altering the distributed table.
To be able to alter view's owner without enforcing sequential mode.
Alter view process functions have been udpated to use metadata
connection.
It is often useful to be able to sync the metadata in parallel
across nodes.
Also citus_finalize_upgrade_to_citus11() uses
start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes() after this commit.
Note that this commit does not parallelize all pieces of node
activation or metadata syncing. Instead, it tries to parallelize
potenially large parts of metadata, which is the objects and
distributed tables (in general Citus tables).
In the future, it would be nice to sync the reference tables
in parallel across nodes.
Create ~720 distributed tables / ~23450 shards
```SQL
-- declaratively partitioned table
CREATE TABLE github_events_looooooooooooooong_name (
event_id bigint,
event_type text,
event_public boolean,
repo_id bigint,
payload jsonb,
repo jsonb,
actor jsonb,
org jsonb,
created_at timestamp
) PARTITION BY RANGE (created_at);
SELECT create_time_partitions(
table_name := 'github_events_looooooooooooooong_name',
partition_interval := '1 day',
end_at := now() + '24 months'
);
CREATE INDEX ON github_events_looooooooooooooong_name USING btree (event_id, event_type, event_public, repo_id);
SELECT create_distributed_table('github_events_looooooooooooooong_name', 'repo_id');
SET client_min_messages TO ERROR;
```
across 1 node: almost same as expected
```SQL
SELECT start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes();
Time: 15664.418 ms (00:15.664)
select start_metadata_sync_to_node(nodename,nodeport) from pg_dist_node;
Time: 14284.069 ms (00:14.284)
```
across 7 nodes: ~3.5x improvement
```SQL
SELECT start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes();
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes │
├──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ t │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
(1 row)
Time: 25711.192 ms (00:25.711)
-- across 7 nodes
select start_metadata_sync_to_node(nodename,nodeport) from pg_dist_node;
Time: 82126.075 ms (01:22.126)
```
Move internal storage details to a separate schema with no public
access to limit the possibility for information leakage.
Create views with public access that show storage details for those
columnar tables where the user has ownership privileges. Include
mapping between relation ID and storage ID for easier interpretation.
* Bug fix for bug #5876. Memset MetadataCacheSystem every time there is an abort
* Created an ObjectAccessHook that saves the transactionlevel of when citus was created and will clear metadatacache if that transaction level is rolled back. Added additional tests to make sure metadatacache is cleared
Columnar: support relation options with ALTER TABLE.
Use ALTER TABLE ... SET/RESET to specify relation options rather than
alter_columnar_table_set() and alter_columnar_table_reset().
Not only is this more ergonomic, but it also allows better integration
because it can be treated like DDL on a regular table. For instance,
citus can use its own ProcessUtility_hook to distribute the new
settings to the shards.
DESCRIPTION: Columnar: support relation options with ALTER TABLE.
In the past (pre-11), we allowed removing worker nodes
that had active placements for replicated distributed
table, without even checking if there are any other
replicas of the same placement.
However, with #5469, we prevent disabling nodes via a hard
error when there is the last active placement of shard, as we
do for reference tables. Note that otherwise, we'd allow
users to lose data.
As of today, the NOTICE is completely irrelevant.
Before this commit, we had:
```SQL
SELECT citus_disable_node(nodename, nodeport, force boolean DEFAULT false)
```
Where, we allow forcing to disable first worker node with
`force:=true`. However, it entails the risk for losing
data / diverging placement data etc.
With `force` flag, we control disabling the first worker node,
and with `async` flag we control whether the changes are done
via bg worker or immediately.
```SQL
SELECT citus_disable_node(nodename, nodeport, force boolean DEFAULT false, sync boolean DEFAULT false)
```
Where we can achieve all the following:
| Mode | Data loss possibility | Can run in 2PC | Handle multiple node failures | Immediately effective |
| --- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
| force:false, sync: false | false | true | true | false |
| force:false, sync: true | false | false | false | true |
| force:true, sync: false | true | true | true | false |
| force:true, sync: true | false | false | false | true |
There are two problems in this area. First, when there are expressions
on the index name, we should call `transformIndexExpression()` before
generating the index name. That is what Postgres does.
Second, because of 40c24bfef9
PG 13 and PG 14 generates different names for indexes with function calls even for local PG tables.
Assume we have:
```SQL
create table t(id int);
select create_distributed_table('t', 'id');
create index ON t (my_very_boring_function(id));
```
On PG 13, the name of the index is `t_expr_idx`
```SQL
\d t
Table "public.t"
┌────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Column │ Type │ Collation │ Nullable │ Default │
├────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ id │ integer │ │ │ │
└────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────┘
Indexes:
"t_expr_idx" btree (my_very_boring_function(id::bigint))
```
On PG 14, the name of the index is `t_my_very_boring_function_idx`
```SQL
\d t
Table "public.t"
┌────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Column │ Type │ Collation │ Nullable │ Default │
├────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ id │ integer │ │ │ │
└────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────┘
Indexes:
"t_my_very_boring_function_idx" btree (my_very_boring_function(id::bigint))
```
The second issue is not very critical. The important part is that
we adjust regression tests to drop all the indexes, which ensures
the index names are sane on any version.
Over time we have added significantly improved the support for objects to be propagated by Citus as to make scaling out the database more seamless. It became evident that there was a lot of code duplication that got into the codebase to implement the propagation.
This PR tries to reduce the amount of repeated code that is at most only slightly different. To make things worse, most of the differences were actually oversights instead of correct.
This Patch introduces 3 reusable sets of pre/post processing steps for respectively
- create
- alter
- drop
With the use of the common functionality we should have more coherent behaviour between different supported object by Citus.
Some steps either omit the Pre or Post processing step if they would not make sense to include.
All tests pass, only 1 test needed changing, foreign servers, as the dropping of foreign servers didn't implement support for dropping multiple foreign servers at once. Given the common approach correctly supports dropping of multiple objects, either distributed or not, the test that assumed it wouldn't work was now obsolete.
We have a mechanism which ensures that newly distributed
objects are recorded during `alter extension citus update`.
However, the logic was lacking "view"s. With this commit, we make
sure that existing views are also marked as distributed during
upgrade.
We are nearing the 100 objects being propagated in `master_copy_shard_placement` and with the extra supported objects this gets pushed over a 100 objects.
When a 100 objects are reached for propagation a notice will be shown to the user, informing them it might take a while to finish the operation.
During testing this is not important to see. Since the message contains the exact number of objects to be propagated the tests becomes very unstable when merging community into enterprsie.
This change makes that the test output stays stable.
Adds support for propagation ALTER VIEW commands to
- Change owner of view
- SET/RESET option
- Rename view and view's column name
- Change schema of the view
Since PG also supports targeting views with ALTER TABLE
commands, related code also added to direct such ALTER TABLE
commands to ALTER VIEW commands while sending them to workers.
Breaking down #5899 into smaller PR-s
This particular PR changes the way TRUNCATE acquires distributed locks on the relations it is truncating to use the LOCK command instead of lock_relation_if_exists. This has the benefit of using pg's recursive locking logic it implements for the LOCK command instead of us having to resolve relation dependencies and lock them explicitly. While this does not directly affect truncate, it will allow us to generalize this locking logic to then log different relations where the pg recursive locking will become useful (e.g. locking views).
This implementation is a bit more complex that it needs to be due to pg not supporting locking foreign tables. We can however, still lock foreign tables with lock_relation_if_exists. So for a command:
TRUNCATE dist_table_1, dist_table_2, foreign_table_1, foreign_table_2, dist_table_3;
We generate and send the following command to all the workers in metadata:
```sql
SEL citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO FALSE;
LOCK dist_table_1, dist_table_2 IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;
SELECT lock_relation_if_exists('foreign_table_1', 'ACCESS EXCLUSIVE');
SELECT lock_relation_if_exists('foreign_table_2', 'ACCESS EXCLUSIVE');
LOCK dist_table_3 IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;
SEL citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO TRUE;
```
Note that we need to alternate between the lock command and lock_table_if_exists in order to preserve the TRUNCATE order of relations.
When pg supports locking foreign tables, we will be able to massive simplify this logic and send a single LOCK command.
Adds support for propagating create/drop view commands and views to
worker node while scaling out the cluster. Since views are dropped while
converting the table type, metadata connection will be used while
propagating view commands to not switch to sequential mode.
In the past, for all modifications on the local execution,
we enabled 2PC (with 6a7ed7b309).
This also required us to enable coordinated transactions
via https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4831 .
However, it does have a very substantial impact on the
distributed deadlock detection. The distributed deadlock
detection is designed to avoid single-statement transactions
because they cannot lead to any actual deadlocks.
The implementation is to skip backends without distributed
transactions are assigned. Now that we assign single
statement local executions in the lock graphs, we are
conflicting with the design of distributed deadlock
detection.
In general, we should fix it. However, one might
think that it is not a big deal, even if the processes
show up in the lock graphs, the deadlock detection
should not be causing any false positives. That is
false, unless https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/1803
is fixed. Now that local processes are considered as a single
distributed backend, the lock graphs might find:
local execution 1 [tx id: 1] -> any local process [tx id: 0]
any local process [tx id: 0] -> local execution 2 [tx id: 2]
And, decides that there is a distributed deadlock.
This commit is:
(a) right thing to do, as local execuion should not need any
distributed tx id
(b) Eliminates performance issues that might come up with
deadlock detection does a lot of unncessary checks
(c) After moving local execution after the remote execution
via https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4301, the
vauge requirement for assigning distributed tx ids are
already gone.
For some reason search_path is not always set correctly on the worker
when calling a distributed function, this shows up when calling
`insert_document` in our distributed_triggers test. The underlying
reason is currently unknown and warrants deeper investigation.
Currently this test is one of the main causes for random CI failures. So
this change sets the search_path of each function explicitly, to reduce
these failures. So other devs can be more efficient, while I continue
investigating the root cause of this issue.
Also changes explicit `SET citus.enable_unsafe_triggers = false` to
`RESET citus.enable_unsafe_triggers` in passing.
* Separate build of citus.so and citus_columnar.so.
Because columnar code is statically-linked to both modules, it doesn't
make sense to load them both at once.
A subsequent commit will make the modules entirely separate and allow
loading them both simultaneously.
Author: Yanwen Jin
* Separate citus and citus_columnar modules.
Now the modules are independent. Columnar can be loaded by itself, or
along with citus.
Co-authored-by: Jeff Davis <jefdavi@microsoft.com>
The aim of hiding shards is to hide shards from client applications.
Certain bg workers (such as pg_cron or Citus maintanince daemon)
should be treated like client applications because users can run
queries from such bg workers. And, these bg workers should follow
the similar application_name checks as client backeends.
Certain other bg workers, such as logical replication or postgres'
parallel workers, should never hide shards. They are internal
operations.
Similarly the other backend types like the walsender or
checkpointer or autovacuum should never hide shards.
We were already doing so for functions & types believing that
this cannot be the case for other object types.
However, as in #5830, we cannot distribute an object that user
attempts creating in temp schema. Even more, this doesn't only
apply to functions and types but also to many other object types.
So with this commit, we teach preprocess/postprocess functions
(that need to create dependencies on worker nodes) how to skip
trying to distribute such objects.
We also start identifying temp schemas as the objects that we
don't know how to propagate to worker nodes so that we can
simply create objects locally if user attempts creating them
in a temp schema.
There are 36 callers of `EnsureDependenciesExistOnAllNodes` in
the codebase atm and for the most we still need to throw a hard
error (i.e.: not use `DeferErrorIfHasUnsupportedDependency`
beforehand), such as:
i) user explicitly wants to create a distributed object
* CreateCitusLocalTable
* CreateDistributedTable
* master_create_worker_shards
* master_create_empty_shard
* create_distributed_function
* EnsureExtensionFunctionCanBeDistributed
ii) we don't want to skip altering distributed table on worker nodes
* PostprocessIndexStmt
* PostprocessCreateTriggerStmt
* PostprocessCreateStatisticsStmt
iii) object is already distributed / handled by Citus before, so we
aren't okay with not propagating the ALTER command
* PostprocessAlterTableSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterCollationOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterCollationSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterDatabaseOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterExtensionSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterFunctionOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterFunctionSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterSequenceOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterSequenceSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterStatisticsSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterStatisticsOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchConfigurationSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchDictionarySchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchConfigurationOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchDictionaryOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterTypeSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterForeignServerOwnerStmt
iv) we already cannot create those objects in temp schemas, so skipping
for now
* PostprocessCreateExtensionStmt
* PostprocessCreateForeignServerStmt
Also note that there are 3 more callers of
`EnsureDependenciesExistOnAllNodes` in enterprise in addition to those
36 but we don't need to do anything specific about them due to the same
reasoning given in iii).