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hio: Use ExtendBufferedRelBy() to extend tables more efficiently
While we already had some form of bulk extension for relations, it was fairly limited. It only amortized the cost of acquiring the extension lock, the relation itself was still extended one-by-one. Bulk extension was also solely triggered by contention, not by the amount of data inserted. To address this, use ExtendBufferedRelBy(), introduced in 31966b1, to extend the relation. We try to extend the relation by multiple blocks in two situations: 1) The caller tells RelationGetBufferForTuple() that it will need multiple pages. For now that's only used by heap_multi_insert(), see commit FIXME. 2) If there is contention on the extension lock, use the number of waiters for the lock as a multiplier for the number of blocks to extend by. This is similar to what we already did. Previously we additionally multiplied the numbers of waiters by 20, but with the new relation extension infrastructure I could not see a benefit in doing so. Using the freespacemap to provide empty pages can cause significant contention, and adds measurable overhead, even if there is no contention. To reduce that, remember the blocks the relation was extended by in the BulkInsertState, in the extending backend. In case 1) from above, the blocks the extending backend needs are not entered into the FSM, as we know that we will need those blocks. One complication with using the FSM to record empty pages, is that we need to insert blocks into the FSM, when we already hold a buffer content lock. To avoid doing IO while holding a content lock, release the content lock before recording free space. Currently that opens a small window in which another backend could fill the block, if a concurrent VACUUM records the free space. If that happens, we retry, similar to the already existing case when otherBuffer is provided. In the future it might be worth closing the race by preventing VACUUM from recording the space in newly extended pages. This change provides very significant wins (3x at 16 clients, on my workstation) for concurrent COPY into a single relation. Even single threaded COPY is measurably faster, primarily due to not dirtying pages while extending, if supported by the operating system (see commit 4d330a6). Even single-row INSERTs benefit, although to a much smaller degree, as the relation extension lock rarely is the primary bottleneck. Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
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bistate = (BulkInsertState) palloc(sizeof(BulkInsertStateData));
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bistate->strategy = GetAccessStrategy(BAS_BULKWRITE);
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bistate->current_buf = InvalidBuffer;
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bistate->next_free = InvalidBlockNumber;
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bistate->last_free = InvalidBlockNumber;
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return bistate;
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}
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