From: | "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Florian Pflug" <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: HOT patch - version 15 |
Date: | 2007-09-10 19:29:21 |
Message-ID: | 2e78013d0709101229n118ebde1ge01cfef5782df679@mail.gmail.com |
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On 9/11/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> >
> > Pruning does generate a WAL record at the moment. Maybe you could do
> > some kind of a quick pruning without a WAL record. Like just modify the
> > ctid of the oldest dead tuple in the chain, or the redirecting line
> > pointer if there is one, to point to the latest live tuple, without
> > removing the dead tuples or the line pointers.
>
> I am wondering what you even mean by removing the dead tuples when
> pruning. I thought only defragmentation removed tuples.
>
>
Pruning removes intermediate dead tuples by marking their line pointers
~LP_USED and redirecting the root line pointer to the first
live/recently_dead
tuple in the chain. OTOH defragmentation moves tuples around to repair
fragmentation. IOW defragmentation is nothing but calling
PageRepairFragmentation on the page.
For example, if we have a HOT chain of 5 tuples:
1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 4 --> 5
of which, 1, 2 and 3 are DEAD, 4 is RECENTLY_DEAD and 5 is LIVE
At the end of pruning:
- line pointer of 1 is redirected to 4
- line pointers of 2 and 3 are marked ~LP_USED
- the offset of 4 and 5 is unchanged
At the end of defragmentation:
- 4 and 5 are moved to the end of the page to create a larger
contiguous free space in the page.
Thanks,
Pavan
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Pavan Deolasee
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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