Columnar: support relation options with ALTER TABLE.
Use ALTER TABLE ... SET/RESET to specify relation options rather than
alter_columnar_table_set() and alter_columnar_table_reset().
Not only is this more ergonomic, but it also allows better integration
because it can be treated like DDL on a regular table. For instance,
citus can use its own ProcessUtility_hook to distribute the new
settings to the shards.
DESCRIPTION: Columnar: support relation options with ALTER TABLE.
There are two problems in this area. First, when there are expressions
on the index name, we should call `transformIndexExpression()` before
generating the index name. That is what Postgres does.
Second, because of 40c24bfef9
PG 13 and PG 14 generates different names for indexes with function calls even for local PG tables.
Assume we have:
```SQL
create table t(id int);
select create_distributed_table('t', 'id');
create index ON t (my_very_boring_function(id));
```
On PG 13, the name of the index is `t_expr_idx`
```SQL
\d t
Table "public.t"
┌────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Column │ Type │ Collation │ Nullable │ Default │
├────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ id │ integer │ │ │ │
└────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────┘
Indexes:
"t_expr_idx" btree (my_very_boring_function(id::bigint))
```
On PG 14, the name of the index is `t_my_very_boring_function_idx`
```SQL
\d t
Table "public.t"
┌────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Column │ Type │ Collation │ Nullable │ Default │
├────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ id │ integer │ │ │ │
└────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────┘
Indexes:
"t_my_very_boring_function_idx" btree (my_very_boring_function(id::bigint))
```
The second issue is not very critical. The important part is that
we adjust regression tests to drop all the indexes, which ensures
the index names are sane on any version.
Over time we have added significantly improved the support for objects to be propagated by Citus as to make scaling out the database more seamless. It became evident that there was a lot of code duplication that got into the codebase to implement the propagation.
This PR tries to reduce the amount of repeated code that is at most only slightly different. To make things worse, most of the differences were actually oversights instead of correct.
This Patch introduces 3 reusable sets of pre/post processing steps for respectively
- create
- alter
- drop
With the use of the common functionality we should have more coherent behaviour between different supported object by Citus.
Some steps either omit the Pre or Post processing step if they would not make sense to include.
All tests pass, only 1 test needed changing, foreign servers, as the dropping of foreign servers didn't implement support for dropping multiple foreign servers at once. Given the common approach correctly supports dropping of multiple objects, either distributed or not, the test that assumed it wouldn't work was now obsolete.
We have a mechanism which ensures that newly distributed
objects are recorded during `alter extension citus update`.
However, the logic was lacking "view"s. With this commit, we make
sure that existing views are also marked as distributed during
upgrade.
Adds support for propagation ALTER VIEW commands to
- Change owner of view
- SET/RESET option
- Rename view and view's column name
- Change schema of the view
Since PG also supports targeting views with ALTER TABLE
commands, related code also added to direct such ALTER TABLE
commands to ALTER VIEW commands while sending them to workers.
Breaking down #5899 into smaller PR-s
This particular PR changes the way TRUNCATE acquires distributed locks on the relations it is truncating to use the LOCK command instead of lock_relation_if_exists. This has the benefit of using pg's recursive locking logic it implements for the LOCK command instead of us having to resolve relation dependencies and lock them explicitly. While this does not directly affect truncate, it will allow us to generalize this locking logic to then log different relations where the pg recursive locking will become useful (e.g. locking views).
This implementation is a bit more complex that it needs to be due to pg not supporting locking foreign tables. We can however, still lock foreign tables with lock_relation_if_exists. So for a command:
TRUNCATE dist_table_1, dist_table_2, foreign_table_1, foreign_table_2, dist_table_3;
We generate and send the following command to all the workers in metadata:
```sql
SEL citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO FALSE;
LOCK dist_table_1, dist_table_2 IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;
SELECT lock_relation_if_exists('foreign_table_1', 'ACCESS EXCLUSIVE');
SELECT lock_relation_if_exists('foreign_table_2', 'ACCESS EXCLUSIVE');
LOCK dist_table_3 IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;
SEL citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO TRUE;
```
Note that we need to alternate between the lock command and lock_table_if_exists in order to preserve the TRUNCATE order of relations.
When pg supports locking foreign tables, we will be able to massive simplify this logic and send a single LOCK command.
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
* 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>
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).
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.
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.
* 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
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.
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.
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.
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