Re: error context for vacuum to include block number - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:11 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:27:44PM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 20:24, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 3:42 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Attached patch addressing these.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, you forgot to remove the below declaration which I have
> > > removed in attached.
> > >
> > > @@ -724,20 +758,20 @@ lazy_scan_heap(Relation onerel, VacuumParams
> > > *params, LVRelStats *vacrelstats,
> > >   PROGRESS_VACUUM_MAX_DEAD_TUPLES
> > >   };
> > >   int64 initprog_val[3];
> > > + ErrorContextCallback errcallback;
> > >
> > > Apart from this, I have ran pgindent and now I think it is in good
> > > shape.  Do you have any other comments?  Sawada-San, can you also
> > > check the attached patch and let me know if you have any additional
> > > comments.
> > >
> >
> > Thank you for updating the patch! I have a question about the following code:
> >
> > +        /* Update error traceback information */
> > +        olderrcbarg = *vacrelstats;
> > +        update_vacuum_error_cbarg(vacrelstats, VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_TRUNCATE,
> > +                                  vacrelstats->nonempty_pages, NULL, false);
> > +
> >          /*
> >           * Scan backwards from the end to verify that the end pages actually
> >           * contain no tuples.  This is *necessary*, not optional, because
> >           * other backends could have added tuples to these pages whilst we
> >           * were vacuuming.
> >           */
> >          new_rel_pages = count_nondeletable_pages(onerel, vacrelstats);
> > +        vacrelstats->blkno = new_rel_pages;
> >
> >          if (new_rel_pages >= old_rel_pages)
> >          {
> >              /* can't do anything after all */
> >              UnlockRelation(onerel, AccessExclusiveLock);
> >              return;
> >          }
> >
> >          /*
> >           * Okay to truncate.
> >           */
> >          RelationTruncate(onerel, new_rel_pages);
> >
> > +        /* Revert back to the old phase information for error traceback */
> > +        update_vacuum_error_cbarg(vacrelstats,
> > +                                  olderrcbarg.phase,
> > +                                  olderrcbarg.blkno,
> > +                                  olderrcbarg.indname,
> > +                                  true);
> >
> > vacrelstats->nonempty_pages is the last non-empty block while
> > new_rel_pages, the result of count_nondeletable_pages(), is the number
> > of blocks that we can truncate to in this attempt. Therefore
> > vacrelstats->nonempty_pages <= new_rel_pages. This means that we set a
> > lower block number to arguments and then set a higher block number
> > after count_nondeletable_pages, and then revert it back to
> > VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_SCAN_HEAP phase and the number of blocks of
> > relation before truncation, after RelationTruncate(). It can be
> > repeated until no more truncating can be done. Why do we need to
> > revert back to the scan heap phase? If we can use
> > vacrelstats->nonempty_pages in the error context message as the
> > remaining blocks after truncation I think we can update callback
> > arguments once at the beginning of lazy_truncate_heap() and don't
> > revert to the previous phase, and pop the error context after exiting.
>
> Perhaps.  We need to "revert back" for the vacuum phases, which can be called
> multiple times, but we don't need to do that here.
>

Yeah, but I think it would be better if are consistent because we have
no control what the caller of the function intends to do after
finishing the current phase.  I think we can add some comments where
we set up the context (in heap_vacuum_rel) like below so that the idea
is more clear.

"The idea is to set up an error context callback to display additional
information with any error during vacuum.  During different phases of
vacuum (heap scan, heap vacuum, index vacuum, index clean up, heap
truncate), we update the error context callback to display appropriate
information.

Note that different phases of vacuum overlap with each other, so once
a particular phase is over, we need to revert back to the old phase to
keep the phase information up-to-date."

What do you think?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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