## Problem
1. During the rollout we got a panic: "timeline that we were deleting
was concurrently removed from 'timelines' map" that was caused by lock
guard not being propagated to the background part of the deletion.
Existing test didnt catch it because failpoint that was used for
verification was placed earlier prior to background task spawning.
2. When looking at surrounding code one more bug was detected. We
removed timeline from the map before deletion is finished, which breaks
client retry logic, because it will indicate 404 before actual deletion
is completed which can lead to client stopping its retry poll earlier.
## Summary of changes
1. Carry the lock guard over to background deletion. Ensure existing
test case fails without applied patch (second deletion becomes stuck
without it, which eventually leads to a test failure).
2. Move delete_all call earlier so timeline is removed from the map is
the last thing done during deletion.
Additionally I've added timeline_id to the `update_gc_info` span,
because `debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id` in
`download_remote_layer` was firing when `update_gc_info` lead to
on-demand downloads via `find_lsn_for_timestamp` (caught by @problame).
This is not directly related to the PR but fixes possible flakiness.
Another smaller set of changes involves deletion wrapper used in python
tests. Now there is a simpler wrapper that waits for deletions to
complete `timeline_delete_wait_completed`. Most of the
test_delete_timeline.py tests make negative tests, i.e., "does
ps_http.timeline_delete() fail in this and that scenario".
These can be left alone. Other places when we actually do the deletions,
we need to use the helper that polls for completion.
Discussion
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C03F5SM1N02/p1686668007396639resolves#4496
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Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
This adds test coverage for 'compute_ctl', as it is now used by all
the python tests.
There are a few differences in how 'compute_ctl' is called in the
tests, compared to the real web console:
- In the tests, the postgresql.conf file is included as one large
string in the spec file, and it is written out as it is to the data
directory. I added a new field for that to the spec file. The real
web console, however, sets all the necessary settings in the
'settings' field, and 'compute_ctl' creates the postgresql.conf from
those settings.
- In the tests, the information needed to connect to the storage, i.e.
tenant_id, timeline_id, connection strings to pageserver and
safekeepers, are now passed as new fields in the spec file. The real
web console includes them as the GUCs in the 'settings' field. (Both
of these are different from what the test control plane used to do:
It used to write the GUCs directly in the postgresql.conf file). The
plan is to change the control plane to use the new method, and
remove the old method, but for now, support both.
Some tests that were sensitive to the amount of WAL generated needed
small changes, to accommodate that compute_ctl runs the background
health monitor which makes a few small updates. Also some tests shut
down the pageserver, and now that the background health check can run
some queries while the pageserver is down, that can produce a few
extra errors in the logs, which needed to be allowlisted.
Other changes:
- remove obsolete comments about PostgresNode;
- create standby.signal file for Static compute node;
- log output of `compute_ctl` and `postgres` is merged into
`endpoints/compute.log`.
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Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@neon.tech>
Add HTTP endpoint to initialize safekeeper timeline from peer
safekeepers. This is useful for initializing new safekeeper to replace
failed safekeeper. Not fully "correct" in all cases, but should work in
most.
This code is not suitable for production workloads but can be tested on
staging to get started. New endpoint is separated from usual cases and
should not affect anything if no one explicitly uses a new endpoint. We
can rollback this commit in case of issues.
Refactors walsenders out of timeline.rs to makes it less convoluted into
separate WalSenders with its own lock, but otherwise having the same structure.
Tracking of in-memory remote_consistent_lsn is also moved there as it is mainly
received from pageserver.
State of walsender (feedback) is also restructured to be cleaner; now it is
either PageserverFeedback or StandbyFeedback(StandbyReply, HotStandbyFeedback),
but not both.
We use the term "endpoint" in for compute Postgres nodes in the web UI
and user-facing documentation now. Adjust the nomenclature in the code.
This changes the name of the "neon_local pg" command to "neon_local
endpoint". Also adjust names of classes, variables etc. in the python
tests accordingly.
This also changes the directory structure so that endpoints are now
stored in:
.neon/endpoints/<endpoint id>
instead of:
.neon/pgdatadirs/tenants/<tenant_id>/<endpoint (node) name>
The tenant ID is no longer part of the path. That means that you
cannot have two endpoints with the same name/ID in two different
tenants anymore. That's consistent with how we treat endpoints in the
real control plane and proxy: the endpoint ID must be globally unique.
Reason and backtrace are added to the Broken state. Backtrace is automatically collected when tenant entered the broken state. The format for API, CLI and metrics is changed and unified to return tenant state name in camel case. Previously snake case was used for metrics and camel case was used for everything else. Now tenant state field in TenantInfo swagger spec is changed to contain state name in "slug" field and other fields (currently only reason and backtrace for Broken variant in "data" field). To allow for this breaking change state was removed from TenantInfo swagger spec because it was not used anywhere.
Please note that the tenant's broken reason is not persisted on disk so the reason is lost when pageserver is restarted.
Requires changes to grafana dashboard that monitors tenant states.
Closes#3001
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Co-authored-by: theirix <theirix@gmail.com>
- Add support for splitting async postgres_backend into read and write halfes.
Safekeeper needs this for bidirectional streams. To this end, encapsulate
reading-writing postgres messages to framed.rs with split support without any
additional changes (relying on BufRead for reading and BytesMut out buffer for
writing).
- Use async postgres_backend throughout safekeeper (and in proxy auth link
part).
- In both safekeeper COPY streams, do read-write from the same thread/task with
select! for easier error handling.
- Tidy up finishing CopyBoth streams in safekeeper sending and receiving WAL
-- join split parts back catching errors from them before returning.
Initially I hoped to do that read-write without split at all, through polling
IO:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3522
However that turned out to be more complicated than I initially expected
due to 1) borrow checking and 2) anon Future types. 1) required Rc<Refcell<...>>
which is Send construct just to satisfy the checker; 2) can be workaround with
transmute. But this is so messy that I decided to leave split.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3114
Adds more typization into errors that appear during protocol messages (`FeMessage`), postgres and walreceiver connections.
Socket IO errors are now better detected and logged with lesser (INFO, DEBUG) error level, without traces that they were logged before, when they were wrapped in anyhow context.
The code in this change was extracted from #2595 (Heikki’s on-demand
download draft PR).
High-Level Changes
- New RemoteLayer Type
- On-Demand Download As An Effect Of Page Reconstruction
- Breaking Semantics For Physical Size Metrics
There are several follow-up work items planned.
Refer to the Epic issue on GitHub: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2029
closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3013
Co-authored-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
New RemoteLayer Type
====================
Instead of downloading all layers during tenant attach, we create
RemoteLayer instances for each of them and add them to the layer map.
On-Demand Download As An Effect Of Page Reconstruction
======================================================
At the heart of pageserver is Timeline::get_reconstruct_data(). It
traverses the layer map until it has collected all the data it needs to
produce the page image. Most code in the code base uses it, though many
layers of indirection.
Before this patch, the function would use synchronous filesystem IO to
load data from disk-resident layer files if the data was not cached.
That is not possible with RemoteLayer, because the layer file has not
been downloaded yet. So, we do the download when get_reconstruct_data
gets there, i.e., “on demand”.
The mechanics of how the download is done are rather involved, because
of the infamous async-sync-async sandwich problem that plagues the async
Rust world. We use the new PageReconstructResult type to work around
this. Its introduction is the cause for a good amount of code churn in
this patch. Refer to the block comment on `with_ondemand_download()`
for details.
Breaking Semantics For Physical Size Metrics
============================================
We rename prometheus metric pageserver_{current,resident}_physical_size to
reflect what this metric actually represents with on-demand download.
This intentionally BREAKS existing grafana dashboard and the cost model data
pipeline. Breaking is desirable because the meaning of this metrics has changed
with on-demand download. See
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AFpvKY-7FZdR5a4CaD6Ir_rI3QokdCLSPJ6upHxJBo/edit#
for how we will handle this breakage.
Likewise, we rename the new billing_metrics’s PhysicalSize => ResidentSize.
This is not yet used anywhere, so, this is not a breaking change.
There is still a field called TimelineInfo::current_physical_size. It
is now the sum of the layer sizes in layer map, regardless of whether
local or remote. To compute that sum, we added a new trait method
PersistentLayer::file_size().
When updating the Python tests, we got rid of
current_physical_size_non_incremental. An earlier commit removed it from
the OpenAPI spec already, so this is not a breaking change.
test_timeline_size.py has grown additional assertions on the
resident_physical_size metric.
If there are any unexpected ERRORs or WARNs in pageserver.log after test
finishes, fail the test. This requires whitelisting the errors that *are*
expected in each test, and there's also a few common errors that are
printed by most tests, which are whitelisted in the fixture itself.
With this, we don't need the special abort() call in testing mode, when
compaction or GC fails. Those failures will print ERRORs to the logs,
which will be picked up by this new mechanisms.
A bunch of errors are currently whitelisted that we probably shouldn't
be emitting in the first place, but fixing those is out of scope for this
commit, so I just left FIXME comments on them.
This PR replaces the following global variables in the test framework
with fixtures to make tests more configurable. I mainly need this for
the forward compatibility tests (draft in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2766).
```
base_dir
neon_binpath
pg_distrib_dir
top_output_dir
default_pg_version (this one got replaced with a fixture named pg_version)
```
Also, this PR adds more `Path` type where the code implies it.
The 'local' part was always filled in, so that was easy to merge into
into the TimelineInfo itself. 'remote' only contained two fields,
'remote_consistent_lsn' and 'awaits_download'. I made
'remote_consistent_lsn' an optional field, and 'awaits_download' is now
false if the timeline is not present remotely.
However, I kept stub versions of the 'local' and 'remote' structs for
backwards-compatibility, with a few fields that are actively used by
the control plane. They just duplicate the fields from TimelineInfo
now. They can be removed later, once the control plane has been
updated to use the new fields.
With the ability to pass commit_lsn. This allows to perform project WAL recovery
through different (from the original) set of safekeepers (or under different
ttid) by
1) moving WAL files to s3 under proper ttid;
2) explicitly creating timeline on safekeepers, setting commit_lsn to the
latest point;
3) putting the lastest .parital file to the timeline directory on safekeepers, if
desired.
Extend test_s3_wal_replay to exersise this behaviour.
Also extends timeline_status endpoint to return postgres information.
- Split postgres_ffi into two version specific files.
- Preserve pg_version in timeline metadata.
- Use pg_version in safekeeper code. Check for postgres major version mismatch.
- Clean up the code to use DEFAULT_PG_VERSION constant everywhere, instead of hardcoding.
- Parameterize python tests: use DEFAULT_PG_VERSION env and pg_version fixture.
To run tests using a specific PostgreSQL version, pass the DEFAULT_PG_VERSION environment variable:
'DEFAULT_PG_VERSION='15' ./scripts/pytest test_runner/regress'
Currently don't all tests pass, because rust code relies on the default version of PostgreSQL in a few places.
Also get rid if `with_safekeepers` parameter in tests.
Its meaning has changed: `False` meant "no safekeepers" which is not
supported anymore, so we assume it's always `True`.
See #1648
For better ergonomics. I always found it weird that we used UUID to
actually mean a tenant or timeline ID. It worked because it happened
to have the same length, 16 bytes, but it was hacky.
Merge batch_others and batch_pg_regress. The original idea was to
split all the python tests into multiple "batches" and run each batch
in parallel as a separate CI job. However, the batch_pg_regress batch
was pretty short compared to all the tests in batch_others. We could
split batch_others into multiple batches, but it actually seems better
to just treat them as one big pool of tests and use pytest's handle
the parallelism on its own. If we need to split them across multiple
nodes in the future, we could use pytest-shard or something else,
instead of managing the batches ourselves.
Merge test_neon_regress.py, test_pg_regress.py and test_isolation.py
into one file, test_pg_regress.py. Seems more clear to group all
pg_regress-based tests into one file, now that they would all be in
the same directory.
