Breaking down #5899 into smaller PR-s
This particular PR changes the way TRUNCATE acquires distributed locks on the relations it is truncating to use the LOCK command instead of lock_relation_if_exists. This has the benefit of using pg's recursive locking logic it implements for the LOCK command instead of us having to resolve relation dependencies and lock them explicitly. While this does not directly affect truncate, it will allow us to generalize this locking logic to then log different relations where the pg recursive locking will become useful (e.g. locking views).
This implementation is a bit more complex that it needs to be due to pg not supporting locking foreign tables. We can however, still lock foreign tables with lock_relation_if_exists. So for a command:
TRUNCATE dist_table_1, dist_table_2, foreign_table_1, foreign_table_2, dist_table_3;
We generate and send the following command to all the workers in metadata:
```sql
SEL citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO FALSE;
LOCK dist_table_1, dist_table_2 IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;
SELECT lock_relation_if_exists('foreign_table_1', 'ACCESS EXCLUSIVE');
SELECT lock_relation_if_exists('foreign_table_2', 'ACCESS EXCLUSIVE');
LOCK dist_table_3 IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;
SEL citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO TRUE;
```
Note that we need to alternate between the lock command and lock_table_if_exists in order to preserve the TRUNCATE order of relations.
When pg supports locking foreign tables, we will be able to massive simplify this logic and send a single LOCK command.
@thanodnl told me it was a bit of a problem that it's impossible to see
the history of a UDF in git. The only way to do so is by reading all the
sql migration files from new to old. Another problem is that it's also
hard to review the changed UDF during code review, because to find out
what changed you have to do the same. I thought of a IMHO better (but
not perfect) way to handle this.
We keep the definition of a UDF in sql/udfs/{name_of_udf}/latest.sql.
That file we change whenever we need to make a change to the the UDF. On
top of that you also make a snapshot of the file in
sql/udfs/{name_of_udf}/{migration-version}.sql (e.g. 9.0-1.sql) by
copying the contents. This way you can easily view what the actual
changes were by looking at the latest.sql file.
There's still the question on how to use these files then. Sadly
postgres doesn't allow inclusion of other sql files in the migration sql
file (it does in psql using \i). So instead I used the C preprocessor+
make to compile a sql/xxx.sql to a build/sql/xxx.sql file. This final
build/sql/xxx.sql file has every occurence of #include "somefile.sql" in
sql/xxx.sql replaced by the contents of somefile.sql.
Gledis Zeneli
Philip Dubé
Hanefi Onaldi
Jelte Fennema