Switch compute-related locales to C.UTF-8 by default (#6746)

Right now, our environments create databases with the C locale, which is
really unfortunate for users who have data stored in other languages
that they want to analyze. For instance, show_trgm on Hebrew text
currently doesn't work in staging or production.

I don't envision this being the final solution. I think this is just a
way to set a known value so the pageserver doesn't use its parent
environment. The final solution to me is exposing initdb parameters to
users in the console. Then they could use a different locale or encoding
if they so chose.

Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
This commit is contained in:
Tristan Partin
2024-11-08 11:52:02 -06:00
committed by GitHub
parent b6bc954c5d
commit 5529bd786d
7 changed files with 136 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
)?;
}
// Locales
writeln!(file, "lc_messages='C.UTF-8'")?;
writeln!(file, "lc_monetary='C.UTF-8'")?;
writeln!(file, "lc_time='C.UTF-8'")?;
writeln!(file, "lc_numeric='C.UTF-8'")?;
match spec.mode {
ComputeMode::Primary => {}
ComputeMode::Static(lsn) => {

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@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ pub struct ConfigToml {
#[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
pub wal_redo_timeout: Duration,
pub superuser: String,
pub locale: String,
pub page_cache_size: usize,
pub max_file_descriptors: usize,
pub pg_distrib_dir: Option<Utf8PathBuf>,
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@ pub mod defaults {
pub const DEFAULT_WAL_REDO_TIMEOUT: &str = "60 s";
pub const DEFAULT_SUPERUSER: &str = "cloud_admin";
pub const DEFAULT_LOCALE: &str = "C.UTF-8";
pub const DEFAULT_PAGE_CACHE_SIZE: usize = 8192;
pub const DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_DESCRIPTORS: usize = 100;
@@ -326,6 +328,7 @@ impl Default for ConfigToml {
wal_redo_timeout: (humantime::parse_duration(DEFAULT_WAL_REDO_TIMEOUT)
.expect("cannot parse default wal redo timeout")),
superuser: (DEFAULT_SUPERUSER.to_string()),
locale: DEFAULT_LOCALE.to_string(),
page_cache_size: (DEFAULT_PAGE_CACHE_SIZE),
max_file_descriptors: (DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_DESCRIPTORS),
pg_distrib_dir: None, // Utf8PathBuf::from("./pg_install"), // TODO: formely, this was std::env::current_dir()

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
#!/bin/bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euxo pipefail
@@ -6,9 +6,44 @@ PG_BIN=$1
WAL_PATH=$2
DATA_DIR=$3
PORT=$4
PG_VERSION=$5
SYSID=$(od -A n -j 24 -N 8 -t d8 "$WAL_PATH"/000000010000000000000002* | cut -c 3-)
# The way that initdb is invoked must match how the pageserver runs initdb.
function initdb_with_args {
local cmd=(
"$PG_BIN"/initdb
-E utf8
-U cloud_admin
-D "$DATA_DIR"
--locale 'C.UTF-8'
--lc-collate 'C.UTF-8'
--lc-ctype 'C.UTF-8'
--lc-messages 'C.UTF-8'
--lc-monetary 'C.UTF-8'
--lc-numeric 'C.UTF-8'
--lc-time 'C.UTF-8'
--sysid="$SYSID"
)
case "$PG_VERSION" in
14)
# Postgres 14 and below didn't support --locale-provider
;;
15 | 16)
cmd+=(--locale-provider 'libc')
;;
*)
# Postgres 17 added the builtin provider
cmd+=(--locale-provider 'builtin')
;;
esac
eval env -i LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PG_BIN"/../lib "${cmd[*]}"
}
rm -fr "$DATA_DIR"
env -i LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PG_BIN"/../lib "$PG_BIN"/initdb -E utf8 -U cloud_admin -D "$DATA_DIR" --sysid="$SYSID"
initdb_with_args
echo "port=$PORT" >> "$DATA_DIR"/postgresql.conf
echo "shared_preload_libraries='\$libdir/neon_rmgr.so'" >> "$DATA_DIR"/postgresql.conf
REDO_POS=0x$("$PG_BIN"/pg_controldata -D "$DATA_DIR" | grep -F "REDO location"| cut -c 42-)

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@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ pub struct PageServerConf {
pub wal_redo_timeout: Duration,
pub superuser: String,
pub locale: String,
pub page_cache_size: usize,
pub max_file_descriptors: usize,
@@ -301,6 +302,7 @@ impl PageServerConf {
wait_lsn_timeout,
wal_redo_timeout,
superuser,
locale,
page_cache_size,
max_file_descriptors,
pg_distrib_dir,
@@ -348,6 +350,7 @@ impl PageServerConf {
wait_lsn_timeout,
wal_redo_timeout,
superuser,
locale,
page_cache_size,
max_file_descriptors,
http_auth_type,

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@@ -4779,10 +4779,18 @@ async fn run_initdb(
let _permit = INIT_DB_SEMAPHORE.acquire().await;
let initdb_command = tokio::process::Command::new(&initdb_bin_path)
let mut initdb_command = tokio::process::Command::new(&initdb_bin_path);
initdb_command
.args(["--pgdata", initdb_target_dir.as_ref()])
.args(["--username", &conf.superuser])
.args(["--encoding", "utf8"])
.args(["--locale", &conf.locale])
.args(["--lc-collate", &conf.locale])
.args(["--lc-ctype", &conf.locale])
.args(["--lc-messages", &conf.locale])
.args(["--lc-monetary", &conf.locale])
.args(["--lc-numeric", &conf.locale])
.args(["--lc-time", &conf.locale])
.arg("--no-instructions")
.arg("--no-sync")
.env_clear()
@@ -4792,15 +4800,27 @@ async fn run_initdb(
// stdout invocation produces the same output every time, we don't need it
.stdout(std::process::Stdio::null())
// we would be interested in the stderr output, if there was any
.stderr(std::process::Stdio::piped())
.spawn()?;
.stderr(std::process::Stdio::piped());
// Before version 14, only the libc provide was available.
if pg_version > 14 {
// Version 17 brought with it a builtin locale provider which only provides
// C and C.UTF-8. While being safer for collation purposes since it is
// guaranteed to be consistent throughout a major release, it is also more
// performant.
let locale_provider = if pg_version >= 17 { "builtin" } else { "libc" };
initdb_command.args(["--locale-provider", locale_provider]);
}
let initdb_proc = initdb_command.spawn()?;
// Ideally we'd select here with the cancellation token, but the problem is that
// we can't safely terminate initdb: it launches processes of its own, and killing
// initdb doesn't kill them. After we return from this function, we want the target
// directory to be able to be cleaned up.
// See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6385
let initdb_output = initdb_command.wait_with_output().await?;
let initdb_output = initdb_proc.wait_with_output().await?;
if !initdb_output.status.success() {
return Err(InitdbError::Failed(
initdb_output.status,

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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
from __future__ import annotations
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, cast
from fixtures.pg_version import PgVersion
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from collections.abc import Sequence
from fixtures.neon_fixtures import NeonEnv
def test_default_locales(neon_simple_env: NeonEnv):
"""
Test that the default locales for compute databases is C.UTF-8.
"""
env = neon_simple_env
endpoint = env.endpoints.create_start("main")
domain_locales = cast(
"Sequence[str]",
endpoint.safe_psql(
"SELECT current_setting('lc_messages') AS lc_messages,"
+ "current_setting('lc_monetary') AS lc_monetary,"
+ "current_setting('lc_numeric') AS lc_numeric,"
+ "current_setting('lc_time') AS lc_time"
)[0],
)
for dl in domain_locales:
assert dl == "C.UTF-8"
# Postgres 15 added the locale providers
if env.pg_version < PgVersion.V15:
results = cast(
"Sequence[str]",
endpoint.safe_psql(
"SELECT datcollate, datctype FROM pg_database WHERE datname = current_database()"
)[0],
)
datcollate = results[0]
datctype = results[1]
else:
results = cast(
"Sequence[str]",
endpoint.safe_psql(
"SELECT datlocprovider, datcollate, datctype FROM pg_database WHERE datname = current_database()"
)[0],
)
datlocprovider = results[0]
datcollate = results[1]
datctype = results[2]
if env.pg_version >= PgVersion.V17:
assert datlocprovider == "b", "The locale provider is not builtin"
else:
assert datlocprovider == "c", "The locale provider is not libc"
assert datcollate == "C.UTF-8"
assert datctype == "C.UTF-8"

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@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ def test_wal_restore(
),
str(data_dir),
str(port),
env.pg_version,
]
)
restored.start()
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ def test_wal_restore_initdb(
),
str(data_dir),
str(port),
env.pg_version,
]
)
restored.start()