Previously, we were doing `first_row_number` reservation for the first
row written to current `WriteState` but were doing `stripe_id`
reservation when flushing the `WriteState` and were inserting the
related record to `columnar.stripe` at that time as well.
However, inserting `columnar.stripe` record at flush-time is
problematic. This is because, as told in #5160, if relation has
any index-based constraints and if there are two concurrent
writes that are inserting conflicting key values for that constraint,
then postgres relies on `tableAM->fetch_index_tuple`
(=`columnar_fetch_index_tuple`) callback to return `true` when
indexAM is checking against possible constraint violations.
However, pending writes of other backends are not visible to concurrent
sessions in columnar since we were not inserting the stripe metadata
record until flushing the stripe.
With this commit, we split stripe reservation into two phases:
i) Reserve `stripe_id` and insert a "dummy" record to `columnar.stripe`
at the very same time we reserve `first_row_number`, i.e. when writing
the first row to the current `WriteState`.
ii) At flush time, do the storage level allocation and complete the
missing fields of the dummy record inserted into `columnar.stripe`
during i).
That way, any concurrent writes would be able to check against possible
constraint violations by using `SnapshotDirty` when scanning
`columnar.stripe`.
Note that `columnar_fetch_index_tuple` still wouldn't be able to fill
the output tupleslot for the requested tid but it would at least return
`true` for such index look-up's and we believe this should be sufficient
for the caller indexAM callback to make the concurrent writer block on
prior one.
That is how we fix#5160.
Only downside of reserving `stripe_id` at the same time we reserve
`first_row_number` is that now any aborted writes would also waste
some amount of `stripe_id` as in the case of `first_row_number` but
we are just wasting them one-by-one.
Considering the fact that we waste `first_row_number` by the amount
stripe row limit (=150k by default) in such cases, this shouldn't be
important at all.
With this commit, we add (`CREATE INDEX` / `REINDEX`) `CONCURRENTLY` support for columnar tables.
For that, we implement `columnar_index_validate_scan` callback.
The reasoning behind the implementation is as follows:
* Postgres function `validate_index` provides all the TIDs that are currently in the
index to `columnar_index_validate_scan` callback via a `tupleSort` object..
* We start scanning the table by using `columnar_getnextslot` as usual.
Before moving forward, note that `columnar_getnextslot` guarantees
to return tuples in the order of their TIDs.
* For us to use during table scan, postgres provides a snapshot guaranteeing
that any tuples that are valid according to that snapshot but are not in the
index must be added to the index.
* Then for each tuple that we read from our table, we continue iterating
given `tupleSort` to find the first TID that is greater than or equal to our
tuple's TID.
If both TID's are equal to each other, then we skip the tuple since it's already
indexed.
If the TID that we read from tupleSort is greater then our tuple's TID, then
we decide to insert this tuple into index.
Onur Tirtir
jeff-davis