launch */
+ if (lps->lvshared->for_cleanup)
+ {
+ if (lps->lvshared->first_time)
+ nworkers = lps->nindexes_parallel_cleanup +
+ lps->nindexes_parallel_condcleanup - 1;
+ else
+ nworkers = lps->nindexes_parallel_cleanup - 1;
+
+ }
+ else
+ nworkers = lps->nindexes_parallel_bulkdel - 1;

(lazy_parallel_vacuum_indexes)
Perhaps we need to add a comment for future readers, why we reduce the number of workers by 1. Maybe this would be cleaner?

+ /* Determine the number of parallel workers to launch */
+ if (lps->lvshared->for_cleanup)
+ {
+ if (lps->lvshared->first_time)
+ nworkers = lps->nindexes_parallel_cleanup +
+ lps->nindexes_parallel_condcleanup;
+ else
+ nworkers = lps->nindexes_parallel_cleanup;
+
+ }
+ else
+ nworkers = lps->nindexes_parallel_bulkdel;
+
+ /* The leader process will participate */
+ nworkers--;

I have no more comments after reading the patches.

regards, Sergei

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