Add show_data option to pg_get_wal_block_info.
commitdf4f3ab51730a4cdddfead0b264d394ee4925723
authorPeter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:02:52 +0000 (31 14:02 -0700)
committerPeter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:02:52 +0000 (31 14:02 -0700)
tree95b086f2a6e89b192555dd1bb1408f3225d45ae5
parent6ee30209a6f161d0a267a33f090c70c579c87c00
Add show_data option to pg_get_wal_block_info.

Allow users to opt out of returning FPI data and block data from
pg_get_wal_block_info as an optimization.  Testing has shown that this
can make function execution over twice as fast in some cases.

When pg_get_wal_block_info is called with "show_data := false", it
always returns NULL values for its block_data and block_fpi_data bytea
output parameters.  Nothing else changes.  In particular, the function
will still return the usual per-block summary of block data/FPI space
overhead.  Use of "show_data := false" is therefore feasible with all
queries that don't specifically require these raw binary strings.

Follow-up to recent work in commit 122376f0.  There still hasn't been a
stable release with the pg_get_wal_block_info function, so no bump in
the pg_walinspect extension version.

Per suggestion from Melanie Plageman.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bJvbcYBRj2cN6G2xV7B7-Ja+pjTO1nEnEhRR8OXYiABA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm9shOkEDM10_+qOZkRSQhKVxwBFiehH6EHWQQRd_rDPw@mail.gmail.com
contrib/pg_walinspect/expected/oldextversions.out
contrib/pg_walinspect/expected/pg_walinspect.out
contrib/pg_walinspect/pg_walinspect--1.0--1.1.sql
contrib/pg_walinspect/pg_walinspect.c
contrib/pg_walinspect/sql/pg_walinspect.sql
doc/src/sgml/pgwalinspect.sgml