With this change DropShards function started to use new connection API. DropShards
function is used by DROP TABLE, master_drop_all_shards and master_apply_delete_command,
therefore all of these functions now support transactional operations. In DropShards
function, if we cannot reach a node, we mark shard state of related placements as
FILE_TO_DELETE and continue to drop remaining shards; however if any error occurs after
establishing the connection, we ROLLBACK whole operation.
This change adds support for serial columns to be used with MX tables.
Prior to this change, sequences of serial columns were created in all
workers (for being able to create shards) but never used. With MX, we
need to set the sequences so that sequences in each worker create
unique values. This is done by setting the MINVALUE, MAXVALUE and
START values of the sequence.
With this change, we start to delete placement of reference tables at given worker node
after master_remove_node UDF call. We remove placement metadata at master node but we do
not drop actual shard from the worker node. There are two reasons for that decision,
first, it is not critical to DROP the shards in the workers because Citus will ignore them
as long as node is removed from cluster and if we add that node back to cluster we will
DROP and recreate all reference tables. Second, if node is unreachable, it becomes
complicated to cover failure cases and have a transaction support.
Burak Yucesoy
Eren Basak