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Tom Lane e384ed6cde Improve typcache: cache negative lookup results, add invalidation logic.
Previously, if the typcache had for example tried and failed to find a hash
opclass for a given data type, it would nonetheless repeat the unsuccessful
catalog lookup each time it was asked again.  This can lead to a
significant amount of useless bufmgr traffic, as in a recent report from
Scott Marlowe.  Like the catalog caches, typcache should be able to cache
negative results.  This patch arranges that by making use of separate flag
bits to remember whether a particular item has been looked up, rather than
treating a zero OID as an indicator that no lookup has been done.

Also, install a credible invalidation mechanism, namely watching for inval
events in pg_opclass.  The sole advantage of the lack of negative caching
was that the code would cope if operators or opclasses got added for a type
mid-session; to preserve that behavior we have to be able to invalidate
stale lookup results.  Updates in pg_opclass should be pretty rare in
production systems, so it seems sufficient to just invalidate all the
dependent data whenever one happens.

Adding proper invalidation also means that this code will now react sanely
if an opclass is dropped mid-session.  Arguably, that's a back-patchable
bug fix, but in view of the lack of complaints from the field I'll refrain
from back-patching.  (Probably, in most cases where an opclass is dropped,
the data type itself is dropped soon after, so that this misfeasance has
no bad consequences.)
2014-11-28 12:19:14 -05:00
config Detect PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE automatically. 2014-11-23 09:34:03 -05:00
contrib Free libxml2/libxslt resources in a safer order. 2014-11-27 11:13:29 -05:00
doc Rename pg_rowsecurity -> pg_policy and other fixes 2014-11-27 01:15:57 -05:00
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