Re: Emit fewer vacuum records by reaping removable tuples during pruning

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: Emit fewer vacuum records by reaping removable tuples during pruning
Date: 2023-11-17 23:12:08
Message-ID: CAAKRu_a3mq47XpEGsyrvK7Y69Uvmyv114unTQ2GYP0sQqYyZWQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 5:28 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> When there are no indexes on the relation, we can set would-be dead
> items LP_UNUSED and remove them during pruning. This saves us a vacuum
> WAL record, reducing WAL volume (and time spent writing and syncing
> WAL).
...
> Note that (on principle) this patch set is on top of the bug fix I
> proposed in [1].
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_YiL%3D44GvGnt1dpYouDSSoV7wzxVoXs8m3p311rp-TVQQ%40mail.gmail.com

Rebased on top of fix in b2e237afddc56a and registered for the january fest
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/46/4665/

- Melanie

Attachment Content-Type Size
v2-0002-Set-would-be-dead-items-LP_UNUSED-while-pruning.patch text/x-patch 17.1 KB
v2-0001-Indicate-rel-truncation-unsafe-in-lazy_scan-no-pr.patch text/x-patch 7.0 KB

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