This commit introduces an SQL-over-HTTP endpoint in the proxy, with a JSON
response structure resembling that of the node-postgres driver. This method,
using HTTP POST, achieves smaller amortized latencies in edge setups due to
fewer round trips and an enhanced open connection reuse by the v8 engine.
This update involves several intricacies:
1. SQL injection protection: We employed the extended query protocol, modifying
the rust-postgres driver to send queries in one roundtrip using a text
protocol rather than binary, bypassing potential issues like those identified
in https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres/issues/1030.
2. Postgres type compatibility: As not all postgres types have binary
representations (e.g., acl's in pg_class), we adjusted rust-postgres to
respond with text protocol, simplifying serialization and fixing queries with
text-only types in response.
3. Data type conversion: Considering JSON supports fewer data types than
Postgres, we perform conversions where possible, passing all other types as
strings. Key conversions include:
- postgres int2, int4, float4, float8 -> json number (NaN and Inf remain
text)
- postgres bool, null, text -> json bool, null, string
- postgres array -> json array
- postgres json and jsonb -> json object
4. Alignment with node-postgres: To facilitate integration with js libraries,
we've matched the response structure of node-postgres, returning command tags
and column oids. Command tag capturing was added to the rust-postgres
functionality as part of this change.
When no SNI is provided use the default certificate, otherwise we can't
get to the options parameter which can be used to set endpoint name too.
That means that non-SNI flow will not work for CNAME domains in verify-full
mode.
Old coding here ignored non-wildcard common names and passed None instead. With my recent changes
I started throwing an error in that case. Old logic doesn't seem to be a great choice, so instead
of passing None I actually set non-wildcard common names too. That way it is possible to avoid handling
cases with None in downstream code.
Make it possible to specify directory where proxy will look up for
extra certificates. Proxy will iterate through subdirs of that directory
and load `key.pem` and `cert.pem` files from each subdir. Certs directory
structure may look like that:
certs
|--example.com
| |--key.pem
| |--cert.pem
|--foo.bar
|--key.pem
|--cert.pem
Actual domain names are taken from certs and key, subdir names are
ignored.
On the surface, this doesn't add much, but there are some benefits:
* We can do graceful shutdowns and thus record more code coverage data.
* We now have a foundation for the more interesting behaviors, e.g. "stop
accepting new connections after SIGTERM but keep serving the existing ones".
* We give the otel machinery a chance to flush trace events before
finally shutting down.
This patch adds a timed LRU cache implementation and a compute node info cache on top of that.
Cache entries might expire on their own (default ttl=5mins) or become invalid due to real-world events,
e.g. compute node scale-to-zero event, so we add a connection retry loop with a wake-up call.
Solved problems:
- [x] Find a decent LRU implementation.
- [x] Implement timed LRU on top of that.
- [x] Cache results of `proxy_wake_compute` API call.
- [x] Don't invalidate newer cache entries for the same key.
- [x] Add cmdline configuration knobs (requires some refactoring).
- [x] Add failed connection estab metric.
- [x] Refactor auth backends to make things simpler (retries, cache
placement, etc).
- [x] Address review comments (add code comments + cleanup).
- [x] Retry `/proxy_wake_compute` if we couldn't connect to a compute
(e.g. stalled cache entry).
- [x] Add high-level description for `TimedLru`.
TODOs (will be addressed later):
- [ ] Add cache metrics (hit, spurious hit, miss).
- [ ] Synchronize http requests across concurrent per-client tasks
(https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3331#issuecomment-1399216069).
- [ ] Cache results of `proxy_get_role_secret` API call.
[proxy] Add the `password hack` authentication flow
This lets us authenticate users which can use neither
SNI (due to old libpq) nor connection string `options`
(due to restrictions in other client libraries).
Note: `PasswordHack` will accept passwords which are not
encoded in base64 via the "password" field. The assumption
is that most user passwords will be valid utf-8 strings,
and the rest may still be passed via "password_".
Now proxy binary accepts `--auth-backend` CLI option, which determines
auth scheme and cluster routing method. Following backends are currently
implemented:
* legacy
old method, when username ends with `@zenith` it uses md5 auth dbname as
the cluster name; otherwise, it sends a login link and waits for the console
to call back
* console
new SCRAM-based console API; uses SNI info to select the destination
cluster
* postgres
uses postgres to select auth secrets of existing roles. Useful for local
testing
* link
sends login link for all usernames
* `cloud::legacy` talks to Cloud API V1.
* `cloud::api` defines Cloud API v2.
* `cloud::local` mocks the Cloud API V2 using a local postgres instance.
* It's possible to choose between API versions using the `--api-version` flag.
* [proxy] Propagate most errors to user
This change enables propagation of most errors to the user
(e.g. auth and connectivity errors). Some of them will be
stripped of sensitive information.
As a side effect, most occurrences of `anyhow::Error` were
replaced with concrete error types.
* [proxy] Box weighty errors
This change makes most parts of the code asynchronous, except
for the `mgmt` subsystem (we're going to drop it anyway).
Co-authored-by: bojanserafimov <bojan.serafimov7@gmail.com>
