Sometimes in CI our isolation_citus_dist_activity test fails randomly
like this:
```diff
step s2-view-dist:
SELECT query, citus_nodename_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), citus_nodeport_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), state, wait_event_type, wait_event, usename, datname FROM citus_dist_stat_activity WHERE query NOT ILIKE ALL(VALUES('%pg_prepared_xacts%'), ('%COMMIT%'), ('%BEGIN%'), ('%pg_catalog.pg_isolation_test_session_is_blocked%'), ('%citus_add_node%')) AND backend_type = 'client backend' ORDER BY query DESC;
query |citus_nodename_for_nodeid|citus_nodeport_for_nodeid|state |wait_event_type|wait_event|usename |datname
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+---------------+----------+--------+----------
INSERT INTO test_table VALUES (100, 100);
|localhost | 57636|idle in transaction|Client |ClientRead|postgres|regression
-(1 row)
+
+ SELECT coalesce(to_jsonb(array_agg(csa_from_one_node.*)), '[{}]'::JSONB)
+ FROM (
+ SELECT global_pid, worker_query AS is_worker_query, pg_stat_activity.* FROM
+ pg_stat_activity LEFT JOIN get_all_active_transactions() ON process_id = pid
+ ) AS csa_from_one_node;
+ |localhost | 57636|active | | |postgres|regression
+(2 rows)
step s3-view-worker:
```
Source: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/citusdata/citus/26605/workflows/56d284d2-5bb3-4e64-a0ea-7b9b1626e7cd/jobs/760633
The reason for this is that citus_dist_stat_activity sometimes shows the
query that it uses itself to get the data from pg_stat_activity. This is
actually a bug, because it's a worker query and thus shouldn't show up
there. To try and solve this bug, we remove two small opportunities for a
race condition. These race conditions could happen when the backenddata
was marked as active, but the distributedCommandOriginator was not set
correctly yet/anymore. There was an opportunity for this to happen both
during connection start and shutdown.
DESCRIPTION: Use faster custom copy logic for non-blocking shard moves
Non-blocking shard moves consist of two main phases:
1. Initial data copy
2. Catchup phase
This changes the first of these phases significantly. Previously we used the
copy logic provided by postgres subscriptions. This meant we didn't have
to implement it ourselves, but it came with the downside of little control.
When implementing shard splits we needed more control to even make it
work, so we implemented our own logic for copying data between nodes.
This PR starts using that logic for non-blocking shard moves. Doing so
has four main advantages:
1. It uses COPY in binary format when possible, which is cheaper to encode
and decode. Furthermore it very often results in less data that needs to
be sent over the network.
2. It allows us to create the primary key (or other replica identity) after doing
the initial data copy. This should give some speed up over the total run,
because creating an index is bulk is much faster than incrementally building it.
3. It doesn't require a replication slot per parallel copy. Increasing the maximum
number of replication slots uses resources in postgres, even if they are not used.
So reducing the number of replication slots that shard moves need is nice.
4. Logical replication table_sync workers are slow to start up, so if lots of shards
need to be copied that can make it quite slow. This can happen easily when
combining Postgres partitioning with Citus.
We used to only check whether the PID is valid
or not. However, Postgres does not necessarily
set the PID of the backend to 0 when it exists.
Instead, we need to be able to check it from procArray.
IsBackendPid() is what pg_stat_activity also relies
on for a similar purpose.
Similar to #5897, one more step for running Citus with PG 15.
This PR at least make Citus run with PG 15. I have not tried running the tests with PG 15.
Shmem changes are based on 4f2400cb3f
Compile breaks are mostly due to #6008
1) Remove useless columns
2) Show backends that are blocked on a DDL even before
gpid is assigned
3) One minor bugfix, where we clear distributedCommandOriginator
properly.
And also citus_calculate_gpid(nodeId,pid). These UDFs are just
wrappers for the existing functions. Useful for testing and simple
manipulation of citus_stat_activity.
It seems like our approach is way too restrictive and some places
are wrong. Now, we follow very similar approach to pg_stat_activity.
Some of the changes are pre-requsite for implementing citus_dist_stat_activity
via citus_stat_activity.
CitusInitiatedBackend was a pre-mature implemenation of the whole
GlobalPID infrastructure. We used it to track whether any individual
query is triggered by Citus or not.
As of now, after GlobalPID is already in place, we don't need
CitusInitiatedBackend, in fact it could even be wrong.
The low-level StoreAllActiveTransactions() function filters out
backends that exited.
Before this commit, if you run a pgbench, after that you'd still
see the backends show up:
```SQL
select count(*) from get_global_active_transactions();
┌───────┐
│ count │
├───────┤
│ 538 │
└───────┘
```
After this patch, only active backends show-up:
```SQL
select count(*) from get_global_active_transactions();
┌───────┐
│ count │
├───────┤
│ 72 │
└───────┘
```
PostgreSQL does not need calling this function since 7.4 release, and it
is a NOOP.
For more details, check PostgreSQL commit below :
commit dd04e958c8b03c0f0512497651678c7816af3198
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun Mar 9 03:34:10 2003 +0000
tuplestore_donestoring() isn't needed anymore, but provide a no-op
macro definition so as not to create compatibility problems.
diff --git a/src/include/utils/tuplestore.h b/src/include/utils/tuplestore.h
index b46babacd1..76fe9fb428 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/tuplestore.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/tuplestore.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $Id: tuplestore.h,v 1.8 2003/03/09 02:19:13 tgl Exp $
+ * $Id: tuplestore.h,v 1.9 2003/03/09 03:34:10 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ extern Tuplestorestate *tuplestore_begin_heap(bool randomAccess,
extern void tuplestore_puttuple(Tuplestorestate *state, void *tuple);
+/* tuplestore_donestoring() used to be required, but is no longer used */
+#define tuplestore_donestoring(state) ((void) 0)
+
/* backwards scan is only allowed if randomAccess was specified 'true' */
extern void *tuplestore_gettuple(Tuplestorestate *state, bool forward,
bool *should_free);
Before this commit, we always synced the metadata with superuser.
However, that creates various edge cases such as visibility errors
or self distributed deadlocks or complicates user access checks.
Instead, with this commit, we use the current user to sync the metadata.
Note that, `start_metadata_sync_to_node` still requires super user
because accessing certain metadata (like pg_dist_node) always require
superuser (e.g., the current user should be a superuser).
However, metadata syncing operations regarding the distributed
tables can now be done with regular users, as long as the user
is the owner of the table. A table owner can still insert non-sense
metadata, however it'd only affect its own table. So, we cannot do
anything about that.
Previously this was usually done after argument parsing. This can cause
SEGFAULTs if the number or type of arguments changes in a new version.
By checking that Citus version is correct before doing any argument
parsing we protect against these types of issues. Issues like this have
occurred in pg_auto_failover, so it's not just a theoretical issue.
The main reason why these calls were not at the top of functions is
really just historical. It was because in the past we didn't allow
statements before declarations. Thus having this check before the
argument parsing would have only been possible if we first declared all
variables.
In addition to moving existing CheckCitusVersion calls it also adds
these calls to rebalancer related functions (they were missing there).
Considering the adaptive connection management
improvements that we plan to roll soon, it makes it
very helpful to know the number of active client
backends.
We are doing this addition to simplify yhe adaptive connection
management for single node Citus. In single node Citus, both the
client backends and Citus parallel queries would compete to get
slots on Postgres' `max_connections` on the same Citus database.
With adaptive connection management, we have the counters for
Citus parallel queries. That helps us to adaptively decide
on the remote executions pool size (e.g., throttle connections
if necessary).
However, we do not have any counters for the total number of
client backends on the database. For single node Citus, we
should consider all the client backends, not only the remote
connections that Citus does.
Of course Postgres internally knows how many client
backends are active. However, to get that number Postgres
iterates over all the backends. For examaple, see [pg_stat_get_db_numbackends](8e90ec5580/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c (L1240))
where Postgres iterates over all the backends.
For our purpuses, we need this information on every connection
establishment. That's why we cannot affort to do this kind of
iterattion.
* Add tuplestore helpers
* More detailed error messages in tuplestore
* Add CreateTupleDescCopy to SetupTuplestore
* Use new SetupTuplestore helper function
* Remove unnecessary copy
* Remove comment about undefined behaviour
Before this commit, round-robin task assignment policy was relying
on the taskId. Thus, even inside a transaction, the tasks were
assigned to different nodes. This was especially problematic
while reading from reference tables within transaction blocks.
Because, we had to expand the distributed transaction to many
nodes that are not necessarily already in the distributed transaction.
We had recently fixed a spinlock issue due to functions
failing, but spinlock is not being released.
This is the continuation of that work to eliminate possible
regression of the issue. Function calls that are moved out of
spinlock scope are macros and plain type casting. However,
depending on the configuration they have an alternate implementation
in PG source that performs memory allocation.
This commit moves last bit of codes to out of spinlock for completion purposes.
A spinlock is not released when an exception is thrown after
spinlock is acquired. This has caused infinite wait and eventual
crash in maintenance daemon.
This work moves the code than can fail to the outside of spinlock
scope so that in the case of failure spinlock is not left locked
since it was not locked in the first place.
Postgresql loads shared libraries before calculating MaxBackends.
However, Citus relies on MaxBackends being set. Thus, with this
commit we use the same steps to calculate MaxBackends while
Citus is being loaded (e.g., PG_Init is called).
Note that this is safe since all the elements that are used to
calculate MaxBackends are PGC_POSTMASTER gucs and a constant
value.
In the distributed deadlock detection design, we concluded that prepared transactions
cannot be part of a distributed deadlock. The idea is that (a) when the transaction
is prepared it already acquires all the locks, so cannot be part of a deadlock
(b) even if some other processes blocked on the prepared transaction, prepared transactions
would eventually be committed (or rollbacked) and the system will continue operating.
With the above in mind, we probably had a mistake in terms of memory allocations. For each
backend initialized, we keep a `BackendData` struct. The bug we've introduced is that, we
assumed there would only be `MaxBackend` number of backends. However, `MaxBackends` doesn't
include the prepared transactions and axuliary processes. When you check Postgres' InitProcGlobal`
you'd see that `TotalProcs = MaxBackends + NUM_AUXILIARY_PROCS + max_prepared_xacts;`
This commit aligns with total procs processed with that.
With this commit, we implement two views that are very similar
to pg_stat_activity, but showing queries that are involved in
distributed queries:
- citus_dist_stat_activity: Shows all the distributed queries
- citus_worker_stat_activity: Shows all the queries on the shards
that are initiated by distributed queries.
Both views have the same columns in the outputs. In very basic terms, both of the views
are meant to provide some useful insights about the distributed
transactions within the cluster. As the names reveal, both views are similar to pg_stat_activity.
Also note that these views can be pretty useful on Citus MX clusters.
Note that when the views are queried from the worker nodes, they'd not show the distributed
transactions that are initiated from the coordinator node. The reason is that the worker
nodes do not know the host/port of the coordinator. Thus, it is advisable to query the
views from the coordinator.
If we bucket the columns that the views returns, we'd end up with the following:
- Hostnames and ports:
- query_hostname, query_hostport: The node that the query is running
- master_query_host_name, master_query_host_port: The node in the cluster
initiated the query.
Note that for citus_dist_stat_activity view, the query_hostname-query_hostport
is always the same with master_query_host_name-master_query_host_port. The
distinction is mostly relevant for citus_worker_stat_activity. For example,
on Citus MX, a users starts a transaction on Node-A, which starts worker
transactions on Node-B and Node-C. In that case, the query hostnames would be
Node-B and Node-C whereas the master_query_host_name would Node-A.
- Distributed transaction related things:
This is mostly the process_id, distributed transactionId and distributed transaction
number.
- pg_stat_activity columns:
These two views get all the columns from pg_stat_activity. We're basically joining
pg_stat_activity with get_all_active_transactions on process_id.
VLAs aren't supported by Visual Studio.
- Remove all existing instances of VLAs.
- Add a flag, -Werror=vla, which makes gcc refuse to compile if we add
VLAs in the future.
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