Adds support for propagating create/drop view commands and views to
worker node while scaling out the cluster. Since views are dropped while
converting the table type, metadata connection will be used while
propagating view commands to not switch to sequential mode.
First, it is not needed. Second, in the past we had issues regarding
this: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4344
When I create 10k tables, ~120K shards, this saves
40Mb of memory during ALTER EXTENSION citus UPDATE.
Before the change: MetadataCacheMemoryContext: 41943040 ~ 40MB
After the change: MetadataCacheMemoryContext: 8192
Here is a flaky test output that is quite hard to fix:
```diff
diff -dU10 -w /home/circleci/project/src/test/regress/expected/isolation_master_update_node_1.out /home/circleci/project/src/test/regress/results/isolation_master_update_node.out
--- /home/circleci/project/src/test/regress/expected/isolation_master_update_node_1.out.modified 2022-03-21 19:03:54.237042562 +0000
+++ /home/circleci/project/src/test/regress/results/isolation_master_update_node.out.modified 2022-03-21 19:03:54.257043084 +0000
@@ -49,18 +49,20 @@
<waiting ...>
step s2-update-node-1-force: <... completed>
master_update_node
------------------
(1 row)
step s2-abort: ABORT;
step s1-abort: ABORT;
FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
-SSL connection has been closed unexpectedly
+server closed the connection unexpectedly
+ This probably means the server terminated abnormally
+ before or while processing the request.
```
I could not come up with a solution that would decrease the flakiness in the test outputs. We already have 3 output files for the same test and now I introduced a 4th one.
I can also add complex regular expressions that span multiple lines, and normalize these error messages. Feel free to suggest a normalized error message in a comment here.
## Current alternative file contents
`isolation_master_update_node.out`
```
step s1-abort: ABORT;
FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
SSL connection has been closed unexpectedly
```
`isolation_master_update_node_0.out`
```
step s1-abort: ABORT;
WARNING: this step had a leftover error message
FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
```
`isolation_master_update_node_1.out`
```
step s1-abort: ABORT;
FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
SSL connection has been closed unexpectedly
```
new file: `isolation_master_update_node_2.out`
```
step s1-abort: ABORT;
FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
```
In the past, for all modifications on the local execution,
we enabled 2PC (with 6a7ed7b309).
This also required us to enable coordinated transactions
via https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4831 .
However, it does have a very substantial impact on the
distributed deadlock detection. The distributed deadlock
detection is designed to avoid single-statement transactions
because they cannot lead to any actual deadlocks.
The implementation is to skip backends without distributed
transactions are assigned. Now that we assign single
statement local executions in the lock graphs, we are
conflicting with the design of distributed deadlock
detection.
In general, we should fix it. However, one might
think that it is not a big deal, even if the processes
show up in the lock graphs, the deadlock detection
should not be causing any false positives. That is
false, unless https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/1803
is fixed. Now that local processes are considered as a single
distributed backend, the lock graphs might find:
local execution 1 [tx id: 1] -> any local process [tx id: 0]
any local process [tx id: 0] -> local execution 2 [tx id: 2]
And, decides that there is a distributed deadlock.
This commit is:
(a) right thing to do, as local execuion should not need any
distributed tx id
(b) Eliminates performance issues that might come up with
deadlock detection does a lot of unncessary checks
(c) After moving local execution after the remote execution
via https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4301, the
vauge requirement for assigning distributed tx ids are
already gone.
For some reason search_path is not always set correctly on the worker
when calling a distributed function, this shows up when calling
`insert_document` in our distributed_triggers test. The underlying
reason is currently unknown and warrants deeper investigation.
Currently this test is one of the main causes for random CI failures. So
this change sets the search_path of each function explicitly, to reduce
these failures. So other devs can be more efficient, while I continue
investigating the root cause of this issue.
Also changes explicit `SET citus.enable_unsafe_triggers = false` to
`RESET citus.enable_unsafe_triggers` in passing.
* Separate build of citus.so and citus_columnar.so.
Because columnar code is statically-linked to both modules, it doesn't
make sense to load them both at once.
A subsequent commit will make the modules entirely separate and allow
loading them both simultaneously.
Author: Yanwen Jin
* Separate citus and citus_columnar modules.
Now the modules are independent. Columnar can be loaded by itself, or
along with citus.
Co-authored-by: Jeff Davis <jefdavi@microsoft.com>
The aim of hiding shards is to hide shards from client applications.
Certain bg workers (such as pg_cron or Citus maintanince daemon)
should be treated like client applications because users can run
queries from such bg workers. And, these bg workers should follow
the similar application_name checks as client backeends.
Certain other bg workers, such as logical replication or postgres'
parallel workers, should never hide shards. They are internal
operations.
Similarly the other backend types like the walsender or
checkpointer or autovacuum should never hide shards.
We've had custom versions of Postgres its `foreach` macro which with a
hidden ListCell for quite some time now. People like these custom
macros, because they are easier to use and require less boilerplate.
This adds similar custom versions of Postgres its `forboth` macro. Now
you don't need ListCells anymore when looping over two lists at the same
time.
Since now we don't throw an error for enums that user attempts creating
in temp schema, the preprocess / DDL job that contains the prepared
statement (to idempotently create the enum type) gets executed. As a
result, we were emitting the following warning because of the error the
underlying worker connection throws:
```sql
WARNING: cannot PREPARE a transaction that has operated on temporary objects
CONTEXT: while executing command on localhost:xxxxx
WARNING: connection to the remote node localhost:xxxxx failed with the following error: another command is already in progress
ERROR: cannot PREPARE a transaction that has operated on temporary objects
CONTEXT: while executing command on localhost:xxxxx
```
We were already doing so for functions & types believing that
this cannot be the case for other object types.
However, as in #5830, we cannot distribute an object that user
attempts creating in temp schema. Even more, this doesn't only
apply to functions and types but also to many other object types.
So with this commit, we teach preprocess/postprocess functions
(that need to create dependencies on worker nodes) how to skip
trying to distribute such objects.
We also start identifying temp schemas as the objects that we
don't know how to propagate to worker nodes so that we can
simply create objects locally if user attempts creating them
in a temp schema.
There are 36 callers of `EnsureDependenciesExistOnAllNodes` in
the codebase atm and for the most we still need to throw a hard
error (i.e.: not use `DeferErrorIfHasUnsupportedDependency`
beforehand), such as:
i) user explicitly wants to create a distributed object
* CreateCitusLocalTable
* CreateDistributedTable
* master_create_worker_shards
* master_create_empty_shard
* create_distributed_function
* EnsureExtensionFunctionCanBeDistributed
ii) we don't want to skip altering distributed table on worker nodes
* PostprocessIndexStmt
* PostprocessCreateTriggerStmt
* PostprocessCreateStatisticsStmt
iii) object is already distributed / handled by Citus before, so we
aren't okay with not propagating the ALTER command
* PostprocessAlterTableSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterCollationOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterCollationSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterDatabaseOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterExtensionSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterFunctionOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterFunctionSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterSequenceOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterSequenceSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterStatisticsSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterStatisticsOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchConfigurationSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchDictionarySchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchConfigurationOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterTextSearchDictionaryOwnerStmt
* PostprocessAlterTypeSchemaStmt
* PostprocessAlterForeignServerOwnerStmt
iv) we already cannot create those objects in temp schemas, so skipping
for now
* PostprocessCreateExtensionStmt
* PostprocessCreateForeignServerStmt
Also note that there are 3 more callers of
`EnsureDependenciesExistOnAllNodes` in enterprise in addition to those
36 but we don't need to do anything specific about them due to the same
reasoning given in iii).
In `pg_regress_multi.pl` we're running `initdb` with some options that
the `common.py` `initdb` is currently not using. All these flags seem
reasonable, so this brings `common.py` in line with
`pg_regress_multi.pl`.
In passing change the `--nosync` flag to `--no-sync`, since that's what
the PG documentation lists as the official option name (but both work).
Cluster setup time is significant in arbitrary configs. We can
parallelize this a bit more.
Runtime of the following command decreases from ~25 seconds to ~22
seconds on my machine with this change:
```
make -C src/test/regress/ check-arbitrary-base CONFIGS=CitusDefaultClusterConfig EXTRA_TESTS=prepared_statements_1
```
Currently we can only run different configs in parallel. However, when working on a feature or trying to fix a bug this is not important. In those cases you simply want to run a single test file on a single config. And you want to run that every time you made a change to the code that you think fixes the issue.
This PR allows parallelising running of bash commands. So `initdb` and `pg_ctl start` is run in parallel for all nodes in the cluster. Instead of one waiting for the other.
When you run the above command nothing is being run in parallel.
After this PR, cluster setup is being run in parallel.
We have fsync enabled for regular tests already in `pg_regress_multi.pl`.
This does the same for the arbitrary config tests.
On my machine this changes the runtime from the following command from
~37 to ~25 seconds:
```bash
make -C src/test/regress/ check-arbitrary-configs CONFIGS=CitusDefaultClusterConfig
```
Here is a list of some functions, and the `TargetWorkerSet` parameters
they supply to `NodeDDLTaskList`:
PostprocessCreateTextSearchConfigurationStmt -
NON_COORDINATOR_NODES
PreprocessDropTextSearchConfigurationStmt -
NON_COORDINATOR_METADATA_NODES
PreprocessAlterTextSearchConfigurationSchemaStmt -
NON_COORDINATOR_METADATA_NODES
I guess this means that, if metadata
syncing is disabled on the node, we may have some issues. Consider the
following:
Let's assume the user has metadata syncing disabled. 2 workers.
`CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION ...` will get propagated to all
workers. `ALTER ... CONFIGURATION ...` will not get propagated to
workers.
After adding a new non-metadata node, the new node will get the altered
configuration as it reads from catalog. At this point CONFIGURATION
definitions got diverged in the cluster.
I suggest that we always use `NON_COORDINATOR_METADATA_NODES` in all the
TEXT SEARCH operations here.
Before this commit, we erroneously converted the sequence
type to the column's type it is used. However, it is possible
that the sequence is used in an expression which then converted
to a type that cannot be a sequence, such as text.
With this commit, we only try this conversion if the column
type is a supported sequence type (e.g., smallint, int and bigint).
Note that we do this conversion because if the column type is a
bigint and the sequence is NOT a bigint, users would be in trouble
because sequences would generate values that are out of the range
of the column. (The other ways are already not supported such as
the column is int and the sequence is bigint would fail on the worker.)
In other words, with this commit, we scope this optimization only
when the target column type is a supported sequence type. Otherwise,
we let users to more freely use the sequences.
With the introduction of #4385 we inadvertently started allowing and
pushing down certain lateral subqueries that were unsafe to push down.
To be precise the type of LATERAL subqueries that is unsafe to push down
has all of the following properties:
1. The lateral subquery contains some non recurring tuples
2. The lateral subquery references a recurring tuple from
outside of the subquery (recurringRelids)
3. The lateral subquery requires a merge step (e.g. a LIMIT)
4. The reference to the recurring tuple should be something else than an
equality check on the distribution column, e.g. equality on a non
distribution column.
Property number four is considered both hard to detect and probably not
used very often. Thus this PR ignores property number four and causes
query planning to error out if the first three properties hold.
Fixes#5327
TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY objects depend on TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE objects.
Since we do not yet support distributed TS TEMPLATE objects, we skip
dependency checks for text search templates, similar to what we do for
roles.
The user is expected to manually create the TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE objects
before a) adding new nodes, b) creating TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY objects.
If a worker node is being added, a command is sent to get the server_id of the worker from the pg_dist_node_metadata table. If the worker's id is the same as the node executing the code, we will know the node is trying to add itself. If the node tries to add itself without specifying `groupid:=0` the operation will result in an error.
Using CASCADE in a DELETE can inadvertently delete things we don't
intend to. It's safer to fail hard and make the user delete depending
things manually.
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.
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.
* Notice when create_distributed_function called without params
* Move variable comments to top
* Add valid check for cache entry
* add objtype to notice msg
* update test outputs
* Add more tests
* Address feedback
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.
Clusters created pre-Citus 11 mostly didn't have metadata sync enabled.
For those clusters, we add a utility UDF which fixes some minor issues
and sync the necessary objects to the workers.
* [Columnar] Build columnar.so and let citus depends on it
Co-authored-by: Yanwen Jin <yanwjin@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Ying Xu <32597660+yxu2162@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jeff-davis <Jeffrey.Davis@microsoft.com>
DESCRIPTION: Add GUC to control ddl creation behaviour in transactions
Historically we would _not_ propagate objects when we are in a transaction block. Creation of distributed tables would not always work in sequential mode, hence objects created in the same transaction as distributing a table that would use the just created object wouldn't work. The benefit was that the user could still benefit from parallelism.
Now that the creation of distributed tables is supported in sequential mode it would make sense for users to force transactional consistency of ddl commands for distributed tables. A transaction could switch more aggressively to sequential mode when creating new objects in a transaction.
We don't change the default behaviour just yet.
Also, many objects would not even propagate their creation when the transaction was already set to sequential, leaving the probability of a self deadlock. The new policy checks solve this discrepancy between objects as well.
The issue in question is caused when rebalance / replication call `FullShardPlacementList` which returns all shard placements (including those in disabled nodes with `citus_disable_node`). Eventually, `FindFillStateForPlacement` looks for the state across active workers and fails to find a state for the placements which are in the disabled workers causing a seg fault shortly after.
Approach:
* `ActivePlacementHash` was not using the status of the shard placement's node to determine if the node it is active. Initially, I just fixed that.
* Additionally, I refactored the code which handles active shards in replication / rebalance to:
* use a single function to determine if a shard placement is active.
* do the shard active shard filtering before calling `RebalancePlacementUpdates` and `ReplicationPlacementUpdates`, so test methods like `shard_placement_rebalance_array` and `shard_placement_replication_array` which have different shard placement active requirements can do their own filtering while using the same rebalance / replicate logic that `rebalance_table_shards` and `replicate_table_shards` use.
Fix#5664
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.
#5685 introduced the resolution of dependencies for indices. This missed support for indices on partitioned tables. This change adds support for partitioned indices to the dependency resolution code.
It turns out `whereis` is incredibly slow on WSL2 (at least on my
machine):
```
$ time whereis diff
diff: /usr/bin/diff /usr/share/man/man1/diff.1.gz
real 0m0.408s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.101s
```
This command is run by our custom `diff` script, which is run for every
test file that is run. So this adds lots of unnecessary runtime time to
tests.
This changes our custom `diff` script to only call `whereis` in the
strange case that `/usr/bin/diff` does not exist.
The impact of this small change on the total runtime of the tests on WSL
is huge. As an example the following command takes 18 seconds without
this change and 7 seconds with it:
```
make -C src/test/regress/ check-arbitrary-configs CONFIGS=PostgresConfig
```
(cherry picked from commit 4e93afd1f78854e1aaab63690c441b0b0598a82c)
(cherry picked from commit 0295fe2f5b)
(cherry picked from commit 878510725fab9cb6870b4504e0b1f055d7bbc68d)
Before this commit, dumping wait edges can only be used for
distributed deadlock detection purposes. With this commit,
we open the possibility that we can use it for any backend.
CREATE FUNCTION command together with it's dependencies.
If the function depends on any nondistributable object,
function will be created only locally. Parameterless
version of create_distributed_function becomes obsolete
with this change, it will deprecated from the code with a subsequent PR.
* When a worker tried to create a collation which had a dependency in the same worker node,
it would cause a deadlock, now it throws the correct "not a coordinator" error.
DESCRIPTION: Implement TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION propagation
The change adds support to Citus for propagating TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION objects. TSConfig objects cannot always be created in one create statement, and instead require a create statement followed by many alter statements to get turned into the object they should represent.
To support this we add functionality to the worker to create or replace objects based on a list of statements. When the lists of the local object and the remote object correspond 1:1 we skip the creation of the object and simply mark it distributed. This is especially important for TSConfig objects as initdb pre-populates databases with a dozen configurations (for many different languages).
When the user creates a new TSConfig based on the copy of an existing configuration there is no direct link to the object copied from. Since there is no link we can't simply rely on propagating the dependencies to the worker and send a qualified
We check for metadata consistency across the cluster in the test
isolation_metadata_sync_vs_all. However, some earlier tests in
enterprise repo leave invalid pg_dist_node entries in the worker nodes
that have Oid values for already dropped role objects.
To remedy that, I suggest that we move the test to earlier in the
schedule, thereby making the tests pass for the time being. We should
later introduce metadata checking either in a new isolation test or by
moving this test later in the schedule. However, we should do that after
we fix the underlying issue.
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 │
└───────┘
```