We can now support more complex count distinct operations by
pulling necessary columns to coordinator and evalutating the
aggreage at coordinator.
It supports broad range of expression with the restriction that
the expression must contain a column.
When a hash distributed table have a foreign key to a reference
table, there are few restrictions we have to apply in order to
prevent distributed deadlocks or reading wrong results.
The necessity to apply the restrictions arise from cascading
nature of foreign keys. When a foreign key on a reference table
cascades to a distributed table, a single operation over a single
connection can acquire locks on multiple shards of the distributed
table. Thus, any parallel operation on that distributed table, in the
same transaction should not open parallel connections to the shards.
Otherwise, we'd either end-up with a self-distributed deadlock or
read wrong results.
As briefly described above, the restrictions that we apply is done
by tracking the distributed/reference relation accesses inside
transaction blocks, and act accordingly when necessary.
The two main rules are as follows:
- Whenever a parallel distributed relation access conflicts
with a consecutive reference relation access, Citus errors
out
- Whenever a reference relation access is followed by a
conflicting parallel relation access, the execution mode
is switched to sequential mode.
There are also some other notes to mention:
- If the user does SET LOCAL citus.multi_shard_modify_mode
TO 'sequential';, all the queries should simply work with
using one connection per worker and sequentially executing
the commands. That's obviously a slower approach than Citus'
usual parallel execution. However, we've at least have a way
to run all commands successfully.
- If an unrelated parallel query executed on any distributed
table, we cannot switch to sequential mode. Because, the essense
of sequential mode is using one connection per worker. However,
in the presence of a parallel connection, the connection manager
picks those connections to execute the commands. That contradicts
with our purpose, thus we error out.
- COPY to a distributed table cannot be executed in sequential mode.
Thus, if we switch to sequential mode and COPY is executed, the
operation fails and there is currently no way of implementing that.
Note that, when the local table is not empty and create_distributed_table
is used, citus uses COPY internally. Thus, in those cases,
create_distributed_table() will also fail.
- There is a GUC called citus.enforce_foreign_key_restrictions
to disable all the checks. We added that GUC since the restrictions
we apply is sometimes a bit more restrictive than its necessary.
The user might want to relax those. Similarly, if you don't have
CASCADEing reference tables, you might consider disabling all the
checks.
-[x] drop constraint
-[x] drop column
-[x] alter column type
-[x] truncate
are sequentialized if there is a foreign constraint from
a distributed table to a reference table on the affected relations
by the above commands.
Make sure that intermediate results use a connection that is
not associated with any placement. That is useful in two ways:
- More complex queries can be executed with CTEs
- Safely use the same connections when there is a foreign key
to reference table from a distributed table, which needs to
use the same connection for modifications since the reference
table might cascade to the distributed table.
This table will be used by Citus Enterprise to populate authentication-
related fields in outbound connections; Citus Community lacks support
for this functionality.
To support more flexible (i.e. not at compile-time) specification of
libpq connection parameters, this change adds a new GUC, node_conninfo,
which must be a space-separated string of key-value pairs suitable for
parsing by libpq's connection establishment methods.
To avoid rebuilding and parsing these values at connection time, this
change also adds a cache in front of the configuration params to permit
immediate use of any previously-calculated parameters.
We're relying on multi_shard_modify_mode GUC for real-time SELECTs.
The name of the GUC is unfortunate, but, adding one more GUC
(or renaming the GUC) would make the UX even worse. Given that this
mode is mostly important for transaction blocks that involve modification
/DDL queries along with real-time SELECTs, we can live with the confusion.
After this commit DDL commands honour `citus.multi_shard_modify_mode`.
We preferred using the code-path that executes single task router
queries (e.g., ExecuteSingleModifyTask()) in order not to invent
a new executor that is only applicable for DDL commands that require
sequential execution.
Errors thrown in the COMMIT handler will cause Postgres to segfault,
there's nothing it can do it abort the transaction by the time that
handler is called!
RemoveIntermediateResultsDirectory is problematic for two reasons:
- It has calls to ereport(ERROR which have been known to trigger
- It makes memory allocations which raise ERRORs when they fail
Once the COMMIT process has begun we don't use the intermediate results,
so it's safe to remove them a little earlier in the process. A failure
here will abort the transaction. That's pretty unnecessary, it's not
that important that we remove the results, but it's still better than a
crash.
Previously we checked if an operator is in pg_catalog, and if it wasn't we prefixed it with namespace in worker queries. This can have a huge impact on performance of physical planner when using custom data types.
This happened regardless of current search_path config, because Citus overrides the search path in get_query_def_extended(). When we do so, the check for existence of the operator in current search path in generate_operator_name() fails for any operators outside pg_catalog. This means that nothing gets cached, and in the following calls we will again recheck the system tables for existence of the operators, which took an additional 40-50ms for some of the usecases we were seeing.
In this change we skip the pg_catalog check, and always prefix the operator with its namespace.
* Change worker_hash_partition_table() such that the
divergence between Citus planner's hashing and
worker_hash_partition_table() becomes the same.
* Rename single partitioning to single range partitioning.
* Add single hash repartitioning. Basically, logical planner
treats single hash and range partitioning almost equally.
Physical planner, on the other hand, treats single hash and
dual hash repartitioning almost equally (except for JoinPruning).
* Add a new GUC to enable this feature
utilityStmt sometimes (such as when it's inside of a plpgsql function)
comes from a cached plan, which is kept in a child of the
CacheMemoryContext. When we naively call copyObject we're copying it into
a statement-local context, which corrupts the cached plan when it's
thrown away.
This commit doesn't change any of the logic at all.
Instead, the goal is to:
* Get rid of any code duplication
* Incremental changes to the optimizer made it slightly hard
to follow the code, improve that and make it easier to
implement new features
* Simplify the code by moving each part of query processing (e.g.,
DISTINCT, LIMIT etc) into its own function
* Make the interaction between each part of the query more
obvious (e.g., How DISTINCT affects LIMIT etc)
In case a failure happens when a transaction is rollbacked,
we used to hit an assertion for ensuring there is no pending
activity on the connection. However, that's not true after the
changes in #2031. Thus, we've replaced the assertion with a more
generic function call to consume any pending activity, if exists.
- changes in ruleutils_11.c is reflected
- vacuum statement api change is handled. We now allow
multi-table vacuum commands.
- some other function header changes are reflected
- api conflicts between PG11 and earlier versions
are handled by adding shims in version_compat.h
- various regression tests are fixed due output and
functionality in PG1
- no change is made to support new features in PG11
they need to be handled by new commit
- Add install.pl to instal .sql files on Windows
- Remove a hack to PGDLLIMPORT some variables
- Add citus_version.o to the Makefile
- Fix pg_regress_multi's PATH generation on Windows
- Output regression.diffs when the tests fail
- Fix permissions in data directory, make sure postgres can play with it
Before this commit, we had code duplication in the
WorkerExtendedOpNode(). The duplication was
noticeable and any change is prone to bugs.
The PR consists of 4 commits. Each commit incrementally
fixes the problem by moving certain parts of the duplicated
code into smaller, better-documented functions.
Before this commit, we had a divergence among
the creation of master/worker extended op nodes.
This commit moves the related parts into a single place
and allows the creation of master/extended op nodes to
share a common data structure.
PostgreSQL might remove some of the subqueries when they do not
contribute to the query result at all. Citus should not try to
access such subqueries during planning.
Without this change we crash on Windows with COPYing into a table with
62 shards, and we ERROR when COPYing into a table with >62 shards:
ERROR: WaitForMutipleObjects() failed: error code 87
Without this change multi_real_time_transaction blocks forever (on
Windows) in the block where it repeatedly calls pg_advisory_lock(15).
This happens because the deadlock detector tries to cancel the backend
but the backend never processes that signal.
This PR adds support for multiple AND expressions in Having
for pushdown planner. We simply make a call to make_ands_explicit
from MultiLogicalPlanOptimize for the having qual in
workerExtendedOpNode.
After this commit large_table_shard_count wont be used to
check whether broadcast join, which is renamed as reference
join, can be applied. Reference join can only be applied over
reference tables.
We recently added partitionin support to Citus MX. We should not execute
DROP table commands from MX workers but at the moment we try to execute
such commands for partitioned tables. This PR fixes that problem by
adding check.
Previously, we prevented creation of partitioned tables on Citus MX.
We decided to not focus on this feature until there is a need. Since
now there are requests for this feature, we are implementing support
for partitioned tables on Citus MX.
After this change all the logic related to shard data fetch logic
will be removed. Planner won't plan any ShardFetchTask anymore.
Shard fetch related steps in real time executor and task-tracker
executor have been removed.
Pushing down limit and order by into workers may produce
wrong output when distinct on() clause has expressions,
aggregates, or window functions.
This checking allows pushing down of limits only if
distinct clause is a superset of group by clause. i.e. it contains all clauses in group by.
This commit checks the connection status right after any IO happens
on the socket.
This is necessary since before this commit we didn't pass any information
to the higher level functions whether we're done with the connection
(e.g., no IO required anymore) or an errors happened during the IO.
This is the first of series of window function work.
We can now support window functions that can be pushed down to workers.
Window function must have distribution column in the partition clause
to be pushed down.
We push down order by to worker query when limit is specified
(with some other additional checks). If the query has an expression
on an aggregate or avg aggregate by itself, and there is an order
by on this particular target we may send wrong order by to worker
query with potential to affect query result.
The fix creates a auxilary target entry in the worker query and
uses that target entry for sorting.
Before this PR, we were trusting on the columns of group by about
guaranteeing the uniqueness of the results. However, this assumption
is correct only if the columns in the group by is subset of columns
in the distinct clause. It can be wrong if we have part of group by
columns and some aggregation columns in the distinct clause. With
this PR, we add distinct plan on top of aggregate plan when necessary.
With #1804 (and related PRs), Citus gained the ability to
plan subqueries that are not safe to pushdown.
There are two high-level requirements for pushing down subqueries:
* Individual subqueries that require a merge step (i.e., GROUP BY
on non-distribution key, or LIMIT in the subquery etc). We've
handled such subqueries via #1876.
* Combination of subqueries that are not joined on distribution keys.
This commit aims to recursively plan some of such subqueries to make
the whole query safe to pushdown.
The main logic behind non colocated subquery joins is that we pick
an anchor range table entry and check for distribution key equality
of any other subqueries in the given query. If for a given subquery,
we cannot find distribution key equality with the anchor rte, we
recursively plan that subquery.
We also used a hacky solution for picking relations as the anchor range
table entries. The hack is that we wrap them into a subquery. This is only
necessary since some of the attribute equivalance checks are based on
queries rather than range table entries.
We used to only support pushdownable set operations inside a
subquery, however, we could easily expand the restriction
checks to cover top level set operations as well.
We use PostgreSQL hooks to accumulate the join restrictions
and PostgreSQL gives us all the join paths it tries while
deciding on the join order. Thus, for queries that have many
joins, this function is likely to remove lots of duplicate join
restrictions. This becomes relevant for Citus on query pushdown
check peformance.
We were allowing count distict queries even if they were
not directly on columns if the query is grouped on
distribution column.
When performing these checks we were skipping subqueries
because they also perform this check in a more concise manner.
We relied on oid SUBQUERY_RELATION_ID (10000) to decide if
a given RTE relation id denotes a subquery, however, we also
use SUBQUERY_PUSHDOWN_RELATION_ID (10001) for some subqueries.
We skip both type of subqueries with this change.
VLAs aren't supported by Visual Studio.
- Remove all existing instances of VLAs.
- Add a flag, -Werror=vla, which makes gcc refuse to compile if we add
VLAs in the future.
- variable length arrays (VLAs) do not work with Visual Studio
- fix an off-by-one error. We incorrectly assumed there would always at
least as many edges as there were nodes.
- refactor: reduce scope of transactionNodeStack by moving it into the
function which uses it.
- refactor: break up the distinct uses of currentStackDepth into
separate variables.
It's against our coding convention to call functions inside parameter
lists; when single-stepping with a debugger it's difficult to determine
what the function returned.
That wouldn't be good enough reason to change this code but while
porting Citus to Windows I ran into this line of code.
assign_distributed_transaction_id was called with a weird timestamp and
I wasn't able to find the problem without first making this change.
* Don't use expressions inside compound statements
* Don't depend on __builtin_constant_p
* Remove reliance on S_ISLNK
* Replace use of __func__: older mcvs doesn't support this builtin
With this fix, we traverse the graph with DFS which was originally
intended. Note that, before the fix, we traverse the graph with BFS
which might lead to killing some unrelated backend that is not
involved in the distributed deadlock.
By sharing the implementation of the function AppendOptionListToString on
three call sites, we would expand an extra OPTIONS keyword in a create index
statement, and omit other bits of the specific syntax here.
This patch introduces an AppendStorageParametersToString() function that is
very similar to AppendOptionListToString() but handles WITH(a="foo",...)
syntax that is used in reloptions (aka Storage Parameters).
Fixes#1747.
PostgreSQL implements support for several relation kinds in a single
statement, such as in the AlterTableStmt case, which supports both tables
and indexes and more (see ATExecSetRelOptions in PostgreSQL source code file
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c for an example of that).
As a consequence, this patch implements support for setting and resetting
storage parameters on both relation kinds.
The command is now distributed among the shards when the table is
distributed. To that effect, we fill in the DDLJob's targetRelationId with
the OID of the table for which the index is defined, rather than the OID of
the index itself.
The implementation was already mostly in place, but the code was protected
by a principled check against the operation. Turns out there's a nasty
concurrency bug though with long identifier names, much as in #1664.
To prevent deadlocks from happening, we could either review the DDL
transaction management in shards and placements, or we can simply reject
names with (NAMEDATALEN - 1) chars or more — that's because of the
PostgreSQL array types being created with a one-char prefix: '_'.
We shouldn't return in middle of a PG_TRY() block because if we do, we won't reset PG_exception_stack, and later when a re-throw tries to jump to the jump-point which was active in this PG_TRY() block, it seg-faults.
We used to return in middle of PG_TRY() block in WaitForConnections() where we checked for cancellations. Whenever cancellations were caught here, Citus crashed. And example was reported by @onderkalaci at #1903.
clause is not supported
This change allows unsupported clauses to go through query pushdown
planner instead of erroring out as we already do for non-outer joins.
We used to error out if the join clause includes filters like
t1.a < t2.a even if other filter like t1.key = t2.key exists.
Recently we lifted that restriction in subquery planning by
not lifting that restriction and focusing on equivalance classes
provided by postgres.
This checkin forwards previously erroring out real-time queries
due to join clauses to subquery planner and let it handle the
join even if the query does not have a subquery.
We are now pushing down queries that do not have any
subqueries in it. Error message looked misleading, changed to a more descriptive one.
We were creating intermediate query result's target
names from subquery target list. Now we also check
if cte re-defines its column name aliases, and create
intermediate result query accordingly.
The macro we were using to detect strtoull isn't set on Windows, and
just in case there are differences use a portable function from PG
instead of calling strtoull directly.
This commit introduces a new GUC to limit the intermediate
result size which we handle when we use read_intermediate_result
function for CTEs and complex subqueries.
With this commit, Citus recursively plans subqueries that
are not safe to pushdown, in other words, requires a merge
step.
The algorithm is simple: Recursively traverse the query from bottom
up (i.e., bottom meaning the leaf queries). On each level, check
whether the query is safe to pushdown (or a single repartition
subquery). If the answer is yes, do not touch that subquery. If the
answer is no, plan the subquery seperately (i.e., create a subPlan
for it) and replace the subquery with a call to
`read_intermediate_results(planId, subPlanId)`. During the the
execution, run the subPlans first, and make them avaliable to the
next query executions.
Some of the queries hat this change allows us:
* Subqueries with LIMIT
* Subqueries with GROUP BY/DISTINCT on non-partition keys
* Subqueries involving re-partition joins, router queries
* Mixed usage of subqueries and CTEs (i.e., use CTEs in
subqueries as well). Nested subqueries as long as we
support the subquery inside the nested subquery.
* Subqueries with local tables (i.e., those subqueries
has the limitation that they have to be leaf subqueries)
* VIEWs on the distributed tables just works (i.e., the
limitations mentioned below still applies to views)
Some of the queries that is still NOT supported:
* Corrolated subqueries that are not safe to pushdown
* Window function on non-partition keys
* Recursively planned subqueries or CTEs on the outer
side of an outer join
* Only recursively planned subqueries and CTEs in the FROM
(i.e., not any distributed tables in the FROM) and subqueries
in WHERE clause
* Subquery joins that are not on the partition columns (i.e., each
subquery is individually joined on partition keys but not the upper
level subquery.)
* Any limitation that logical planner applies such as aggregate
distincts (except for count) when GROUP BY is on non-partition key,
or array_agg with ORDER BY
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