Semmle reported quite some places where we use a value that could be NULL. Most of these are not actually a real issue, but better to be on the safe side with these things and make the static analysis happy.
DESCRIPTION: Replace the query planner for the coordinator part with the postgres planner
Closes#2761
Citus had a simple rule based planner for the query executed on the query coordinator. This planner grew over time with the addigion of SQL support till it was getting close to the functionality of the postgres planner. Except the code was brittle and its complexity rose which made it hard to add new SQL support.
Given its resemblance with the postgres planner it was a long outstanding wish to replace our hand crafted planner with the well supported postgres planner. This patch replaces our planner with a call to postgres' planner.
Due to the functionality of the postgres planner we needed to support both projections and filters/quals on the citus custom scan node. When a sort operation is planned above the custom scan it might require fields to be reordered in the custom scan before returning the tuple (projection). The postgres planner assumes every custom scan node implements projections. Because we controlled the plan that was created we prevented reordering in the custom scan and never had implemented it before.
A same optimisation applies to having clauses that could have been where clauses. Instead of applying the filter as a having on the aggregate it will push it down into the plan which could reach a custom scan node.
For both filters and projections we have implemented them when tuples are read from the tuple store. If no projections or filters are required it will directly return the tuple from the tuple store. Otherwise it will loop tuples from the tuple store through the filter and projection until a tuple is found and returned.
Besides filters being pushed down a side effect of having quals that could have been a where clause is that a call to read intermediate result could be called before the first tuple is fetched from the custom scan. This failed because the intermediate result would only be pulled to the coordinator on the first tuple fetch. To overcome this problem we do run the distributed subplans now before we run the postgres executor. This ensures the intermediate result is present on the coordinator in time. We do account for total time instrumentation by removing the instrumentation before handing control to the psotgres executor and update the timings our self.
For future SQL support it is enough to create a valid query structure for the part of the query to be executed on the query coordinating node. As a utility we do serialise and print the query at debug level4 for engineers to inspect what kind of query is being planned on the query coordinator.
We don't actually use these functions anymore since merging #1477.
Advantages of removing:
1. They add work whenever we add a new node.
2. They contain some usage of stdlib APIs that are banned by Microsoft.
Removing it means we don't have to replace those with safe ones.
- Stop the daemon when citus extension is dropped
- Bail on maintenance daemon startup if myDbData is started with a non-zero pid
- Stop maintenance daemon from spawning itself
- Don't use postgres die, just wrap proc_exit(0)
- Assert(myDbData->workerPid == MyProcPid)
The two issues were that multiple daemons could be running for a database,
or that a daemon would be leftover after DROP EXTENSION citus
Comparison between differently sized integers in loop conditions can cause
infinite loops. This can happen when doing something like this:
```c
int64 very_big = MAX_INT32 + 1;
for (int32 i = 0; i < very_big; i++) {
// do something
}
// never reached because i overflows before it can reach the value of very_big
```
When using --allow-group-access option from initdb our keys and
certificates would be created with 0640 permissions. Which is a pretty
serious security issue: This changes that. This would not be exploitable
though, since postgres would not actually enable SSL and would output
the following message in the logs:
```
DETAIL: File must have permissions u=rw (0600) or less if owned by the database user, or permissions u=rw,g=r (0640) or less if owned by root.
```
Since citus still expected the cluster to have SSL enabled handshakes
between workers and coordinator would fail. So instead of a security
issue the cluster would simply be unusable.
For example, a PARAM might reside inside a function just because
of a casting of a type such as the follows:
```
{FUNCEXPR
:funcid 1740
:funcresulttype 1700
:funcretset false
:funcvariadic false
:funcformat 2
:funccollid 0
:inputcollid 0
:args (
{PARAM
:paramkind 0
:paramid 15
:paramtype 23
:paramtypmod -1
:paramcollid 0
:location 356
}
)
```
We should recursively check the expression before bailing out.
Previously, the logic for evaluting the functions and the parameters
were the same. That ended-up evaluting the functions inaccurately
on the coordinator. Instead, split the function evaluation logic
from parameter evalution logic.
Previously, we've identified the usedSubPlans by only looking
to the subPlanId.
With this commit, we're expanding it to also include information
on the location of the subPlan.
This is useful to distinguish the cases where the subPlan is used
either on only HAVING or both HAVING and any other part of the query.
In #3374 a new way of locking shard distribution metadata was
implemented. However, this was only done in the function
`LockShardDistributionMetadata` and not in
`TryLockShardDistributionMetadata`. This is bad, since it causes these
locks to not block eachother in some cases.
This commit fixes this issue by sharing the code that sets the locktag
between the two function.
Deparsing and parsing a query can be heavy on CPU. When locally executing
the query we don't need to do this in theory most of the time.
This PR is the first step in allowing to skip deparsing and parsing
the query in these cases, by lazily creating the query string and
storing the query in the task. Future commits will make use of this and
not deparse and parse the query anymore, but use the one from the task
directly.
Different versions of reindent tool reformatted citus_custom_scan.c
and citus_copyfuncs.c differently. So some developers spent some
extra attention not to commit these two files after reindent.
This PR tries to address this.
Use partition column's collation for range distributed tables
Don't allow non deterministic collations for hash distributed tables
CoPartitionedTables: don't compare unequal types
DESCRIPTION: add gitref to the output of citus_version
During debugging of custom builds it is hard to know the exact version of the citus build you are using. This patch will add a human readable/understandable git reference to the build of citus which can be retrieved by calling `citus_version();`.
In plain words, each distributed plan pulls the necessary intermediate
results to the worker nodes that the plan hits. This is primarily useful
in three ways.
(i) If the distributed plan that uses intermediate
result(s) is a router query, then the intermediate results are only
broadcasted to a single node.
(ii) If a distributed plan consists of only intermediate results, which
is not uncommon, the intermediate results are broadcasted to a single
node only.
(iii) If a distributed query hits a sub-set of the shards in multiple
workers, the intermediate results will be broadcasted to the relevant
node(s).
The final item (iii) becomes crucial for append/range distributed
tables where typically the distributed queries hit a small subset of
shards/workers.
To do this, for each query that Citus creates a distributed plan, we keep
track of the subPlans used in the queryTree, and save it in the distributed
plan. Just before Citus executes each subPlan, Citus first keeps track of
every worker node that the distributed plan hits, and marks every subPlan
should be broadcasted to these nodes. Later, for each subPlan which is a
distributed plan, Citus does this operation recursively since these
distributed plans may access to different subPlans, and those have to be
recorded as well.
Marco Slot
Philip Dubé
Jelte Fennema
Nils Dijk
Philip Dubé
Onder Kalaci
Önder Kalacı
Hadi Moshayedi
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Hadi Moshayedi
Hanefi Onaldi
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