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.
update_distributed_table_colocation can be called by the relation
owner, and internally it updates pg_dist_partition. With this
commit, update_distributed_table_colocation uses an internal
UDF to access pg_dist_partition.
As a result, this operation can now be done by regular users
on MX.
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.
* Add parameter to cleanup metadata
* Set clear metadata default to true
* Add test for clearing metadata
* Separate test file for start/stop metadata syncing
* Fix stop_sync bug for secondary nodes
* Use PreventInTransactionBlock
* DRemovedebuggiing logs
* Remove relation not found logs from mx test
* Revert localGroupId when doing stop_sync
* Move metadata sync test to mx schedule
* Add test with name that needs to be quoted
* Add test for views and matviews
* Add test for distributed table with custom type
* Add comments to test
* Add test with stats, indexes and constraints
* Fix matview test
* Add test for dropped column
* Add notice messages to stop_metadata_sync
* Add coordinator check to stop metadat sync
* Revert local_group_id only if clearMetadata is true
* Add a final check to see the metadata is sane
* Remove the drop verbosity in test
* Remove table description tests from sync test
* Add stop sync to coordinator test
* Change the order in stop_sync
* Add test for hybrid (columnar+heap) partitioned table
* Change error to notice for stop sync to coordinator
* Sync at the end of the test to prevent any failures
* Add test case in a transaction block
* Remove relation not found tests
* Alter seq type when we first use the seq in a dist table
* Don't allow type changes when seq is used in dist table
* ALTER SEQUENCE propagation
* Tests for ALTER SEQUENCE propagation
* Relocate AlterSequenceType and ensure dependencies for sequence
* Support for citus local tables, and other fixes
* Final formatting
* 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).
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.
Refactor internals on how Citus creates the SQL commands it sends to recreate shards.
Before Citus collected solely ddl commands as `char *`'s to recreate a table. If they were used to create a shard they were wrapped with `worker_apply_shard_ddl_command` and send to the workers. On the workers the UDF wrapping the ddl command would rewrite the parsetree to replace tables names with their shard name equivalent.
This worked well, but poses an issue when adding columnar. Due to limitations in Postgres on creating custom options on table access methods we need to fall back on a UDF to set columnar specific options. Now, to recreate the table, we can not longer rely on having solely DDL statements to recreate a table.
A prototype was made to run this UDF wrapped in `worker_apply_shard_ddl_command`. This became pretty messy, hard to understand and subsequently hard to maintain.
This PR proposes a refactor of the internal representation of table ddl commands into a `TableDDLCommand` structure. The current implementation only supports a `char *` as its contents. Based on the use of the DDL statement (eg. creating the table -mx- or creating a shard) one of two different functions can be called to get the statement to send to the worker:
- `GetTableDDLCommand(TableDDLCommand *command)`: This function returns that ddl command to create the table. In this implementation it will just return the `char *`. This has the same functionality as getting the old list and not wrapping it.
- `GetShardedTableDDLCommand(TableDDLCommand *command, uint64 shardId, char *schemaName)`: This function returns the ddl command wrapped in `worker_apply_shard_ddl_command` with the `shardId` as an argument. Due to backwards compatibility it also accepts a. `schemaName`. The exact purpose is not directly clear. Ideally new implementations would work with fully qualified statements and ignore the `schemaName`.
A future implementation could accept 2.function pointers and a `void *` for context to let the two pointers work on. This gives greater flexibility in controlling what commands get send in which situations. Also, in a future, we could implement the intermediate step of creating the `parsetree` datastructure of statements based on the contents in the catalog with a corresponding deparser. For sharded queries a mutator could be ran over the parsetree to rewrite the tablenames to the names with the shard identifier. This will completely omit the requirement for `worker_apply_shard_ddl_command`.
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
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"
This is an improvement over #2512.
This adds the boolean shouldhaveshards column to pg_dist_node. When it's false, create_distributed_table for new collocation groups will not create shards on that node. Reference tables will still be created on nodes where it is false.
Since the distributed functions are useful when the workers have
metadata, we automatically sync it.
Also, after master_add_node(). We do it lazily and let the deamon
sync it. That's mainly because the metadata syncing cannot be done
in transaction blocks, and we don't want to add lots of transactional
limitations to master_add_node() and create_distributed_function().