part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9114, we want to be
able to run partial gc-compaction in tests. In the future, we can also
expand this functionality to legacy compaction, so that we can trigger
compaction for a specific key range.
## Summary of changes
* Support passing compaction key range through pageserver routes.
* Refactor input parameters of compact related function to take the new
`CompactOptions`.
* Add tests for partial compaction. Note that the test may or may not
trigger compaction based on GC horizon. We need to improve the test case
to ensure things always get below the gc_horizon and the gc-compaction
can be triggered.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
close https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9730
The test case tests if anything goes wrong during pageserver restart +
*during timeline creation not complete*. Therefore, queue is stopped
error is normal in this case, except that it should be categorized as a
shutdown error instead of a real error.
## Summary of changes
* More comments for the test case.
* Queue stopped error will now be forwarded as
CreateTimelineError::ShuttingDown.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
The community decided to make a new off-schedule release due to ABI
breakage in last week's release. We're not affected by the ABI
breakage because we rebuild all extensions in our docker images, but
let's stay up-to-date. There were a few other fixes in the release
too.
Currently, local_proxy will write an error log if it doesn't find the
config file. This is expected for startup, so it's just noise. It is an
error if we do receive an explicit SIGHUP though.
I've also demoted the build info logs to be debug level. We don't need
them in the compute image since we have other ways to determine what
code is running.
Lastly, I've demoted SIGHUP signal handling from warn to info, since
it's not really a warning event.
See https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/10880 for more details
## Problem
The first version of the ingest benchmark had some parsing and reporting
logic in shell script inside GitHub workflow.
it is better to move that logic into a python testcase so that we can
also run it locally.
## Summary of changes
- Create new python testcase
- invoke pgcopydb inside python test case
- move the following logic into python testcase
- determine backpressure
- invoke pgcopydb and report its progress
- parse pgcopydb log and extract metrics
- insert metrics into perf test database
- add additional column to perf test database that can receive endpoint
ID used for pgcopydb run to have it available in grafana dashboard when
retrieving other metrics for an endpoint
## Example run
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/11860622170/job/33056264386
Earlier work (#7547) has made the scrubber internally generic, but one
could only configure it to use S3 storage.
This is the final piece to make (most of, snapshotting still requires
S3) the scrubber be able to be configured via GenericRemoteStorage.
I.e. you can now set an env var like:
```
REMOTE_STORAGE_CONFIG='remote_storage = { bucket_name = "neon-dev-safekeeper-us-east-2d", bucket_region = "us-east-2" }
```
and the scrubber will read it instead.
There is a potential data corruption issue, not one I've encountered,
but it's still not hard to hit with some correct looking code given our
current architecture. It has to do with the timeline's memory object storage
via reference counted `Arc`s, and the removal of `retain_lsn` entries at
the drop of the last `Arc` reference.
The corruption steps are as follows:
1. timeline gets offloaded. timeline object A doesn't get dropped
though, because some long-running task accesses it
2. the same timeline gets unoffloaded again. timeline object B gets
created for it, timeline object A still referenced. both point to the
same timeline.
3. the task keeping the reference to timeline object A exits. destructor
for object A runs, removing `retain_lsn` in the timeline's parent.
4. the timeline's parent runs gc without the `retain_lsn` of the still
exant timleine's child, leading to data corruption.
In general we are susceptible each time when we recreate a `Timeline`
object in the same process, which happens both during a timeline
offload/unoffload cycle, as well as during an ancestor detach operation.
The solution this PR implements is to make the destructor for a timeline
as well as an offloaded timeline remove at most one `retain_lsn`.
PR #9760 has added a log line to print the refcounts at timeline
offload, but this only detects one of the places where we do such a
recycle operation. Plus it doesn't prevent the actual issue.
I doubt that this occurs in practice. It is more a defense in depth measure.
Usually I'd assume that the timeline gets dropped immediately in step 1,
as there is no background tasks referencing it after its shutdown.
But one never knows, and reducing the stakes of step 1 actually occurring
is a really good idea, from potential data corruption to waste of CPU time.
Part of #8088
## Problem
We don't take advantage of queue depth generated by the compute
on the pageserver. We can process getpage requests more efficiently
by batching them.
## Summary of changes
Batch up incoming getpage requests that arrive within a configurable
time window (`server_side_batch_timeout`).
Then process the entire batch via one `get_vectored` timeline operation.
By default, no merging takes place.
## Testing
* **Functional**: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9792
* **Performance**: will be done in staging/pre-prod
# Refs
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9377
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9376
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
Tests that are marked with `run_only_on_default_postgres` do not run on
debug builds on CI because we run debug builds only for the latest
Postgres version (which is 17)
## Summary of changes
- Bump `PgVersion.DEFAULT` to `v17`
- Skip `test_timeline_archival_chaos` in debug builds
## Problem
We call `check-build-tools-image` twice for each workflow whenever we
use it, along with `build-build-tools-image`, once as a workflow itself,
and the second time from `build-build-tools-image`. This is not
necessary.
## Summary of changes
- Inline `check-build-tools-image` into `build-build-tools-image`
- Remove separate `check-build-tools-image` workflow
## Problem
Due to #9471 , the scale test occasionally gets 404s while trying to
modify the config of a timeline that belongs to a tenant being migrated.
We rarely see this narrow race in the field, but the test is quite good
at reproducing it.
## Summary of changes
- Ignore 404 errors in this test.
## Problem
See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7750
test_wal_restore.sh is copying file to current working directory which
can cause interfere of test_wa_restore.py tests spawned of different
configurations.
## Summary of changes
Copy file to $DATA_DIR
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
The Postgres version was updated. The patch has to be updated
accordingly.
## Summary of changes
The patch of the regression test was updated.
## Problem
`no_sync` initially just skipped syncfs on startup (#9677). I'm also
interested in flaky tests that time out during pageserver shutdown while
flushing l0s, so to eliminate disk throughput as a source of issues
there,
## Summary of changes
- Drive-by change for test timeouts: add a couple more ::info logs
during pageserver startup so it's obvious which part got stuck.
- Add a SyncMode enum to configure VirtualFile and respect it in
sync_all and sync_data functions
- During pageserver startup, set SyncMode according to `no_sync`
## Problem
When processing pipelined `AppendRequest`s, we explicitly flush the WAL
every second and return an `AppendResponse`. However, the WAL is also
implicitly flushed on segment bounds, but this does not result in an
`AppendResponse`. Because of this, concurrent transactions may take up
to 1 second to commit and writes may take up to 1 second before sending
to the pageserver.
## Summary of changes
Advance `flush_lsn` when a WAL segment is closed and flushed, and emit
an `AppendResponse`. To accommodate this, track the `flush_lsn` in
addition to the `flush_record_lsn`.
## Problem
It turns out that `WalStreamDecoder::poll_decode` returns the start LSN
of the next record and not the end LSN of the current record. They are
not always equal. For example, they're not equal when the record in
question is an XLOG SWITCH record.
## Summary of changes
Rename things to reflect that.
In ea32f1d0a3, Matthias added a feature to
our extension to expose more granular wait events. However, due to the
typo, those wait events were never registered, so we used the more
generic wait events instead.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
We want to serialize interpreted records to send them over the wire from
safekeeper to pageserver.
## Summary of changes
Make `InterpretedWalRecord` ser/de. This is a temporary change to get
the bulk of the lift merged in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9746. For going to prod, we
don't want to use bincode since we can't evolve the schema.
Questions on serialization will be tackled separately.
PR #9308 has modified tenant activation code to take offloaded child
timelines into account for populating the list of `retain_lsn` values.
However, there is more places than just tenant activation where one
needs to update the `retain_lsn`s.
This PR fixes some bugs of the current code that could lead to
corruption in the worst case:
1. Deleting of an offloaded timeline would not get its `retain_lsn`
purged from its parent. With the patch we now do it, but as the parent
can be offloaded as well, the situatoin is a bit trickier than for
non-offloaded timelines which can just keep a pointer to their parent.
Here we can't keep a pointer because the parent might get offloaded,
then unoffloaded again, creating a dangling pointer situation. Keeping a
pointer to the *tenant* is not good either, because we might drop the
offloaded timeline in a context where a `offloaded_timelines` lock is
already held: so we don't want to acquire a lock in the drop code of
OffloadedTimeline.
2. Unoffloading a timeline would not get its `retain_lsn` values
populated, leading to it maybe garbage collecting values that its
children might need. We now call `initialize_gc_info` on the parent.
3. Offloading of a timeline would not get its `retain_lsn` values
registered as offloaded at the parent. So if we drop the `Timeline`
object, and its registration is removed, the parent would not have any
of the child's `retain_lsn`s around. Also, before, the `Timeline` object
would delete anything related to its timeline ID, now it only deletes
`retain_lsn`s that have `MaybeOffloaded::No` set.
Incorporates Chi's reproducer from #9753. cc
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/20199
The `test_timeline_retain_lsn` test is extended:
1. it gains a new dimension, duplicating each mode, to either have the
"main" branch be the direct parent of the timeline we archive, or the
"test_archived_parent" branch intermediary, creating a three timeline
structure. This doesn't test anything fixed by this PR in particular,
just explores the vast space of possible configurations a little bit
more.
2. it gains two new modes, `offload-parent`, which tests the second
point, and `offload-no-restart` which tests the third point.
It's easy to verify the test actually is "sharp" by removing one of the
respective `self.initialize_gc_info()`, `gc_info.insert_child()` or
`ancestor_children.push()`.
Part of #8088
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
#9764, which adds profiling support to Safekeeper, pulls in the
dependency [`inferno`](https://crates.io/crates/inferno) via
[`pprof-rs`](https://crates.io/crates/pprof). This is licenced under the
[Common Development and Distribution License
1.0](https://spdx.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0.html), which is not allowed by
`cargo-deny`.
This patch allows the CDDL-1.0 license. It is a derivative of the
Mozilla Public License, which we already allow, but avoids some issues
around European copyright law that the MPL had. As such, I don't expect
this to be problematic.
## Problem
We didn't have a neat way to prevent auto-splitting of tenants. This
could be useful during incidents or for testing.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9332
## Summary of changes
- Filter splitting candidates by scheduling policy
Analysis of the LR benchmarking tests indicates that in the duration of
test_subscriber_lag, a leftover 'slotter' replication slot can lead to
retained WAL growing on the publisher. This replication slot is not used
by any subscriber. The only purpose of the slot is to generate snapshot
files for the puspose of test_snap_files.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
After investigation, we think to make `test_readonly_node_gc` less
flaky, we need to make a proper fix (likely involving persisting part of
the lease state). See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9754
for details.
## Summary of changes
- skip the test until proper fix.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9240
## Summary of changes
Correctly truncate VM page instead just replacing it with zero page.
## 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 commit message to not include the above
checklist
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Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
## Problem
We are pining our fork of rust-postgres to a commit hash and that
prevents us from making
further changes to it. The latest commit in rust-postgres requires
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8747,
but that seems to have gone stale. I reverted rust-postgres `neon`
branch to the pinned commit in
https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres/pull/31.
## Summary of changes
Switch back to using the `neon` branch of the rust-postgres fork.
If WAL truncation fails in the middle it might leave some data on disk
above the write/flush LSN. In theory, concatenated with previous records
it might form bogus WAL (though very unlikely in practice because CRC
would protect from that). To protect from that, set
pending_wal_truncation flag: means before any WAL writes truncation must
be retried until it succeeds. We already did that in case of safekeeper
restart, now extend this mechanism for failures without restart. Also,
importantly, reset LSNs in the beginning of the operation, not in the
end, because once on disk deletion starts previous pointers are wrong.
All this most likely haven't created any problems in practice because
CRC protects from the consequences.
Tests for this are hard; simulation infrastructure might be useful here
in the future, but not yet.
## Problem
Historically, if a control component passed a pageserver "generation: 1"
this could be a quick way to corrupt a tenant by loading a historic
index.
Follows https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9383Closes#6951
## Summary of changes
- Introduce a Fatal variant to DownloadError, to enable index downloads
to signal when they have encountered a scary enough situation that we
shouldn't proceed to load the tenant.
- Handle this variant by putting the tenant into a broken state (no
matter which timeline within the tenant reported it)
- Add a test for this case
In the event that this behavior fires when we don't want it to, we have
ways to intervene:
- "Touch" an affected index to update its mtime (download+upload S3
object)
- If this behavior is triggered, it indicates we're attaching in some
old generation, so we should be able to fix that by manually bumping
generation numbers in the storage controller database (this should never
happen, but it's an option if it does)
and add /metrics endpoint to compute_ctl to expose such metrics
metric format example for extension pg_rag
with versions 1.2.3 and 1.4.2
installed in 3 and 1 databases respectively:
neon_extensions_installed{extension="pg_rag", version="1.2.3"} = 3
neon_extensions_installed{extension="pg_rag", version="1.4.2"} = 1
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infra part: https://github.com/neondatabase/flux-fleet/pull/251
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Co-authored-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
Followup to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9677 which enables
`no_sync` in tests. This can be merged once the next release has
happened.
## Summary of changes
- Always run pageserver with `no_sync = true` in tests.
psycopg2 has the following warning related to autocommit:
> By default, any query execution, including a simple SELECT will start
> a transaction: for long-running programs, if no further action is
> taken, the session will remain “idle in transaction”, an undesirable
> condition for several reasons (locks are held by the session, tables
> bloat…). For long lived scripts, either ensure to terminate a
> transaction as soon as possible or use an autocommit connection.
In the 2.9 release notes, psycopg2 also made the following change:
> `with connection` starts a transaction on autocommit transactions too
Some of these connections are indeed long-lived, so we were retaining
tons of WAL on the endpoints because we had a transaction pinned in the
past.
Link: https://www.psycopg.org/docs/news.html#what-s-new-in-psycopg-2-9
Link: https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/941
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
`TimelinePersistentState::empty()`, used for tests and benchmarks, had a
hardcoded 16 MB WAL segment size. This caused confusion when attempting
to change the global segment size.
## Summary of changes
Inherit from `WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE` in `TimelinePersistentState::empty()`.
This GUC will drop replication slots if the size of the
pg_logical/snapshots directory (not including temp snapshot files)
becomes larger than the specified size. Keeping the size of this
directory smaller will help with basebackup size from the pageserver.
Part-of: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8619
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
The original value that we get is measured in microseconds. It comes
from a calculation using Postgres' GetCurrentTimestamp(), whihc is
implemented in terms of gettimeofday(2).
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
