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
