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Heikki Linnakangas ced338fd20 Handle relation DROPs in page server.
Add back code to parse transaction commit and abort records, and in
particular the list of dropped relations in them. Add 'put_unlink'
function to the Timeline trait and implementation. We had the code to
handle dropped relations in the GC code and elsewhere in ObjectRepository
already, but there was nothing to create the RelationSizeEntry::Unlink
tombstone entries until now. Also add a test to check that GC correctly
removes all page versions of a dropped relation.

Implements https://github.com/zenithdb/zenith/issues/232, except for the
"orphaned" rels.

Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
2021-06-29 00:27:10 +03:00
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2021-06-29 00:27:10 +03:00

This module contains utilities for working with PostgreSQL file
formats. It's a collection of structs that are auto-generated from the
PostgreSQL header files using bindgen, and Rust functions to read and
manipulate them.

There are also a bunch of constants in `pg_constants.rs` that are copied
from various PostgreSQL headers, rather than auto-generated. They mostly
should be auto-generated too, but that's a TODO.

The PostgreSQL on-disk file format is not portable across different
CPU architectures and operating systems. It is also subject to change
in each major PostgreSQL version. Currently, this module is based on
PostgreSQL v14, but in the future we will probably need a separate
copy for each PostgreSQL version.

To interact with the C structs, there is some unsafe code in this
module. Do not copy-paste that to the rest of the codebase! Keep the
amount of unsafe code to a minimum, and limited to this module only,
and only where it's truly needed.

TODO: Currently, there is also some code that deals with WAL records
in pageserver/src/waldecoder.rs.  That should be moved into this
module. The rest of the codebase should not have intimate knowledge of
PostgreSQL file formats or WAL layout, that knowledge should be
encapsulated in this module.