Before this commit, round-robin task assignment policy was relying
on the taskId. Thus, even inside a transaction, the tasks were
assigned to different nodes. This was especially problematic
while reading from reference tables within transaction blocks.
Because, we had to expand the distributed transaction to many
nodes that are not necessarily already in the distributed transaction.
In this context, we define "Fast Path Planning for SELECT" as trivial
queries where Citus can skip relying on the standard_planner() and
handle all the planning.
For router planner, standard_planner() is mostly important to generate
the necessary restriction information. Later, the restriction information
generated by the standard_planner is used to decide whether all the shards
that a distributed query touches reside on a single worker node. However,
standard_planner() does a lot of extra things such as cost estimation and
execution path generations which are completely unnecessary in the context
of distributed planning.
There are certain types of queries where Citus could skip relying on
standard_planner() to generate the restriction information. For queries
in the following format, Citus does not need any information that the
standard_planner() generates:
SELECT ... FROM single_table WHERE distribution_key = X; or
DELETE FROM single_table WHERE distribution_key = X; or
UPDATE single_table SET value_1 = value_2 + 1 WHERE distribution_key = X;
Note that the queries might not be as simple as the above such that
GROUP BY, WINDOW FUNCIONS, ORDER BY or HAVING etc. are all acceptable. The
only rule is that the query is on a single distributed (or reference) table
and there is a "distribution_key = X;" in the WHERE clause. With that, we
could use to decide the shard that a distributed query touches reside on
a worker node.
We used to error out if there is a reference table
in the query participating a union. This has caused
pushdownable queries to be evaluated in coordinator.
Now we let reference tables inside union queries as long
as there is a distributed table in from clause.
Existing join checks (reference table on the outer part)
sufficient enought that we do not need check the join relation
of reference tables.
Previously we allowed task assignment policy to have affect on router queries
with only intermediate results. However, that is erroneous since the code-path
that assigns placements relies on shardIds and placements, which doesn't exists
for intermediate results.
With this commit, we do not apply task assignment policies when a router query
hits only intermediate results.
PG recently started propagating foreign key constraints
to partition tables. This came with a select query
to validate the the constaint.
We are already setting sequential mode execution for this
command. In order for validation select query to respect
this setting we need to explicitly set the GUC.
This commit also handles detach partition part.
We update column attributes of various clauses for a query
inluding target columns, select clauses when we introduce
new range table entries in the query.
It seems having clause column attributes were not updated.
This fix resolves the issue
We had recently fixed a spinlock issue due to functions
failing, but spinlock is not being released.
This is the continuation of that work to eliminate possible
regression of the issue. Function calls that are moved out of
spinlock scope are macros and plain type casting. However,
depending on the configuration they have an alternate implementation
in PG source that performs memory allocation.
This commit moves last bit of codes to out of spinlock for completion purposes.
We were establishing connections synchronously. Establishing
connections asynchronously results in some parallelization, saving
hundreds of milliseconds.
In a test I did, this decreased the query time from 150ms to 40ms.
A spinlock is not released when an exception is thrown after
spinlock is acquired. This has caused infinite wait and eventual
crash in maintenance daemon.
This work moves the code than can fail to the outside of spinlock
scope so that in the case of failure spinlock is not left locked
since it was not locked in the first place.
Postgresql loads shared libraries before calculating MaxBackends.
However, Citus relies on MaxBackends being set. Thus, with this
commit we use the same steps to calculate MaxBackends while
Citus is being loaded (e.g., PG_Init is called).
Note that this is safe since all the elements that are used to
calculate MaxBackends are PGC_POSTMASTER gucs and a constant
value.
Before this commit, Citus supported INSERT...SELECT queries with
ON CONFLICT or RETURNING clauses only for pushdownable ones, since
queries supported via coordinator were utilizing COPY infrastructure
of PG to send selected tuples to the target worker nodes.
After this PR, INSERT...SELECT queries with ON CONFLICT or RETURNING
clauses will be performed in two phases via coordinator. In the first
phase selected tuples will be saved to the intermediate table which
is colocated with target table of the INSERT...SELECT query. Note that,
a utility function to save results to the colocated intermediate result
also implemented as a part of this commit. In the second phase, INSERT..
SELECT query is directly run on the worker node using the intermediate
table as the source table.
When initializing a Citus formation automatically from an external piece of
software such as Citus-HA, the following process process may be used:
- decide on the groupId in the external software
- SELECT * FROM master_add_inactive_node('localhost', 9701, groupid => X)
When Citus checks for maxGroupId, it forbids other software to pick their
own group Ids to ues with the master_add_inactive_node() API.
This patch removes the extra testing around maxGroupId.
Onder Kalaci
Nils Dijk
Hanefi Onaldi
Murat Tuncer
velioglu
Jason Petersen
Marco Slot
Murat Tuncer
Hadi Moshayedi
Dimitri Fontaine
Jason Petersen
Hanefi Onaldi