There are 2 problems with our early exit strategy that this commit fixes:
1- When we decide that a subplan results are sent to all worker nodes,
we used to skip traversing the whole distributed plan, instead of
skipping only the subplan.
2- We used to consider all available nodes in the cluster (secondaries
and inactive nodes as well as active primaries) when deciding on early
exit strategy. This resulted in failures to early exit when there are
secondaries or inactive nodes.
This GUC has two settings, 'always' and 'never'. When it's set to
'never' all behavior stays exactly as it was prior to this commit. When
it's set to 'always' only SELECT queries are allowed to run, and only
secondary nodes are used when processing those queries.
Add some helper functions:
- WorkerNodeIsSecondary(), checks the noderole of the worker node
- WorkerNodeIsReadable(), returns whether we're currently allowed to
read from this node
- ActiveReadableNodeList(), some functions (namely, the ones on the
SELECT path) don't require working with Primary Nodes. They should call
this function instead of ActivePrimaryNodeList(), because the latter
will error out in contexts where we're not allowed to write to nodes.
- ActiveReadableNodeCount(), like the above, replaces
ActivePrimaryNodeCount().
- EnsureModificationsCanRun(), error out if we're not currently allowed
to run queries which modify data. (Either we're in read-only mode or
use_secondary_nodes is set)
Some parts of the code were switched over to use readable nodes instead
of primary nodes:
- Deadlock detection
- DistributedTableSize,
- the router, real-time, and task tracker executors
- ShardPlacement resolution
Ahmet Gedemenli
Hanefi Onaldi
Philip Dubé
Hadi Moshayedi
Onder Kalaci
Marco Slot
Brian Cloutier