In two commits vacuumFlags in PGXACT is moved and then renamed to status flags
This macro uses the appropriate version of the flag
Relevant PG commits:
5788e258bb26495fab65ff3aa486268d1c50b123
cd9c1b3e197a9b53b840dcc87eb41b04d601a5f9
The STATUS_WAITING define is removed and an enum with PROC_WAIT_STATUS_WAITING is added instead
This macro uses appropriate one
Relevant PG commit:
a513f1dfbf2c29a51b0f7cbd5913ce2d2ee452c5
DESCRIPTION: Fix a segfault caused by use after free in ConnectionsPlacementHash
Fix a segfault caused by retaining data in any of the hashmaps making up the Placement Connection Management.
We have seen production systems segfault due to random data referenced from ConnectionPlacementHash.
On investigation we found that the backends segfaulting on this had OOM errors closely prior to the segfault.
It has shown there are at least 15 places where an allocation can OOM that would cause ConnectionPlacementHash to retain pointers to memory from contexts that are subsequently freed. This would reproduce the segfault we have observed in production.
Conditions for these allocations are:
- allocated after first call to `AssociatePlacementWithShard`: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/blob/v10.0.3/src/backend/distributed/connection/placement_connection.c#L880-L881
- allocated before `StartNodeUserDatabaseConnection`: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/blob/v10.0.3/src/backend/distributed/connection/connection_management.c#L291
At least 15 points of memory allocation (which could fail) are between the callsites of both in a primary key lookup on a reference table - where we have seen an OOM cause a segfault moments later.
Instead of leaving any references in ConnectionPlacementHash, ConnectionShardHash and ColocatedPlacementsHash that could retain any pointers that are freed due to the TopTransactionContext being reset we clear all these hashes irregardless of the state of CurrentCoordinatedTransactionState.
Downside is that on any transaction abort we will now iterate through 4 hashmaps and clear their contents. Given that they are either already empty, which should cause a quick iteration, or non-empty, causing segfaults in subsequent executions, this overhead seems reasonable.
A better solution would be to move the creation of these hashmaps so they would live in the TopTransactionContext themself, assuming their contents would never outlive a transaction. This needs more investigation and is an involved refactor Hence fixing this quickly here.
As we use the current user to sync the metadata to the nodes
with #5105 (and many other PRs), there is no reason that
prevents us to use the coordinated transaction for metadata syncing.
This commit also renames few functions to reflect their actual
implementation.
Before this commit, we always synced the metadata with superuser.
However, that creates various edge cases such as visibility errors
or self distributed deadlocks or complicates user access checks.
Instead, with this commit, we use the current user to sync the metadata.
Note that, `start_metadata_sync_to_node` still requires super user
because accessing certain metadata (like pg_dist_node) always require
superuser (e.g., the current user should be a superuser).
However, metadata syncing operations regarding the distributed
tables can now be done with regular users, as long as the user
is the owner of the table. A table owner can still insert non-sense
metadata, however it'd only affect its own table. So, we cannot do
anything about that.
Previously this was usually done after argument parsing. This can cause
SEGFAULTs if the number or type of arguments changes in a new version.
By checking that Citus version is correct before doing any argument
parsing we protect against these types of issues. Issues like this have
occurred in pg_auto_failover, so it's not just a theoretical issue.
The main reason why these calls were not at the top of functions is
really just historical. It was because in the past we didn't allow
statements before declarations. Thus having this check before the
argument parsing would have only been possible if we first declared all
variables.
In addition to moving existing CheckCitusVersion calls it also adds
these calls to rebalancer related functions (they were missing there).
* Columnar: introduce columnar storage API.
This new API is responsible for the low-level storage details of
columnar; translating large reads and writes into individual block
reads and writes that respect the page headers and emit WAL. It's also
responsible for the columnar metapage, resource reservations (stripe
IDs, row numbers, and data), and truncation.
This new API is not used yet, but will be used in subsequent
forthcoming commits.
* Columnar: add columnar_storage_info() for debugging purposes.
* Columnar: expose ColumnarMetadataNewStorageId().
* Columnar: always initialize metapage at creation time.
This avoids the complexity of dealing with tables where the metapage
has not yet been initialized.
* Columnar: columnar storage upgrade/downgrade UDFs.
Necessary upgrade/downgrade step so that new code doesn't see an old
metapage.
* Columnar: improve metadata.c comment.
* Columnar: make ColumnarMetapage internal to the storage API.
Callers should not have or need direct access to the metapage.
* Columnar: perform resource reservation using storage API.
* Columnar: implement truncate using storage API.
* Columnar: implement read/write paths with storage API.
* Columnar: add storage tests.
* Revert "Columnar: don't include stripe reservation locks in lock graph."
This reverts commit c3dcd6b9f8.
No longer needed because the columnar storage API takes care of
concurrency for resource reservation.
* Columnar: remove unnecessary lock when reserving.
No longer necessary because the columnar storage API takes care of
concurrent resource reservation.
* Add simple upgrade tests for storage/ branch
* fix multi_extension.out
Co-authored-by: Onur Tirtir <onurcantirtir@gmail.com>
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.
Because setting the flag doesn't necessarily mean that we'll
use 2PC. If connections are read-only, we will not use 2PC.
In other words, we'll use 2PC only for connections that modified
any placements.
Before this commit, Citus used 2PC no matter what kind of
local query execution happens.
For example, if the coordinator has shards (and the workers as well),
even a simple SELECT query could start 2PC:
```SQL
WITH cte_1 AS (SELECT * FROM test LIMIT 10) SELECT count(*) FROM cte_1;
```
In this query, the local execution of the shards (and also intermediate
result reads) triggers the 2PC.
To prevent that, Citus now distinguishes local reads and local writes.
And, Citus switches to 2PC only if a modification happens. This may
still lead to unnecessary 2PCs when there is a local modification
and remote SELECTs only. Though, we handle that separately
via #4587.
* Skip 2PC for readonly connections in a transaction
* Use ConnectionModifiedPlacement() function
* Remove the second check of ConnectionModifiedPlacement()
* Add order by to prevent flaky output
* Test using pg_dist_transaction
We used to need WarnAboutLeakedPreparedTransaction()
as we didn't have auto 2PC recovery. But, we long have
2PC recovery by https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/1574
So, we don't need anymore.
Considering the adaptive connection management
improvements that we plan to roll soon, it makes it
very helpful to know the number of active client
backends.
We are doing this addition to simplify yhe adaptive connection
management for single node Citus. In single node Citus, both the
client backends and Citus parallel queries would compete to get
slots on Postgres' `max_connections` on the same Citus database.
With adaptive connection management, we have the counters for
Citus parallel queries. That helps us to adaptively decide
on the remote executions pool size (e.g., throttle connections
if necessary).
However, we do not have any counters for the total number of
client backends on the database. For single node Citus, we
should consider all the client backends, not only the remote
connections that Citus does.
Of course Postgres internally knows how many client
backends are active. However, to get that number Postgres
iterates over all the backends. For examaple, see [pg_stat_get_db_numbackends](8e90ec5580/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c (L1240))
where Postgres iterates over all the backends.
For our purpuses, we need this information on every connection
establishment. That's why we cannot affort to do this kind of
iterattion.
* Not take ShareUpdateExlusiveLock on pg_dist_transaction
We were taking ShareUpdateExlusiveLock on pg_dist_transaction during
recovery to prevent multiple recoveries happening concurrenly. VACUUM(
not FULL) also takes ShareUpdateExclusiveLock, and they can conflict. It
seems that VACUUM will skip the table if there is a conflicting lock
already taken unless it is doing the vacuum to prevent id wraparound, in
which case there can be a deadlock. I guess the deadlock happens if:
- VACUUM takes a lock on pg_dist_transaction and is done for id
wraparound problem
- The transaction in the maintenance tries to take a lock but
cannot as that conflicts with the lock acquired by VACUUM
- The transaction in the maintenance daemon has a very old xid hence
VACUUM cannot proceed.
If we take a row exclusive lock in transaction recovery then it wouldn't
conflict with VACUUM hence it could proceed so the deadlock would be
resolved. To prevent concurrent transaction recoveries happening, an
advisory lock is taken with ShareUpdateExlusiveLock as before.
* Use CITUS_OPERATIONS tag
Introduce table entry utility functions
Citus table cache entry utilities are introduced so that we can easily
extend existing functionality with minimum changes, specifically changes
to these functions. For example IsNonDistributedTableCacheEntry can be
extended for citus local tables without the need to scan the whole
codebase and update each relevant part.
* Introduce utility functions to find the type of tables
A table type can be a reference table, a hash/range/append distributed
table. Utility methods are created so that we don't have to worry about
how a table is considered as a reference table etc. This also makes it
easy to extend the table types.
* Add IsCitusTableType utilities
* Rename IsCacheEntryCitusTableType -> IsCitusTableTypeCacheEntry
* Change citus table types in some checks
CMDTAG_SELECT exists in PG12 hence defining a MACRO such as
CMDTAG_SELECT -> "SELECT" is not possible. I chose CMDTAG_SELECT_COMPAT
because with the COMPAT suffix it is explicit that it maps to different
things in different versions and also has a less chance of mapping
something irrevelant. For example if we used SELECT as a macro, then it
would map every SELECT to whatever it is mapping to, which might have
unexpected/undesired behaviour.
This commit mostly adds pg_get_triggerdef_command to our ruleutils_13.
This doesn't add anything extra for ruleutils 13 so it is basically a copy
of the change on ruleutils_12
Commit on postgres side:
05d8449e73694585b59f8b03aaa087f04cc4679a
Command on postgres side:
git log --all --grep="hashutils"
include common/hashfn.h for pg >= 13
tag_hash was moved from hsearch.h to hashutils.h then to hashfn.h
Commits on Postgres side:
9341c783cc42ffae5860c86bdc713bd47d734ffd
With PG13 heap_* (heap_open, heap_close etc) are replaced with table_*
(table_open, table_close etc).
It is better to use the new table access methods in the codebase and
define the macros for the previous versions as we can easily remove the
macro without having to change the codebase when we drop the support for
the old version.
Commits that introduced this change on Postgres:
f25968c49697db673f6cd2a07b3f7626779f1827
e0c4ec07284db817e1f8d9adfb3fffc952252db0
4b21acf522d751ba5b6679df391d5121b6c4a35f
Command to see relevant commits on Postgres side:
git log --all --grep="heap_open"
With this patch, we introduce `locally_reserved_shared_connections.c/h` files
which are responsible for reserving some space in shared memory counters
upfront.
We sometimes need to reserve connections, but not necessarily
establish them. For example:
- COPY command should reserve connections as it cannot know which
connections it needs in which order. COPY establishes connections
as any input data hits the workers. For example, for router COPY
command, it only establishes 1 connection.
As discussed here (https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/3849#pullrequestreview-431792473),
COPY needs to reserve connections up-front, otherwise we can end
up with resource starvation/un-detected deadlocks.
We were using ALL_WORKERS TargetWorkerSet while sending temporary schema
creation and cleanup. We(well mostly I) thought that ALL_WORKERS would also include coordinator when it is added as a worker. It turns out that it was FILTERING OUT the coordinator even if it is added as a worker to the cluster.
So to have some context here, in repartitions, for each jobId we create
(at least we were supposed to) a schema in each worker node in the cluster. Then we partition each shard table into some intermediate files, which is called the PARTITION step. So after this partition step each node has some intermediate files having tuples in those nodes. Then we fetch the partition files to necessary worker nodes, which is called the FETCH step. Then from the files we create intermediate tables in the temporarily created schemas, which is called a MERGE step. Then after evaluating the result, we remove the temporary schemas(one for each job ID in each node) and files.
If node 1 has file1, and node 2 has file2 after PARTITION step, it is
enough to either move file1 from node1 to node2 or vice versa. So we
prune one of them.
In the MERGE step, if the schema for a given jobID doesn't exist, the
node tries to use the `public` schema if it is a superuser, which is
actually added for testing in the past.
So when we were not sending schema creation comands for each job ID to
the coordinator(because we were using ALL_WORKERS flag, and it doesn't
include the coordinator), we would basically not have any schemas for
repartitions in the coordinator. The PARTITION step would be executed on
the coordinator (because the tasks are generated in the planner part)
and it wouldn't give us any error because it doesn't have anything to do
with the temporary schemas(that we didn't create). But later two things
would happen:
- If by chance the fetch is pruned on the coordinator side, we the other
nodes would fetch the partitioned files from the coordinator and execute
the query as expected, because it has all the information.
- If the fetch tasks are not pruned in the coordinator, in the MERGE
step, the coordinator would either error out saying that the necessary
schema doesn't exist, or it would try to create the temporary tables
under public schema ( if it is a superuser). But then if we had the same
task ID with different jobID it would fail saying that the table already
exists, which is an error we were getting.
In the first case, the query would work okay, but it would still not do
the cleanup, hence we would leave the partitioned files from the
PARTITION step there. Hence ensure_no_intermediate_data_leak would fail.
To make things more explicit and prevent such bugs in the future,
ALL_WORKERS is named as ALL_NON_COORD_WORKERS. And a new flag to return
all the active nodes is added as ALL_DATA_NODES. For repartition case,
we don't use the only-reference table nodes but this version makes the
code simpler and there shouldn't be any significant performance issue
with that.
Rename TargetWorkerSet enums to make them more explicit about what they
mean. Ideally it would be good to treat everything as a node without the
'worker' concept because it makes things complicated. Another
improvement could be to rename TargetWorkerSet as TargetNodeSet but it
goes to renaming many occurrences of Worker, which is probably too big
for this PR.
It was possible to get an assertion error, if a DML command was
cancelled that opened a connection and then "ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT" was
used to continue the transaction. The reason for this was that canceling
the transaction might leave the `claimedExclusively` flag on for (some
of) it's connections.
This caused an assertion failure because `CanUseExistingConnection`
would return false and a new connection would be opened, and then there
would be two connections doing DML for the same placement. Which is
disallowed. That this situation caused an assertion failure instead of
an error, means that without asserts this could possibly result in some
visibility bugs, similar to the ones described
https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/3867
This can save a lot of data to be sent in some cases, thus improving
performance for which inter query bandwidth is the bottleneck.
There's some issues with enabling this as default, so that's currently not done.
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Naisila Puka
Nils Dijk
Onder Kalaci
Onur Tirtir
Jelte Fennema
Ahmet Gedemenli
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Marco Slot
Philip Dubé
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