Fix several test flakes:
- test_sharding_service_smoke had log failures on "Dropped LSN updates"
- test_emergency_mode had log failures on a deletion queue shutdown
check, where the check was incorrect because it was expecting channel
receiver to stay alive after cancellation token was fired.
- test_secondary_mode_eviction had racing heatmap uploads because the
test was using a live migration hook to set up locations, where that
migration was itself uploading heatmaps and generally making the
situation more complex than it needed to be.
These are the failure modes that I saw when spot checking the last few
failures of each test.
This will mostly/completely address #6511, but I'll leave that ticket
open for a couple days and then check if either of the tests named in
that ticket are flaky.
Related #6511
## Problem
the idea is to keep compute up and running if there are any active
logical replication subscriptions.
### Rationale
Rationale:
- The Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) files, which contain the data changes,
will need to be retained on the publisher side until the subscriber is
able to connect again and apply these changes. This could potentially
lead to increased disk usage on the publisher - and we do not want to
disrupt the source - I think it is more pain for our customer to resolve
storage issues on the source than to pay for the compute at the target.
- Upon resuming the compute resources, the subscriber will start
consuming and applying the changes from the retained WAL files. The time
taken to catch up will depend on the volume of changes and the
configured vCPUs.
we can avoid explaining complex situations where we lag behind (in
extreme cases we could lag behind hours, days or even months)
- I think an important use case for logical replication from a source is
a one-time migration or release upgrade. In this case the customer would
not mind if we are not suspended for the duration of the migration.
We need to document this in the release notes and the documentation in
the context of logical replication where Neon is the target (subscriber)
### See internal discussion here
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C04DGM6SMTM/p1706793400746539?thread_ts=1706792628.701279&cid=C04DGM6SMTM
Fix cloning the serialized heatmap on every attempt by just turning it
into `bytes::Bytes` before clone so it will be a refcounted instead of
refcounting a vec clone later on.
Also fixes one cancellation token cloning I had missed in #6618.
Cc: #6096
## Problem
We don't have a neat way to carry around migration .sql files during
deploy, and in any case would prefer to avoid depending on diesel CLI to
deploy.
## Summary of changes
- Use `diesel_migrations` crate to embed migrations in our binary
- Run migrations on startup
- Drop the diesel dependency in the `neon_local` binary, as the
attachment_service binary just needs the database to exist. Do database
creation with a simple `createdb`.
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
The solution we ended up for `backoff::retry` requires always cloning of
cancellation tokens even though there is just `.await`. Fix that, and
also turn the return type into `Option<Result<T, E>>` avoiding the need
for the `E::cancelled()` fn passed in.
Cc: #6096
## Problem
This change was left out of #6585 accidentally -- just forgot to push
the very last version of my branch.
Now that we can load database url from Secrets Manager, we don't always
need it on the CLI any more. We should let the user omit it instead of
passing `--database-url ""`
## Summary of changes
- Make `--database-url` optional
Cleanups from https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6394
- There was a rogue `*` breaking the `GET /tenant/:tenant_id`, which
passes through to shard zero
- There was a duplicate migrate endpoint
- There are un-prefixed API endpoints that were only needed for compat
tests and can now be removed.
## Problem
Running some memory profiling with high concurrent request rate shows
seemingly some memory fragmentation.
## Summary of changes
Eventually, we will want to separate global memory (caches) from local
memory (per connection handshake and per passthrough).
Using a string interner for project info cache helps reduce some of the
fragmentation of the global cache by having a single heap dedicated to
project strings, and not scattering them throughout all a requests.
At the same time, the interned key is 4 bytes vs the 24 bytes that
`SmolStr` offers.
Important: we should only store verified strings in the interner because
there's no way to remove them afterwards. Good for caching responses
from console.
Before tenant migration it made sense to leak broken tenants in the
metrics until restart. Nowdays it makes less sense because on
cancellations we set the tenant broken. The set metric still allows
filterable alerting.
Fixes: #6507
## Problem
We were archiving the pref benchmarks to
- neon DB
- git repo `zenith-perf-data`
As the pref batch ran in parallel when the uploading of results to
zenith-perf-data` git repo resulted in merge conflicts.
Which made the run flaky and as a side effect the build started failing
.
The problem is been expressed in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5160
## Summary of changes
As the results were not used from the git repo it was redundant hence in
this PR cleaning up the results uploading of of perf results to git repo
The shell script `generate_and_push_perf_report.sh` was using a py
script
[git-upload](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/compare/remove-perf-benchmark-git-upload?expand=1#diff-c6d938e7f060e487367d9dc8055245c82b51a73c1f97956111a495a8a86e9a33)
and
[scripts/generate_perf_report_page.py](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6590/files#diff-81af2147e72d07e4cf8ee4395632596d805d6168ba75c71cab58db2659956ef8)
which are not used anywhere else in repo hence also cleaning that up
## Checklist before requesting a review
- [ ] I have performed a self-review of my code.
- [ ] If it is a core feature, I have added thorough tests.
- [ ] Do we need to implement analytics? if so did you add the relevant
metrics to the dashboard?
- [ ] If this PR requires public announcement, mark it with
/release-notes label and add several sentences in this section.
## Checklist before merging
- [ ] Do not forget to reformat the commit message to not include the
above checklist
There is currently no cleanup done after a delta layer creation error,
so delta layers can accumulate. The problem gets worse as the operation
gets retried and delta layers accumulate on the disk. Therefore, delete
them from disk (if something has been written to disk).
I was getting an error:
/home/heikki/git-sandbox/neon//pgxn/neon_walredo/walredoproc.c:161:5: error: conflicting types for ‘close_range’; have ‘int(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)’
161 | int close_range(unsigned int start_fd, unsigned int count, unsigned int flags) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/sigstksz.h:24,
from /usr/include/signal.h:328,
from /home/heikki/git-sandbox/neon//pgxn/neon_walredo/walredoproc.c:50:
/usr/include/unistd.h:1208:12: note: previous declaration of ‘close_range’ with type ‘int(unsigned int, unsigned int, int)’
1208 | extern int close_range (unsigned int __fd, unsigned int __max_fd,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
The discrepancy is in the 3rd argument. Apparently in the glibc
wrapper it's signed.
As a quick fix, rename our close_range() function, the one that calls
syscall() directly, to avoid the clash with the glibc wrapper. In the
long term, an autoconf test would be nice, and some equivalent on
macOS, see issue #6580.
I was on-call this week, these would had made me understand more/faster
of the system:
- move stray attaching start logging inside the span it starts, add
generation
- log ancestor timeline_id or bootstrapping in the beginning of timeline
creation
The issue is still unsolved because of shmem size in VMs. Need to figure it out before applying this patch.
For more details:
```
ERROR: could not resize shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.2892504480" to 16774205952 bytes: No space left on device
```
As an example, the same issue in community pgvector/pgvector#453.
This includes a compatibility patch that is needed because pgvector
now skips WAL-logging during the index build, and WAL-logs the index
only in one go at the end. That's how GIN, GiST and SP-GIST index
builds work in core PostgreSQL too, but we need some Neon-specific
calls to mark the beginning and end of those build phases.
pgvector is the first index AM that does that with parallel workers,
so I had to modify those functions in the Neon extension to be aware
of parallel workers. Only the leader needs to create the underlying
file and perform the WAL-logging. (In principle, the parallel workers
could participate in the WAL-logging too, but pgvector doesn't do
that. This will need some further work if that changes).
The previous attempt at this (#6592) missed that parallel workers
needed those changes, and segfaulted in parallel build that spilled to
disk.
Testing
-------
We don't have a place for regression tests of extensions at the
moment. I tested this manually with the following script:
```
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS tst;
CREATE TABLE tst (i serial, v vector(3));
INSERT INTO tst (v) SELECT ARRAY[random(), random(), random()] FROM generate_series(1, 15000) g;
-- Serial build, in memory
ALTER TABLE tst SET (parallel_workers=0);
SET maintenance_work_mem='50 MB';
CREATE INDEX idx ON tst USING hnsw (v vector_l2_ops);
-- Test that the index works. (The table contents are random, and the
-- search is approximate anyway, so we cannot check the exact values.
-- For now, just eyeball that they look reasonable)
set enable_seqscan=off;
explain SELECT * FROM tst ORDER BY v <-> ARRAY[0, 0, 0]::vector LIMIT 5;
SELECT * FROM tst ORDER BY v <-> ARRAY[0, 0, 0]::vector LIMIT 5;
DROP INDEX idx;
-- Serial build, spills to on disk
ALTER TABLE tst SET (parallel_workers=0);
SET maintenance_work_mem='5 MB';
CREATE INDEX idx ON tst USING hnsw (v vector_l2_ops);
SELECT * FROM tst ORDER BY v <-> ARRAY[0, 0, 0]::vector LIMIT 5;
DROP INDEX idx;
-- Parallel build, in memory
ALTER TABLE tst SET (parallel_workers=4);
SET maintenance_work_mem='50 MB';
CREATE INDEX idx ON tst USING hnsw (v vector_l2_ops);
SELECT * FROM tst ORDER BY v <-> ARRAY[0, 0, 0]::vector LIMIT 5;
DROP INDEX idx;
-- Parallel build, spills to disk
ALTER TABLE tst SET (parallel_workers=4);
SET maintenance_work_mem='5 MB';
CREATE INDEX idx ON tst USING hnsw (v vector_l2_ops);
SELECT * FROM tst ORDER BY v <-> ARRAY[0, 0, 0]::vector LIMIT 5;
DROP INDEX idx;
```
## Problem
I didn't know about `wait_until` and was relying on `sleep` to wait for
stuff. This caused some tests to be flaky.
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6561
## Summary of changes
Switch to `wait_until`, this should make it tests less flaky
At the end of ApplyRecord(), we called pfree on the decoded record, if
it was "oversized". However, we had alread linked it to the "decode
queue" list in XLogReaderState. If we later called XLogBeginRead(), it
called ResetDecoder and tried to free the same record again.
The conditions to hit this are:
- a large WAL record (larger than aboue 64 kB I think, per
DEFAULT_DECODE_BUFFER_SIZE), and
- another WAL record processed by the same WAL redo process after the
large one.
I think the reason we haven't seen this earlier is that you don't get
WAL records that large that are sent to the WAL redo process, except
when logical replication is enabled. Logical replication adds data to
the WAL records, making them larger.
To fix, allocate the buffer ourselves, and don't link it to the decode
queue. Alternatively, we could perhaps have just removed the pfree(),
but frankly I'm a bit scared about the whole queue thing.
## Problem
When we change which physical pageservers a tenant is attached to, we
must update the control plane so that it can update computes. This will
be done via an HTTP hook, as described in
https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/Sharding-Service-Control-Plane-interface-6de56dd310a043bfa5c2f5564fa98365#1fe185a35d6d41f0a54279ac1a41bc94
## Summary of changes
- Optional CLI args `--control-plane-jwt-token` and `-compute-hook-url`
are added. If these are set, then we will use this HTTP endpoint,
instead of trying to use neon_local LocalEnv to update compute
configuration.
- Implement an HTTP-driven version of ComputeHook that calls into the
configured URL
- Notify for all tenants on startup, to ensure that we don't miss
notifications if we crash partway through a change, and carry a
`pending_compute_notification` flag at runtime to allow notifications to
fail without risking never sending the update.
- Add a test for all this
One might wonder: why not do a "forever" retry for compute hook
notifications, rather than carrying a flag on the shard to call
reconcile() again later. The reason is that we will later limit
concurreny of reconciles, when dealing with larger numbers of shards,
and if reconcile is stuck waiting for the control plane to accept a
notification request, it could jam up the whole system and prevent us
making other changes. Anyway: from the perspective of the outside world,
we _do_ retry forever, but we don't retry forever within a given
Reconciler lifetime.
The `pending_compute_notification` logic is predicated on later adding a
background task that just calls `Service::reconcile_all` on a schedule
to make sure that anything+everything that can fail a
Reconciler::reconcile call will eventually be retried.
This test became flaky when postgres retry handling was fixed to use
backoff delays -- each iteration in this test's loop was taking much
longer because pgbench doesn't fail until postgres has given up on
retrying to the pageserver.
We are just removing it, because the condition it tests is no longer
risky: we reload all metadata from remote storage on restart, so
crashing directly between making local changes and doing remote uploads
isn't interesting any more.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2856
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5329
in `test_statvfs_pressure_{usage,min_avail_bytes}` we now race against
initial logical size calculation on-demand downloading the layers. first
wait out the initial logical sizes, then change the final asserts to be
"eventual", which is not great but it is faster than failing and
retrying.
this issue seems to happen only in debug mode tests.
Fixes: #6510
## Problem
Passing secrets in via CLI/environment is awkward when using helm for
deployment, and not ideal for security (secrets may show up in ps,
/proc).
We can bypass these issues by simply connecting directly to the AWS
Secrets Manager service at runtime.
## Summary of changes
- Add dependency on aws-sdk-secretsmanager
- Update other aws dependencies to latest, to match transitive
dependency versions
- Add `Secrets` type in attachment service, using AWS SDK to load if
secrets are not provided on the command line.
## Problem
not really any problem, just some drive-by changes
## Summary of changes
1. move wake compute
2. move json processing
3. move handle_try_wake
4. move test backend to api provider
5. reduce wake-compute concerns
6. remove duplicate wake-compute loop
## Problem
Sharded tenants only maintain accurate relation sizes on shard 0.
Therefore logical size can only be calculated on shard 0. Fortunately it
is also only _needed_ on shard 0, to provide Safekeeper feedback and to
send consumption metrics.
Closes: #6307
## Summary of changes
- Send 0 for logical size to safekeepers on shards !=0
- Skip logical size warmup task on shards !=0
- Skip imitate_layer_accesses on shards !=0
## Problem
The 5 second activation timeout is appropriate for production
environments, where we want to give a prompt response to the cloud
control plane, and if we fail it will retry the call. In tests however,
we don't want every call to e.g. timeline create to have to come with a
retry wrapper.
This issue has always been there, but it is more apparent in sharding
tests that concurrently attach several tenant shards.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6563
## Summary of changes
When `testing` feature is enabled, make `ACTIVE_TENANT_TIMEOUT` 30
seconds instead of 5 seconds.
Adds an endpoint to the pageserver to S3-recover an entire tenant to a
specific given timestamp.
Required input parameters:
* `travel_to`: the target timestamp to recover the S3 state to
* `done_if_after`: a timestamp that marks the beginning of the recovery
process. retries of the query should keep this value constant. it *must*
be after `travel_to`, and also after any changes we want to revert, and
must represent a point in time before the endpoint is being called, all
of these time points in terms of the time source used by S3. these
criteria need to hold even in the face of clock differences, so I
recommend waiting a specific amount of time, then taking
`done_if_after`, then waiting some amount of time again, and only then
issuing the request.
Also important to note: the timestamps in S3 work at second accuracy, so
one needs to add generous waits before and after for the process to work
smoothly (at least 2-3 seconds).
We ignore the added test for the mocked S3 for now due to a limitation
in moto: https://github.com/getmoto/moto/issues/7300 .
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/8233
## Problem
Follow up to #5461
In my memory usage/fragmentation measurements, these metrics came up as
a large source of small allocations. The replacement metric has been in
use for a long time now so I think it's good to finally remove this.
Per-endpoint data is still tracked elsewhere
## Summary of changes
remove the per-client bytes metrics
A description was written as a follow-on to a section line, rather than
in the proper `description:` part. This caused swagger parsers to
rightly reject it.
This was very useful in debugging the bugs fixed in #6410 and #6502.
There's a lot more we could do. This only adds the printing to delta
layers, not image layers, for example, and it might be useful to print
details of more record types. But this is a good start.
The rust stdlib uses the efficient `posix_spawn` by default.
However, before this PR, pageserver used `pre_exec()` in our
`close_fds()` ext trait.
This PR moves the work that `close_fds()` did to the walredo C code.
I verified manually using `gdb` that we're now forking out the walredo
process using `posix_spawn`.
refs https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6565
- log when we start walredo process
- include tenant shard id in walredo argv
- dump some basic walredo state in tenant details api
- more suitable walredo process launch histogram buckets
- avoid duplicate tracing labels in walredo launch spans
## Problem
Currently we have no retry mechanism for fetching basebackup. If there's
an unstable connection, starting compute will just fail.
## Summary of changes
Adds an exponential backoff with 7 retries to get the basebackup.
Don't require AWS access keys (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) for S3 usage in the pytests, and also allow
AWS_PROFILE to be passed.
One of the two methods is required however.
This allows local development like:
```
aws sso login --profile dev
export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1 REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests AWS_PROFILE=dev
cargo build_testing && RUST_BACKTRACE=1 ./scripts/pytest -k debug-pg16 test_runner/regress/test_tenant_delete.py::test_tenant_delete_smoke
```
related earlier PR for the cargo unit tests of the `remote_storage` crate: #6202
---------
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>