DESCRIPTION: Drops PG14 support
1. Remove "$version_num" != 'xx' from configure file
2. delete all PG_VERSION_NUM = PG_VERSION_XX references in the code
3. Look at pg_version_compat.h file, remove all _compat functions etc
defined specifically for PGXX differences
4. delete all PG_VERSION_NUM >= PG_VERSION_(XX+1), PG_VERSION_NUM <
PG_VERSION_(XX+1) ifs in the codebase
5. delete ruleutils_xx.c file
6. cleanup normalize.sed file from pg14 specific lines
7. delete all alternative output files for that particular PG version,
server_version_ge variable helps here
This patch includes the username in the reported error message.
This makes debugging easier when certain commands open connections
as other users than the user that is executing the command.
```
monitora_snapshot=# SELECT citus_move_shard_placement(102030, 'monitora.db-dev-worker-a', 6005, 'monitora.db-dev-worker-a', 6017);
ERROR: connection to the remote node monitora_user@monitora.db-dev-worker-a:6017 failed with the following error: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
Time: 40,198 ms
```
Before this commit, we created an additional WaitEventSet for
checking whether the remote socket is closed per connection -
only once at the start of the execution.
However, for certain workloads, such as pgbench select-only
workloads, the creation/deletion of the additional WaitEventSet
adds ~7% CPU overhead, which is also reflected on the benchmark
results.
With this commit, we use the same WaitEventSet for the purposes
of checking the remote socket at the start of the execution.
We use "rebuildWaitEventSet" flag so that the executor can re-use
the existing WaitEventSet.
As a result, we see the following improvements on PG 15:
main : 120051 tps, 0.532 ms latency avg.
avoid_wes_rebuild: 127119 tps, 0.503 ms latency avg.
And, on PG 14, as expected, there is no difference
main : 129191 tps, 0.495 ms latency avg.
avoid_wes_rebuild: 129480 tps, 0.494 ms latency avg.
But, note that PG 15 is slightly (~1.5%) slower than PG 14.
That is probably the overhead of checking the remote socket.
PostgreSQL 15 exposes WL_SOCKET_CLOSED in WaitEventSet API, which is
useful for detecting closed remote sockets. In this patch, we use this
new event and try to detect closed remote sockets in the executor.
When a closed socket is detected, the executor now has the ability to
retry the connection establishment. Note that, the executor can retry
connection establishments only for the connection that has not been
used. Basically, this patch is mostly useful for preventing the executor
to fail if a cached connection is closed because of the worker node
restart (or worker failover).
In other words, the executor cannot retry connection establishment if we
are in a distributed transaction AND any command has been sent over the
connection. That requires more sophisticated retry mechanisms. For now,
fixing the above use case is enough.
Fixes#5538
Earlier discussions: #5908, #6259 and #6283
### Summary of the current approach regards to earlier trials
As noted, we explored some alternatives before getting into this.
https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/6283 is simple, but lacks an
important property. We should be checking for `WL_SOCKET_CLOSED`
_before_ sending anything over the wire. Otherwise, it becomes very
tricky to understand which connection is actually safe to retry. For
example, in the current patch, we can safely check
`transaction->transactionState == REMOTE_TRANS_NOT_STARTED` before
restarting a connection.
#6259 does what we intent here (e.g., check for sending any command).
However, as @marcocitus noted, it is very tricky to handle
`WaitEventSets` in multiple places. And, the executor is designed such
that it reacts to the events. So, adding anything `pre-executor` seemed
too ugly.
In the end, I converged into this patch. This patch relies on the
simplicity of #6283 and also does a very limited handling of
`WaitEventSets`, just for our purpose. Just before we add any connection
to the execution, we check if the remote session has already closed.
With that, we do a brief interaction of multiple wait event processing,
but with different purposes. The new wait event processing we added does
not even consider cancellations. We let that handled by the main event
processing loop.
Co-authored-by: Marco Slot <marco.slot@gmail.com>
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