## 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>
We used to generate the ID, if the caller didn't specify it. That's bad
practice, however, because network is never fully reliable, so it's
possible we create a new tenant but the caller doesn't know about it,
and because it doesn't know the tenant ID, it has no way of retrying or
checking if it succeeded. To discourage that, make it mandatory. The web
control plane has not relied on the auto-generation for a long time.
This PR enforces that the tenant create / update-config APIs reject
requests with unknown fields.
This is a desirable property because some tenant config settings control
the lifetime of user data (e.g., GC horizon or PITR interval).
Suppose we inadvertently rename the `pitr_interval` field in the Rust
code.
Then, right now, a client that still uses the old name will send a
tenant config request to configure a new PITR interval.
Before this PR, we would accept such a request, ignore the old name
field, and use the pageserver.toml default value for what the new PITR
interval is.
With this PR, we will instead reject such a request.
One might argue that the client could simply check whether the config it
sent has been applied, using the `/v1/tenant/.../config` endpoint.
That is correct for tenant create and update-config.
But, attach will soon [^1] grow the ability to have attach-time config
as well.
If we ignore unknown fields and fall back to global defaults in that
case, we risk data loss.
Example:
1. Default PITR in pageservers is 7 days.
2. Create a tenant and set its PITR to 30 days.
3. For 30 days, fill the tenant continuously with data.
4. Detach the tenant.
5. Attach tenant.
Attach must use the 30-day PITR setting in this scenario.
If it were to fall back to the 7-day default value, we would lose 23
days of PITR capability for the tenant.
So, the PR that adds attach-time tenant config will build on the
(clunky) infrastructure added in this PR
[^1]: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/4255
Implementation Notes
====================
This could have been a simple `#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]` but sadly,
that is documented- but silent-at-compile-time-incompatible with
`#[serde(flatten)]`. But we are still using this by adding on outer struct and use unit tests to ensure it is correct.
`neon_local tenant config` now uses the `.remove()` pattern + bail if
there are leftover config args. That's in line with what
`neon_local tenant create` does. We should dedupe that logic in a future
PR.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi <iskyzh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex Chi <iskyzh@gmail.com>
Await for upload to complete before returning 201 Created on
`branch_timeline` or when `bootstrap_timeline` happens. Should either of
those waits fail, then on the retried request await for uploads again.
This should work as expected assuming control-plane does not start to
use timeline creation as a wait_for_upload mechanism.
Fixes#3865, started from
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3857/files#r1144468177
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Before this patch, the following sequence would lead to the resurrection of a deleted timeline:
- create timeline
- wait for its index part to reach s3
- delete timeline
- wait an arbitrary amount of time, including 0 seconds
- detach tenant
- attach tenant
- the timeline is there and Active again
This happens because we only kept track of the deletion in the tenant dir (by deleting the timeline dir) but not in S3.
The solution is to turn the deleted timeline's IndexPart into a tombstone.
The deletion status of the timeline is expressed in the `deleted_at: Option<NativeDateTime>` field of IndexPart.
It's `None` while the timeline is alive and `Some(deletion time stamp)` if it is deleted.
We change the timeline deletion handler to upload this tombstoned IndexPart.
The handler does not return success if the upload fails.
Coincidentally, this fixes the long-stanging TODO about the `std::fs::remove_dir_all` being not atomic.
It need not be atomic anymore because we set the `deleted_at=Some()` before starting the `remove_dir_all`.
The tombstone is in the IndexPart only, not in the `metadata`.
So, we only have the tombstone and the `remove_dir_all` benefits mentioned above if remote storage is configured.
This was a conscious trade-off because there's no good format evolution story for the current metadata file format.
The introduction of this additional step into `delete_timeline` was painful because delete_timeline needs to be
1. cancel-safe
2. idempotent
3. safe to call concurrently
These are mostly self-inflicted limitations that can be avoided by using request-coalescing.
PR https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/4159 will do that.
fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3560
refs https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3889 (part of tenant relocation)
Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
This patch extends the libmetrics logging setup functionality with a
`tracing` layer that increments a Prometheus counter each time we log a
log message. We have the counter per tracing event level. This allows
for monitoring WARN and ERR log volume without parsing the log. Also, it
would allow cross-checking whether logs got dropped on the way into
Loki.
It would be nicer if we could hook deeper into the tracing logging
layer, to avoid evaluating the filter twice.
But I don't know how to do it.
Before this patch, if a tenant would override its eviction_policy
setting to use a lower LayerAccessThreshold::threshold than the
`evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold`, the evictions done
for that tenant would count towards the
`evictions_with_low_residence_duration` metric.
That metric is used to identify pre-mature evictions, commonly triggered
by disk-usage-based eviction under disk pressure.
We don't want that to happen for the legitimate evictions of the tenant
that overrides its eviction_policy.
So, this patch
- moves the setting into TenantConf
- adds test coverage
- updates the staging & prod yamls
Forward Compatibility:
Software before this patch will ignore the new tenant conf field and use
the global one instead.
So we can roll back safely.
Backward Compatibility:
Parsing old configs with software as of this patch will fail in
`PageServerConf::parse_and_validate` with error
`unrecognized pageserver option 'evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold'`
if the option is still present in the global section.
We deal with this by updating the configs in Ansible.
fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3940
