Sometimes the background daemon doesn't cleanup orphaned shards quickly
enough. It's useful to have a UDF to trigger this removal when needed.
We already had a UDF like this but it was only used during testing. This
exposes that UDF to users. As a safety measure it cannot be run in a
transaction, because that would cause the background daemon to stop
cleaning up shards while this transaction is running.
It was possible to block maintenance daemon by taking an SHARE ROW
EXCLUSIVE lock on pg_dist_placement. Until the lock is released
maintenance daemon would be blocked.
We should not block the maintenance daemon under any case hence now we
try to get the pg_dist_placement lock without waiting, if we cannot get
it then we don't try to drop the old placements.
The comment of DropMarkedShards described the behaviour that after a
failure we would continue trying to drop other shards. However the code
did not do this and would stop after the first failure. Instead of
simply fixing the comment I fixed the code, because the described
behaviour is more useful. Now a single shard that cannot be removed yet
does not block others from being removed.
* Fix problews with concurrent calls of DropMarkedShards
When trying to enable `citus.defer_drop_after_shard_move` by default it
turned out that DropMarkedShards was not safe to call concurrently.
This could especially cause big problems when also moving shards at the
same time. During tests it was possible to trigger a state where a shard
that was moved would not be available on any of the nodes anymore after
the move.
Currently DropMarkedShards is only called in production by the
maintenaince deamon. Since this is only a single process triggering such
a race is currently impossible in production settings. In future changes
we will want to call DropMarkedShards from other places too though.
* Add some isolation tests
Co-authored-by: Jelte Fennema <github-tech@jeltef.nl>
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