Re: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] Optimize dropping of relation buffers using dlist
Date: 2020-09-23 04:42:05
Message-ID: CAA4eK1+PpQbeG8GtbZEsY3ihTubwxQDuoy_QaN7tnOFFAF+N_A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:56 AM tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com
<tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
>
> (3)
> if (reln->smgr_cached_nblocks[forknum] == blocknum)
> reln->smgr_cached_nblocks[forknum] = blocknum + 1;
> else
> + {
> + /*
> + * DropRelFileNodeBuffers relies on the behavior that cached nblocks
> + * won't be invalidated by file extension while recovering.
> + */
> + Assert(!InRecovery);
> reln->smgr_cached_nblocks[forknum] = InvalidBlockNumber;
> + }
>
> I think this change is not directly related to this patch and can be a separate patch, but I want to leave the decision up to a committer.
>

We have added this mainly for testing purpose, basically this
assertion should not fail during the regression tests. We can keep it
in a separate patch but need to ensure that. If this fails then we
can't rely on the caching behaviour during recovery which is actually
required for the correctness of patch.

--
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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