Re: Allow parallel plan for referential integrity checks? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ian Lawrence Barwick
Subject Re: Allow parallel plan for referential integrity checks?
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Msg-id CAB8KJ=gm_uLtoq6GmNJU+ATNjFEeG5BC3QzQmRN85rSoo66cgw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Allow parallel plan for referential integrity checks?  (Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com>)
Responses Re: Allow parallel plan for referential integrity checks?  (Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com>)
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2022年7月26日(火) 20:58 Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com>:
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> On 4/14/22 14:25, Frédéric Yhuel wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 3/19/22 01:57, Imseih (AWS), Sami wrote:
> >> I looked at your patch and it's a good idea to make foreign key
> >> validation
> >> use parallel query on large relations.
> >>
> >> It would be valuable to add logging to ensure that the ActiveSnapshot
> >> and TransactionSnapshot
> >> is the same for the leader and the workers. This logging could be
> >> tested in the TAP test.
> >>
> >> Also, inside RI_Initial_Check you may want to set max_parallel_workers to
> >> max_parallel_maintenance_workers.
> >>
> >> Currently the work_mem is set to maintenance_work_mem. This will also
> >> require
> >> a doc change to call out.
> >>
> >> /*
> >>       * Temporarily increase work_mem so that the check query can be
> >> executed
> >>       * more efficiently.  It seems okay to do this because the query
> >> is simple
> >>       * enough to not use a multiple of work_mem, and one typically
> >> would not
> >>       * have many large foreign-key validations happening
> >> concurrently.  So
> >>       * this seems to meet the criteria for being considered a
> >> "maintenance"
> >>       * operation, and accordingly we use maintenance_work_mem.
> >> However, we
> >>
> >
> > Hello Sami,
> >
> > Thank you for your review!
> >
> > I will try to do as you say, but it will take time, since my daily job
> > as database consultant takes most of my time and energy.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> As suggested by Jacob, here is a quick message to say that I didn't find
> enough time to work further on this patch, but I didn't completely
> forget it either. I moved it to the next commitfest. Hopefully I will
> find enough time and motivation in the coming months :-)

Hi Frédéric

This patch has been carried forward for a couple more commitfests since
your message; do you think you'll be able to work on it further during this
release cycle?

Thanks

Ian Barwick



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