## Describe your changes
Right now the only criteria for image layer generation is number of
delta layer since last image layer.
If we have "stairs" layout of delta layers (see link below) then it can
happen that there a lot of old delta layers which can not be reclaimed
by GC because are not fully covered with image layers.
This PR constructs list of "wanted" image layers in GC (which image
layers are needed to be able to remove old layers)
and pass this list to compaction task which performs generation of image
layers.
So right now except deltas count criteria we also take in account
"wishes" of GC.
## Issue ticket number and link
See
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1676914249982519
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Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Re-export only things that are used by other modules.
In the future, I'm imagining that we run bindgen twice, for Postgres
v14 and v15. The two sets of bindings would go into separate
'bindings_v14' and 'bindings_v15' modules.
Rearrange postgres_ffi modules.
Move function, to avoid Postgres version dependency in timelines.rs
Move function to generate a logical-message WAL record to postgres_ffi.
This is a backwards-incompatible change. The new pageserver cannot
read repositories created with an old pageserver binary, or vice
versa.
Simplify Repository to a value-store
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Move the responsibility of tracking relation metadata, like which
relations exist and what are their sizes, from Repository to a new
module, pgdatadir_mapping.rs. The interface to Repository is now a
simple key-value PUT/GET operations.
It's still not any old key-value store though. A Repository is still
responsible from handling branching, and every GET operation comes
with an LSN.
Mapping from Postgres data directory to keys/values
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All the data is now stored in the key-value store. The
'pgdatadir_mapping.rs' module handles mapping from PostgreSQL objects
like relation pages and SLRUs, to key-value pairs.
The key to the Repository key-value store is a Key struct, which
consists of a few integer fields. It's wide enough to store a full
RelFileNode, fork and block number, and to distinguish those from
metadata keys.
'pgdatadir_mapping.rs' is also responsible for maintaining a
"partitioning" of the keyspace. Partitioning means splitting the
keyspace so that each partition holds a roughly equal number of keys.
The partitioning is used when new image layer files are created, so
that each image layer file is roughly the same size.
The partitioning is also responsible for reclaiming space used by
deleted keys. The Repository implementation doesn't have any explicit
support for deleting keys. Instead, the deleted keys are simply
omitted from the partitioning, and when a new image layer is created,
the omitted keys are not copied over to the new image layer. We might
want to implement tombstone keys in the future, to reclaim space
faster, but this will work for now.
Changes to low-level layer file code
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The concept of a "segment" is gone. Each layer file can now store an
arbitrary range of Keys.
Checkpointing, compaction
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The background tasks are somewhat different now. Whenever
checkpoint_distance is reached, the WAL receiver thread "freezes" the
current in-memory layer, and creates a new one. This is a quick
operation and doesn't perform any I/O yet. It then launches a
background "layer flushing thread" to write the frozen layer to disk,
as a new L0 delta layer. This mechanism takes care of durability. It
replaces the checkpointing thread.
Compaction is a new background operation that takes a bunch of L0
delta layers, and reshuffles the data in them. It runs in a separate
compaction thread.
Deployment
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This also contains changes to the ansible scripts that enable having
multiple different pageservers running at the same time in the staging
environment. We will use that to keep an old version of the pageserver
running, for clusters created with the old version, at the same time
with a new pageserver with the new binary.
Author: Heikki Linnakangas
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@zenith.tech>
Author: Andrey Taranik <andrey@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Van De Meent <matthias@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Bojan Serafimov <bojan@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Anton Shyrabokau <antons@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Dhammika Pathirana <dham@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@zenith.tech>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kondratov <alexey@zenith.tech>
