If two tables have the same distribution column type, we implicitly
colocate them. This is useful since colocation has a big performance
impact in most applications.
When a table is rebalanced, all of the colocated tables are also
rebalanced. If table A and table B are colocated and we want to
rebalance table A, table B will also be rebalanced. We need replica
identity so that logical replication can replicate updates and deletes
during rebalancing. If table B does not have a replica identity we
error out.
A solution to this is to introduce a UDF so that colocation can be
updated. The remaining tables in the colocation group will stay
colocated. For example if table A, B and C are colocated and after
updating table B's colocations, table A and table C stay colocated.
The "updating colocation" step does not move any data around, it only
updated pg_dist_partition and pg_dist_colocation tables. Specifically it
creates a new colocation group for the table and updates the entry in
pg_dist_partition while invalidating any cache.
This change declares two new functions:
`master_update_table_statistics` updates the statistics of shards belong
to the given table as well as its colocated tables.
`get_colocated_shard_array` returns the ids of colocated shards of a
given shard.
Adds support for PostgreSQL 10 by copying in the requisite ruleutils
and updating all API usages to conform with changes in PostgreSQL 10.
Most changes are fairly minor but they are numerous. One particular
obstacle was the change in \d behavior in PostgreSQL 10's psql; I had
to add SQL implementations (views, mostly) to mimic the pre-10 output.
Since we will now replicate reference tables each time we add node, we need to ensure
that test space is clean in terms of reference tables before any add node operation.
For this purpose we had to change order of multi_drop_extension test which caused
change of some of the colocation ids.
Added a new UDF, mark_tables_colocated(), to colocate tables with the same
configuration (shard count, shard replication count and distribution column type).
create_reference_table() creates a hash distributed table with shard count
equals to 1 and replication factor equals to shard_replication_factor
configuration value.
With this change, master_copy_shard_placement and master_move_shard_placement functions
start to copy/move given shard along with its co-located shards.