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Peter Geoghegan authored
Streamline handling of the various strategies that we have to avoid a page split in nbtinsert.c. When it looks like a leaf page is about to overflow, we now perform deleting LP_DEAD items and deduplication in one central place. This greatly simplifies _bt_findinsertloc(). This has an independently useful consequence: nbtree no longer relies on the BTP_HAS_GARBAGE page level flag/hint for anything important. We still set and unset the flag in the same way as before, but it's no longer treated as a gating condition when considering if we should check for already-set LP_DEAD bits. This happens at the point where the page looks like it might have to be split anyway, so simply checking the LP_DEAD bits in passing is practically free. This avoids missing LP_DEAD bits just because the page-level hint is unset, which is probably reasonably common (e.g. it happens when VACUUM unsets the page-level flag without actually removing index tuples whose LP_DEAD-bit was set recently, after the VACUUM operation began but before it reached the leaf page in question). Note that this isn't a big behavioral change compared to PostgreSQL 13. We were already checking for set LP_DEAD bits regardless of whether the BTP_HAS_GARBAGE page level flag was set before we considered doing a deduplication pass. This commit only goes slightly further by doing the same check for all indexes, even indexes where deduplication won't be performed. We don't completely remove the BTP_HAS_GARBAGE flag. We still rely on it as a gating condition with pg_upgrade'd indexes from before B-tree version 4/PostgreSQL 12. That makes sense because we sometimes have to make a choice among pages full of duplicates when inserting a tuple with pre version 4 indexes. It probably still pays to avoid accessing the line pointer array of a page there, since it won't yet be clear whether we'll insert on to the page in question at all, let alone split it as a result. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz%3DYpc1PDdk8OVJDChGJBjT06%3DA0Mbv9HyTLCsOknGcUFg%40mail.gmail.com
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