Semmle reported quite some places where we use a value that could be NULL. Most of these are not actually a real issue, but better to be on the safe side with these things and make the static analysis happy.
Use partition column's collation for range distributed tables
Don't allow non deterministic collations for hash distributed tables
CoPartitionedTables: don't compare unequal types
DESCRIPTION: Distribute Types to worker nodes
When to propagate
==============
There are two logical moments that types could be distributed to the worker nodes
- When they get used ( just in time distribution )
- When they get created ( proactive distribution )
The just in time distribution follows the model used by how schema's get created right before we are going to create a table in that schema, for types this would be when the table uses a type as its column.
The proactive distribution is suitable for situations where it is benificial to have the type on the worker nodes directly. They can later on be used in queries where an intermediate result gets created with a cast to this type.
Just in time creation is always the last resort, you cannot create a distributed table before the type gets created. A good example use case is; you have an existing postgres server that needs to scale out. By adding the citus extension, add some nodes to the cluster, and distribute the table. The type got created before citus existed. There was no moment where citus could have propagated the creation of a type.
Proactive is almost always a good option. Types are not resource intensive objects, there is no performance overhead of having 100's of types. If you want to use them in a query to represent an intermediate result (which happens in our test suite) they just work.
There is however a moment when proactive type distribution is not beneficial; in transactions where the type is used in a distributed table.
Lets assume the following transaction:
```sql
BEGIN;
CREATE TYPE tt1 AS (a int, b int);
CREATE TABLE t1 AS (a int PRIMARY KEY, b tt1);
SELECT create_distributed_table('t1', 'a');
\copy t1 FROM bigdata.csv
```
Types are node scoped objects; meaning the type exists once per worker. Shards however have best performance when they are created over their own connection. For the type to be visible on all connections it needs to be created and committed before we try to create the shards. Here the just in time situation is most beneficial and follows how we create schema's on the workers. Outside of a transaction block we will just use 1 connection to propagate the creation.
How propagation works
=================
Just in time
-----------
Just in time propagation hooks into the infrastructure introduced in #2882. It adds types as a supported object in `SupportedDependencyByCitus`. This will make sure that any object being distributed by citus that depends on types will now cascade into types. When types are depending them self on other objects they will get created first.
Creation later works by getting the ddl commands to create the object by its `ObjectAddress` in `GetDependencyCreateDDLCommands` which will dispatch types to `CreateTypeDDLCommandsIdempotent`.
For the correct walking of the graph we follow array types, when later asked for the ddl commands for array types we return `NIL` (empty list) which makes that the object will not be recorded as distributed, (its an internal type, dependant on the user type).
Proactive distribution
---------------------
When the user creates a type (composite or enum) we will have a hook running in `multi_ProcessUtility` after the command has been applied locally. Running after running locally makes that we already have an `ObjectAddress` for the type. This is required to mark the type as being distributed.
Keeping the type up to date
====================
For types that are recorded in `pg_dist_object` (eg. `IsObjectDistributed` returns true for the `ObjectAddress`) we will intercept the utility commands that alter the type.
- `AlterTableStmt` with `relkind` set to `OBJECT_TYPE` encapsulate changes to the fields of a composite type.
- `DropStmt` with removeType set to `OBJECT_TYPE` encapsulate `DROP TYPE`.
- `AlterEnumStmt` encapsulates changes to enum values.
Enum types can not be changed transactionally. When the execution on a worker fails a warning will be shown to the user the propagation was incomplete due to worker communication failure. An idempotent command is shown for the user to re-execute when the worker communication is fixed.
Keeping types up to date is done via the executor. Before the statement is executed locally we create a plan on how to apply it on the workers. This plan is executed after we have applied the statement locally.
All changes to types need to be done in the same transaction for types that have already been distributed and will fail with an error if parallel queries have already been executed in the same transaction. Much like foreign keys to reference tables.
DESCRIPTION: Refactor ensure schema exists to dependency exists
Historically we only supported schema's as table dependencies to be created on the workers before a table gets distributed. This PR puts infrastructure in place to walk pg_depend to figure out which dependencies to create on the workers. Currently only schema's are supported as objects to create before creating a table.
We also keep track of dependencies that have been created in the cluster. When we add a new node to the cluster we use this catalog to know which objects need to be created on the worker.
Side effect of knowing which objects are already distributed is that we don't have debug messages anymore when creating schema's that are already created on the workers.
master_deactivate_node is updated to decrement the replication factor
Otherwise deactivation could have create_reference_table produce a second record
UpdateColocationGroupReplicationFactor is renamed UpdateColocationGroupReplicationFactorForReferenceTables
& the implementation looks up the record based on distributioncolumntype == InvalidOid, rather than by id
Otherwise the record's replication factor fails to be maintained when there are no reference tables
- All the schema creations on the workers will now be via superuser connections
- If a shard is being repaired or a shard is replicated, we will create the
schema only in the relevant worker; and in all the other cases where a schema
creation is needed, we will block operations until we ensure the schema exists
in all the workers
The file handling the utility functions (DDL) for citus organically grew over time and became unreasonably large. This refactor takes that file and refactored the functionality into separate files per command. Initially modeled after the directory and file layout that can be found in postgres.
Although the size of the change is quite big there are barely any code changes. Only one two functions have been added for readability purposes:
- PostProcessIndexStmt which is extracted from PostProcessUtility
- PostProcessAlterTableStmt which is extracted from multi_ProcessUtility
A README.md has been added to `src/backend/distributed/commands` describing the contents of the module and every file in the module.
We need more documentation around the overloading of the COPY command, for now the boilerplate has been added for people with better knowledge to fill out.
Postgres provides OS agnosting formatting macros for
formatting 64 bit numbers. Replaced %ld %lu with
INT64_FORMAT and UINT64_FORMAT respectively.
Also found some incorrect usages of formatting
flags and fixed them.
- master_add_node enforces that there is only one primary per group
- there's also a trigger on pg_dist_node to prevent multiple primaries
per group
- functions in metadata cache only return primary nodes
- Rename ActiveWorkerNodeList -> ActivePrimaryNodeList
- Rename WorkerGetLive{Node->Group}Count()
- Refactor WorkerGetRandomCandidateNode
- master_remove_node only complains about active shard placements if the
node being removed is a primary.
- master_remove_node only deletes all reference table placements in the
group if the node being removed is the primary.
- Rename {Node->NodeGroup}HasShardPlacements, this reflects the behavior it
already had.
- Rename DeleteAllReferenceTablePlacementsFrom{Node->NodeGroup}. This also
reflects the behavior it already had, but the new signature forces the
caller to pass in a groupId
- Rename {WorkerGetLiveGroup->ActivePrimaryNode}Count
Comes with a few changes:
- Change the signature of some functions to accept groupid
- InsertShardPlacementRow
- DeleteShardPlacementRow
- UpdateShardPlacementState
- NodeHasActiveShardPlacements returns true if the group the node is a
part of has any active shard placements
- TupleToShardPlacement now returns ShardPlacements which have NULL
nodeName and nodePort.
- Populate (nodeName, nodePort) when creating ShardPlacements
- Disallow removing a node if it contains any shard placements
- DeleteAllReferenceTablePlacementsFromNode matches based on group. This
doesn't change behavior for now (while there is only one node per
group), but means in the future callers should be careful about
calling it on a secondary node, it'll delete placements on the primary.
- Create concept of a GroupShardPlacement, which represents an actual
tuple in pg_dist_placement and is distinct from a ShardPlacement,
which has been resolved to a specific node. In the future
ShardPlacement should be renamed to NodeShardPlacement.
- Create some triggers which allow existing code to continue to insert
into and update pg_dist_shard_placement as if it still existed.
This commit is intended to be a base for supporting declarative partitioning
on distributed tables. Here we add the following utility functions and their
unit tests:
* Very basic functions including differnentiating partitioned tables and
partitions, listing the partitions
* Generating the PARTITION BY (expr) and adding this to the DDL events
of partitioned tables
* Ability to generate text representations of the ranges for partitions
* Ability to generate the `ALTER TABLE parent_table ATTACH PARTITION
partition_table FOR VALUES value_range`
* Ability to apply add shard ids to the above command using
`worker_apply_inter_shard_ddl_command()`
* Ability to generate `ALTER TABLE parent_table DETACH PARTITION`
With this change we add an option to add a node without replicating all reference
tables to that node. If a node is added with this option, we mark the node as
inactive and no queries will sent to that node.
We also added two new UDFs;
- master_activate_node(host, port):
- marks node as active and replicates all reference tables to that node
- master_add_inactive_node(host, port):
- only adds node to pg_dist_node
With this change, we start to delete placement of reference tables at given worker node
after master_remove_node UDF call. We remove placement metadata at master node but we do
not drop actual shard from the worker node. There are two reasons for that decision,
first, it is not critical to DROP the shards in the workers because Citus will ignore them
as long as node is removed from cluster and if we add that node back to cluster we will
DROP and recreate all reference tables. Second, if node is unreachable, it becomes
complicated to cover failure cases and have a transaction support.
With this change, we start to replicate all reference tables to the new node when new node
is added to the cluster with master_add_node command. We also update replication factor
of reference table's colocation group.
With this change we introduce new UDF, upgrade_to_reference_table, which can be used to
upgrade existing broadcast tables reference tables. For upgrading, we require that given
table contains only one shard.
Jelte Fennema
Philip Dubé
SaitTalhaNisanci
Hadi Moshayedi
Hadi Moshayedi
Nils Dijk
Hanefi Onaldi
Marco Slot
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Murat Tuncer
Brian Cloutier
Brian Cloutier
Burak Yucesoy
Eren Basak