When executing queries with citus.task_executor = 'real-time', query
execution could, so far, spend a significant amount of time
sleeping. That's because we were
a) sleeping after several phases of query execution, even if we're not
waiting for network IO
b) sleeping for a fixed amount of time when waiting for network IO;
often a lot longer than actually required.
Just reducing the amount of time slept isn't a real solution, because
that just increases CPU usage.
Instead have the real-time executor's ManageTaskExecution return whether
a task is currently being processed, waiting for reads or writes, or
failed. When all tasks are waiting for IO use poll() to wait for IO
readyness.
That requires to slightly redefine how connection timeouts are handled:
before we counted the number of times ManageTaskExecution() was called,
and compared that with the timeout divided by the task check
interval. That, if processing of tasks took a while, could significantly
increase the time till a timeout occurred. Because it was based on the
ManageTaskExecution() being called on a constant interval, this approach
isn't feasible anymore. Instead measure the actual time since
connection establishment was started. That could in theory, if task
processing takes a very long time, lead to few passes over
PQconnectPoll().
The problem of sleeping too much also exists for the 'task-tracker'
executor, but is generally less problematic there, as processing the
individual tasks usually will take longer. That said, for e.g. the
regression tests it'd be helpful to use a similar approach.
Now, we can copy to an append-partitioned distributed relation from
any worker node by providing master options such as;
COPY relation_name FROM file_path WITH (delimiter '|', master_host 'localhost', master_port 5432);
where master_port is optional and default is 5432.
Currently that's just COPY FROM. There's other places where we could
check for permissions earlier (to fail less verbosely), but since
there's other pending changes in the whole DDL area, which is affected
by this, I'm just adding a note to those places.
That's important because ownership of relations implies special
privileges. Without this change, a distributed table can be accessible
by a table's owner, but a shard created by another user might not.
Some small parts of citus currently require superuser privileges; which
is obviously not desirable for production scenarios. Run these small
parts under superuser privileges (we use the extension owner) to avoid
that.
This does not yet coordinate grants between master and workers. Thus it
allows to create shards, load data, and run queries as a non-superuser,
but it is not easily possible to allow differentiated accesses to
several users.
So far we've always used libpq defaults when connecting to workers; bar
special environment variables being set that'll always be the user that
started the server. That's not desirable because it prevents using
users with fewer privileges.
Thus change the various APIs creating connections to workers to always
use usernames. That means:
1) MultiClientConnect() needs to, optionally, accept a username
2) GetOrEstablishConnection(), including the underlying cache, need to
use the current user as part of the connection cache key. That way
connections for separate users are distinct, and we always use one
with the correct authorization.
3) The task tracker needs to keep track of the username associated with
a task, so it can use it when establishing connections outside the
originating session.
When we notice that pg_dist_partition is being invalidated we assume
that the citus extension is being dropped and drop state such as
extensionLoaded and the cached oids of all the metadata tables.
This frees the user from needing to reconnect after running DROP
EXTENSION, so we also no longer send a warning message.
- non-router plannable queries can be executed
by router executor if they satisfy the criteria
- router executor is removed from configuration,
now task executor can not be set to router
- removed some tests that error out for router executor
Previously (if you're creating the index with the same name on different
tables) we successfully ran the command on the workers before failing it
on the master and leaving no record of the index.
Now we check whether the index exists on the master before sending
commands to the workers.
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Also make the error better when user attampts to create an index without
a name. Previously those statements returned:
brian=# create index on c (b);
WARNING: could not receive query results from localhost:9700
DETAIL: Client error: cannot extend name for null index name
ERROR: could not execute DDL command on worker node shards
They now return
brian=# create index on c (b);
ERROR: creating index without a name on a distributed table is
currently unsupported
multi_ExecutorStart() replaces the original planned statement with the
master select statement. As that hasn't gone through the parse analysis
hooks, it'll not have a associated queryId. This prevents extensions
pg_stat_statements to show useful data associated with the query.
Though Citus' Task struct has a shardId field, it doesn't have the same
semantics as the one previously used in pg_shard code. The analogous
field in the Citus Task is anchorShardId. I've also added an argument
check to the relevant locking function to catch future locking attempts
which pass an invalid argument.
I removed two braces to have this function remain more similar to the
original PostgreSQL function and added uncrustify commands to disable
formatting of its contents.
All citusdb references in
- extension, binary names
- file headers
- all configuration name prefixes
- error/warning messages
- some functions names
- regression tests
are changed to be citus.
The postgres_fdw extension has an extern function with an identical
signature, which can cause problems when both extensions are loaded.
A simple rename can fix this for now (this is the only function with)
such a conflict.
Amos Bird
Jason Petersen
Metin Doslu
Murat Tuncer
Andres Freund
Burak Yucesoy
Marco Slot
Brian Cloutier
Matthew Seaman
Jason Petersen
Onder Kalaci