Guc for old behaviour

src/backend/distributed/metadata/node_metadata.c

@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ int GroupSize = 1;
 /* config variable managed via guc.c */
 char *CurrentCluster = "default";
 
+/*
+ * Config variable to control whether we should replicate reference tables on
+ * node activation or we should defer it to shard creation.
+ */
+bool ReplicateReferenceTablesOnActivate = false;
+
 /* did current transaction modify pg_dist_node? */
 bool TransactionModifiedNodeMetadata = false;
 
@@ -381,6 +387,12 @@ SetUpDistributedTableDependencies(WorkerNode *newWorkerNode)
 		ReplicateAllDependenciesToNode(newWorkerNode->workerName,
 									   newWorkerNode->workerPort);
 
+		if (ReplicateReferenceTablesOnActivate)
+		{
+			ReplicateAllReferenceTablesToNode(newWorkerNode->workerName,
+											  newWorkerNode->workerPort);
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Let the maintenance daemon do the hard work of syncing the metadata.
 		 * We prefer this because otherwise node activation might fail within

src/backend/distributed/shared_library_init.c

@@ -1370,6 +1370,16 @@ RegisterCitusConfigVariables(void)
 		GUC_NO_SHOW_ALL,
 		NULL, NULL, NULL);
 
+	DefineCustomBoolVariable(
+		"citus.replicate_reference_tables_on_activate",
+		NULL,
+		NULL,
+		&ReplicateReferenceTablesOnActivate,
+		false,
+		PGC_USERSET,
+		GUC_NO_SHOW_ALL,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL);
+
 	/* warn about config items in the citus namespace that are not registered above */
 	EmitWarningsOnPlaceholders("citus");
 }

src/backend/distributed/utils/reference_table_utils.c

@@ -681,3 +681,63 @@ ReferenceTableReplicationFactor(void)
 	int replicationFactor = list_length(nodeList);
 	return replicationFactor;
 }
+
+
+/*
+ * ReplicateAllReferenceTablesToNode function finds all reference tables and
+ * replicates them to the given worker node. It also modifies pg_dist_colocation
+ * table to update the replication factor column when necessary. This function
+ * skips reference tables if that node already has healthy placement of that
+ * reference table to prevent unnecessary data transfer.
+ */
+void
+ReplicateAllReferenceTablesToNode(char *nodeName, int nodePort)
+{
+	List *referenceTableList = ReferenceTableOidList();
+
+	/* if there is no reference table, we do not need to replicate anything */
+	if (list_length(referenceTableList) > 0)
+	{
+		List *referenceShardIntervalList = NIL;
+
+		/*
+		 * We sort the reference table list to prevent deadlocks in concurrent
+		 * ReplicateAllReferenceTablesToAllNodes calls.
+		 */
+		referenceTableList = SortList(referenceTableList, CompareOids);
+		Oid referenceTableId = InvalidOid;
+		foreach_oid(referenceTableId, referenceTableList)
+		{
+			List *shardIntervalList = LoadShardIntervalList(referenceTableId);
+			ShardInterval *shardInterval = (ShardInterval *) linitial(shardIntervalList);
+
+			referenceShardIntervalList = lappend(referenceShardIntervalList,
+												 shardInterval);
+		}
+
+		if (ClusterHasKnownMetadataWorkers())
+		{
+			BlockWritesToShardList(referenceShardIntervalList);
+		}
+
+		ShardInterval *shardInterval = NULL;
+		foreach_ptr(shardInterval, referenceShardIntervalList)
+		{
+			uint64 shardId = shardInterval->shardId;
+
+			LockShardDistributionMetadata(shardId, ExclusiveLock);
+
+			ReplicateShardToNode(shardInterval, nodeName, nodePort);
+		}
+
+		/* create foreign constraints between reference tables */
+		foreach_ptr(shardInterval, referenceShardIntervalList)
+		{
+			char *tableOwner = TableOwner(shardInterval->relationId);
+			List *commandList = CopyShardForeignConstraintCommandList(shardInterval);
+
+			SendCommandListToWorkerInSingleTransaction(nodeName, nodePort, tableOwner,
+													   commandList);
+		}
+	}
+}

src/include/distributed/reference_table_utils.h

@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ extern uint32 CreateReferenceTableColocationId(void);
 extern void DeleteAllReferenceTablePlacementsFromNodeGroup(int32 groupId);
 extern int CompareOids(const void *leftElement, const void *rightElement);
 extern int ReferenceTableReplicationFactor(void);
-
+extern void ReplicateAllReferenceTablesToNode(char *nodeName, int nodePort);
 
 #endif /* REFERENCE_TABLE_UTILS_H_ */

src/include/distributed/worker_manager.h

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ typedef struct WorkerNode
 extern int MaxWorkerNodesTracked;
 extern char *WorkerListFileName;
 extern char *CurrentCluster;
+extern bool ReplicateReferenceTablesOnActivate;
 
 
 /* Function declarations for finding worker nodes to place shards on */