## Problem
The test asserts that it completes at least 10 full timeline lifecycles,
but the noisy CI environment sometimes doesn't meet that goal.
Related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10389
## Summary of changes
- Sleep for longer between pageserver restarts, so that the timeline
workers have more chance to make progress
- Sleep for shorter between retries from timeline worker, so that they
have better chance to get in while a pageserver is up between restarts
- Relax the success condition to complete at least 5 iterations instead
of 10
## Problem
for OLAP benchmarks we need specific connstr secrets with different
database names for each job step
This is a follow-up for https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10536
In previous PR we used a common GitHub secret for a shared re-use
project that has 4 databases: neondb, tpch, clickbench and userexamples.
[Failure
example](https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/main/13044872855/index.html#suites/54d0af6f403f1d8611e8894c2e07d023/fc029330265e9f6e/):
```log
# /tmp/neon/pg_install/v17/bin/psql user=neondb_owner dbname=neondb host=ep-broad-brook-w2luwzzv.us-east-2.aws.neon.build sslmode=require options='-cstatement_timeout=0 ' -c -- $ID$
-- TPC-H/TPC-R Pricing Summary Report Query (Q1)
-- Functional Query Definition
-- Approved February 1998
...
ERROR: relation "lineitem" does not exist
```
## Summary of changes
We need dedicated GitHub secrets and dedicated connection strings for
each of the use cases.
## Test run
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/13053968231
It took me ages to figure out why it was failing on my laptop. What I
saw was that when the test makes the 'import_pgdata' in the pageserver,
the pageserver actually performs a regular 'bootstrap' timeline creation
by running initdb, with no importing. It boiled down to the json request
that the test uses:
```
{
"new_timeline_id": str(timeline_id),
"import_pgdata": {
"idempotency_key": str(idempotency),
"location": {"LocalFs": {"path": str(importbucket.absolute())}},
},
},
```
and how serde deserializes into rust structs. The 'LocalFs' enum variant
in `models.rs` is gated on the 'testing' cargo feature. On a non-testing
build, that got deserialized into the default Bootstrap enum variant, as
a valid TimelineCreateRequestModeImportPgdata variant could not be
formed.
PS. IMHO we should get rid of the testing feature, compile in all the
functionality, and have a runtime flag to disable anything dangeorous.
With that, you would've gotten a nice "feature only enabled in testing
mode" error in this case, or the test would've simply worked. But that's
another story.
## Problem
close https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10482
## Summary of changes
Add an extra lock on the read path to protect against races. The read
path has an implication that only certain kind of compactions can be
performed. Garbage keys must first have an image layer covering the
range, and then being gc-ed -- they cannot be done in one operation. An
alternative to fix this is to move the layers read guard to be acquired
at the beginning of `get_vectored_reconstruct_data_timeline`, but that
was intentionally optimized out and I don't want to regress.
The race is not limited to image layers. Gc-compaction will consolidate
deltas automatically and produce a flat delta layer (i.e., when we have
retain_lsns below the gc-horizon). The same race would also cause
behaviors like getting an un-replayable key history as in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10049.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
In some cases, we were returning a very shallow error like `error
sending request for url (XXX)`, which made it very hard to figure out
the actual error.
## Summary of changes
Use `{:?}` in a few places, and remove it from places where we were
printing a string anyway.
Related to #10308, we might have legitimate changes in file size or
generation. Those changes should not cause warn log lines.
In order to detect changes of the generation number while the file size
stayed the same, load the metadata that we store on disk on loading of
the timeline.
Still do a comparison with the on-disk layer sizes to find any
discrepancies that might occur due to race conditions (new metadata file
gets written but layer file has not been updated yet, and PS shuts
down). However, as it's possible to hit it in a race conditon, downgrade
it to a warning.
Also fix a mistake in #10529: we want to compare the old with the new
metadata, not the old metadata with itself.
## Problem
The client code for `tenant-set-preferred-az` declared response type
`()`, so printed a spurious error on each use:
```
Error: receive body: error decoding response body: invalid type: map, expected unit at line 1 column 0
```
The requests were successful anyway.
## Summary of changes
- Declare the proper return type, so that the command succeeds quietly.
## Problem
We don't have per-timeline observability for read amplification.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/23283.
## Summary of changes
Add a per-timeline `pageserver_layers_per_read` histogram.
NB: per-timeline histograms are expensive, but probably worth it in this
case.
## Problem
We suspect that Postgres checkpoints will limit the number of page
deltas necessary to reconstruct a page, but don't know for certain.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/23283.
## Summary of changes
Add `pageserver_deltas_per_read_global` metric.
This pairs with `pageserver_layers_per_read_global` from #10573.
## Problem
The current global `pageserver_layers_visited_per_vectored_read_global`
metric does not appear to accurately measure read amplification. It
divides the layer count by the number of reads in a batch, but this
means that e.g. 10 reads with 100 L0 layers will only measure a read amp
of 10 per read, while the actual read amp was 100.
While the cost of layer visits are amortized across the batch, and some
layers may not intersect with a given key, each visited layer
contributes directly to the observed latency for every read in the
batch, which is what we care about.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/23283.
Extracted from #10566.
## Summary of changes
* Count the number of layers visited towards each read in the batch,
instead of the average across the batch.
* Rename `pageserver_layers_visited_per_vectored_read_global` to
`pageserver_layers_per_read_global`.
* Reduce the read amp log warning threshold down from 512 to 100.
## Problem
Follow up of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10550 in case the
upper limit is set larger than threshold. It does not make sense for
someone to enforce the behavior like "if there are >= 50 L0s, only
compact 10 of them".
## Summary of changes
Use the maximum of compaction threshold and upper limit when selecting
L0 files to compact.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Repartition is slow, but it's only used in image layer creation. We can
skip it if we have a lot of L0 layers to ingest.
## Summary of changes
If L0 compaction is not complete, do not repartition and do not create
image layers.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
We don't have good observability for per-timeline compaction debt,
specifically the number of delta layers in the frozen, L0, and L1
levels.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/23283.
## Summary of changes
* Add a `level` label for `pageserver_layer_{count,size}` with values
`l0`, `l1`, and `frozen`.
* Track metrics for frozen layers.
There is already a `kind={delta,image}` label. `kind=image` is only
possible for `level=l1`.
We don't include the currently open ephemeral layer, only frozen layers.
There is always exactly 1 ephemeral layer, with a dynamic size which is
already tracked in `pageserver_timeline_ephemeral_bytes`.
## Problem
benchmarking.yml so far is only running benchmarks with PostgreSQL
version 16.
However neon recently changed the default for new customers to
PostgreSQL version 17.
See related [epic](https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/23295)
## Summary of changes
We do not want to run every job step with both pg 16 and 17 because this
would need excessive resources (runners, computes) and extend the
benchmarking run wall clock time too much.
So we select an opinionated subset of testcases that we also report in
weekly reporting and add a postgres v17 job step.
For re-use projects associated Neon projects have been created and
connection strings have been added to neon database organization
secrets.
A follow up is to add the reporting for these new runs to some grafana
dashboards.
## Problem
1. d04d924 added separate metrics for total requests and failures
separately, but it doesn't make much sense. We could just have a unified
counter with `http_status`.
2. `test_compute_migrations_retry` had a race, i.e., it was waiting for
the last successful migration, not an actual failure. This was revealed
after adding an assert on failure metric in d04d924.
## Summary of changes
1. Switch to unified counters for `compute_ctl` requests.
2. Add a waiting loop into `test_compute_migrations_retry` to eliminate
the race.
Part of neondatabase/cloud#17590
## Problem
If we are GC-ing because a new image layer was added while traversing
the timeline, then it will remove layers that are required for
fulfilling the current get request (read-path cannot "look back" and
notice the new image layer).
## Summary of Changes
Prevent GC from progressing on the current timeline while it is being
visited for a read.
Epic: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9376
Luckily they were the same version, so we didn't spend time compiling
two versions, which could have been the case in the future.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
The approach of having CancelMap as an in-memory structure increases
code complexity,
as well as putting additional load for Redis streams.
## Summary of changes
- Implement a set of KV ops for Redis client;
- Remove cancel notifications code;
- Send KV ops over the bounded channel to the handling background task
for removing and adding the cancel keys.
Closes#9660
## Problem
We have to test the extensions, shipped with Neon for compatibility
before the upgrade.
## Summary of changes
Added the test for compatibility with the upgraded extensions.
## Problem
Follow-up of the incident, we should not use the same bound on
lower/upper limit of compaction files. This patch adds an upper bound
limit, which is set to 50 for now.
## Summary of changes
Add `compaction_upper_limit`.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
Ref: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/23314
We suspect some inconsistency in Benchmark tests runs could be due to
different type of runners they are landed in.
To have that aligned in both terms: failure rates and benchmark results,
lets run them for now on `small-metal` servers and see the progress for
the tests stability.
## Summary of changes
## Problem
There are several parts of `compute_ctl` with a very low visibility of
errors:
1. DB migrations that run async in the background after compute start.
2. Requests made to control plane (currently only `GetSpec`).
3. Requests made to the remote extensions server.
## Summary of changes
Add new counters to quickly evaluate the amount of errors among the
fleet.
Part of neondatabase/cloud#17590
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10448 removed release notes,
because if their generation failed, the whole release was failing.
People liked them though, and wanted some basic release notes as a
fall-back instead of completely removing them.
## Summary of changes
Include basic release notes that link to the release PR and to a diff to
the previous release.
## Problem
We've seen the ingest connection manager get stuck shortly after a
migration.
## Summary of changes
A speculative mitigation is to use the same mechanism as get page
requests for kicking LSN ingest. The connection manager monitors
LSN waits and queries the broker if no updates are received for the
timeline.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10351
## Problem
We need a setting to disable the flush upload wait, to test L0 flush
backpressure in staging.
## Summary of changes
Add `l0_flush_wait_upload` setting.
## Problem
The request data and usage metrics S3 requests use the same identifier
shown in logs, causing confusion about what type of upload failed.
## Summary of changes
Use the correct identifier for usage metrics uploads.
neondatabase/cloud#23084
Only a few things that needed updating:
- async_trait was removed
- Message::Text takes a Utf8Bytes object instead of a String
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Conrad Ludgate <connor@neon.tech>
In #10308, we noticed many warnings about the local layer having
different sizes on-disk compared to the metadata.
However, the layer downloader would never redownload layer files if the
sizes or generation numbers change. This is obviously a bug, which we
aim to fix with this PR.
This change also moves the code deciding what to do about a layer to a
dedicated function: before we handled the "routing" via control flow,
but now it's become too complicated and it is nicer to have the
different verdicts for a layer spelled out in a list/match.
This reverts commit 9e55d79803.
We'll still need this until we can tune L0 flush backpressure and
compaction. I'll add a setting to disable this separately.
## Problem
This one is fairly embarrassing. Safekeeper node id was used in the
pageserver application name
when connecting to safekeepers.
## Summary of changes
Use the right node id.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10461
We want to verify if pageserver stripe size has an impact on ingest
performance.
We want to verify if ingest performance has improved or regressed with
postgres version 17.
## Summary of changes
- Allow to create new project with different postgres versions
- allow to pre-shard new project with different stripe sizes instead of
relying on storage manager to shard_split the project once a threshold
is exceeded
Replaces https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10509
Test run https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/12986410381
We now don't need libpq any more for the build of the storage
controller, as we use `diesel-async` since #10280. Therefore, we remove
the env var that gave cargo/rustc the location for libpq.
Follow-up of #10280
During broker deploys, pageservers log this noisy WARN en masse.
I can trivially reproduce the WARN message in neon_local by SIGKILLing
broker during e.g. `pgbench -i`.
I don't understand why tonic is not detecting the error as
`Code::Unavailable`.
Until we find time to understand that / fix upstream, this PR adds the
error message to the existing list of known error messages that get
demoted to INFO level.
Refs:
- refs https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9562
## Problem
We were logging a warning after a single request timeout, while listing
objects.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10166
## Summary of changes
- These timeouts are a pretty normal part of life, so back it off to
only log a warning after two in a row.
