Avoid spurious wait in concurrent reindex

This is like commit c98763b, but for REINDEX CONCURRENTLY.  To wit:
this flags indicates that the current process is safe to ignore for the
purposes of waiting for other snapshots, when doing CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY.  This helps two processes doing
either of those things not deadlock, and also avoids spurious waits.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Dolgov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hamid Akhtar <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]

Author: alvherre

src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c

@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ CompareOpclassOptions(Datum *opts1, Datum *opts2, int natts)
  * lazy VACUUMs, because they won't be fazed by missing index entries
  * either.  (Manual ANALYZEs, however, can't be excluded because they
  * might be within transactions that are going to do arbitrary operations
- * later.)  Processes running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
+ * later.)  Processes running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
  * on indexes that are neither expressional nor partial are also safe to
  * ignore, since we know that those processes won't examine any data
  * outside the table they're indexing.
@@ -3066,6 +3066,7 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 		Oid			indexId;
 		Oid			tableId;
 		Oid			amId;
+		bool		safe;		/* for set_indexsafe_procflags */
 	} ReindexIndexInfo;
 	List	   *heapRelationIds = NIL;
 	List	   *indexIds = NIL;
@@ -3377,6 +3378,9 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 		heapRel = table_open(indexRel->rd_index->indrelid,
 							 ShareUpdateExclusiveLock);
 
+		/* determine safety of this index for set_indexsafe_procflags */
+		idx->safe = (indexRel->rd_indexprs == NIL &&
+					 indexRel->rd_indpred == NIL);
 		idx->tableId = RelationGetRelid(heapRel);
 		idx->amId = indexRel->rd_rel->relam;
 
@@ -3418,6 +3422,7 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 
 		newidx = palloc(sizeof(ReindexIndexInfo));
 		newidx->indexId = newIndexId;
+		newidx->safe = idx->safe;
 		newidx->tableId = idx->tableId;
 		newidx->amId = idx->amId;
 
@@ -3485,6 +3490,11 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 	CommitTransactionCommand();
 	StartTransactionCommand();
 
+	/*
+	 * Because we don't take a snapshot in this transaction, there's no need
+	 * to set the PROC_IN_SAFE_IC flag here.
+	 */
+
 	/*
 	 * Phase 2 of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
 	 *
@@ -3514,6 +3524,10 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 		 */
 		CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
 
+		/* Tell concurrent indexing to ignore us, if index qualifies */
+		if (newidx->safe)
+			set_indexsafe_procflags();
+
 		/* Set ActiveSnapshot since functions in the indexes may need it */
 		PushActiveSnapshot(GetTransactionSnapshot());
 
@@ -3534,8 +3548,14 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 		PopActiveSnapshot();
 		CommitTransactionCommand();
 	}
+
 	StartTransactionCommand();
 
+	/*
+	 * Because we don't take a snapshot or Xid in this transaction, there's no
+	 * need to set the PROC_IN_SAFE_IC flag here.
+	 */
+
 	/*
 	 * Phase 3 of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
 	 *
@@ -3564,6 +3584,10 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 		 */
 		CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
 
+		/* Tell concurrent indexing to ignore us, if index qualifies */
+		if (newidx->safe)
+			set_indexsafe_procflags();
+
 		/*
 		 * Take the "reference snapshot" that will be used by validate_index()
 		 * to filter candidate tuples.
@@ -3607,6 +3631,9 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 		 * interesting tuples.  But since it might not contain tuples deleted
 		 * just before the reference snap was taken, we have to wait out any
 		 * transactions that might have older snapshots.
+		 *
+		 * Because we don't take a snapshot or Xid in this transaction,
+		 * there's no need to set the PROC_IN_SAFE_IC flag here.
 		 */
 		pgstat_progress_update_param(PROGRESS_CREATEIDX_PHASE,
 									 PROGRESS_CREATEIDX_PHASE_WAIT_3);
@@ -3628,6 +3655,13 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 
 	StartTransactionCommand();
 
+	/*
+	 * Because this transaction only does catalog manipulations and doesn't do
+	 * any index operations, we can set the PROC_IN_SAFE_IC flag here
+	 * unconditionally.
+	 */
+	set_indexsafe_procflags();
+
 	forboth(lc, indexIds, lc2, newIndexIds)
 	{
 		ReindexIndexInfo *oldidx = lfirst(lc);
@@ -3675,6 +3709,12 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 	CommitTransactionCommand();
 	StartTransactionCommand();
 
+	/*
+	 * While we could set PROC_IN_SAFE_IC if all indexes qualified, there's no
+	 * real need for that, because we only acquire an Xid after the wait is
+	 * done, and that lasts for a very short period.
+	 */
+
 	/*
 	 * Phase 5 of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
 	 *
@@ -3705,6 +3745,12 @@ ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options)
 	CommitTransactionCommand();
 	StartTransactionCommand();
 
+	/*
+	 * While we could set PROC_IN_SAFE_IC if all indexes qualified, there's no
+	 * real need for that, because we only acquire an Xid after the wait is
+	 * done, and that lasts for a very short period.
+	 */
+
 	/*
 	 * Phase 6 of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
 	 *

src/include/storage/proc.h

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct XidCache
 #define		PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM	0x01	/* is it an autovac worker? */
 #define		PROC_IN_VACUUM		0x02	/* currently running lazy vacuum */
 #define		PROC_IN_SAFE_IC		0x04	/* currently running CREATE INDEX
+										 * CONCURRENTLY or REINDEX
 										 * CONCURRENTLY on non-expressional,
 										 * non-partial index */
 #define		PROC_VACUUM_FOR_WRAPAROUND	0x08	/* set by autovac only */