DESCRIPTION: Adds citus_stat_counters view that can be used to query
stat counters that Citus collects while the feature is enabled, which is
controlled by citus.enable_stat_counters. citus_stat_counters() can be
used to query the stat counters for the provided database oid and
citus_stat_counters_reset() can be used to reset them for the provided
database oid or for the current database if nothing or 0 is provided.
Today we don't persist stat counters on server shutdown. In other words,
stat counters are automatically reset in case of a server restart.
Details on the underlying design can be found in header comment of
stat_counters.c and in the technical readme.
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Here are the details about what we track as of this PR:
For connection management, we have three statistics about the inter-node
connections initiated by the node itself:
* **connection_establishment_succeeded**
* **connection_establishment_failed**
* **connection_reused**
While the first two are relatively easier to understand, the third one
covers the case where a connection is reused. This can happen when a
connection was already established to the desired node, Citus decided to
cache it for some time (see citus.max_cached_conns_per_worker &
citus.max_cached_connection_lifetime), and then reused it for a new
remote operation. Here are the other important details about these
connection statistics:
1. connection_establishment_failed doesn't care about the connections
that we could establish but are lost later in the transaction. Plus, we
cannot guarantee that the connections that are counted in
connection_establishment_succeeded were not lost later.
2. connection_establishment_failed doesn't care about the optional
connections (see OPTIONAL_CONNECTION flag) that we gave up establishing
because of the connection throttling rules we follow (see
citus.max_shared_pool_size & citus.local_shared_pool_size). The reaason
for this is that we didn't even try to establish these connections.
3. For the rest of the cases where a connection failed for some reason,
we always increment connection_establishment_failed even if the caller
was okay with the failure and know how to recover from it (e.g., the
adaptive executor knows how to fall back local execution when the target
node is the local node and if it cannot establish a connection to the
local node). The reason is that even if it's likely that we can still
serve the operation, we still failed to establish the connection and we
want to track this.
4. Finally, the connection failures that we count in
connection_establishment_failed might be caused by any of the following
reasons and for now we prefer to _not_ further distinguish them for
simplicity:
a. remote node is down or cannot accept any more connections, or
overloaded such that citus.node_connection_timeout is not enough to
establish a connection
b. any internal Citus error that might result in preparing a bad
connection string so that libpq fails when parsing the connection string
even before actually trying to establish a connection via connect() call
c. broken citus.node_conninfo or such Citus configuration that was
incorrectly set by the user can also result in similar outcomes as in b
d. internal waitevent set / poll errors or OOM in local node
We also track two more statistics for query execution:
* **query_execution_single_shard**
* **query_execution_multi_shard**
And more importantly, both query_execution_single_shard and
query_execution_multi_shard are not only tracked for the top-level
queries but also for the subplans etc. The reason is that for some
queries, e.g., the ones that go through recursive planning, after Citus
performs the heavy work as part of subplans, the work that needs to be
done for the top-level query becomes quite straightforward. And for such
query types, it would be deceiving if we only incremented the query stat
counters for the top-level query. Similarly, for non-pushable INSERT ..
SELECT and MERGE queries, we perform separate counter increments for the
SELECT / source part of the query besides the final INSERT / MERGE
query.
The sections about the rebalancer algorithm and the backround tasks were
empty.
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Co-authored-by: Marco Slot <marco.slot@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Steven Sheehy <17552371+steven-sheehy@users.noreply.github.com>
Moves the following functions to the Citus internal schema:
citus_internal_local_blocked_processes
citus_internal_global_blocked_processes
citus_internal_mark_node_not_synced
citus_internal_unregister_tenant_schema_globally
citus_internal_update_none_dist_table_metadata
citus_internal_update_placement_metadata
citus_internal_update_relation_colocation
citus_internal_start_replication_origin_tracking
citus_internal_stop_replication_origin_tracking
citus_internal_is_replication_origin_tracking_active
#7405
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Co-authored-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <jelte.fennema@microsoft.com>
This commit aims to add a comprehensive guide that covers all essential
aspects of Citus, including planning, execution, locking mechanisms,
shard moves, 2PC, and many other major components of Citus.
Co-authored-by: Marco Slot <marco.slot@gmail.com>