postgresql/contrib
Andres Freund 4b4b680c3d Make backend local tracking of buffer pins memory efficient.
Since the dawn of time (aka Postgres95) multiple pins of the same
buffer by one backend have been optimized not to modify the shared
refcount more than once. This optimization has always used a NBuffer
sized array in each backend keeping track of a backend's pins.

That array (PrivateRefCount) was one of the biggest per-backend memory
allocations, depending on the shared_buffers setting. Besides the
waste of memory it also has proven to be a performance bottleneck when
assertions are enabled as we make sure that there's no remaining pins
left at the end of transactions. Also, on servers with lots of memory
and a correspondingly high shared_buffers setting the amount of random
memory accesses can also lead to poor cpu cache efficiency.

Because of these reasons a backend's buffers pins are now kept track
of in a small statically sized array that overflows into a hash table
when necessary. Benchmarks have shown neutral to positive performance
results with considerably lower memory usage.

Patch by me, review by Robert Haas.

Discussion: 20140321182231.GA17111@alap3.anarazel.de
2014-08-30 14:03:21 +02:00
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adminpack Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
auth_delay Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
auto_explain Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
btree_gin Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
btree_gist Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
chkpass Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
citext Fix citext upgrade script for disallowance of oidvector element assignment. 2014-08-28 18:21:05 -04:00
cube Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
dblink Specify the port in dblink and postgres_fdw tests. 2014-08-26 12:28:08 +02:00
dict_int Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
dict_xsyn Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
dummy_seclabel Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
earthdistance Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
file_fdw Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
hstore Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
intagg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
intarray Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
isn Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
lo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
ltree Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
oid2name Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pageinspect Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
passwordcheck Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_archivecleanup Replace a few strncmp() calls with strlcpy(). 2014-08-18 22:59:31 -04:00
pg_buffercache Make backend local tracking of buffer pins memory efficient. 2014-08-30 14:03:21 +02:00
pg_freespacemap Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_prewarm Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_standby Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_test_fsync Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_test_timing Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_trgm Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_upgrade Fix whitespace 2014-08-26 17:26:45 -04:00
pg_upgrade_support pg_upgrade: prevent automatic oid assignment 2014-08-25 22:19:05 -04:00
pg_xlogdump Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pgbench Enhance pgbench's option checking. 2014-08-12 17:27:08 +09:00
pgcrypto Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pgrowlocks Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pgstattuple Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
postgres_fdw Specify the port in dblink and postgres_fdw tests. 2014-08-26 12:28:08 +02:00
seg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
sepgsql Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
spi Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
sslinfo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
start-scripts Improve handling of OOM score adjustment in sample Linux start script. 2014-07-01 17:23:16 -04:00
tablefunc Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
tcn Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
test_decoding Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
test_parser Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
test_shm_mq Add some noreturn attributes based on compiler recommendations 2014-08-13 22:40:48 -04:00
tsearch2 Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
unaccent Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
uuid-ossp Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
vacuumlo Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
worker_spi Add some noreturn attributes based on compiler recommendations 2014-08-13 22:40:48 -04:00
xml2 Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Support BSD and e2fsprogs UUID libraries alongside OSSP UUID library. 2014-05-27 19:42:08 -04:00
README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.