On 20/04/15 17:50, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
On 03/15/2015 09:07 PM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
Slightly updated version of the patch.
Mainly rebased against current master (there were several conflicts) and
fixed some typos, no real functional change.
I also attached initial version of the API sgml doc.
I finally got around to have another round of review on this. I fixed a
couple of little bugs, did some minor edition on comments etc. See
attached. It is also available in my git repository at
git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/heikki/postgres.git, branch "seqam",
if you want to look at individual changes. It combines your patches 1
and 4, I think those need to be applied together. I haven't looked at
the DDL changes yet.
Thanks!
I'm fairly happy with the alloc API now. I'm not sure it's a good idea
for the AM to access the sequence tuple directly, though. I would seem
cleaner if it only manipulated the amdata Datum. But it's not too bad as
it is.
Yeah, I was thinking about this myself I just liked sending 10
parameters to the function less than this.
The division of labour between sequence.c and the AM, in the init and
the get/set_state functions, is a bit more foggy:
* Do we really need a separate amoptions() method and an init() method,
when the only caller to amoptions() is just before the init() method?
The changes in extractRelOptions suggest that it would call
am_reloptions for sequences too, but that doesn't actually seem to be
happening.
Hmm yes it should and I am sure it did at some point, must have messed
it during one of the rebases :(
And it's the reason why we need separate API function.
postgres=# create sequence fooseq using local with (garbage=option);
CREATE SEQUENCE
Invalid options probably should throw an error.
* Currently, the AM's init function is responsible for basic sanity
checking, like min < max. It also has to extract the RESTART value from
the list of options. I think it would make more sense to move that to
sequence.c. The AM should only be responsible for initializing the
'amdata' portion, and for handling any AM-specific options. If the AM
doesn't support some options, like MIN and MAX value, it can check them
and throw an error, but it shouldn't be responsible for just passing
them through from the arguments to the sequence tuple.
Well then we need to send restart as additional parameter to the init
function as restart is normally not stored anywhere.
The checking is actually if new value is withing min/max but yes that
can be done inside sequence.c I guess.
* It might be better to form the sequence tuple before calling the init
function, and pass the ready-made tuple to it. All the other API
functions deal with the tuple (after calling sequence_read_tuple), so
that would be more consistent. The init function would need to
deconstruct it to modify it, but we're not concerned about performance
here.
Right, this is actually more of a relic of the custom columns
implementation where I didn't want to build the tuple with NULLs for
columns that might have been specified as NOT NULL, but with the amdata
approach it can create the tuple safely.
* The transformations of the arrays in get_state() and set_state()
functions are a bit complicated. The seqam_get_state() function returns
two C arrays, and pg_sequence_get_state() turns them into a text[]
array. Why not construct the text[] array directly in the AM? I guess
it's a bit more convenient to the AM, if the pg_sequence_get_state() do
that, but if that's an issue, you could create generic helper function
to turn two C string arrays into text[], and call that from the AM.
Yeah that was exactly the reasoning. Helper function works for me (will
check what Álvaro's suggested, maybe it can be moved somewhere and reused).
seq = (FormData_pg_sequence *) GETSTRUCT(sequence_read_tuple(seqh));
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
if (pg_strcasecmp(keys[i], "last_value") == 0)
seq->last_value = DatumGetInt64(DirectFunctionCall1(int8in,
CStringGetDatum(values[i])));
else if (pg_strcasecmp(keys[i], "is_called") == 0)
seq->is_called = DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall1(boolin,
CStringGetDatum(values[i])));
else
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
errmsg("invalid state key \"%s\" for local
sequence",
keys[i])));
}
sequence_save_tuple(seqh, NULL, true);
If that error happens after having already processed a "last_value" or
"is_called" entry, you have already modified the on-disk tuple. AFAICS
that's the only instance of that bug, but sequence_read_tuple - modify
tuple in place - sequence_save_tuple pattern is quite unsafe in general.
If you modify a tuple directly in a Buffer, you should have a critical
section around it. It would make sense to start a critical section in
sequence_read_tuple(), except that not all callers want to modify the
tuple in place. Perhaps the sequence_read_tuple/sequence_save_tuple
functions should be split into two:
sequence_read_tuple_for_update()
sequence_save_tuple()
Agreed, however I am much more concerned about the way
seqam_local_alloc() works, see the XXX comment there. I am thinking it's
not really safe that way, but problem is that we can't put critical
section around it currently as the sequence_save_tuple() can potentially
call GetTopTransactionId(). Separating it into more functions might be
solution. Except the split into two does not really help there, it would
have to be something like this:
sequence_tuple_update_start() - does the GetTopTransactionId bit and
starts critical section
sequence_tuple_save() - saves the tuple/does wal
sequence_tuple_update_finish() - ends the critical section
That looks slightly cumbersome but I don't really have better idea.
* seqam_local_get_state() calls sequence_read_tuple() but not
sequence_release_tuple(). It looks like sequence_close() releases the
tuple and the buffer, but that seems sloppy. sequence_close() probably
shouldn't be calling sequence_release_tuple at all, so that you'd get a
warning at the end of transaction about the buffer leak.
Do you mean that you want to make call to sequence_release_tuple()
mandatory when sequence_read_tuple() was called?
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