bufmgr.h

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * bufmgr.h
 *    POSTGRES buffer manager definitions.
 *
 *
 * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2022, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
 *
 * src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
#ifndef BUFMGR_H
#define BUFMGR_H
 
#include "storage/block.h"
#include "storage/buf.h"
#include "storage/bufpage.h"
#include "storage/relfilelocator.h"
#include "utils/relcache.h"
#include "utils/snapmgr.h"
 
typedef void *Block;
 
/* Possible arguments for GetAccessStrategy() */
typedef enum BufferAccessStrategyType
{
    BAS_NORMAL,                 /* Normal random access */
    BAS_BULKREAD,               /* Large read-only scan (hint bit updates are
                                 * ok) */
    BAS_BULKWRITE,              /* Large multi-block write (e.g. COPY IN) */
    BAS_VACUUM                  /* VACUUM */
} BufferAccessStrategyType;
 
/* Possible modes for ReadBufferExtended() */
typedef enum
{
    RBM_NORMAL,                 /* Normal read */
    RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK,          /* Don't read from disk, caller will
                                 * initialize. Also locks the page. */
    RBM_ZERO_AND_CLEANUP_LOCK,  /* Like RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK, but locks the page
                                 * in "cleanup" mode */
    RBM_ZERO_ON_ERROR,          /* Read, but return an all-zeros page on error */
    RBM_NORMAL_NO_LOG           /* Don't log page as invalid during WAL
                                 * replay; otherwise same as RBM_NORMAL */
} ReadBufferMode;
 
/*
 * Type returned by PrefetchBuffer().
 */
typedef struct PrefetchBufferResult
{
    Buffer      recent_buffer;  /* If valid, a hit (recheck needed!) */
    bool        initiated_io;   /* If true, a miss resulting in async I/O */
} PrefetchBufferResult;
 
/* forward declared, to avoid having to expose buf_internals.h here */
struct WritebackContext;
 
/* forward declared, to avoid including smgr.h here */
struct SMgrRelationData;
 
/* in globals.c ... this duplicates miscadmin.h */
extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
 
/* in bufmgr.c */
extern PGDLLIMPORT bool zero_damaged_pages;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int bgwriter_lru_maxpages;
extern PGDLLIMPORT double bgwriter_lru_multiplier;
extern PGDLLIMPORT bool track_io_timing;
 
/* only applicable when prefetching is available */
#ifdef USE_PREFETCH
#define DEFAULT_EFFECTIVE_IO_CONCURRENCY 1
#define DEFAULT_MAINTENANCE_IO_CONCURRENCY 10
#else
#define DEFAULT_EFFECTIVE_IO_CONCURRENCY 0
#define DEFAULT_MAINTENANCE_IO_CONCURRENCY 0
#endif
extern PGDLLIMPORT int effective_io_concurrency;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int maintenance_io_concurrency;
 
extern PGDLLIMPORT int checkpoint_flush_after;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int backend_flush_after;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int bgwriter_flush_after;
 
/* in buf_init.c */
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *BufferBlocks;
 
/* in localbuf.c */
extern PGDLLIMPORT int NLocBuffer;
extern PGDLLIMPORT Block *LocalBufferBlockPointers;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int32 *LocalRefCount;
 
/* upper limit for effective_io_concurrency */
#define MAX_IO_CONCURRENCY 1000
 
/* special block number for ReadBuffer() */
#define P_NEW   InvalidBlockNumber  /* grow the file to get a new page */
 
/*
 * Buffer content lock modes (mode argument for LockBuffer())
 */
#define BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK      0
#define BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE       1
#define BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE   2
 
 
/*
 * prototypes for functions in bufmgr.c
 */
extern PrefetchBufferResult PrefetchSharedBuffer(struct SMgrRelationData *smgr_reln,
                                                 ForkNumber forkNum,
                                                 BlockNumber blockNum);
extern PrefetchBufferResult PrefetchBuffer(Relation reln, ForkNumber forkNum,
                                           BlockNumber blockNum);
extern bool ReadRecentBuffer(RelFileLocator rlocator, ForkNumber forkNum,
                             BlockNumber blockNum, Buffer recent_buffer);
extern Buffer ReadBuffer(Relation reln, BlockNumber blockNum);
extern Buffer ReadBufferExtended(Relation reln, ForkNumber forkNum,
                                 BlockNumber blockNum, ReadBufferMode mode,
                                 BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
extern Buffer ReadBufferWithoutRelcache(RelFileLocator rlocator,
                                        ForkNumber forkNum, BlockNumber blockNum,
                                        ReadBufferMode mode, BufferAccessStrategy strategy,
                                        bool permanent);
extern void ReleaseBuffer(Buffer buffer);
extern void UnlockReleaseBuffer(Buffer buffer);
extern void MarkBufferDirty(Buffer buffer);
extern void IncrBufferRefCount(Buffer buffer);
extern Buffer ReleaseAndReadBuffer(Buffer buffer, Relation relation,
                                   BlockNumber blockNum);
 
extern void InitBufferPoolAccess(void);
extern void AtEOXact_Buffers(bool isCommit);
extern void PrintBufferLeakWarning(Buffer buffer);
extern void CheckPointBuffers(int flags);
extern BlockNumber BufferGetBlockNumber(Buffer buffer);
extern BlockNumber RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork(Relation relation,
                                                   ForkNumber forkNum);
extern void FlushOneBuffer(Buffer buffer);
extern void FlushRelationBuffers(Relation rel);
extern void FlushRelationsAllBuffers(struct SMgrRelationData **smgrs, int nrels);
extern void CreateAndCopyRelationData(RelFileLocator src_rlocator,
                                      RelFileLocator dst_rlocator,
                                      bool permanent);
extern void FlushDatabaseBuffers(Oid dbid);
extern void DropRelationBuffers(struct SMgrRelationData *smgr_reln,
                                ForkNumber *forkNum,
                                int nforks, BlockNumber *firstDelBlock);
extern void DropRelationsAllBuffers(struct SMgrRelationData **smgr_reln,
                                    int nlocators);
extern void DropDatabaseBuffers(Oid dbid);
 
#define RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(reln) \
    RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork(reln, MAIN_FORKNUM)
 
extern bool BufferIsPermanent(Buffer buffer);
extern XLogRecPtr BufferGetLSNAtomic(Buffer buffer);
 
#ifdef NOT_USED
extern void PrintPinnedBufs(void);
#endif
extern void BufferGetTag(Buffer buffer, RelFileLocator *rlocator,
                         ForkNumber *forknum, BlockNumber *blknum);
 
extern void MarkBufferDirtyHint(Buffer buffer, bool buffer_std);
 
extern void UnlockBuffers(void);
extern void LockBuffer(Buffer buffer, int mode);
extern bool ConditionalLockBuffer(Buffer buffer);
extern void LockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer);
extern bool ConditionalLockBufferForCleanup(Buffer buffer);
extern bool IsBufferCleanupOK(Buffer buffer);
extern bool HoldingBufferPinThatDelaysRecovery(void);
 
extern void AbortBufferIO(void);
 
extern void BufmgrCommit(void);
extern bool BgBufferSync(struct WritebackContext *wb_context);
 
extern void TestForOldSnapshot_impl(Snapshot snapshot, Relation relation);
 
/* in buf_init.c */
extern void InitBufferPool(void);
extern Size BufferShmemSize(void);
 
/* in localbuf.c */
extern void AtProcExit_LocalBuffers(void);
 
/* in freelist.c */
extern BufferAccessStrategy GetAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategyType btype);
extern void FreeAccessStrategy(BufferAccessStrategy strategy);
 
 
/* inline functions */
 
/*
 * Although this header file is nominally backend-only, certain frontend
 * programs like pg_waldump include it.  For compilers that emit static
 * inline functions even when they're unused, that leads to unsatisfied
 * external references; hence hide these with #ifndef FRONTEND.
 */
 
#ifndef FRONTEND
 
/*
 * BufferIsValid
 *      True iff the given buffer number is valid (either as a shared
 *      or local buffer).
 *
 * Note: For a long time this was defined the same as BufferIsPinned,
 * that is it would say False if you didn't hold a pin on the buffer.
 * I believe this was bogus and served only to mask logic errors.
 * Code should always know whether it has a buffer reference,
 * independently of the pin state.
 *
 * Note: For a further long time this was not quite the inverse of the
 * BufferIsInvalid() macro, in that it also did sanity checks to verify
 * that the buffer number was in range.  Most likely, this macro was
 * originally intended only to be used in assertions, but its use has
 * since expanded quite a bit, and the overhead of making those checks
 * even in non-assert-enabled builds can be significant.  Thus, we've
 * now demoted the range checks to assertions within the macro itself.
 */
static inline bool
BufferIsValid(Buffer bufnum)
{
    Assert(bufnum <= NBuffers);
    Assert(bufnum >= -NLocBuffer);
 
    return bufnum != InvalidBuffer;
}
 
/*
 * BufferGetBlock
 *      Returns a reference to a disk page image associated with a buffer.
 *
 * Note:
 *      Assumes buffer is valid.
 */
static inline Block
BufferGetBlock(Buffer buffer)
{
    Assert(BufferIsValid(buffer));
 
    if (BufferIsLocal(buffer))
        return LocalBufferBlockPointers[-buffer - 1];
    else
        return (Block) (BufferBlocks + ((Size) (buffer - 1)) * BLCKSZ);
}
 
/*
 * BufferGetPageSize
 *      Returns the page size within a buffer.
 *
 * Notes:
 *      Assumes buffer is valid.
 *
 *      The buffer can be a raw disk block and need not contain a valid
 *      (formatted) disk page.
 */
/* XXX should dig out of buffer descriptor */
static inline Size
BufferGetPageSize(Buffer buffer)
{
    AssertMacro(BufferIsValid(buffer));
    return (Size) BLCKSZ;
}
 
/*
 * BufferGetPage
 *      Returns the page associated with a buffer.
 *
 * When this is called as part of a scan, there may be a need for a nearby
 * call to TestForOldSnapshot().  See the definition of that for details.
 */
static inline Page
BufferGetPage(Buffer buffer)
{
    return (Page) BufferGetBlock(buffer);
}
 
/*
 * Check whether the given snapshot is too old to have safely read the given
 * page from the given table.  If so, throw a "snapshot too old" error.
 *
 * This test generally needs to be performed after every BufferGetPage() call
 * that is executed as part of a scan.  It is not needed for calls made for
 * modifying the page (for example, to position to the right place to insert a
 * new index tuple or for vacuuming).  It may also be omitted where calls to
 * lower-level functions will have already performed the test.
 *
 * Note that a NULL snapshot argument is allowed and causes a fast return
 * without error; this is to support call sites which can be called from
 * either scans or index modification areas.
 *
 * For best performance, keep the tests that are fastest and/or most likely to
 * exclude a page from old snapshot testing near the front.
 */
static inline void
TestForOldSnapshot(Snapshot snapshot, Relation relation, Page page)
{
    Assert(relation != NULL);
 
    if (old_snapshot_threshold >= 0
        && (snapshot) != NULL
        && ((snapshot)->snapshot_type == SNAPSHOT_MVCC
            || (snapshot)->snapshot_type == SNAPSHOT_TOAST)
        && !XLogRecPtrIsInvalid((snapshot)->lsn)
        && PageGetLSN(page) > (snapshot)->lsn)
        TestForOldSnapshot_impl(snapshot, relation);
}
 
#endif                          /* FRONTEND */
 
#endif                          /* BUFMGR_H */