Introduce visibility map. The visibility map is a bitmap with one bit per
commit268f54974e0a26f8681594250db534e8f4f0b6ba
authorheikki <heikki>
Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:05:22 +0000 (3 13:05 +0000)
committerheikki <heikki>
Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:05:22 +0000 (3 13:05 +0000)
tree8e9d6c584157caeb1d71420e763d6dac44214ef0
parent97566ad03485ab7a60e6baf8aaabd8f223f92733
Introduce visibility map. The visibility map is a bitmap with one bit per
heap page, where a set bit indicates that all tuples on the page are
visible to all transactions, and the page therefore doesn't need
vacuuming. It is stored in a new relation fork.

Lazy vacuum uses the visibility map to skip pages that don't need
vacuuming. Vacuum is also responsible for setting the bits in the map.
In the future, this can hopefully be used to implement index-only-scans,
but we can't currently guarantee that the visibility map is always 100%
up-to-date.

In addition to the visibility map, there's a new PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag on
each heap page, also indicating that all tuples on the page are visible to
all transactions. It's important that this flag is kept up-to-date. It
is also used to skip visibility tests in sequential scans, which gives a
small performance gain on seqscans.
14 files changed:
src/backend/access/heap/Makefile
src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
src/backend/catalog/catalog.c
src/backend/catalog/storage.c
src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
src/backend/commands/vacuumlazy.c
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
src/include/access/htup.h
src/include/access/visibilitymap.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/storage/bufpage.h
src/include/storage/relfilenode.h
src/include/utils/rel.h