NAME

Pg::Reindex - rebuild postgresql indexes concurrently without locking.

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

Use as a module

use Pg::Reindex qw(prepare rebuild);

prepare($dbh, \@namespaces, \@tables, \@indexes);
rebuild($dbh, \%options, $dryrun);

Run as a perl script

perl `perldoc -l Pg::Reindex` \
           [--help] \
           [--server=localhost] \
           [--port=5432] \
           [--user=postgres] \
           [--password=PASSWORD] \
           [--table=TABLE] ... \
           [--namespace=NAMESPACE] ... \
           [--index=INDEX] ... \
           [--[no]validate] \
           [--high_txn_lag=BYTES] \
           [--log_txn_lag=BYTES] \
           [--[no]dryrun] \
           [prepare|continue]

DESCRIPTION

Postgresql indexes should be rebuilt on a regular basis for good performance. This can be done with the REINDEX command, however, building indexes this way requires an exclusive lock on the table. On the other hand, using CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY avoids this lock.

Pg::Reindex builds new indexes using CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Then it starts a transaction for each index in which it drops the old index and renames the new one.

It handles normal indexes and PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY and UNIQUE constraints.

Streaming replication and throttling

Before creating the next index, the streaming replication lag is checked to be below a certain limit. If so, nothing special happens and the index is built.

Otherwise, rebuild waits for the replicas to catch up. When the lag drops under a second limit, the rebuild does not immediately continue. Instead it waits for another 30 seconds and checks the lag every second within that period. Only if the lag stays below the limit for the whole time, execution is continued. This grace period is to deal with the fact that a wal sender process may suddenly disappear and reappear after a few seconds. Without the grace period the program may encounter a false drop below the limit and hence continue. For large indexes this adds a lot of lag.

USING AS A MODULE

To use Pg::Reindex as a module, first you need to load the Pg::Reindex module:

use Pg::Reindex qw(prepare rebuild);
use strict;

(The use strict; isn't required but is strongly recommended.)

Then you need to "prepare" the indexes that you want rebuilt. You can filter by combinations of namespace, tables, and indexes.

prepare($dbh, \@opt_namespaces,\@opt_tables, \@opt_indexes);

After "preparing" the set of indexes to be rebuilt, then you rebuild them:

rebuild( $dbh, { ThrottleOn => 10000000, 
    ThrottleOff => 100000, Validate => 1 }, $opt_dryrun);

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

prepare

prepare determines the list of indexes that would be re-indexed, and sets up the data structures used by rebuild. prepare must be called before rebuild is called.

prepare creates a new schema named reindex with 2 tables, worklist and log. Worklist is created as UNLOGGED table. prepare saves information on all indexes that need to be rebuilt to worklist. The information in worklist is used by rebuild.

$dbh: DBI database handle to the database whose indexes are to be reindexed.
\@namespaces: Rebuild only indexes in the namespaces. If namespaces is empty, indexes in all namespaces except the following are considered: those beginning with pg_, in information_schemai, or are sequences namespaces.
\@tables: Rebuild only indexes that belong to the specified tables.
\@indexes: List of indexes to reindex.

If tables, namespaces and indexes are given simultaneously, only indexes satisfying all conditions are considered.

rebuild

$dbh

DBI database handle to the database whose indexes are to be reindexed.

\%options

ThrottleOn  
ThrottleOff 
Validate

$dryrun

USING AS A PERL SCRIPT

To use Pg::Reindex as a perl script you need to have perl run it. The command below would do that by using perldoc to determine Pg::Reindex's location.

perl `perldoc -l Pg::Reindex` \
           [--help] \
           [--server=localhost] \
           [--port=5432] \
           [--user=postgres] \
           [--password=PASSWORD] \
           [--table=TABLE] ... \
           [--namespace=NAMESPACE] ... \
           [--index=INDEX] ... \
           [--[no]validate] \
           [--high_txn_lag=BYTES] \
           [--log_txn_lag=BYTES] \
           [--[no]dryrun] \
           [prepare|continue]

OPTIONS

Options can be abbreviated.

--server

Hostname / IP address or directory path to use to connect to the Postgres server. If you want to use a local UNIX domain socket, specify the socket directory path.

Default: localhost

--port

The port to connect to.

Default: 5432

--user

The user.

Default: postgres

--password

a file name or open file descriptor where to read the password from. If the parameter value consists of only digits, it's evaluated as file descriptor.

There is no default.

A convenient way to specify the password on the BASH command line is

reindex.pl --password=3 3<<<my_secret

That way the password appears in .bash_history. But that file is usually only readable to the owner.

--table

Reindex only indexes that belong to the specified table.

This option can be given multiple times.

If --table, --namespace and --index are given simultaneously, only indexes satisfying all conditions are considered.

--namespace

Without this option only namespaces are considered that are not in beginning with pg_. Also information_schema or sequences namespaces are omitted.

If --table, --namespace and --index are given simultaneously, only indexes satisfying all conditions are considered.

--index

If --table, --namespace and --index are given simultaneously, only indexes satisfying all conditions are considered.

--[no]validate

validate FOREIGN KEY constraints or leave them NOT VALID. Default it to validate.

--[no]dryrun

don't modify the database but print the essential SQL statements.

--high-txn-lag

the upper limit streaming replicas may lag behind in bytes.

Default is 10,000,000.

--low-txn-lag

the lower limit in bytes when execution may be continued after it has been interrupted due to exceeding high_txn_lag.

Default is 100,000

--help

print this help

AUTHOR

BINARY, <binary at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-pg-reindex at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Pg-Reindex. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

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http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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To install Pg::Reindex, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Pg::Reindex

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Pg::Reindex

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NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

Use as a module

Run as a perl script

DESCRIPTION

Streaming replication and throttling

USING AS A MODULE

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

prepare

rebuild

USING AS A PERL SCRIPT

OPTIONS

AUTHOR

BUGS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Module Install Instructions