With this commit we start to register InvalidateDistRelationCacheCallback
function as cache invalidation callback function before version checks
because during version checks we use cache to look up relation ids of some
relations like pg_dist_relation or pg_dist_partition_logical_relid_index
and we want to know about cache invalidation before accessing them.
During version update, we indirectly calld CheckInstalledVersion via
ChackCitusVersions. This obviously fails because during version update it is
expected to have version mismatch between installed version and binary version.
Thus, we remove that ChackCitusVersions. We now only call ChackAvailableVersion.
Before this commit, we were erroring out at almost all queries if there is a
version mismatch. With this commit, we started to error out only requested
operation touches distributed tables.
Normally we would need to use distributed cache to understand whether a table
is distributed or not. However, it is not safe to read our metadata tables when
there is a version mismatch, thus it is not safe to create distributed cache.
Therefore for this specific occasion, we directly read from pg_dist_partition
table. However; reading from catalog is costly and we should not use this
method in other places as much as possible.
* Accept invalidation messages before accessing the metadata cache
This commit is crucial to prevent stale metadata reads from the
cache. Without this commit, some of the operations may use stale
metadata which could end up with various bugs such as crashes,
inconsistent/lost data etc.
As an example, consider that a COPY operation is blocked on shard
metadata lock. Another concurrent session updates the metadata and
invalidates the cache. However, since Citus doesn't accept invalidations,
COPY continues with the stale metadata once it acquires the lock.
With this commit, we make sure that invalidation messages are accepted
just before accessing the metadata cache and preventing any operation to
use stale metadata.
* Add isolation tests for placement changes and conccurrent operations
- add node with reference table vs COPY/insert/update/DDL
- repair shard vs COPY/insert/update/DDL
- repair shard vs repair shard
- There was a crash when the table a shardid belonged to changed during
a session. Instead of crashing (a failed assert) we now throw an error
- Update the isolation test which was crashing to no longer exercise
that code path
- Add a regression test to check that the error is thrown
This determines whether it's possible to perform binary search on
sortedShardIntervalArray or not. If e.g. two shards have overlapping
ranges, that'd be prohibitive.
That'll be useful in later commit introducing faster shard pruning.
That's useful when comparing values a hash-partitioned table is
filtered by. The existing shardIntervalCompareFunction is about
comparing hashed values, not unhashed ones.
The added btree opclass function is so we can get a comparator
back. This should be changed much more widely, but is not necessary so
far.
Previously we, unnecessarily, used a the first shard's type
information to to look up the comparison function. But that
information is already available, so use it. That's helpful because
we sometimes want to access the comparator function even if there's no
shards.
With this change we add an option to add a node without replicating all reference
tables to that node. If a node is added with this option, we mark the node as
inactive and no queries will sent to that node.
We also added two new UDFs;
- master_activate_node(host, port):
- marks node as active and replicates all reference tables to that node
- master_add_inactive_node(host, port):
- only adds node to pg_dist_node
With this change, we start to error out if loaded citus binaries does not match
the available major version or installed citus extension version. In this case
we force user to restart the server or run ALTER EXTENSION depending on the
situation
This UDF returns a shard placement from cache given shard id and placement id. At the
moment it iterates over all shard placements of given shard by ShardPlacementList and
searches given placement id in that list, which is not a good solution performance-wise.
However, currently, this function will be used only when there is a failed transaction.
If a need arises we can optimize this function in the future.
So far we've reloaded them frequently. Besides avoiding that cost -
noticeable for some workloads with large shard counts - it makes it
easier to add information to ShardPlacements that help us make
placement_connection.c colocation aware.
Doing so requires adding a mapping from shardId to the cache
entries. For that metadata_cache.c now maintains an additional
hashtable. That hashtable only references shard intervals in the
dist table cache.
Previously the function was getting too large. Thus this splits the
function into separate parts for looking up the cache entry and
building the cache contents.
With this change, we start to replicate all reference tables to the new node when new node
is added to the cluster with master_add_node command. We also update replication factor
of reference table's colocation group.
With this commit, we implemented some basic features of reference tables.
To start with, a reference table is
* a distributed table whithout a distribution column defined on it
* the distributed table is single sharded
* and the shard is replicated to all nodes
Reference tables follows the same code-path with a single sharded
tables. Thus, broadcast JOINs are applicable to reference tables.
But, since the table is replicated to all nodes, table fetching is
not required any more.
Reference tables support the uniqueness constraints for any column.
Reference tables can be used in INSERT INTO .. SELECT queries with
the following rules:
* If a reference table is in the SELECT part of the query, it is
safe join with another reference table and/or hash partitioned
tables.
* If a reference table is in the INSERT part of the query, all
other participating tables should be reference tables.
Reference tables follow the regular co-location structure. Since
all reference tables are single sharded and replicated to all nodes,
they are always co-located with each other.
Queries involving only reference tables always follows router planner
and executor.
Reference tables can have composite typed columns and there is no need
to create/define the necessary support functions.
All modification queries, master_* UDFs, EXPLAIN, DDLs, TRUNCATE,
sequences, transactions, COPY, schema support works on reference
tables as expected. Plus, all the pre-requisites associated with
distribution columns are dismissed.
This forces prepared statements to be re-planned after changes of the
placement metadata. There's some locking issues remaining, but that's a
a separate task.
Also add regression tests verifying that invalidations take effect on
prepared statements.
Between restart (running the new code) and ALTER EXTENSION citus
UPGRADE there was an inconsistency where we assumed that
pg_dist_partition had the repmodel column set. Now we give it a default
value if the column doesn't exist yet.
Adds support for PostgreSQL 9.6 by copying in the requisite ruleutils
file and refactoring the out/readfuncs code to flexibly support the
old-style copy/pasted out/readfuncs (prior to 9.6) or use extensible
node APIs (in 9.6 and higher).
Most version-specific code within this change is only needed to set new
fields in the AggRef nodes we build for aggregations. Version-specific
test output files were added in certain cases, though in most they were
not necessary. Each such file begins by e.g. printing the major version
in order to clarify its purpose.
The comment atop citus_nodes.h details how to add support for new nodes
for when that becomes necessary.
This change adds the required infrastructure about metadata snapshot from MX
codebase into Citus, mainly metadata_sync.c file and master_metadata_snapshot UDF.
So far placements were assigned an Oid, but that was just used to track
insertion order. It also did so incompletely, as it was not preserved
across changes of the shard state. The behaviour around oid wraparound
was also not entirely as intended.
The newly introduced, explicitly assigned, IDs are preserved across
shard-state changes.
The prime goal of this change is not to improve ordering of task
assignment policies, but to make it easier to reference shards. The
newly introduced UpdateShardPlacementState() makes use of that, and so
will the in-progress connection and transaction management changes.
Related to #786
This change adds the `pg_dist_node` table that contains the information
about the workers in the cluster, replacing the previously used
`pg_worker_list.conf` file (or the one specified with `citus.worker_list_file`).
Upon update, `pg_worker_list.conf` file is read and `pg_dist_node` table is
populated with the file's content. After that, `pg_worker_list.conf` file
is renamed to `pg_worker_list.conf.obsolete`
For adding and removing nodes, the change also includes two new UDFs:
`master_add_node` and `master_remove_node`, which require superuser
permissions.
'citus.worker_list_file' guc is kept for update purposes but not used after the
update is finished.
Text datums can't be directly accessed via the struct equivalence trick
used to access catalogs. That's because, as an optimization, they're
sometimes aligned to 1 byte ("text"'s alignment), and sometimes to 4
bytes. That depends on it being a short
varlena (cf. VARATT_NOT_PAD_BYTE) or not.
In the case at hand here, partkey became longer than 127 characters -
the boundary for short varlenas (cf. VARATT_CAN_MAKE_SHORT()). Thus it
became 4 byte/int aligned. Which lead to the direct struct access
accessing the wrong data.
The fix is simply to never access partkey that way - to enforce that,
hide partkey ehind the usual ifdef.
Fixes: #674
Previously several commands, amongst them commands like
master_create_distributed_table(), were allowed for everyone. That's not
good: Even though citus currently requires superuser permissions, we
shouldn't allow non-superusers to perform actions as sensitive as making
a table distributed.
There's no checks on the worker_* functions, as these usually just punt
the action to underlying postgres functionality, which then perform the
necessary checks.
So far we've always used libpq defaults when connecting to workers; bar
special environment variables being set that'll always be the user that
started the server. That's not desirable because it prevents using
users with fewer privileges.
Thus change the various APIs creating connections to workers to always
use usernames. That means:
1) MultiClientConnect() needs to, optionally, accept a username
2) GetOrEstablishConnection(), including the underlying cache, need to
use the current user as part of the connection cache key. That way
connections for separate users are distinct, and we always use one
with the correct authorization.
3) The task tracker needs to keep track of the username associated with
a task, so it can use it when establishing connections outside the
originating session.
Brian Cloutier
Marco Slot
Andres Freund
Burak Yucesoy
Önder Kalacı
velioglu
Jason Petersen
Eren Basak
Metin Doslu
Murat Tuncer