Comment from the code is clear on this:
/*
* The statistics objects of the distributed table are not relevant
* for the distributed planning, so we can override it.
*
* Normally, we should not need this. However, the combination of
* Postgres commit 269b532aef55a579ae02a3e8e8df14101570dfd9 and
* Citus function AdjustPartitioningForDistributedPlanning()
* forces us to do this. The commit expects statistics objects
* of partitions to have "inh" flag set properly. Whereas, the
* function overrides "inh" flag. To avoid Postgres to throw error,
* we override statlist such that Postgres does not try to process
* any statistics objects during the standard_planner() on the
* coordinator. In the end, we do not need the standard_planner()
* on the coordinator to generate an optimized plan. We call
* into standard_planner() for other purposes, such as generating the
* relationRestrictionContext here.
*
* AdjustPartitioningForDistributedPlanning() is a hack that we use
* to prevent Postgres' standard_planner() to expand all the partitions
* for the distributed planning when a distributed partitioned table
* is queried. It is required for both correctness and performance
* reasons. Although we can eliminate the use of the function for
* the correctness (e.g., make sure that rest of the planner can handle
* partitions), it's performance implication is hard to avoid. Certain
* planning logic of Citus (such as router or query pushdown) relies
* heavily on the relationRestrictionList. If
* AdjustPartitioningForDistributedPlanning() is removed, all the
* partitions show up in the, causing high planning times for
* such queries.
*/
DESCRIPTION: Show citus_copy_shard_placement progress in
get_rebalance_progress
When rebalancing to a new node that does not have reference tables yet
the rebalancer will first copy the reference tables to the nodes.
Depending on the size of the reference tables, this might take a long
time. However, there's no indication of what's happening at this stage
of the rebalance.
This PR improves this situation by also showing the progress of any
citus_copy_shard_placement calls when calling get_rebalance_progress.
We can now do the following:
- Distribute sequence with logged/unlogged option
- ALTER TABLE my_sequence SET LOGGED/UNLOGGED
- ALTER SEQUENCE my_sequence SET LOGGED/UNLOGGED
Relevant PG commit
344d62fb9a
DESCRIPTION: Add a rebalancer that uses background tasks for its
execution
Based on the baclground jobs and tasks introduced in #6296 we implement
a new rebalancer on top of the primitives of background execution. This
allows the user to initiate a rebalance and let Citus execute the long
running steps in the background until completion.
Users can invoke the new background rebalancer with `SELECT
citus_rebalance_start();`. It will output information on its job id and
how to track progress. Also it returns its job id for automation
purposes. If you simply want to wait till the rebalance is done you can
use `SELECT citus_rebalance_wait();`
A running rebalance can be canelled/stopped with `SELECT
citus_rebalance_stop();`.
The logical replication catchup part for shard splits and shard moves is
very similar. This abstracts most of that similarity away into a single
function. This also improves the logic for non blocking shard splits a
bit, by using faster foreign key creation. It also parallelizes index creation
which shard moves were already doing, but shard splits did not.
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.
Previously we would create foreign keys to reference table in an extra
fast way at the end of a shard move. This uses that same logic to also
do it for foreign keys between distributed tables.
Fixes#6141
Introduces a new GUC named citus.skip_constraint_validation, which basically skips constraint validation when set to on.
For some several places that we hack to skip the foreign key validation phase, now we use this GUC.
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'
Pre PG15, renaming child triggers on partitions is allowed. When
creating a trigger in a distributed parent partitioned table, the
triggers on the shards of the partitions have the same name with
the triggers on the corresponding parent shards of the parent
table. Therefore, they don't have the same appended shard id as
the shard id of the partition. Hence, when trying to rename a
child trigger on a partition of a distributed table, we can't
correctly find the triggers on the shards of the partition in
order to rename them since we append a different shard id to the
name of the trigger. Since we can't find the trigger we get a
misleading error of inexistent trigger.
In this commit we prohibit renaming child triggers on distributed
partitions altogether.
Sometimes in CI our isolation_citus_dist_activity test fails randomly
like this:
```diff
step s2-view-dist:
SELECT query, citus_nodename_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), citus_nodeport_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), state, wait_event_type, wait_event, usename, datname FROM citus_dist_stat_activity WHERE query NOT ILIKE ALL(VALUES('%pg_prepared_xacts%'), ('%COMMIT%'), ('%BEGIN%'), ('%pg_catalog.pg_isolation_test_session_is_blocked%'), ('%citus_add_node%')) AND backend_type = 'client backend' ORDER BY query DESC;
query |citus_nodename_for_nodeid|citus_nodeport_for_nodeid|state |wait_event_type|wait_event|usename |datname
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+---------------+----------+--------+----------
INSERT INTO test_table VALUES (100, 100);
|localhost | 57636|idle in transaction|Client |ClientRead|postgres|regression
-(1 row)
+
+ SELECT coalesce(to_jsonb(array_agg(csa_from_one_node.*)), '[{}]'::JSONB)
+ FROM (
+ SELECT global_pid, worker_query AS is_worker_query, pg_stat_activity.* FROM
+ pg_stat_activity LEFT JOIN get_all_active_transactions() ON process_id = pid
+ ) AS csa_from_one_node;
+ |localhost | 57636|active | | |postgres|regression
+(2 rows)
step s3-view-worker:
```
Source: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/citusdata/citus/26692/workflows/3406e4b4-b686-4667-bec6-8253ee0809b1/jobs/765119
I intended to fix this with #6263, but the fix turned out to be
insufficient. This PR tries to address the issue by setting
distributedCommandOriginator correctly in more situations. However, even
with this change it's still possible to reproduce the flaky test in CI.
In any case this should fix at least some instances of this issue.
In passing this changes the isolation_citus_dist_activity test to allow
running it multiple times in a row.
In commit 31faa88a4e I removed some features of the rebalance progress
monitor. I did this because the plan was to remove the foreground shard
rebalancer later in the PR that would add the background shard
rebalancer. So, I didn't want to spend time fixing something that we
would throw away anyway.
As it turns out we're not removing the foreground shard rebalancer after
all, so it made sens to fix the stuff that I broke. This PR does that.
For the most part this commit reverts the changes in commit 31faa88a4e.
It's not a full revert though, because it keeps the improved tests and
the changes to `citus_move_shard_placement`.
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>
Sometimes in CI our isolation_citus_dist_activity test fails randomly
like this:
```diff
step s2-view-dist:
SELECT query, citus_nodename_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), citus_nodeport_for_nodeid(citus_nodeid_for_gpid(global_pid)), state, wait_event_type, wait_event, usename, datname FROM citus_dist_stat_activity WHERE query NOT ILIKE ALL(VALUES('%pg_prepared_xacts%'), ('%COMMIT%'), ('%BEGIN%'), ('%pg_catalog.pg_isolation_test_session_is_blocked%'), ('%citus_add_node%')) AND backend_type = 'client backend' ORDER BY query DESC;
query |citus_nodename_for_nodeid|citus_nodeport_for_nodeid|state |wait_event_type|wait_event|usename |datname
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+---------------+----------+--------+----------
INSERT INTO test_table VALUES (100, 100);
|localhost | 57636|idle in transaction|Client |ClientRead|postgres|regression
-(1 row)
+
+ SELECT coalesce(to_jsonb(array_agg(csa_from_one_node.*)), '[{}]'::JSONB)
+ FROM (
+ SELECT global_pid, worker_query AS is_worker_query, pg_stat_activity.* FROM
+ pg_stat_activity LEFT JOIN get_all_active_transactions() ON process_id = pid
+ ) AS csa_from_one_node;
+ |localhost | 57636|active | | |postgres|regression
+(2 rows)
step s3-view-worker:
```
Source: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/citusdata/citus/26605/workflows/56d284d2-5bb3-4e64-a0ea-7b9b1626e7cd/jobs/760633
The reason for this is that citus_dist_stat_activity sometimes shows the
query that it uses itself to get the data from pg_stat_activity. This is
actually a bug, because it's a worker query and thus shouldn't show up
there. To try and solve this bug, we remove two small opportunities for a
race condition. These race conditions could happen when the backenddata
was marked as active, but the distributedCommandOriginator was not set
correctly yet/anymore. There was an opportunity for this to happen both
during connection start and shutdown.
Postgres supports JSON_TABLE feature on PG 15.
We treat JSON_TABLE the same as correlated functions (e.g., recurring tuples).
In the end, for multi-shard JSON_TABLE commands, we apply the same
restrictions as reference tables (e.g., cannot be in the outer part of
an outer join etc.)
Co-authored-by: Onder Kalaci <onderkalaci@gmail.com>
* Adjust configure script to allow PG15
* Adds copy of ruleutils_14.c as ruleutils_15.c
* Uses get_namespace_name_or_temp in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
48c5c9068211e0a04fd9553c8714b2821ed3ad17
* Clean up code using "(expr) ? true : false" in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
fd0625c7a9c679c0c1e896014b8f49a489c3a245
* Change varno from Index (unsigned int) to int in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
e3ec3c00d85bd2844ffddee83df2bd67c4f8297f
* Adds find_recursive_union to ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
3f50b82639637c9908afa2087de7588450aa866b
* Fix display of SQL-std func's args in INSERT/SELECT in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
a8d8445a7b2f80f6d0bfe97b19f90bd2cbef8759
* Fix ruleutils_15.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in more contexts
Relevant PG commit:
43c2175121c829c8591fc5117b725f1f22bfb670
* Fix assorted missing logic for GroupingFunc nodes in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
2591ee8ec44d8cbc8e1226550337a64c684746e4
* Adds grammar support for SQL/JSON clauses in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
f79b803dcc98d707450e158db3638dc67ff8380b
* Adds SQL/JSON constructors to ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commits:
f4fb45d15c59d7add2e1b81a9d477d0119a9691a
cc7401d5ca498a84d9b47fd2e01cebd8e830e558
* Adds support for MERGE in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
7103ebb7aae8ab8076b7e85f335ceb8fe799097c
* Add IS JSON predicate to ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
33a377608fc29cdd1f6b63be561eab0aee5c81f0
* Add SQL/JSON query functions to ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
1a36bc9dba8eae90963a586d37b6457b32b2fed4
* Adds three different SQL/JSON values to ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commits:
606948b058dc16bce494270eea577011a602810e
49082c2cc3d8167cca70cfe697afb064710828ca
* Adds JSON table functions in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
4e34747c88a03ede6e9d731727815e37273d4bc9
* Add PLAN function for JSON table in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
fadb48b00e02ccfd152baa80942de30205ab3c4f
* Remove extra blank lines before block-closing braces ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
24d2b2680a8d0e01b30ce8a41c4eb3b47aca5031
* set_deparse_plan: Reuse variable to appease Coverity ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
e70813fbc4aaca35ec012d5a426706bd54e4acab
* Mechanical code beautification ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
23e7b38bfe396f919fdb66057174d29e17086418
* Rename value_type to item_type in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
3ab9a63cb638a1fd99475668e2da9c237495aeda
* Show 'AS "?column?"' explicitly when it's important in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
c7461fc25558832dd347a9c8150b0f1ed85e36e8
* Fix ruleutils_15.c issues with dropped cols in funcs-returning-composite
Relevant PG commit:
c1d1e8469c77ce6b8e5310955580b4a3eee7fe96
* Change comment regarding functions returning composite in ruleutils_15.c
Relevant PG commit:
c2fa113ddb1117b1f03e91960f65d5d7d8a90270
* Replace int nodes with bool nodes where needed
In PG15, Boolean nodes are added. Pre PG15, internal Boolean values
in Create Role commands were represented by Integer nodes. This
commit replaces int nodes logic with bool nodes logic where needed.
Mostly there are CREATE ROLE logic changes.
Relevant PG commit:
941460fcf731a32e6a90691508d5cfa3d1f8eeaf
* Handle new option colliculocale in CREATE COLLATION logic
In PG15, there is an added option to use ICU as global locale provider.
pg_collation has three locale-related fields: collcollate and collctype,
which are libc-related fields, and a new one colliculocale, which is the
ICU-related field. Only the libc-related fields or the ICU-related field
is set, never both.
Relevant PG commits:
f2553d43060edb210b36c63187d52a632448e1d2
54637508f87bd5f07fb9406bac6b08240283be3b
* Add PG15 tests to CI using test images that have 15beta2 (#6093)
* Change warning message in pg_signal_backend()
Relevant PG commit:
7fa945b857cc1b2964799411f1633468826861ff
* Revert "Add missing ifdef for PG 15"
This reverts commit c7b51025ab.
* Fixes tests for ALTER TRIGGER RENAME consistency for part. tables
Relevant PG commit:
80ba4bb383538a2ee846fece6a7b8da9518b6866
* Prevent creating child triggers on partitions when adding new node
Pre PG15, tgisinternal is true for a "child" trigger on a partition
cloned from the trigger on the parent.
In PG15, tgisinternal is false in that case. However, we don't want to
create this trigger on the partition since it will create a conflict
when we try to attach the partition to the parent table:
ERROR: trigger "..." for relation "{partition_name}" already exists
Relevant PG commit:
f4566345cf40b068368cb5617e61318da60676ec
* Fix tests for generated columns dependency changes
In PG15, For GENERATED columns, all dependencies of the generation
expression are recorded as NORMAL dependencies of the column itself.
This requires CASCADE to drop generated cols with the original col.
PRE PG15, dependencies were recorded as AUTO, with which
generated columns are silently dropped with the original column.
Relevant PG commit:
cb02fcb4c95bae08adaca1202c2081cfc81a28b5
* Explicitly cast catalog "char" column to text before concatenation
Relevant PG commit:
07eee5a0dc642d26f44d65c4e6263304208e8583
* Remove 'AS "?column?"' from test outputs
There were some instances in the following tst outputs
in planning debug outputs where AS "?column?" is added.
We add a normalization rule to remove it as it is not
important.
cte_inline.out
recursive_relation_planning_restriction_pushdown.out
Relevant PG commit:
c7461fc25558832dd347a9c8150b0f1ed85e36e8
* Use pg_backup_stop(PG15) instead of pg_stop_backup(PG<15)
Add an alternative test output because of the change in the
backup modes of Postgres. Specifically here, there is a renaming
issue: pg_stop_backup PRE PG15 vs pg_backup_stop PG15+
The alternative output can be deleted when we drop support for PG14
Relevant PG commit:
39969e2a1e4d7f5a37f3ef37d53bbfe171e7d77a
* Adds citus.mitmfifo GUC
Previously we setting this configuration parameter
in the fly for failure tests schedule.
However, PG15 doesn't allow that anymore: reserved prefixes
like "citus" cannot be used to set non-existing GUCs.
Relevant PG commit:
88103567cb8fa5be46dc9fac3e3b8774951a2be7
* Handles EXPLAIN output diffs in PG15 - Extra result lines
To handle extra "Result" lines in explain outputs, we add explain
method to multi_test_helpers.sql file
- plan_without_result_lines() is added for cases where we want the
whole explain output with only "Result" lines removed
* Handles EXPLAIN output diffs in PG15, Hash Agg/Join leverage
To handle differences in usage of GroupAggregate vs HashAggregate
or Merge Join vs Hash join in cases where this detail doesn't
seem to matter, we use coordinator_plan().
- coordinator_plan() is updated to remove "Result" lines
There are some cases where we have subplans so we add a new
function that prints all Task Count lines as well
- coordinator_plan_with_subplans()
Still not sure of the relevant PG commit
Could be db0d67db2401eb6238ccc04c6407a4fd4f985832
but disabling enable_group_by_reordering didn't help.
* Handles EXPLAIN output diffs in PG15: enable_group_by_reordering
Relevant PG commit
db0d67db2401eb6238ccc04c6407a4fd4f985832
* Normalizes Memory Usage, Buckets, Batches for PG15 explain diffs
We create a new function in multi_test_helpers, which is similar
to explain_merge function in PG15. This explain helper function
normalies Memory Usage, Buckets and Batches, and we use it in the
tests which give a different output for PG15.
* Bump test images to 15beta3 (#6172)
* Omit namespace in post-copy errmsg
Relevant PG commit:
069d33d0c5a021601245e44df77a0423ddd69359
* Handles EXPLAIN output diffs in PG15: extra arrows&result lines
To handle extra "->" arrows resulting from extra Result lines
in explain outputs, we add the following explain method to
multi_test_helpers.sql file
- plan_without_arrows() is added for cases where we want the
whole explain output without arrows and without Result lines
* Alters public schema's owner to pg_database_owner in PG15
In PG15, public schema is owned by pg_database_owner role.
In multi_extension, we drop and recreate the ppublic schema,
hence its owner become the default user in our tests, postgres.
Change that to pg_database_owner for PG15 consistency.
This results in alternative test output for public schema grants
in the following test:
grant_on_schema_propagation.sql
Relevant PG commit: b073c3ccd06e4cb845e121387a43faa8c68a7b62
* Add alternative test outputs for change in Insert Select display
citus_local_tables_queries.sql
coordinator_shouldhaveshards.sql
cte_inline.sql
insert_select_repartition.sql
intermediate_result_pruning.sql
local_shard_execution.sql
local_shard_execution_replicated.sql
multi_deparse_shard_query.sql
multi_insert_select.sql
multi_insert_select_conflict.sql
multi_mx_insert_select_repartition.sql
mx_coordinator_shouldhaveshards.sql
single_node.sql
Relevant PG commit:
a8d8445a7b2f80f6d0bfe97b19f90bd2cbef8759
* Fixes columnar tap tests for PG15
In PG15, Perl test modules have been moved to a new namespace.
Also, postgres node new() and get_new_node() methods have been
unified to one method: new()
We create separate tap tests for PG13/14 and PG15+
and update the Makefiles accordingly.
Relevant PG commits:
201a76183e2056c2217129e12d68c25ec9c559c8
b3b4d8e68ae83f432f43f035c7eb481ef93e1583
* Handles EXPLAIN output diffs in PG15: HashAgg Leverage,alt. output
Still not sure of the relevant PG commit
Could be db0d67db2401eb6238ccc04c6407a4fd4f985832
but disabling enable_group_by_reordering didn't help.
We're in the processes of totally changing the shard rebalancer
experience and infrastructure. Soon the shard rebalancer will include
retries, crash recovery and support for running in the background.
These improvements come at a cost though, the way the
get_rebalance_progress UDF currently works is very hard to replicate
with this new structure. This is mostly because the old behaviour
doesn't really make sense anymore with this new infrastructure. A new
and better way to track the progress will be included as part of the new
infrastructure.
This PR is in preparation of the new code rebalancer experience.
It changes the get_rebalance_progress UDF to only display the moves that
are in progress at the moment, not the ones that happened in the past or
that are planned in the future. Another option would have been to
completely remove the current get_rebalance_progress functionality and
point people to the new way of tracking progress. But old blogposts
still reference the old UDF and users might have some automation on top
of it. Showing the progress of the current moves is fairly simple to
achieve, even with the new infrastructure.
So this PR is a kind of compromise: It doesn't have complete feature
parity with the old get_rebalance_progress, but the most common use
cases will still work.
There's also an advantage of the change: You can now see progress of
shard moves that were triggered by calling citus_move_shard_placement
manually. Instead of only being able to see progress of moves that were
initiated using get_rebalance_table_shards.
There are 3 different ways that a sequence can be interacting
with tables. (1) and (2) are already supported. This commit adds
support for (3).
(1) column DEFAULT nextval('seq'):
The dependency is roughly like below,
and ExpandCitusSupportedTypes() is responsible
for finding the depending sequences.
schema <--- table <--- column <---- default value
^ |
|------------------ sequence <--------|
(2) serial columns: Bigserial/small serial etc:
The dependency is roughly like below,
and ExpandCitusSupportedTypes() is responsible
for finding the depending sequences.
schema <--- table <--- column <---- default value
^ |
| |
sequence <--------|
(3) Sequence OWNED BY table.column: Added support for
this type of resolution in this commit.
The dependency is almost like the following, and
ExpandCitusSupportedTypes() is NOT responsible for finding
the dependency.
schema <--- table <--- column
^
|
sequence
DESCRIPTION: Fix reference table lock contention
Dropping and creating reference tables unintentionally blocked on each other due to the use of an ExclusiveLock for both the Drop and conditionally copying existing reference tables to (new) nodes.
The patch does the following:
- Lower lock lever for dropping (reference) tables to `ShareLock` so they don't self conflict
- Treat reference tables and distributed tables equally and acquire the colocation lock when dropping any table that is in a colocation group
- Perform the precondition check for copying reference tables twice, first time with a lower lock that doesn't conflict with anything. Could have been a NoLock, however, in preparation for dropping a colocation group, it is an `AccessShareLock`
During normal operation the first check will always pass and we don't have to escalate that lock. Making it that we won't be blocked on adding and remove reference tables. Only after a node addition the first `create_reference_table` will still need to acquire an `ExclusiveLock` on the colocation group to perform the copy.
This is a refactoring PR that starts using our new hash table creation
helper function. It adds a few more macros for ease of use, because C
doesn't have default arguments. It also adds a macro to check if a
struct contains automatic padding bytes. No struct that is hashed using
tag_hash should have automatic padding bytes, because those bytes are
undefined and thus using them to create a hash will result in undefined
behaviour (usually a random hash).
**Intro**
This adds support to Citus to change the CPU priority values of
backends. This is created with two main usecases in mind:
1. Users might want to run the logical replication part of the shard moves
or shard splits at a higher speed than they would do by themselves.
This might cause some small loss of DB performance for their regular
queries, but this is often worth it. During high load it's very possible
that the logical replication WAL sender is not able to keep up with the
WAL that is generated. This is especially a big problem when the
machine is close to running out of disk when doing a rebalance.
2. Users might have certain long running queries that they don't impact
their regular workload too much.
**Be very careful!!!**
Using CPU priorities to control scheduling can be helpful in some cases
to control which processes are getting more CPU time than others.
However, due to an issue called "[priority inversion][1]" it's possible that
using CPU priorities together with the many locks that are used within
Postgres cause the exact opposite behavior of what you intended. This
is why this PR only allows the PG superuser to change the CPU priority
of its own processes. Currently it's not recommended to set `citus.cpu_priority`
directly. Currently the only recommended interface for users is the setting
called `citus.cpu_priority_for_logical_replication_senders`. This setting
controls CPU priority for a very limited set of processes (the logical
replication senders). So, the dangers of priority inversion are also limited
with when using it for this usecase.
**Background**
Before reading the rest it's important to understand some basic
background regarding process CPU priorities, because they are a bit
counter intuitive. A lower priority value, means that the process will
be scheduled more and whatever it's doing will thus complete faster. The
default priority for processes is 0. Valid values are from -20 to 19
inclusive. On Linux a larger difference between values of two processes
will result in a bigger difference in percentage of scheduling.
**Handling the usecases**
Usecase 1 can be achieved by setting `citus.cpu_priority_for_logical_replication_senders`
to the priority value that you want it to have. It's necessary to set
this both on the workers and the coordinator. Example:
```
citus.cpu_priority_for_logical_replication_senders = -10
```
Usecase 2 can with this PR be achieved by running the following as
superuser. Note that this is only possible as superuser currently
due to the dangers mentioned in the "Be very carefull!!!" section.
And although this is possible it's **NOT** recommended:
```sql
ALTER USER background_job_user SET citus.cpu_priority = 5;
```
**OS configuration**
To actually make these settings work well it's important to run Postgres
with more a more permissive value for the 'nice' resource limit than
Linux will do by default. By default Linux will not allow a process to
set its priority lower than it currently is, even if it was lower when
the process originally started. This capability is necessary to reset
the CPU priority to its original value after a transaction finishes.
Depending on how you run Postgres this needs to be done in one of two
ways:
If you use systemd to start Postgres all you have to do is add a line
like this to the systemd service file:
```conf
LimitNice=+0 # the + is important, otherwise its interpreted incorrectly as 20
```
If that's not the case you'll have to configure `/etc/security/limits.conf`
like so, assuming that you are running Postgres as the `postgres` OS user:
```
postgres soft nice 0
postgres hard nice 0
```
Finally you'd have add the following line to `/etc/pam.d/common-session`
```
session required pam_limits.so
```
These settings would allow to change the priority back after setting it
to a higher value.
However, to actually allow you to set priorities even lower than the
default priority value you would need to change the values in the
config to something lower than 0. So for example:
```conf
LimitNice=-10
```
or
```
postgres soft nice -10
postgres hard nice -10
```
If you use WSL2 you'll likely have to do another thing. You have to
open a new shell, because when PAM is only used during login, and
WSL2 doesn't actually log you in. You can force a login like this:
```
sudo su $USER --shell /bin/bash
```
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68322992/2570866
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion
When introducing non-blocking shard split functionality it was based
heavily on the non-blocking shard moves. However, differences between
usage was slightly to big to be able to reuse the existing functions
easily. So, most logical replication code was simply copied to dedicated
shard split functions and modified for that purpose.
This PR tries to create a more generic logical replication
infrastructure that can be used by both shard splits and shard moves.
There's probably more code sharing possible in the future, but I believe
this is at least a good start and addresses the lowest hanging fruit.
This also adds a CreateSimpleHash function that makes creating the
most common type of hashmap common.
DESCRIPTION: Use faster custom copy logic for non-blocking shard moves
Non-blocking shard moves consist of two main phases:
1. Initial data copy
2. Catchup phase
This changes the first of these phases significantly. Previously we used the
copy logic provided by postgres subscriptions. This meant we didn't have
to implement it ourselves, but it came with the downside of little control.
When implementing shard splits we needed more control to even make it
work, so we implemented our own logic for copying data between nodes.
This PR starts using that logic for non-blocking shard moves. Doing so
has four main advantages:
1. It uses COPY in binary format when possible, which is cheaper to encode
and decode. Furthermore it very often results in less data that needs to
be sent over the network.
2. It allows us to create the primary key (or other replica identity) after doing
the initial data copy. This should give some speed up over the total run,
because creating an index is bulk is much faster than incrementally building it.
3. It doesn't require a replication slot per parallel copy. Increasing the maximum
number of replication slots uses resources in postgres, even if they are not used.
So reducing the number of replication slots that shard moves need is nice.
4. Logical replication table_sync workers are slow to start up, so if lots of shards
need to be copied that can make it quite slow. This can happen easily when
combining Postgres partitioning with Citus.
It turns out that create_distributed_table
and citus_move/copy_shard_placement does not
work well concurrently.
To fix that, we need to acquire a lock, which
sounds like a good use of colocation lock.
However, the current usage of colocation lock is
limited to higher level UDFs like rebalance_table_shards
etc. Those usage of lock is still useful, but
we cannot acquire the same lock on citus_move_shard_placement
etc. because the coordinator connects to itself to acquire
the lock. Hence, the high level UDF blocks itself.
To fix that, we use one more colocation lock, with the placements
are the main objects to consider.
Before this commit, we required multiple copies of the
same stringInfo if we needed to append/prepend data to
the stringInfo. Now, we optionally get prefix/postfix.
For large string operations, this can save up to %10
memory.
We used to only check whether the PID is valid
or not. However, Postgres does not necessarily
set the PID of the backend to 0 when it exists.
Instead, we need to be able to check it from procArray.
IsBackendPid() is what pg_stat_activity also relies
on for a similar purpose.
use RecurseObjectDependencies api to find if an object is citus depended
make vanilla tests runnable to see if citus_depended function is working correctly
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