safekeeper: use protobuf for sending compressed records to pageserver (#9821)

## Problem

https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9746 lifted decoding and
interpretation of WAL to the safekeeper.
This reduced the ingested amount on the pageservers by around 10x for a
tenant with 8 shards, but doubled
the ingested amount for single sharded tenants.

Also, https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9746 uses bincode which
doesn't support schema evolution.
Technically the schema can be evolved, but it's very cumbersome.

## Summary of changes

This patch set addresses both problems by adding protobuf support for
the interpreted wal records and adding compression support. Compressed
protobuf reduced the ingested amount by 100x on the 32 shards
`test_sharded_ingest` case (compared to non-interpreted proto). For the
1 shard case the reduction is 5x.

Sister change to `rust-postgres` is
[here](https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres/pull/33).

## Links

Related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9336
Epic: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9329
This commit is contained in:
Vlad Lazar
2024-11-27 12:12:21 +00:00
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parent 7b41ee872e
commit 9e0148de11
21 changed files with 702 additions and 106 deletions

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@@ -15,7 +15,14 @@ from fixtures.neon_fixtures import (
@pytest.mark.timeout(600)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("shard_count", [1, 8, 32])
@pytest.mark.parametrize("wal_receiver_protocol", ["vanilla", "interpreted"])
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"wal_receiver_protocol",
[
"vanilla",
"interpreted-bincode-compressed",
"interpreted-protobuf-compressed",
],
)
def test_sharded_ingest(
neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder,
zenbenchmark: NeonBenchmarker,
@@ -27,14 +34,42 @@ def test_sharded_ingest(
and fanning out to a large number of shards on dedicated Pageservers. Comparing the base case
(shard_count=1) to the sharded case indicates the overhead of sharding.
"""
neon_env_builder.pageserver_config_override = (
f"wal_receiver_protocol = '{wal_receiver_protocol}'"
)
ROW_COUNT = 100_000_000 # about 7 GB of WAL
neon_env_builder.num_pageservers = shard_count
env = neon_env_builder.init_start()
env = neon_env_builder.init_configs()
for ps in env.pageservers:
if wal_receiver_protocol == "vanilla":
ps.patch_config_toml_nonrecursive(
{
"wal_receiver_protocol": {
"type": "vanilla",
}
}
)
elif wal_receiver_protocol == "interpreted-bincode-compressed":
ps.patch_config_toml_nonrecursive(
{
"wal_receiver_protocol": {
"type": "interpreted",
"args": {"format": "bincode", "compression": {"zstd": {"level": 1}}},
}
}
)
elif wal_receiver_protocol == "interpreted-protobuf-compressed":
ps.patch_config_toml_nonrecursive(
{
"wal_receiver_protocol": {
"type": "interpreted",
"args": {"format": "protobuf", "compression": {"zstd": {"level": 1}}},
}
}
)
else:
raise AssertionError("Test must use explicit wal receiver protocol config")
env.start()
# Create a sharded tenant and timeline, and migrate it to the respective pageservers. Ensure
# the storage controller doesn't mess with shard placements.