1. 26 May, 2012 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Prevent synchronized scanning when systable_beginscan chooses a heapscan. · 532fe28d
      Tom Lane authored
      The only interesting-for-performance case wherein we force heapscan here
      is when we're rebuilding the relcache init file, and the only such case
      that is likely to be examining a catalog big enough to be syncscanned is
      RelationBuildTupleDesc.  But the early-exit optimization in that code gets
      broken if we start the scan at a random place within the catalog, so that
      allowing syncscan is actually a big deoptimization if pg_attribute is large
      (at least for the normal case where the rows for core system catalogs have
      never been changed since initdb).  Hence, prevent syncscan here.  Per my
      testing pursuant to complaints from Jeff Frost and Greg Sabino Mullane,
      though neither of them seem to have actually hit this specific problem.
      
      Back-patch to 8.3, where syncscan was introduced.
      532fe28d
  2. 25 May, 2012 5 commits
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  8. 18 May, 2012 2 commits
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Fix bug in gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit(). · 1d27dcf5
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      When we create a temporary copy of the old node buffer, in stack, we mustn't
      leak that into any of the long-lived data structures. Before this patch,
      when we called gistPopItupFromNodeBuffer(), it got added to the array of
      "loaded buffers". After gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit() exits, the
      pointer added to the loaded buffers array points to garbage. Often that goes
      unnotied, because when we go through the array of loaded buffers to unload
      them, buffers with a NULL pageBuffer are ignored, which can often happen by
      accident even if the pointer points to garbage.
      
      This patch fixes that by marking the temporary copy in stack explicitly as
      temporary, and refrain from adding buffers marked as temporary to the array
      of loaded buffers.
      
      While we're at it, initialize nodeBuffer->pageBlocknum to InvalidBlockNumber
      and improve comments a bit. This isn't strictly necessary, but makes
      debugging easier.
      1d27dcf5