We're in the processes of totally changing the shard rebalancer
experience and infrastructure. Soon the shard rebalancer will include
retries, crash recovery and support for running in the background.
These improvements come at a cost though, the way the
get_rebalance_progress UDF currently works is very hard to replicate
with this new structure. This is mostly because the old behaviour
doesn't really make sense anymore with this new infrastructure. A new
and better way to track the progress will be included as part of the new
infrastructure.
This PR is in preparation of the new code rebalancer experience.
It changes the get_rebalance_progress UDF to only display the moves that
are in progress at the moment, not the ones that happened in the past or
that are planned in the future. Another option would have been to
completely remove the current get_rebalance_progress functionality and
point people to the new way of tracking progress. But old blogposts
still reference the old UDF and users might have some automation on top
of it. Showing the progress of the current moves is fairly simple to
achieve, even with the new infrastructure.
So this PR is a kind of compromise: It doesn't have complete feature
parity with the old get_rebalance_progress, but the most common use
cases will still work.
There's also an advantage of the change: You can now see progress of
shard moves that were triggered by calling citus_move_shard_placement
manually. Instead of only being able to see progress of moves that were
initiated using get_rebalance_table_shards.
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.
Without this change the rebalancer progress monitor gets the shard sizes
from the `shardlength` column in `pg_dist_placement`. This column needs to
be updated manually by calling `citus_update_table_statistics`.
However, `citus_update_table_statistics` could lead to distributed
deadlocks while database traffic is on-going (see #4752).
To work around this we don't use `shardlength` column anymore. Instead
for every rebalance we now fetch all shard sizes on the fly.
Two additional things this does are:
1. It adds tests for the rebalance progress function.
2. If a shard move cannot be done because a source or target node is
unreachable, then we error in stop the rebalance, instead of showing
a warning and continuing. When using the by_disk_size rebalance
strategy it's not safe to continue with other moves if a specific
move failed. It's possible that the failed move made space for the
next move, and because the failed move never happened this space now
does not exist.
3. Adds two new columns to the result of `get_rebalancer_progress` which
shows the size of the shard on the source and target node.
Fixes#4930
Jelte Fennema
Hanefi Onaldi