One of our most flaky and most anoying tests is
multi_cluster_management. It usually fails like this:
```diff
SELECT citus_disable_node('localhost', :worker_2_port);
citus_disable_node
--------------------
(1 row)
SELECT public.wait_until_metadata_sync(60000);
+WARNING: waiting for metadata sync timed out
wait_until_metadata_sync
--------------------------
(1 row)
```
This tries to address that by hardening wait_until_metadata_sync. I
believe the reason for this warning is that there is a race condition in
wait_until_metadata_sync. It's possible for the pre-check to fail, then
have the maintenance daemon send a notification. And only then have the
backend start to listen. I tried to fix it in two ways:
1. First run LISTEN, and only then read do the pre-check.
2. If we time out, check again just to make sure that we did not miss
the notification somehow. And don't show a warning if all metadata is
synced after the timeout.
It's hard to know for sure that this fixes it because the test is not
repeatable and I could not reproduce it locally. Let's just hope for the
best.
---------
Co-authored-by: Onur Tirtir <onurcantirtir@gmail.com>
I just enhanced the existing code to check if the relation is an index
belonging to a distributed table.
If so the shardId is appended to relation (index) name and the *_size
function are executed as before.
There is a change in an extern function:
`extern StringInfo GenerateSizeQueryOnMultiplePlacements(...)`
It's possible to create a new function and deprecate this one later if
compatibility is an issue.
Fixes https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/6496.
DESCRIPTION: Allows using Citus size functions on distributed tables
indexes.
---------
Co-authored-by: Onur Tirtir <onurcantirtir@gmail.com>
Changes test files in multi and multi-1 schedules such that they
accomodate coordinator in metadata.
Changes fall into the following buckets:
1. When coordinator is in metadata, reference table shards are present
in coordinator too.
This changes test outputs checking the table size, shard numbers etc.
for reference tables.
2. When coordinator is in metadata, postgres tables are converted to
citus local tables whenever a foreign key relationship to them is
created. This changes some test cases which tests it should not be
possible to create foreign keys to postgres tables.
3. Remove lines that add/remove coordinator for testing purposes.
DESCRIPTION: Changes the regression test setups adding the coordinator
to metadata by default.
When creating a Citus cluster, coordinator can be added in metadata
explicitly by running `citus_set_coordinator_host ` function. Adding the
coordinator to metadata allows to create citus managed local tables.
Other Citus functionality is expected to be unaffected.
This change adds the coordinator to metadata by default when creating
test clusters in regression tests.
There are 3 ways to run commands in a sql file (or a schedule which is a
sequence of sql files) with Citus regression tests. Below is how this PR
adds the coordinator to metadata for each.
1. `make <schedule_name>`
Changed the sql files (sql/multi_cluster_management.sql and
sql/minimal_cluster_management.sql) which sets up the test clusters such
that they call `citus_set_coordinator_host`. This ensures any following
tests will have the coordinator in metadata by default.
2. `citus_tests/run_test.py <sql_file_name>`
Changed the python code that sets up the cluster to always call `
citus_set_coordinator_host`.
For the upgrade tests, a version check is included to make sure
`citus_set_coordinator_host` function is available for a given version.
3. ` make check-arbitrary-configs `
Changed the python code that sets up the cluster to always call
`citus_set_coordinator_host `.
#6864 will be used to track the remaining work which is to change the
tests where coordinator is added/removed as a node.
DESCRIPTION: Drop `SHARD_STATE_TO_DELETE` and use the cleanup records
instead
Drops the shard state that is used to mark shards as orphaned. Now we
insert cleanup records into `pg_dist_cleanup` so "orphaned" shards will
be dropped either by maintenance daemon or internal cleanup calls. With
this PR, we make the "cleanup orphaned shards" functions to be no-op, as
they would not be needed anymore.
This PR includes some naming changes about placement functions. We don't
need functions that filter orphaned shards, as there will be no orphaned
shards anymore.
We will also be introducing a small script with this PR, for users with
orphaned shards. We'll basically delete the orphaned shard entries from
`pg_dist_placement` and insert cleanup records into `pg_dist_cleanup`
for each one of them, during Citus upgrade.
We also have a lot of flakiness fixes in this PR.
Co-authored-by: Jelte Fennema <github-tech@jeltef.nl>
DESCRIPTION: Allow citus_update_node() to work with nodes from different clusters
citus_update_node(), citus_nodename_for_nodeid(), and citus_nodeport_for_nodeid() functions only checked for nodes in their own clusters and hence last two returned NULLs and the first one showed an error is the nodeId was from a different cluster.
Fixes https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/6433
It is often useful to be able to sync the metadata in parallel
across nodes.
Also citus_finalize_upgrade_to_citus11() uses
start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes() after this commit.
Note that this commit does not parallelize all pieces of node
activation or metadata syncing. Instead, it tries to parallelize
potenially large parts of metadata, which is the objects and
distributed tables (in general Citus tables).
In the future, it would be nice to sync the reference tables
in parallel across nodes.
Create ~720 distributed tables / ~23450 shards
```SQL
-- declaratively partitioned table
CREATE TABLE github_events_looooooooooooooong_name (
event_id bigint,
event_type text,
event_public boolean,
repo_id bigint,
payload jsonb,
repo jsonb,
actor jsonb,
org jsonb,
created_at timestamp
) PARTITION BY RANGE (created_at);
SELECT create_time_partitions(
table_name := 'github_events_looooooooooooooong_name',
partition_interval := '1 day',
end_at := now() + '24 months'
);
CREATE INDEX ON github_events_looooooooooooooong_name USING btree (event_id, event_type, event_public, repo_id);
SELECT create_distributed_table('github_events_looooooooooooooong_name', 'repo_id');
SET client_min_messages TO ERROR;
```
across 1 node: almost same as expected
```SQL
SELECT start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes();
Time: 15664.418 ms (00:15.664)
select start_metadata_sync_to_node(nodename,nodeport) from pg_dist_node;
Time: 14284.069 ms (00:14.284)
```
across 7 nodes: ~3.5x improvement
```SQL
SELECT start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes();
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ start_metadata_sync_to_primary_nodes │
├──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ t │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
(1 row)
Time: 25711.192 ms (00:25.711)
-- across 7 nodes
select start_metadata_sync_to_node(nodename,nodeport) from pg_dist_node;
Time: 82126.075 ms (01:22.126)
```
In the past (pre-11), we allowed removing worker nodes
that had active placements for replicated distributed
table, without even checking if there are any other
replicas of the same placement.
However, with #5469, we prevent disabling nodes via a hard
error when there is the last active placement of shard, as we
do for reference tables. Note that otherwise, we'd allow
users to lose data.
As of today, the NOTICE is completely irrelevant.
Before this commit, we had:
```SQL
SELECT citus_disable_node(nodename, nodeport, force boolean DEFAULT false)
```
Where, we allow forcing to disable first worker node with
`force:=true`. However, it entails the risk for losing
data / diverging placement data etc.
With `force` flag, we control disabling the first worker node,
and with `async` flag we control whether the changes are done
via bg worker or immediately.
```SQL
SELECT citus_disable_node(nodename, nodeport, force boolean DEFAULT false, sync boolean DEFAULT false)
```
Where we can achieve all the following:
| Mode | Data loss possibility | Can run in 2PC | Handle multiple node failures | Immediately effective |
| --- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
| force:false, sync: false | false | true | true | false |
| force:false, sync: true | false | false | false | true |
| force:true, sync: false | true | true | true | false |
| force:true, sync: true | false | false | false | true |
DESCRIPTION: Move pg_dist_object to pg_catalog
Historically `pg_dist_object` had been created in the `citus` schema as an experiment to understand if we could move our catalog tables to a branded schema. We quickly realised that this interfered with the UX on our managed services and other environments, where users connected via a user with the name of `citus`.
By default postgres put the username on the search_path. To be able to read the catalog in the `citus` schema we would need to grant access permissions to the schema. This caused newly created objects like tables etc, to default to this schema for creation. This failed due to the write permissions to that schema.
With this change we move the `pg_dist_object` catalog table to the `pg_catalog` schema, where our other schema's are also located. This makes the catalog table visible and readable by any user, like our other catalog tables, for debugging purposes.
Note: due to the change of schema, we had to disable 1 test that was running into a discrepancy between the schema and binary. Secondly, we needed to make the lookup functions for the `pg_dist_object` relation and their indexes less strict on the fallback of the naming due to an other test that, due to an unfortunate cache invalidation, needed to lookup the relation again. This makes that we won't default to _only_ resolving from `pg_catalog` outside of upgrades.
With this commit we've started to propagate sequences and shell
tables within the object dependency resolution. So, ensuring any
dependencies for any object will consider shell tables and sequences
as well. Separate logics for both shell tables and sequences have
been removed.
Since both shell tables and sequences logic were implemented as a
part of the metadata handling before that logic, we were propagating
them while syncing table metadata. With this commit we've divided
metadata (which means anything except shards thereafter) syncing
logic into multiple parts and implemented it either as a part of
ActivateNode. You can check the functions called in ActivateNode
to check definition of different metadata.
Definitions of start_metadata_sync_to_node and citus_activate_node
have also been updated. citus_activate_node will basically create
an active node with all metadata and reference table shards.
start_metadata_sync_to_node will be same with citus_activate_node
except replicating reference tables. stop_metadata_sync_to_node
will remove all the metadata. All of those UDFs need to be called
by superuser.
* Require superuser while activating a node
With this change, we require ActiveNode() (hence citus_add_node(),
citus_activate_node()) explicitly require for a superuser.
Before this commit, these functions were designed to work with
non-superuser roles with the relevent GRANTs given.
However, that is not a widely used way for calling the functions
above.
Due to possibility of non-super user calling the UDFs, they were
designed in a way that some commands were using some additional
short-lived superuser connections. That is:
(a) breaking transactional behavior (e.g., ROLLBACK
wouldn't fully rollback the whole transaction)
(b) Making it very complicated to reason about which
parts of the node activation goes over which connections,
and becoming vulnerable to deadlocks / visibility issues.
Before that PR we were updating citus.pg_dist_object metadata, which keeps
the metadata related to objects on Citus, only on the coordinator node. In
order to allow using those object from worker nodes (or erroring out with
proper error message) we've started to propagate that metedata to worker
nodes as well.
As of master branch, Citus does all the modifications to replicated tables
(e.g., reference tables and distributed tables with replication factor > 1),
via 2PC and avoids any shardstate=3. As a side-effect of those changes,
handling node failures for replicated tables change.
With this PR, when one (or multiple) node failures happen, the users would
see query errors on modifications. If the problem is intermitant, that's OK,
once the node failure(s) recover by themselves, the modification queries would
succeed. If the node failure(s) are permenant, the users should call
`SELECT citus_disable_node(...)` to disable the node. As soon as the node is
disabled, modification would start to succeed. However, now the old node gets
behind. It means that, when the node is up again, the placements should be
re-created on the node. First, use `SELECT citus_activate_node()`. Then, use
`SELECT replicate_table_shards(...)` to replicate the missing placements on
the re-activated node.
The checks for preventing to remove a node are very much reference
table centric. We are soon going to add the same checks for replicated
tables. So, make the checks generic such that:
(a) replicated tables fit naturally
(b) we can the same checks in `citus_disable_node`.
The logging of the amount of ignored moves crashed when no distributed
tables existed in a cluster. This also fixes in passing that the logging
of ignored moves logs the correct number of ignored moves if there
exist multiple colocation groups and all are rebalanced at the same time.
* Replace master_add_node with citus_add_node
* Replace master_activate_node with citus_activate_node
* Replace master_add_inactive_node with citus_add_inactive_node
* Use master udfs in old scripts
* Replace master_add_secondary_node with citus_add_secondary_node
* Replace master_disable_node with citus_disable_node
* Replace master_drain_node with citus_drain_node
* Replace master_remove_node with citus_remove_node
* Replace master_set_node_property with citus_set_node_property
* Replace master_unmark_object_distributed with citus_unmark_object_distributed
* Replace master_update_node with citus_update_node
* Replace master_update_shard_statistics with citus_update_shard_statistics
* Replace master_update_table_statistics with citus_update_table_statistics
* Rename master_conninfo_cache_invalidate to citus_conninfo_cache_invalidate
Rename master_dist_local_group_cache_invalidate to citus_dist_local_group_cache_invalidate
* Replace master_copy_shard_placement with citus_copy_shard_placement
* Replace master_move_shard_placement with citus_move_shard_placement
* Rename master_dist_node_cache_invalidate to citus_dist_node_cache_invalidate
* Rename master_dist_object_cache_invalidate to citus_dist_object_cache_invalidate
* Rename master_dist_partition_cache_invalidate to citus_dist_partition_cache_invalidate
* Rename master_dist_placement_cache_invalidate to citus_dist_placement_cache_invalidate
* Rename master_dist_shard_cache_invalidate to citus_dist_shard_cache_invalidate
* Drop master_modify_multiple_shards
* Rename master_drop_all_shards to citus_drop_all_shards
* Drop master_create_distributed_table
* Drop master_create_worker_shards
* Revert old function definitions
* Add missing revoke statement for citus_disable_node
DESCRIPTION: Alter role only works for citus managed roles
Alter role was implemented before we implemented good role management that hooks into the object propagation framework. This is a refactor of all alter role commands that have been implemented to
- be on by default
- only work for supported roles
- make the citus extension owner a supported role
Instead of distributing the alter role commands for roles at the beginning of the node activation role it now _only_ executes the alter role commands for all users in all databases and in the current database.
In preparation of full role support small refactors have been done in the deparser.
Earlier tests targeting other roles than the citus extension owner have been either slightly changed or removed to be put back where we have full role support.
Fixes#2549
When creating a new distributed table. The shards would colocate with shards
with SHARD_STATE_TO_DELETE (shardstate = 4). This means if that state was
because of a shard move the new shard would be created on two nodes and it
would not get deleted since it's shard state would be 1.
This is an improvement over #2512.
This adds the boolean shouldhaveshards column to pg_dist_node. When it's false, create_distributed_table for new collocation groups will not create shards on that node. Reference tables will still be created on nodes where it is false.
When `master_update_node` is called to update a node's location it waits for appropriate locks to become available. This is useful during normal operation as new operations will be blocked till after the metadata update while running operations have time to finish.
When `master_update_node` is called after a node failure it is less useful to wait for running operations to finish as they can't. The lock being held indicates an operation that once attempted to commit will fail as the machine already failed. Now the downside is the failover is postponed till the termination point of the operation. This has been observed by users to take a significant amount of time causing the rest of the system to be observed unavailable.
With this patch it is possible in such situations to invoke `master_update_node` with 2 optional arguments:
- `force` (bool defaults to `false`): When called with true the update of the metadata will be forced to proceed by terminating conflicting backends. A cancel is not enough as the backend might be in idle time (eg. an interactive session, or going back and forth between an appliaction), therefore a more intrusive solution of termination is used here.
- `lock_cooldown` (int defaults to `10000`): This is the time in milliseconds before conflicting backends are terminated. This is to allow the backends to finish cleanly before terminating them. This allows the user to set an upperbound to the expected time to complete the metadata update, eg. performing the failover.
The functionality is implemented by spawning a background worker that has the task of helping a certain backend in acquiring its locks. The backend is either terminated on successful execution of the metadata update, or once the memory context of the expression gets reset, eg. on a cancel of the statement.
- master_activate_node and master_disable_node correctly toggle
isActive, without crashing
- master_add_node rejects duplicate nodes, even if they're in different
clusters
- master_remove_node allows removing nodes in different clusters