Rewrite the way GIN posting lists are packed on a page, to reduce WAL volume.
Inserting (in retail) into the new 9.4 format GIN posting tree created much
larger WAL records than in 9.3. The previous strategy to WAL logging was
basically to log the whole page on each change, with the exception of
completely unmodified segments up to the first modified one. That was not
too bad when appending to the end of the page, as only the last segment had
to be WAL-logged, but per Fujii Masao's testing, even that produced 2x the
WAL volume that 9.3 did.
The new strategy is to keep track of changes to the posting lists in a more
fine-grained fashion, and also make the repacking" code smarter to avoid
decoding and re-encoding segments unnecessarily.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/14d02f0bb352d70d50106e153aca4af9c4b0b842
Modified Files
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src/backend/access/gin/gindatapage.c | 629 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
src/backend/access/gin/ginpostinglist.c | 3 +-
src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c | 161 +++++++-
src/backend/access/rmgrdesc/gindesc.c | 65 +++-
src/include/access/gin_private.h | 35 +-
5 files changed, 666 insertions(+), 227 deletions(-)