With this PR, we allow creating distributed tables with without
specifying a shard key via create_distributed_table(). Here are the
the important details about those tables:
* Specifying `shard_count` is not allowed because it is assumed to be 1.
* We mostly call such tables as "null shard-key" table in code /
comments.
* To avoid doing a breaking layout change in create_distributed_table();
instead of throwing an error, it will inform the user that
`distribution_type`
param is ignored unless it's explicitly set to NULL or 'h'.
* `colocate_with` param allows colocating such null shard-key tables to
each other.
* We define this table type, i.e., NULL_SHARD_KEY_TABLE, as a subclass
of
DISTRIBUTED_TABLE because we mostly want to treat them as distributed
tables in terms of SQL / DDL / operation support.
* Metadata for such tables look like:
- distribution method => DISTRIBUTE_BY_NONE
- replication model => REPLICATION_MODEL_STREAMING
- colocation id => **!=** INVALID_COLOCATION_ID (distinguishes from
Citus local tables)
* We assign colocation groups for such tables to different nodes in a
round-robin fashion based on the modulo of "colocation id".
Note that this PR doesn't care about DDL (except CREATE TABLE) / SQL /
operation (i.e., Citus UDFs) support for such tables but adds a
preliminary
API.
Now that we will soon add another table type having DISTRIBUTE_BY_NONE
as distribution method and that we want the code to interpret such
tables mostly as distributed tables, let's make the definition of those
other two table types more strict by removing
CITUS_TABLE_WITH_NO_DIST_KEY
macro.
And instead, use HasDistributionKey() check in the places where the
logic applies to all table types that have / don't have a distribution
key. In future PRs, we might want to convert some of those
HasDistributionKey() checks if logic only applies to Citus local /
reference tables, not the others.
And adding HasDistributionKey() also allows us to consider having
DISTRIBUTE_BY_NONE as the distribution method as a "table attribute"
that can apply to distributed tables too, rather something that
determines the table type.
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>
increasing logical clock. Clock guarantees to never go back in value after restarts,
and makes best attempt to keep the value close to unix epoch time in milliseconds.
Also, introduces a new GUC "citus.enable_cluster_clock", when true, every
distributed transaction is stamped with logical causal clock and persisted
in a catalog pg_dist_commit_transaction.
DESCRIPTION: Fix bug in global PID assignment for rebalancer
sub-connections
In CI our isolation_shard_rebalancer_progress test would sometimes fail
like this:
```diff
+isolationtester: canceling step s1-rebalance-c1-block-writes after 60 seconds
step s1-rebalance-c1-block-writes:
SELECT rebalance_table_shards('colocated1', shard_transfer_mode:='block_writes');
- <waiting ...>
+
+ERROR: canceling statement due to user request
step s7-get-progress:
```
Source:
https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/citusdata/citus/27855/workflows/2a7e335a-f3e8-46ed-b6bd-6920d42f7214/jobs/831710
It turned out this was an actual bug in the way our assigning of global
PIDs interacts with the way we connect to ourselves as the shard
rebalancer. The first command the shard rebalancer sends is a SET
ommand to change the application_name to `citus_rebalancer`. If
`StartupCitusBackend` is called after this command is processed, then it
overwrites the global PID that was extracted from the previous
application_name. This makes sure that we don't do that, and continue to
use the original global PID. While it might seem that we only call
`StartupCitusBackend` once for each query backend, this isn't actually
the case. Whenever pg_dist_partition gets ANALYZEd by autovacuum
we indirectly call `StartupCitusBackend` again, because we invalidate
the cache then.
In passing this fixes two other things as well:
1. It sets `distributedCommandOriginator` correctly in
`AssignGlobalPID`, by using IsExternalClientBackend(). This doesn't
matter much anymore, since AssignGlobalPID effectively becomes a
no-op in this PR for any non-external client backends.
2. It passes the application_name to InitializeBackendData in
StartupCitusBackend, instead of INVALID_CITUS_INTERNAL_BACKEND_GPID
(which effectively got casted to NULL). In practice this doesn't
change the behaviour of the call, since the call is a no-op for every
backend except the maintenance daemon. And the behaviour of the call
is the same for NULL as for the application_name of the maintenance
daemon.
DESCRIPTION: Add infrastructure to run long running management operations in background
This infrastructure introduces the primitives of jobs and tasks.
A task consists of a sql statement and an owner. Tasks belong to a
Job and can depend on other tasks from the same job.
When there are either runnable or running tasks we would like to
make sure a bacgrkound task queue monitor process is running. A Task
could be in running state while there is actually no monitor present
due to a database restart or failover. Once the monitor starts it
will reset any running task to its runnable state.
To make sure only one background task queue monitor is ever running
at once it will acquire an advisory lock that self conflicts.
Once a task is done it will find all tasks depending on this task.
After checking that the task doesn't have unmet dependencies it will
transition the task from blocked to runnable state for the task to
be picked up on a subsequent task start.
Currently only one task can be running at a time. This can be
improved upon in later releases without changes to the higher level
API.
The initial goal for this background tasks is to allow a rebalance
to run in the background. This will be implemented in a subsequent PR.
DESCRIPTION:
This PR adds support for 'Deferred Drop' and robust 'Shard Cleanup' for Splits.
Common Infrastructure
This PR introduces new common infrastructure so as any operation that wants robust cleanup of resources can register with the cleaner and have the resources cleaned appropriately based on a specified policy. 'Shard Split' is the first consumer using this new infrastructure.
Note : We only support adding 'shards' as resources to be cleaned-up right now but the framework will be extended to support other resources in future.
Deferred Drop for Split
Deferred Drop Support ensures that shards undergoing split are not dropped inline as part of operation but dropped later when no active read queries are running on shard. This helps with :
Avoids any potential deadlock scenarios that can cause long running Split operation to rollback.
Avoids Split operation blocking writes and then getting blocked (due to running queries on the shard) when trying to drop shards.
Deferred drop is the new default behavior going forward.
Shard Cleaner Extension
Shard Cleaner is a background task responsible for deferred drops in case of 'Move' operations.
The cleaner has been extended to ensure robust cleanup of shards (dummy shards and split children) in case of a failure based on the new infrastructure mentioned above. The cleaner also handles deferred drop for 'Splits'.
TESTING:
New test ''citus_split_shard_by_split_points_deferred_drop' to test deferred drop support.
New test 'failure_split_cleanup' to test shard cleanup with failures in different stages.
Update 'isolation_blocking_shard_split and isolation_non_blocking_shard_split' for deferred drop.
Added non-deferred drop version of existing tests : 'citus_split_shard_no_deferred_drop' and 'citus_non_blocking_splits_no_deferred_drop'
Added create_distributed_table_concurrently which is nonblocking variant of create_distributed_table.
It bases on the split API which takes advantage of logical replication to support nonblocking split operations.
Co-authored-by: Marco Slot <marco.slot@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: aykutbozkurt <aykut.bozkurt1995@gmail.com>
use RecurseObjectDependencies api to find if an object is citus depended
make vanilla tests runnable to see if citus_depended function is working correctly
* Remove if conditions with PG_VERSION_NUM < 13
* Remove server_above_twelve(&eleven) checks from tests
* Fix tests
* Remove pg12 and pg11 alternative test output files
* Remove pg12 specific normalization rules
* Some more if conditions in the code
* Change RemoteCollationIdExpression and some pg12/pg13 comments
* Remove some more normalization rules
This PR makes all of the features open source that were previously only
available in Citus Enterprise.
Features that this adds:
1. Non blocking shard moves/shard rebalancer
(`citus.logical_replication_timeout`)
2. Propagation of CREATE/DROP/ALTER ROLE statements
3. Propagation of GRANT statements
4. Propagation of CLUSTER statements
5. Propagation of ALTER DATABASE ... OWNER TO ...
6. Optimization for COPY when loading JSON to avoid double parsing of
the JSON object (`citus.skip_jsonb_validation_in_copy`)
7. Support for row level security
8. Support for `pg_dist_authinfo`, which allows storing different
authentication options for different users, e.g. you can store
passwords or certificates here.
9. Support for `pg_dist_poolinfo`, which allows using connection poolers
in between coordinator and workers
10. Tracking distributed query execution times using
citus_stat_statements (`citus.stat_statements_max`,
`citus.stat_statements_purge_interval`,
`citus.stat_statements_track`). This is disabled by default.
11. Blocking tenant_isolation
12. Support for `sslkey` and `sslcert` in `citus.node_conninfo`
The error comes due to the datum jsonb in pg_dist_metadata_node.metadata being 0 in some scenarios. This is likely due to not copying the data when receiving a datum from a tuple and pg deciding to deallocate that memory when the table that the tuple was from is closed.
Also fix another place in the code that might have been susceptible to this issue.
I tested on both multi-vg and multi-1-vg and the test were successful.
* Bug fix for bug #5876. Memset MetadataCacheSystem every time there is an abort
* Created an ObjectAccessHook that saves the transactionlevel of when citus was created and will clear metadatacache if that transaction level is rolled back. Added additional tests to make sure metadatacache is cleared
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.
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.
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.
BEGIN/COMMIT transaction block or in a UDF calling another UDF.
(2) Prohibit/Limit the delegated function not to do a 2PC (or any work on a
remote connection).
(3) Have a safety net to ensure the (2) i.e. we should block the connections
from the delegated procedure or make sure that no 2PC happens on the node.
(4) Such delegated functions are restricted to use only the distributed argument
value.
Note: To limit the scope of the project we are considering only Functions(not
procedures) for the initial work.
DESCRIPTION: Introduce a new flag "force_delegation" in create_distributed_function(),
which will allow a function to be delegated in an explicit transaction block.
Fixes#3265
Once the function is delegated to the worker, on that node during the planning
distributed_planner()
TryToDelegateFunctionCall()
CheckDelegatedFunctionExecution()
EnableInForceDelegatedFuncExecution()
Save the distribution argument (Constant)
ExecutorStart()
CitusBeginScan()
IsShardKeyValueAllowed()
Ensure to not use non-distribution argument.
ExecutorRun()
AdaptiveExecutor()
StartDistributedExecution()
EnsureNoRemoteExecutionFromWorkers()
Ensure all the shards are local to the node in the remoteTaskList.
NonPushableInsertSelectExecScan()
InitializeCopyShardState()
EnsureNoRemoteExecutionFromWorkers()
Ensure all the shards are local to the node in the placementList.
This also fixes a minor issue: Properly handle expressions+parameters in distribution arguments
- [x] Add some more regression test coverage
- [x] Make sure returning works fine in case of
local execution + remote execution
(task->partiallyLocalOrRemote works as expected, already added tests)
- [x] Implement locking properly (and add isolation tests)
- [x] We do #shardcount round-trips on `SerializeNonCommutativeWrites`.
We made it a single round-trip.
- [x] Acquire locks for subselects on the workers & add isolation tests
- [x] Add a GUC to prevent modification from the workers, hence increase the
coordinator-only throughput
- The performance slightly drops (~%15), unless
`citus.allow_modifications_from_workers_to_replicated_tables`
is set to false
In the past, we allowed users to manually switch to 1PC
(e.g., one phase commit). However, with this commit, we
don't. All multi-shard modifications are done via 2PC.
With Citus 9.0, we introduced `citus.single_shard_commit_protocol` which
defaults to 2PC.
With this commit, we prevent any user to set it to 1PC and drop support
for `citus.single_shard_commit_protocol`.
Although this might add some overhead for users, it is already the default
behaviour (so less likely) and marking placements as INVALID is much
worse.
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.
Ignore orphaned shards in more places
Only use active shard placements in RouterInsertTaskList
Use IncludingOrphanedPlacements in some more places
Fix comment
Add tests
* Add user-defined sequence support for MX
* Remove default part when propagating to workers
* Fix ALTER TABLE with sequences for mx tables
* Clean up and add tests
* Propagate DROP SEQUENCE
* Removing function parts
* Propagate ALTER SEQUENCE
* Change sequence type before propagation & cleanup
* Revert "Propagate ALTER SEQUENCE"
This reverts commit 2bef64c5a29f4e7224a7f43b43b88e0133c65159.
* Ensure sequence is not used in a different column with different type
* Insert select tests
* Propagate rename sequence stmt
* Fix issue with group ID cache invalidation
* Add ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TYPE .. precaution
* Fix attnum inconsistency and add various tests
* Add ALTER SEQUENCE precaution
* Remove Citus hook
* More tests
Co-authored-by: Marco Slot <marco.slot@gmail.com>
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).
With citus shard helper view, we can easily see:
- where each shard is, which node, which port
- what kind of table it belongs to
- its size
With such a view, we can see shards that have a size bigger than some
value, which could be useful. Also debugging can be easier in production
as well with this view.
Fetch shards in one go per node
The previous implementation was slow because it would do a lot of round
trips, one per shard to be exact. Hence it is improved so that we fetch
all the shard_name, shard-size pairs per node in one go.
Construct shards_names, sizes query on coordinator
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