let rebalancer schedule moves in background

src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_utility.c

@@ -2315,6 +2315,66 @@ RebalanceJobStatusOid(RebalanceJobStatus status)
 }
 
 
+int64
+GetNextRebalanceJobId(void)
+{
+	text *sequenceName = cstring_to_text(REBALANCE_JOB_JOBID_SEQUENCE_NAME);
+	Oid sequenceId = ResolveRelationId(sequenceName, false);
+	Datum sequenceIdDatum = ObjectIdGetDatum(sequenceId);
+	Oid savedUserId = InvalidOid;
+	int savedSecurityContext = 0;
+
+	GetUserIdAndSecContext(&savedUserId, &savedSecurityContext);
+	SetUserIdAndSecContext(CitusExtensionOwner(), SECURITY_LOCAL_USERID_CHANGE);
+
+	/* generate new and unique colocation id from sequence */
+	Datum jobIdOid = DirectFunctionCall1(nextval_oid, sequenceIdDatum);
+
+	SetUserIdAndSecContext(savedUserId, savedSecurityContext);
+
+	uint64 jobId = DatumGetInt64(jobIdOid);
+
+	return jobId;
+}
+
+
+RebalanceJob *
+ScheduleBackgrounRebalanceJob(char *command)
+{
+	Datum newValues[Natts_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs] = { 0 };
+	bool newNulls[Natts_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs] = { 0 };
+
+	memset(newNulls, true, sizeof(newNulls));
+
+	int64 jobid = GetNextRebalanceJobId();
+
+	newValues[Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_jobid - 1] = Int64GetDatum(
+		GetNextRebalanceJobId());
+	newNulls[Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_jobid - 1] = false;
+
+	newValues[Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_status - 1] = JobStatusScheduledId();
+	newNulls[Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_status - 1] = false;
+
+	newValues[Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_command - 1] = CStringGetTextDatum(command);
+	newNulls[Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_command - 1] = false;
+
+	Relation pgDistRebalanceJobs = table_open(DistRebalanceJobsRelationId(),
+											  RowExclusiveLock);
+	HeapTuple newTuple = heap_form_tuple(RelationGetDescr(pgDistRebalanceJobs), newValues,
+										 newNulls);
+	CatalogTupleInsert(pgDistRebalanceJobs, newTuple);
+	table_close(pgDistRebalanceJobs, NoLock);
+
+	RebalanceJob *job = palloc0(sizeof(RebalanceJob));
+
+	job->jobid = jobid;
+	job->status = REBALANCE_JOB_STATUS_SCHEDULED;
+	job->command = pstrdup(command);
+
+	return job;
+}
+
+
 RebalanceJob *
 GetScheduledRebalanceJob(void)
 {

src/backend/distributed/operations/shard_rebalancer.c

@@ -1555,12 +1555,38 @@ RebalanceTableShards(RebalanceOptions *options, Oid shardReplicationModeOid)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/* find the name of the shard transfer mode to interpolate in the scheduled command */
+	Datum shardTranferModeLabelDatum =
+		DirectFunctionCall1(enum_out, shardReplicationModeOid);
+	char *shardTranferModeLabel = DatumGetCString(shardTranferModeLabelDatum);
+
+	/* schedule planned moves */
+	PlacementUpdateEvent *move = NULL;
+	StringInfoData buf = { 0 };
+	initStringInfo(&buf);
+	foreach_ptr(move, placementUpdateList)
+	{
+		resetStringInfo(&buf);
+
+		appendStringInfo(&buf,
+						 "SELECT citus_move_shard_placement(%ld,%s,%u,%s,%u,%s)",
+						 move->shardId,
+						 quote_literal_cstr(move->sourceNode->workerName),
+						 move->sourceNode->workerPort,
+						 quote_literal_cstr(move->targetNode->workerName),
+						 move->targetNode->workerPort,
+						 quote_literal_cstr(shardTranferModeLabel));
+
+		ScheduleBackgrounRebalanceJob(buf.data);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * This uses the first relationId from the list, it's only used for display
 	 * purposes so it does not really matter which to show
 	 */
-	ExecutePlacementUpdates(placementUpdateList, shardReplicationModeOid, "Moving");
-	FinalizeCurrentProgressMonitor();
+
+	/* ExecutePlacementUpdates(placementUpdateList, shardReplicationModeOid, "Moving"); */
+	/* FinalizeCurrentProgressMonitor(); */
 }
 
 

src/include/distributed/metadata_utility.h

@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ extern void EnsureSequenceTypeSupported(Oid seqOid, Oid attributeTypeId, Oid
 extern void AlterSequenceType(Oid seqOid, Oid typeOid);
 extern void EnsureRelationHasCompatibleSequenceTypes(Oid relationId);
 extern bool HasScheduledRebalanceJobs(void);
+extern int64 GetNextRebalanceJobId(void);
+extern RebalanceJob * ScheduleBackgrounRebalanceJob(char *command);
 extern RebalanceJob * GetScheduledRebalanceJob(void);
 extern RebalanceJob * GetScheduledRebalanceJobyJobID(int64 jobId);
 extern void UpdateJobStatus(RebalanceJob *job, RebalanceJobStatus newStatus);

src/include/distributed/pg_dist_rebalance_jobs.h

@@ -35,4 +35,6 @@ typedef FormData_pg_dist_rebalance_job *Form_pg_dist_rebalance_job;
 #define Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_retry_count 4
 #define Anum_pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_message 5
 
+#define REBALANCE_JOB_JOBID_SEQUENCE_NAME "pg_catalog.pg_dist_rebalance_jobs_jobid_seq"
+
 #endif /* CITUS_PG_DIST_REBALANCE_JOBS_H */