DESCRIPTION: Adds status column to get_rebalance_progress()
Introduces a new column named `status` for the function
`get_rebalance_progress()`. For each ongoing shard move, this column
will reveal information about that shard move operation's current
status.
For now, candidate status messages could be one of the below.
* Not Started
* Setting Up
* Copying Data
* Catching Up
* Creating Constraints
* Final Catchup
* Creating Foreign Keys
* Completing
* Completed
In commit 31faa88a4e I removed some features of the rebalance progress
monitor. I did this because the plan was to remove the foreground shard
rebalancer later in the PR that would add the background shard
rebalancer. So, I didn't want to spend time fixing something that we
would throw away anyway.
As it turns out we're not removing the foreground shard rebalancer after
all, so it made sens to fix the stuff that I broke. This PR does that.
For the most part this commit reverts the changes in commit 31faa88a4e.
It's not a full revert though, because it keeps the improved tests and
the changes to `citus_move_shard_placement`.
The first and main issue was that we were putting absolute pointers into
shared memory for the `steps` field of the `ProgressMonitorData`. This
pointer was being overwritten every time a process requested the monitor
steps, which is the only reason why this even worked in the first place.
To quote a part of a relevant stack overflow answer:
> First of all, putting absolute pointers in shared memory segments is
> terrible terible idea - those pointers would only be valid in the
> process that filled in their values. Shared memory segments are not
> guaranteed to attach at the same virtual address in every process.
> On the contrary - they attach where the system deems it possible when
> `shmaddr == NULL` is specified on call to `shmat()`
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10781921/2570866
In this case a race condition occurred when a second process overwrote
the pointer in between the first process its write and read of the steps
field.
This issue is fixed by not storing the pointer in shared memory anymore.
Instead we now calculate it's position every time we need it.
The second race condition I have not been able to trigger, but I found
it while investigating this. This issue was that we published the handle
of the shared memory segment, before we initialized the data in the
steps. This means that during initialization of the data, a call to
`get_rebalance_progress()` could read partial data in an unsynchronized
manner.
This change adds a general purpose infrastructure to log and monitor
process about long running progresses. It uses
`pg_stat_get_progress_info` infrastructure, introduced with PostgreSQL
9.6 and used for tracking `VACUUM` commands.
This patch only handles the creation of a memory space in dynamic shared
memory, putting its info in `pg_stat_get_progress_info`, fetching the
progress monitors on demand and finalizing the progress tracking.
Ahmet Gedemenli
Jelte Fennema
Onder Kalaci
Philip Dubé
SaitTalhaNisanci
Philip Dubé
Murat Tuncer
Eren Başak