On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Yura Sokolov of Postgres Pro performed this benchmark at my request.
> He took the 9.5 commit immediately proceeding 2ed5b87f9 as a baseline.

I attach a simple patch that comments out the release of the buffer
pin for logged tables where an MVCC snapshot is used for a scan that
is not an index-only scan. This is the simplest way of evaluating the
effects of disabling 2ed5b87f9. Yura or others may find this helpful.

To be clear, I am certainly not suggesting that we should revert
2ed5b87f9. I do think that we need to give serious thought to fixing
the regression that 2ed5b87f9 introduced for LP_DEAD setting by index
scans, though.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan
diff --git a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsearch.c b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsearch.c
new file mode 100644
index 642c894..696beda
*** a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsearch.c
--- b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsearch.c
*************** _bt_drop_lock_and_maybe_pin(IndexScanDes
*** 58,63 ****
--- 58,64 ----
  {
  	LockBuffer(sp->buf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
  
+ #if 0
  	if (IsMVCCSnapshot(scan->xs_snapshot) &&
  		RelationNeedsWAL(scan->indexRelation) &&
  		!scan->xs_want_itup)
*************** _bt_drop_lock_and_maybe_pin(IndexScanDes
*** 65,70 ****
--- 66,72 ----
  		ReleaseBuffer(sp->buf);
  		sp->buf = InvalidBuffer;
  	}
+ #endif
  }
  
  
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