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* pgsql: Teach radix tree to embed values at runtime
@ 2024-04-08 11:57  John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
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From: John Naylor @ 2024-04-08 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Teach radix tree to embed values at runtime

Previously, the decision to store values in leaves or within the child
pointer was made at compile time, with variable length values using
leaves by necessity. This commit allows introspecting the length of
variable length values at runtime for that decision. This requires
the ability to tell whether the last-level child pointer is actually
a value, so we use a pointer tag in the lowest level bit.

Use this in TID store. This entails adding a byte to the header to
reserve space for the tag. Commit f35bd9bf3 stores up to three offsets
within the header with no bitmap, and now the header can be embedded
as above. This reduces worst-case memory usage when TIDs are sparse.

Reviewed (in an earlier version) by Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANWCAZYw+_KAaUNruhJfE=h6WgtBKeDG32St8vBJBEY82bGVRQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBci3Hujzijubomo1tdwH3XtQ9F89cTNQ4bsQijOmqnEw@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0fe5f64367bc2fc70baa1f0f993638830f8aa6a5

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/common/tidstore.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
src/include/lib/radixtree.h          | 32 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)



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* Re: pgsql: Teach radix tree to embed values at runtime
@ 2024-04-08 17:27  Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  parent: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Andres Freund @ 2024-04-08 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>; +Cc: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Hi,

On 2024-04-08 11:57:01 +0000, John Naylor wrote:
> Teach radix tree to embed values at runtime
> 
> Previously, the decision to store values in leaves or within the child
> pointer was made at compile time, with variable length values using
> leaves by necessity. This commit allows introspecting the length of
> variable length values at runtime for that decision. This requires
> the ability to tell whether the last-level child pointer is actually
> a value, so we use a pointer tag in the lowest level bit.
> 
> Use this in TID store. This entails adding a byte to the header to
> reserve space for the tag. Commit f35bd9bf3 stores up to three offsets
> within the header with no bitmap, and now the header can be embedded
> as above. This reduces worst-case memory usage when TIDs are sparse.

This isn't quite C99 conformant, and thus breaks on the buildfarm animal
set up to test that:
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mylodon&dt=2024-04-08%2012%3A07%3A01

You can't have unnamed structs in C99, that's a C11 feature.  I wish we'd move
to C11, but ...

Greetings,

Andres





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* Re: pgsql: Teach radix tree to embed values at runtime
@ 2024-04-09 04:39  John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
  parent: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: John Naylor @ 2024-04-09 04:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>; +Cc: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>; pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 12:27 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> This isn't quite C99 conformant, and thus breaks on the buildfarm animal
> set up to test that:
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mylodon&dt=2024-04-08%2012%3A07%3A01

I haven't forgotten about this and will fix within a few hours.





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