Sometimes in CI our isolation_citus_dist_activity test fails randomly
like this:
```diff
step s2-view-dist:
SELECT query, citus_nodename_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), citus_nodeport_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), state, wait_event_type, wait_event, usename, datname FROM citus_dist_stat_activity WHERE query NOT ILIKE ALL(VALUES('%pg_prepared_xacts%'), ('%COMMIT%'), ('%BEGIN%'), ('%pg_catalog.pg_isolation_test_session_is_blocked%'), ('%citus_add_node%')) AND backend_type = 'client backend' ORDER BY query DESC;
query |citus_nodename_for_nodeid|citus_nodeport_for_nodeid|state |wait_event_type|wait_event|usename |datname
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+---------------+----------+--------+----------
INSERT INTO test_table VALUES (100, 100);
|localhost | 57636|idle in transaction|Client |ClientRead|postgres|regression
-(1 row)
+
+ SELECT coalesce(to_jsonb(array_agg(csa_from_one_node.*)), '[{}]'::JSONB)
+ FROM (
+ SELECT global_pid, worker_query AS is_worker_query, pg_stat_activity.* FROM
+ pg_stat_activity LEFT JOIN get_all_active_transactions() ON process_id = pid
+ ) AS csa_from_one_node;
+ |localhost | 57636|active | | |postgres|regression
+(2 rows)
step s3-view-worker:
```
Source: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/citusdata/citus/26692/workflows/3406e4b4-b686-4667-bec6-8253ee0809b1/jobs/765119
I intended to fix this with #6263, but the fix turned out to be
insufficient. This PR tries to address the issue by setting
distributedCommandOriginator correctly in more situations. However, even
with this change it's still possible to reproduce the flaky test in CI.
In any case this should fix at least some instances of this issue.
In passing this changes the isolation_citus_dist_activity test to allow
running it multiple times in a row.
We used to rely on a seperate session to add the coordinator.
However, that might prevent the existing sessions to get
assigned proper gpids, which causes flaky tests.
Use Citus helper UDFs by default in iso tests
PostgreSQL isolation test infrastructure uses some UDFs to detect
whether concurrent sessions block each other. Citus implements
alternatives to that UDF so that we are able to detect and report
distributed transactions that get blocked on the worker nodes as well.
We needed to explicitly replace PG helper functions with Citus
implementations in each isolation file. Now we replace them by default.
It seems like our approach is way too restrictive and some places
are wrong. Now, we follow very similar approach to pg_stat_activity.
Some of the changes are pre-requsite for implementing citus_dist_stat_activity
via citus_stat_activity.
* Break the dependency to CitusInitiatedBackend infrastructure
With this change, we start to show non-distributed backends as well
in citus_dist_stat_activity. I think that
(a) it is essential for making citus_lock_waits to work for blocked
on DDL commands.
(b) it is more expected from the user's perspective. The name of
the view is a little inconsistent now (e.g., citus_dist_stat_activity)
but we are already planning to improve the names with followup
PRs.
Also, we have global pids assigned, the CitusInitiatedBackend
becomes obsolete.
Currently in mx isolation tests the setup is the same except the creation of tables. Isolation framework lets us define multiple `setup` stages, therefore I thought that we can put the `mx_setup` to one file and prepend this prior to running tests.
How the structure works:
- cpp is used before running isolation tests to preprocess spec files. This way we can include any file we want to. Currently this is used to include mx common part.
- spec files are put to `/build/specs` for clear separation between generated files and template files
- a symbolic link is created for `/expected` in `build/expected/`.
- when running isolation tests, as the `inputdir`, `build` is passed so it runs the spec files from `build/specs` and checks the expected output from `build/expected`.
`/specs` is renamed as `/spec` because postgres first look at the `specs` file under current directory, so this is renamed to avoid that since we are running the isolation tests from `build/specs` now.
Note: now we use `//` instead of `#` in comments in spec files, because cpp interprets `#` as a directive and it ignores `//`.
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