## Problem
I've noticed that we have 2 flaky tests which failed with error:
```
re.error: missing ), unterminated subpattern at position 21
```
- `test_timeline_archival_chaos` — has been already fixed
- `test_sharded_tad_interleaved_after_partial_success` — I didn't manage
to find the incorrect regex
[Internal link](https://neonprod.grafana.net/goto/yfmVHV7NR?orgId=1)
## Summary of changes
- Wrap `re.match` in `try..except` block and print incorrect regex
## Problem
Two recently observed log errors indicate safekeeper tasks for a
timeline running after that timeline's deletion has started.
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8972
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8974
These code paths do not have a mechanism that coordinates task shutdown
with the overall shutdown of the timeline.
## Summary of changes
- Add a `Gate` to `Timeline`
- Take the gate as part of resident timeline guard: any code that holds
a guard over a timeline staying resident should also hold a guard over
the timeline's total lifetime.
- Take the gate from the wal removal task
- Respect Timeline::cancel in WAL send/recv code, so that we do not
block shutdown indefinitely.
- Add a test that deletes timelines with open pageserver+compute
connections, to check these get torn down as expected.
There is some risk to introducing gates: if there is code holding a gate
which does not properly respect a cancellation token, it can cause
shutdown hangs. The risk of this for safekeepers is lower in practice
than it is for other services, because in a healthy timeline deletion,
the compute is shutdown first, then the timeline is deleted on the
pageserver, and finally it is deleted on the safekeepers -- that makes
it much less likely that some protocol handler will still be running.
Closes: #8972Closes: #8974
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>
## 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
## 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
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.
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>
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
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>
Add a test that ensures the `retain_lsn` functionality works. Right now,
there is not a single test that is broken if offloaded or non-offloaded
timelines don't get registered at their parents, preventing gc from
discarding the ancestor_lsns of the children. This PR fills that gap.
The test has four modes:
* `offloaded`: offload the child timeline, run compaction on the parent
timeline, unarchive the child timeline, then try reading from it.
hopefully the data is still there.
* `offloaded-corrupted`: offload the child timeline, corrupts the
manifest in a way that the pageserver believes the timeline was
flattened. This is the closest we can get to pretend the `retain_lsn`
mechanism doesn't exist for offloaded timelines, so we can avoid adding
endpoints to the pageserver that do this manually for tests. The test
then checks that indeed data is corrupted and the endpoint can't be
started. That way we know that the test is actually working, and
actually tests the `retain_lsn` mechanism, instead of say the lsn lease
mechanism, or one of the many other mechanisms that impede gc.
* `archived`: the child timeline gets archived but doesn't get
offloaded. this currently matches the `None` case but we might have
refactors in the future that make archived timelines sufficiently
different from non-archived ones.
* `None`: the child timeline doesn't even get archived. this tests that
normal timelines participate in `retain_lsn`. I've made them locally not
participate in `retain_lsn` (via commenting out the respective
`ancestor_children.push` statement in tenant.rs) and ran the testsuite,
and not a single test failed. So this test is first of its kind.
Part of #8088.
## Problem
Running `pytest.skip(...)` in a test body instead of marking the test
with `@pytest.mark.skipif(...)` makes all fixtures to be initialised,
which is not necessary if the test is going to be skipped anyway.
Also, some tests are unnecessarily skipped (e.g. `test_layer_bloating`
on Postgres 17, or `test_idle_reconnections` at all) or run (e.g.
`test_parse_project_git_version_output_positive` more than on once
configuration) according to comments.
## Summary of changes
- Move `skip_on_postgres` / `xfail_on_postgres` /
`run_only_on_default_postgres` decorators to `fixture.utils`
- Add new `skip_in_debug_build` and `skip_on_ci` decorators
- Replace `pytest.skip(...)` calls with decorators where possible
Perf benchmarks produce a lot of layers.
## Summary of changes
Bumping the threshold and ignore the warning.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Right now, our environments create databases with the C locale, which is
really unfortunate for users who have data stored in other languages
that they want to analyze. For instance, show_trgm on Hebrew text
currently doesn't work in staging or production.
I don't envision this being the final solution. I think this is just a
way to set a known value so the pageserver doesn't use its parent
environment. The final solution to me is exposing initdb parameters to
users in the console. Then they could use a different locale or encoding
if they so chose.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
Replication slots are now persisted using AUX files mechanism and
included in basebackup when replica is launched.
This slots are not somehow used at replica but hold WAL, which may cause
local disk space exhaustion.
## Summary of changes
Add `--replica` parameter to basebackup request and do not include
replication slot state files in basebackup for replica.
## 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>
## Problem
When we create a new segment, we zero it out in order to avoid changing
the length and fsyncing metadata on every write. However, we zeroed it
out by writing 8 KB zero-pages, and Tokio file writes have non-trivial
overhead.
## Summary of changes
Zero out the segment using
[`File::set_len()`](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/i686-unknown-linux-gnu/tokio/fs/struct.File.html#method.set_len)
instead. This will typically (depending on the filesystem) just write a
sparse file and omit the 16 MB of data entirely. This improves WAL
append throughput for large messages by over 400% with fsync disabled,
and 100% with fsync enabled.
Fix direct reading from WAL buffers.
Pointer wasn't advanced which resulted in sending corrupted WAL if part
of read used WAL buffers and part read from the file. Also move it to
neon_walreader so that e.g. replication could also make use of it.
ref https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/19567
We need to use the shard associated with the layer file, not the shard
associated with our current tenant shard ID.
Due to shard splits, the shard IDs can refer to older files.
close https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9667
