## Problem
DEBUG_LOCAL_COMPARE mode allows to detect data corruption.
But it requires rebuild of neon extension (and so requires special
image) and significantly slowdown execution because always fetch pages
from page server.
## Summary of changes
Introduce new GUC `neon.debug_compare_local`, accepting the following
values: " none", "prefetch", "lfc", "all" (by default it is definitely
disabled).
In mode less than "all", neon SMGR will not fetch page from PS if it is
found in local caches.
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
The background installed extensions worker relied on `interval.tick()`
to go to sleep for a period of time. This can lead to bugs due to the
interval being updated at the end of the loop as the first tick is
[instantaneous](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/struct.Interval.html#method.tick).
## Summary of changes
Changed it to a `tokio::time::sleep` to prevent this issue. Now it puts
the thread to sleep and only wakes up after the specified duration
## Problem
Better investigate memory usage during backpressure
## Summary of changes
Print open layer size if backpressure is activated
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Ancestor detach from a previously detached parent when there were no
writes panics since it tries to upload the tombstone layer twice.
## Summary of Changes
If we're gonna copy the tombstone from the ancestor, don't bother
creating it.
Fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12458
When deploying new safekeepers, we don't immediately want to send
traffic to them. Maybe they are not ready yet by the time the deploy
script is registering them with the storage controller.
For pageservers, the storcon solves the problem by not scheduling stuff
to them unless there has been a positive heartbeat response. We can't do
the same for safekeepers though, otherwise a single down safekeeper
would mean we can't create new timelines in smaller regions where there
is only three safekeepers in total.
So far we have created safekeepers as `pause` but this adds a manual
step to safekeeper deployment which is prone to oversight. We want
things to be automatted. So we introduce a new state `activating` that
acts just like `pause`, except that we automatically transition the
policy to `active` once we get a positive heartbeat from the safekeeper.
For `pause`, we always keep the safekeeper paused.
## Problem
Currently, if `storcon` (storage controller) reconciliations repeatedly
fail, the system will indefinitely freeze optimizations. This can result
in optimization starvation for several days until the reconciliation
issues are manually resolved. To mitigate this, we should detect
persistently failing reconciliations and exclude them from influencing
the optimization decision.
## Summary of Changes
- A tenant shard reconciliation is now considered "keep-failing" if it
fails 5 consecutive times. These failures are excluded from the
optimization readiness check.
- Added a new metric: `storage_controller_keep_failing_reconciles` to
monitor such cases.
- Added a warning log message when a reconciliation is marked as
"keep-failing".
---------
Co-authored-by: Aleksandr Sarantsev <aleksandr.sarantsev@databricks.com>
## TLDR
This PR is a no-op. The changes are disabled by default.
## Problem
I. Currently we don't have a way to detect disk I/O failures from WAL
operations.
II.
We observe that the offloader fails to upload a segment due to race
conditions on XLOG SWITCH and PG start streaming WALs. wal_backup task
continously failing to upload a full segment while the segment remains
partial on the disk.
The consequence is that commit_lsn for all SKs move forward but
backup_lsn stays the same. Then, all SKs run out of disk space.
III.
We have discovered SK bugs where the WAL offload owner cannot keep up
with WAL backup/upload to S3, which results in an unbounded accumulation
of WAL segment files on the Safekeeper's disk until the disk becomes
full. This is a somewhat dangerous operation that is hard to recover
from because the Safekeeper cannot write its control files when it is
out of disk space. There are actually 2 problems here:
1. A single problematic timeline can take over the entire disk for the
SK
2. Once out of disk, it's difficult to recover SK
IV.
Neon reports certain storage errors as "critical" errors using a marco,
which will increment a counter/metric that can be used to raise alerts.
However, this metric isn't sliced by tenant and/or timeline today. We
need the tenant/timeline dimension to better respond to incidents and
for blast radius analysis.
## Summary of changes
I.
The PR adds a `safekeeper_wal_disk_io_errors ` which is incremented when
SK fails to create or flush WALs.
II.
To mitigate this issue, we will re-elect a new offloader if the current
offloader is lagging behind too much.
Each SK makes the decision locally but they are aware of each other's
commit and backup lsns.
The new algorithm is
- determine_offloader will pick a SK. say SK-1.
- Each SK checks
-- if commit_lsn - back_lsn > threshold,
-- -- remove SK-1 from the candidate and call determine_offloader again.
SK-1 will step down and all SKs will elect the same leader again.
After the backup is caught up, the leader will become SK-1 again.
This also helps when SK-1 is slow to backup.
I'll set the reelect backup lag to 4 GB later. Setting to 128 MB in dev
to trigger the code more frequently.
III.
This change addresses problem no. 1 by having the Safekeeper perform a
timeline disk utilization check check when processing WAL proposal
messages from Postgres/compute. The Safekeeper now rejects the WAL
proposal message, effectively stops writing more WAL for the timeline to
disk, if the existing WAL files for the timeline on the SK disk exceeds
a certain size (the default threshold is 100GB). The disk utilization is
calculated based on a `last_removed_segno` variable tracked by the
background task removing WAL files, which produces an accurate and
conservative estimate (>= than actual disk usage) of the actual disk
usage.
IV.
* Add a new metric `hadron_critical_storage_event_count` that has the
`tenant_shard_id` and `timeline_id` as dimensions.
* Modified the `crtitical!` marco to include tenant_id and timeline_id
as additional arguments and adapted existing call sites to populate the
tenant shard and timeline ID fields. The `critical!` marco invocation
now increments the `hadron_critical_storage_event_count` with the extra
dimensions. (In SK there isn't the notion of a tenant-shard, so just the
tenant ID is recorded in lieu of tenant shard ID.)
I considered adding a separate marco to avoid merge conflicts, but I
think in this case (detecting critical errors) conflicts are probably
more desirable so that we can be aware whenever Neon adds another
`critical!` invocation in their code.
---------
Co-authored-by: Chen Luo <chen.luo@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: Haoyu Huang <haoyu.huang@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: William Huang <william.huang@databricks.com>
## Problem
integrating subzero requires a bit of refactoring. To make the
integration PR a bit more manageable, the refactoring is done in this
separate PR.
## Summary of changes
* move common types/functions used in sql_over_http to errors.rs and
http_util.rs
* add the "Local" auth backend to proxy (similar to local_proxy), useful
in local testing
* change the Connect and Send type for the http client to allow for
custom body when making post requests to local_proxy from the proxy
---------
Co-authored-by: Ruslan Talpa <ruslan.talpa@databricks.com>
## Problem
`keep_connection` does not exit, so it was never setting
`credentials_refreshed`.
## Summary of changes
Set `credentials_refreshed` to true when we first establish a
connection, and after we re-authenticate the connection.
## Problem
#12450
## Summary of changes
Instead of `#[arg(default_value_t = typed_default_value)]`, we use
`#[arg(default_value = "str that deserializes into the value")]`,
because apparently you can't convince clap to _not_ deserialize from the
Display implementation of an imported enum.
Health checks for pg-sni-router open a TCP connection and immediately
close it again. This is noisy. We will filter out any EOF errors on the
first message.
"acquired permit" debug log is incorrect since it logs when we timedout
as well. This fixes the debug log.
## Problem
When local proxy is configured with TLS, the certificate does not match
the endpoint string. This currently returns an error.
## Summary of changes
I don't think this code is necessary anymore, taking the prefix from the
hostname is good enough (and is equivalent to what `endpoint_sni` was
doing) and we ignore checking the domain suffix.
## Problem
Neon currently implements several features that guarantee high uptime of
compute nodes:
1. Storage high-availability (HA), i.e. each tenant shard has a
secondary pageserver location, so we can quickly switch over compute to
it in case of primary pageserver failure.
2. Fast compute provisioning, i.e. we have a fleet of pre-created empty
computes, that are ready to serve workload, so restarting unresponsive
compute is very fast.
3. Preemptive NeonVM compute provisioning in case of k8s node
unavailability.
This helps us to be well-within the uptime SLO of 99.95% most of the
time. Problems begin when we go up to multi-TB workloads and 32-64 CU
computes. During restart, compute looses all caches: LFC, shared
buffers, file system cache. Depending on the workload, it can take a lot
of time to warm up the caches, so that performance could be degraded and
might be even unacceptable for certain workloads. The latter means that
although current approach works well for small to
medium workloads, we still have to do some additional work to avoid
performance degradation after restart of large instances.
[Rendered
version](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/alexk/pg-prewarm-rfc/docs/rfcs/2025-03-17-compute-prewarm.md)
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/19011
## Problem
The billing team wants to change the billing events pipeline and use a
common events format in S3 buckets across different event producers.
## Summary of changes
Change the events storage format for billing events from JSON to NDJSON.
Also partition files by hours, rather than days.
Resolves: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29995
We would like to move towards an arena system for JSON encoding the
responses. This change pushes an "out" parameter into the pg-test to
json routines to make swapping in an arena system easier in the future.
(see #11992)
This additionally removes the redundant `column: &[Type]` argument, as
well as rewriting the pg_array parser.
---
I rewrote the pg_array parser since while making these changes I found
it hard to reason about. I went back to the specification and rewrote it
from scratch. There's 4 separate routines:
1. pg_array_parse - checks for any prelude (multidimensional array
ranges)
2. pg_array_parse_inner - only deals with the arrays themselves
3. pg_array_parse_item - parses a single item from the array, this might
be quoted, unquoted, or another nested array.
4. pg_array_parse_quoted - parses a quoted string, following the
relevant string escaping rules.
Don't print errors like:
```
Compaction failed 1 times, retrying in 2s: Failed to offload timeline: Unexpected offload error: Timeline deletion is already in progress
```
Print it at info log level instead.
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30666
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712 changed how computes are
started in the test: the lsn is specified, making them read-only static
replicas. Lsn is `last_record_lsn` from pageserver. It works fine with
read-only branches (because their `last_record_lsn` is equal to
`start_lsn` and always valid). But with writable timelines, the
`last_record_lsn` on the pageserver might be stale.
Particularly in this test, after the `detach_branch` operation, the
tenant is reset on the pagesever. It leads to `last_record_lsn` going
back to `disk_consistent_lsn`, so basically rolling back some recent
writes.
If we start a primary compute, it will start at safekeepers' commit Lsn,
which is the correct one , and will wait till pageserver catches up with
this Lsn after reset.
- Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12365
## Summary of changes
- Start `primary` compute for writable timelines.
## Problem
Part of #11813
## Summary of changes
* Compute tenant remote size in the housekeeping loop.
* Add a new `TenantFeatureResolver` struct to cache the tenant-specific
properties.
* Evaluate feature flag based on the remote size.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
close https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11528
## Summary of changes
Gives us better observability of compaction progress.
- Image creation: num of partition processed / total partition
- Gc-compaction: index of the in the queue / total items for a full
compaction
- Shard ancestor compaction: layers to rewrite / total layers
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
L0 compaction currently holds the read lock for a long region while it
doesn't need to.
## Summary of changes
This patch reduces the one long contention region into 2 short ones:
gather the layers to compact at the beginning, and several short read
locks when querying the image coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Chen Luo
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
This PR works on adding dynamic masking support for `anon` v2. It
currently only supports static masking.
## Summary of changes
Added a security definer function that sets the dynamic masking guc to
`true` with superuser permissions.
Added a security definer function that adds `anon` to
`session_preload_libraries` if it's not already present.
Related to: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/20456
## Problem
Currently we do not have metrics for autovacuum.
## Summary of changes
Added a metric that extracts the top 5 DBs with oldest mxid and frozen
xid. Tables that were vacuumed recently should have younger value (or
younger age).
Related Issue: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/27296
## Problem
#8843
User initiated sql queries are being classified as "postgres" errors,
whereas they're really user errors.
## Summary of changes
Classify user-initiated postgres errors as user errors if they are
related to a sql query that we ran on their behalf. Do not log those
errors.
Add support to transport syslogs over TLS. Since TLS params essentially
require passing host and port separately, add a boolean flag to the
configuration template and also use the same `action` format for
plaintext logs. This allows seamless transition.
The plaintext host:port is picked from `AUDIT_LOGGING_ENDPOINT` (as
earlier) and from `AUDIT_LOGGING_TLS_ENDPOINT`. The TLS host:port is
used when defined and non-empty.
`remote_endpoint` is split separately to hostname and port as required
by `omfwd` module.
Also the address parsing and config content generation are split to more
testable functions with basic tests added.
## Problem
We persist safekeeper host/port in the storcon DB after
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712, so the storcon fails to
ping safekeepers in the compatibility tests, where we start the cluster
from the snapshot.
PR also adds some small code improvements related to the test failure.
- Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12339
## Summary of changes
- Update safekeeper ports in the storcon DB when starting the neon from
the dir (snapshot)
- Fail the response on all not-success codes (e.g. 3xx). Should not
happen, but just to be more safe.
- Add `neon_previous/` to .gitignore to make it easier to run compat
tests.
- Add missing EXPORT to the instruction for running compat tests
If a hardlink operation inside `detach_ancestor` fails due to the layer
already existing, we delete the layer to make sure the source is one we
know about, and then retry.
But we deleted the wrong file, namely, the one we wanted to use as the
source of the hardlink. As a result, the follow up hard link operation
failed. Our PR corrects this mistake.
## Problem
Previously, the background worker that collects the list of installed
extensions across DBs had a timeout set to 1 hour. This cause a problem
with computes that had a `suspend_timeout` > 1 hour as this collection
was treated as activity, preventing compute shutdown.
Issue: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30147
## Summary of changes
Passing the `suspend_timeout` as part of the `ComputeSpec` so that any
updates to this are taken into account by the background worker and
updates its collection interval.
If a hardlink operation inside `detach_ancestor` fails due to the layer
already existing, we delete the layer to make sure the source is one we
know about, and then retry.
But we deleted the wrong file, namely, the one we wanted to use as the
source of the hardlink. As a result, the follow up hard link operation
failed. Our PR corrects this mistake.
## Problem
We don't notify cplane about safekeeper membership change yet. Without
the notification the compute needs to know all the safekeepers on the
cluster to be able to speak to them. Change notifications will allow to
avoid it.
- Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12188
## Summary of changes
- Implement `notify_safekeepers` method in `ComputeHook`
- Notify cplane about safekeepers in `safekeeper_migrate` handler.
- Update the test to make sure notifications work.
## Out of scope
- There is `cplane_notified_generation` field in `timelines` table in
strocon's database. It's not needed now, so it's not updated in the PR.
Probably we can remove it.
- e2e tests to make sure it works with a production cplane
## Problem
The gRPC API does not provide LSN leases.
## Summary of changes
* Add LSN lease support to the gRPC API.
* Use gRPC LSN leases for static computes with `grpc://` connstrings.
* Move `PageserverProtocol` into the `compute_api::spec` module and
reuse it.
## Problem
Location config changes can currently result in changes to the shard
identity. Such changes will cause data corruption, as seen with #12217.
Resolves#12227.
Requires #12377.
## Summary of changes
Assert that the shard identity does not change on location config
updates and on (re)attach.
This is currently asserted with `critical!`, in case it misfires in
production. Later, we should reject such requests with an error and turn
this into a proper assertion.
Implicit mapping to an `anyhow::Error` when we do `?` is discouraged
because tooling to find those places isn't great.
As a drive-by, also make SplitImageLayerWriter::new infallible and sync.
I think we should also make ImageLayerWriter::new completely lazy,
then `BatchLayerWriter:new` infallible and async.
Reverts neondatabase/neon#11663 and
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11265/
Step Security is not yet approved by Databricks team, in order to
prevent issues during Github org migration, I'll revert this PR to use
the previous action instead of Step Security maintained action.
## Problem
Similarly to #12217, the following endpoints may result in a stripe size
mismatch between the storage controller and Pageserver if an unsharded
tenant has a different stripe size set than the default. This can lead
to data corruption if the tenant is later manually split without
specifying an explicit stripe size, since the storage controller and
Pageserver will apply different defaults. This commonly happens with
tenants that were created before the default stripe size was changed
from 32k to 2k.
* `PUT /v1/tenant/config`
* `PATCH /v1/tenant/config`
These endpoints are no longer in regular production use (they were used
when cplane still managed Pageserver directly), but can still be called
manually or by tests.
## Summary of changes
Retain the current shard parameters when updating the location config in
`PUT | PATCH /v1/tenant/config`.
Also opportunistically derive `Copy` for `ShardParameters`.
## Problem
Some of the design decisions in PR #12256 were influenced by the
requirements of consistency tests. These decisions introduced
intermediate logic that is no longer needed and should be cleaned up.
## Summary of Changes
- Remove the `feature("testing")` flag related to
`kick_secondary_download`.
- Set the default value of `kick_secondary_download` back to false,
reflecting the intended production behavior.
Co-authored-by: Aleksandr Sarantsev <aleksandr.sarantsev@databricks.com>
## Problem
- Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12298
## Summary of changes
- Set `timeline_safekeeper_count` in `neon_local` if we have less than 3
safekeepers
- Remove `cfg!(feature = "testing")` code from
`safekeepers_for_new_timeline`
- Change `timeline_safekeeper_count` type to `usize`
## Problem
`compute_ctl` should support gRPC base backups.
Requires #12111.
Requires #12243.
Touches #11926.
## Summary of changes
Support `grpc://` connstrings for `compute_ctl` base backups.
We don't have cancellation support for timeline deletions. In other
words, timeline deletion might still go on in an older generation while
we are attaching it in a newer generation already, because the
cancellation simply hasn't reached the deletion code.
This has caused us to hit a situation with offloaded timelines in which
the timeline was in an unrecoverable state: always returning an accepted
response, but never a 404 like it should be.
The detailed description can be found in
[here](https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30406#issuecomment-3008667859)
(private repo link).
TLDR:
1. we ask to delete timeline on old pageserver/generation, starts
process in background
2. the storcon migrates the tenant to a different pageserver.
- during attach, the pageserver still finds an index part, so it adds it
to `offloaded_timelines`
4. the timeline deletion finishes, removing the index part in S3
5. there is a retry of the timeline deletion endpoint, sent to the new
pageserver location. it is bound to fail however:
- as the index part is gone, we print `Timeline already deleted in
remote storage`.
- the problem is that we then return an accepted response code, and not
a 404.
- this confuses the code calling us. it thinks the timeline is not
deleted, so keeps retrying.
- this state never gets recovered from until a reset/detach, because of
the `offloaded_timelines` entry staying there.
This is where this PR fixes things: if no index part can be found, we
can safely assume that the timeline is gone in S3 (it's the last thing
to be deleted), so we can remove it from `offloaded_timelines` and
trigger a reupload of the manifest. Subsequent retries will pick that
up.
Why not improve the cancellation support? It is a more disruptive code
change, that might have its own risks. So we don't do it for now.
Fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30406
## Problem
The problem has been well described in already-commited PR #11853.
tl;dr: BufferedWriter is sensitive to cancellation, which the previous
approach was not.
The write path was most affected (ingest & compaction), which was mostly
fixed in #11853:
it introduced `PutError` and mapped instances of `PutError` that were
due to cancellation of underlying buffered writer into
`CreateImageLayersError::Cancelled`.
However, there is a long tail of remaining errors that weren't caught by
#11853 that result in `CompactionError::Other`s, which we log with great
noise.
## Solution
The stack trace logging for CompactionError::Other added in #11853
allows us to chop away at that long tail using the following pattern:
- look at the stack trace
- from leaf up, identify the place where we incorrectly map from the
distinguished variant X indicating cancellation to an `anyhow::Error`
- follow that anyhow further up, ensuring it stays the same anyhow all
the way up in the `CompactionError::Other`
- since it stayed one anyhow chain all the way up, root_cause() will
yield us X
- so, in `log_compaction_error`, add an additional `downcast_ref` check
for X
This PR specifically adds checks for
- the flush task cancelling (FlushTaskError, BlobWriterError)
- opening of the layer writer (GateError)
That should cover all the reports in issues
- https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29434
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12162
## Refs
- follow-up to #11853
- fixup of / fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11762
- fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12162
- refs https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29434
We don't have cancellation support for timeline deletions. In other
words, timeline deletion might still go on in an older generation while
we are attaching it in a newer generation already, because the
cancellation simply hasn't reached the deletion code.
This has caused us to hit a situation with offloaded timelines in which
the timeline was in an unrecoverable state: always returning an accepted
response, but never a 404 like it should be.
The detailed description can be found in
[here](https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30406#issuecomment-3008667859)
(private repo link).
TLDR:
1. we ask to delete timeline on old pageserver/generation, starts
process in background
2. the storcon migrates the tenant to a different pageserver.
- during attach, the pageserver still finds an index part, so it adds it
to `offloaded_timelines`
4. the timeline deletion finishes, removing the index part in S3
5. there is a retry of the timeline deletion endpoint, sent to the new
pageserver location. it is bound to fail however:
- as the index part is gone, we print `Timeline already deleted in
remote storage`.
- the problem is that we then return an accepted response code, and not
a 404.
- this confuses the code calling us. it thinks the timeline is not
deleted, so keeps retrying.
- this state never gets recovered from until a reset/detach, because of
the `offloaded_timelines` entry staying there.
This is where this PR fixes things: if no index part can be found, we
can safely assume that the timeline is gone in S3 (it's the last thing
to be deleted), so we can remove it from `offloaded_timelines` and
trigger a reupload of the manifest. Subsequent retries will pick that
up.
Why not improve the cancellation support? It is a more disruptive code
change, that might have its own risks. So we don't do it for now.
Fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30406
Mainly for general readability. Some notable changes:
- Postgres can be built without the rest of the repository, and in
particular without any of the Rust bits. Some CI scripts took advantage
of that, so let's make that more explicit by separating those parts.
Also add an explicit comment about that in the new postgres.mk file.
- Add a new PG_INSTALL_CACHED variable. If it's set, `make all` and
other top-Makefile targets skip checking if Postgres is up-to-date. This
is also to be used in CI scripts that build and cache Postgres as
separate steps. (It is currently only used in the macos walproposer-lib
rule, but stay tuned for more.)
- Introduce a POSTGRES_VERSIONS variable that lists all supported
PostgreSQL versions. Refactor a few Makefile rules to use that.
## Problem
In large oltp test run
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/15905488707/job/44859116742
we see that the `Benchmark database maintenance` step is skipped in all
3 strategy variants, however it should be executed in two.
This is due to treating the `test_maintenance` boolean type in the
strategy in the condition of the `Benchmark database maintenance` step
## Summary of changes
Use a boolean condition instead of a string comparison
## Test run from this pull request branch
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/15923605412
## Problem
When resolving a shard during a split we might have multiple attached
shards with the old shard count (i.e. not all of them are marked in
progress and ignored). Hence, we can compute the desired shard number
based on the old shard count and misroute the request.
## Summary of Changes
Recompute the desired shard every time the shard count changes during
the iteration
# Problem
In #12335 I moved the `authenticate` method outside of the
`connect_to_compute` loop. This triggered [e2e tests to become
flaky](https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/30533). This
highlighted an edge case we forgot to consider with that change.
When we connect to compute, the compute IP might be cached. This cache
hit might however be stale. Because we can't validate the IP is
associated with a specific compute-id☨, we will succeed the
connect_to_compute operation and fail when it comes to password
authentication☨☨. Before the change, we were invalidating the cache and
triggering wake_compute if the authentication failed.
Additionally, I noticed some faulty logic I introduced 1 year ago
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8141/files#diff-5491e3afe62d8c5c77178149c665603b29d88d3ec2e47fc1b3bb119a0a970afaL145-R147
☨ We can when we roll out TLS, as the certificate common name includes
the compute-id.
☨☨ Technically password authentication could pass for the wrong compute,
but I think this would only happen in the very very rare event that the
IP got reused **and** the compute's endpoint happened to be a
branch/replica.
# Solution
1. Fix the broken logic
2. Simplify cache invalidation (I don't know why it was so convoluted)
3. Add a loop around connect_to_compute + authenticate to re-introduce
the wake_compute invalidation we accidentally removed.
I went with this approach to try and avoid interfering with
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/compare/main...cloneable/proxy-pglb-connect-compute-split.
The changes made in commit 3 will move into `handle_client_request` I
suspect,
## Problem
Some pageservers hit `max_size_entries` limit in staging with only ~25
MiB storage used by basebackup cache. The limit is too strict. It should
be safe to relax it.
- Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29353
## Summary of changes
- Increase the default `max_size_entries` from 1000 to 10000
## Problem
Druing shard splits we shut down the remote client early and allow the
parent shard to keep ingesting data. While ingesting data, the wal
receiver task may wait for the current flush to complete in order to
apply backpressure. Notifications are delivered via
`Timeline::layer_flush_done_tx`.
When the remote client was being shut down the flush loop exited
whithout delivering a notification. This left
`Timeline::wait_flush_completion` hanging indefinitely which blocked the
shutdown of the wal receiver task, and, hence, the shard split.
## Summary of Changes
Deliver a final notification when the flush loop is shutting down
without the timeline cancel cancellation token having fired. I tried
writing a test for this, but got stuck in failpoint hell and decided
it's not worth it.
`test_sharding_autosplit`, which reproduces this reliably in CI, passed
with the proposed fix in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/12304.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12060
Make the safekeeper `pull_timeline` endpoint support timelines that
haven't had any writes yet. In the storcon managed sk timelines world,
if a safekeeper goes down temporarily, the storcon will schedule a
`pull_timeline` call. There is no guarantee however that by when the
safekeeper is online again, there have been writes to the timeline yet.
The `snapshot` endpoint gives an error if the timeline hasn't had
writes, so we avoid calling it if `timeline_start_lsn` indicates a
freshly created timeline.
Fixes#11422
Part of #11670
## Problem
gRPC base backups do not use the base backup cache.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11728.
## Summary of changes
Integrate gRPC base backups with the base backup cache.
Also fixes a bug where the base backup cache did not differentiate
between primary/replica base backups (at least I think that's a bug?).
## Problem
In our infra config, we have to split server_api_key and other fields in
two files: the former one in the sops file, and the latter one in the
normal config. It creates the situation that we might misconfigure some
regions that it only has part of the fields available, causing
storcon/pageserver refuse to start.
## Summary of changes
Allow PostHog config to have part of the fields available. Parse it
later.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Basebackup cache now uses unbounded channel for prepare requests. In
theory it can grow large if the cache is hung and does not process the
requests.
- Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29353
## Summary of changes
- Replace an unbounded channel with a bounded one, the size is
configurable.
- Add `pageserver_basebackup_cache_prepare_queue_size` to observe the
size of the queue.
- Refactor a bit to move all metrics logic to `basebackup_cache.rs`
I was looking at how we could expose our proxy config as toml again, and
as I was writing out the schema format, I noticed some cruft in our CLI
args that no longer seem to be in use.
The redis change is the most complex, but I am pretty sure it's sound.
Since https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/15613 cplane longer
publishes to the global redis instance.
## Problem
If LFC generation is changed then `lfc_readv_select` will return -1 but
pages are still marked as available in bitmap.
## Summary of changes
Update bitmap after generation check.
Co-authored-by: Kosntantin Knizhnik <konstantin.knizhnik@databricks.com>
## Problem
Fix for https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/12324
## Summary of changes
Need `serde(default)` to allow this field not present in the config,
otherwise there will be a config deserialization error.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
gRPC base backups use gRPC compression. However, this has two problems:
* Base backup caching will cache compressed base backups (making gRPC
compression pointless).
* Tonic does not support varying the compression level, and zstd default
level is 10% slower than gzip fastest level.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11728.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29353.
## Summary of changes
This patch adds a gRPC parameter `BaseBackupRequest::compression`
specifying the compression algorithm. It also moves compression into
`send_basebackup_tarball` to reduce code duplication.
A follow-up PR will integrate the base backup cache with gRPC.
## Summary
A design for a storage system that allows storage of files required to
make
Neon's Endpoints have a better experience at or after a reboot.
## Motivation
Several systems inside PostgreSQL (and Neon) need some persistent
storage for
optimal workings across reboots and restarts, but still work without.
Examples are the cumulative statistics file in `pg_stat/global.stat`,
`pg_stat_statements`' `pg_stat/pg_stat_statements.stat`, and
`pg_prewarm`'s
`autoprewarm.blocks`. We need a storage system that can store and manage
these files for each Endpoint.
[GH rendered
file](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/MMeent/rfc-unlogged-file/docs/rfcs/040-Endpoint-Persistent-Unlogged-Files-Storage.md)
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/24225
## Problem
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11813
## Summary of changes
It costs $$$ to directly retrieve the feature flags from the pageserver.
Therefore, this patch adds new APIs to retrieve the spec from the
storcon and updates it via pageserver.
* Storcon retrieves the feature flag and send it to the pageservers.
* If the feature flag gets updated outside of the normal refresh loop of
the pageserver, pageserver won't fetch the flags on its own as long as
the last updated time <= refresh_period.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/30539
If the current leader cancels the `call` function, then it has removed
the jobs from the queue, but will never finish sending the responses.
Because of this, it is not cancellation safe.
## Summary of changes
Document these functions as not cancellation safe. Move cancellation of
the queued jobs into the queue itself.
## Alternatives considered
1. We could spawn the task that runs the batch, since that won't get
cancelled.
* This requires `fn call(self: Arc<Self>)` or `fn call(&'static self)`.
2. We could add another scopeguard and return the requests back to the
queue.
* This requires that requests are always retry safe, and also requires
requests to be `Clone`.
## Problem
While working more on TLS to compute, I realised that Console Redirect
-> pg-sni-router -> compute would break if channel binding was set to
prefer. This is because the channel binding data would differ between
Console Redirect -> pg-sni-router vs pg-sni-router -> compute.
I also noticed that I actually disabled channel binding in #12145, since
`connect_raw` would think that the connection didn't support TLS.
## Summary of changes
Make sure we specify the channel binding.
Make sure that `connect_raw` can see if we have TLS support.
In `test_layer_download_cancelled_by_config_location`, we simulate hung
downloads via the `before-downloading-layer-stream-pausable` failpoint.
Then, we cancel a timeline via the `location_config` endpoint.
With the new default as of
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712, we would be creating
the timeline on safekeepers regardless if there have been writes or not,
and it turns out the test relied on the timeline not existing on
safekeepers, due to a cancellation bug:
* as established before, the test makes the read path hang
* the timeline cancellation function first cancels the walreceiver, and
only then cancels the timeline's token
* `WalIngest::new` is requesting a checkpoint, which hits the read path
* at cancellation time, we'd be hanging inside the read, not seeing the
cancellation of the walreceiver
* the test would time out due to the hang
This is probably also reproducible in the wild when there is S3
unavailabilies or bottlenecks. So we thought that it's worthwhile to fix
the hang issue. The approach chosen in the end involves the
`tokio::select` macro.
In PR 11712, we originally punted on the test due to the hang and opted
it out from the new default, but now we can use the new default.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12299
pgaudit can spam logs due to all the monitoring that we do. Logs from
these connections are not necessary for HIPPA compliance, so we can stop
logging from those connections.
Part-of: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29574
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
This makes it possible for the compiler to validate that a match block
matched all PostgreSQL versions we support.
## Problem
We did not have a complete picture about which places we had to test
against PG versions, and what format these versions were: The full PG
version ID format (Major/minor/bugfix `MMmmbb`) as transfered in
protocol messages, or only the Major release version (`MM`). This meant
type confusion was rampant.
With this change, it becomes easier to develop new version-dependent
features, by making type and niche confusion impossible.
## Summary of changes
Every use of `pg_version` is now typed as either `PgVersionId` (u32,
valued in decimal `MMmmbb`) or PgMajorVersion (an enum, with a value for
every major version we support, serialized and stored like a u32 with
the value of that major version)
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Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
## Problem
The billing team wants to change the billing events pipeline and use a
common events format in S3 buckets across different event producers.
## Summary of changes
Change the events storage format for billing events from JSON to NDJSON.
Resolves: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29994
## Problem
PGLB will do the connect_to_compute logic, neonkeeper will do the
session establishment logic. We should split it.
## Summary of changes
Moves postgres authentication to compute to a separate routine that
happens after connect_to_compute.
The 1.88.0 stable release is near (this Thursday). We'd like to fix most
warnings beforehand so that the compiler upgrade doesn't require
approval from too many teams.
This is therefore a preparation PR (like similar PRs before it).
There is a lot of changes for this release, mostly because the
`uninlined_format_args` lint has been added to the `style` lint group.
One can read more about the lint
[here](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/#/uninlined_format_args).
The PR is the result of `cargo +beta clippy --fix` and `cargo fmt`. One
remaining warning is left for the proxy team.
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Co-authored-by: Conrad Ludgate <conrad@neon.tech>
## Problem
`Attached(0)` tenant migrations can get stuck if the heatmap file has
not been uploaded.
## Summary of Changes
- Added a test to reproduce the issue.
- Introduced a `kick_secondary_downloads` config flag:
- Enabled in testing environments.
- Disabled in production (and in the new test).
- Updated `Attached(0)` locations to consider the number of secondaries
in their intent when deciding whether to download the heatmap.
## Problem
Part of #11813
## Summary of changes
Add a test API to make it easier to manipulate the feature flags within
tests.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
The scheduler uses total shards per AZ to select the AZ for newly
created or attached tenants.
This makes bad decisions when we have different node counts per AZ -- we
might have 2 very busy pageservers in one AZ, and 4 more lightly loaded
pageservers in other AZs, and the scheduler picks the busy pageservers
because the total shard count in their AZ is lower.
## Summary of changes
- Divide the shard count by the number of nodes in the AZ when scoring
in `get_az_for_new_tenant`
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Co-authored-by: John Spray <john.spray@databricks.com>
The `--gzip-probability` parameter was removed in #12250. However,
`test_basebackup_with_high_slru_count` still uses it, and keeps failing.
This patch removes the use of the parameter (gzip is enabled by
default).
## Problem
Part of #11813
## Summary of changes
The current interval is 30s and it costs a lot of $$$. This patch
reduced it to 600s refresh interval (which means that it takes 10min for
feature flags to propagate from UI to the pageserver). In the future we
can let storcon retrieve the feature flags and push it to pageservers.
We can consider creating a new release or we can postpone this to the
week after the next week.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
The 'make all' step must run always. PR #12311 accidentally left the
condition in there to skip it if there were no changes in postgres v14
sources. That condition belonged to a whole different step that was
removed altogether in PR#12311, and the condition should've been removed
too.
Per CI failure:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/15820148967/job/44587394469
## Problem
Previously, we couldn't read from an in-memory layer while a batch was
being written to it. Vice-versa, we couldn't write to it while there
was an on-going read.
## Summary of Changes
The goal of this change is to improve concurrency. Writes happened
through a &mut self method so the enforcement was at the type system
level.
We attempt to improve by:
1. Adding interior mutability to EphemeralLayer. This involves wrapping
the buffered writer in a read-write lock.
2. Minimise the time that the read lock is held for. Only hold the read
lock while reading from the buffers (recently flushed or pending
flush). If we need to read from the file, drop the lock and allow IO
to be concurrent.
The new benchmark variants with concurrent reads improve between 70 to
200 percent (against main).
Benchmark results are in this
[commit](891f094ce6).
## Future Changes
We can push the interior mutability into the buffered writer. The
mutable tail goes under a read lock, the flushed part goes into an
ArcSwap and then we can read from anything that is flushed _without_ any
locking.
gRPC base backups send a stream of fixed-size 64KB chunks.
pagebench basebackup with compression enabled shows this to reduce
throughput:
* 64 KB: 55 RPS
* 128 KB: 69 RPS
* 256 KB: 73 RPS
* 1024 KB: 73 RPS
This patch sets the base backup chunk size to 256 KB.
The build-tools image contains various build tools and dependencies,
mostly Rust-related. The compute image build used it to build
compute_ctl and a few other little rust binaries that are included in
the compute image. However, for extensions built in Rust (pgrx), the
build used a different layer which installed the rust toolchain using
rustup.
Switch to using the same rust toolchain for both pgrx-based extensions
and compute_ctl et al. Since we don't need anything else from the
build-tools image, I switched to using the toolchain installed with
rustup, and eliminated the dependency to build-tools altogether. The
compute image build no longer depends on build-tools.
Note: We no longer use 'mold' for linking compute_ctl et al, since mold
is not included in the build-deps-with-cargo layer. We could add it
there, but it doesn't seem worth it. I proposed stopping using mold
altogether in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10735, but that
was rejected because 'mold' is faster for incremental builds. That
doesn't matter much for docker builds however, since they're not
incremental, and the compute binaries are not as large as the storage
server binaries anyway.
To avoid duplicating the build logic. `make all` covers the separate
`postgres-*` and `neon-pg-ext` steps, and also does `cargo build`.
That's how you would typically do a full local build anyway.
Every time you run `make`, it runs `make install` on all the PostgreSQL
sources, which copies the header files. That in turn triggers a rebuild
of the `postgres_ffi` crate, and everything that depends on it. We had
worked around this earlier (see #2458), by passing a custom INSTALL
script to the Postgres makefiles, which refrains from updating the
modification timestamp on headers when they have not been changed, but
the v14 makefile didn't obey INSTALL for the header files. Backporting
c0a1d7621b to v14 fixes that.
This backports upstream PostgreSQL commit c0a1d7621b to v14.
Corresponding PR in the 'postgres' repo:
https://github.com/neondatabase/postgres/pull/660
## Problem
In #12217, we began passing the stripe size in reattach responses, and
persisting it in the on-disk state. This is necessary to ensure the
storage controller and Pageserver have a consistent view of the intended
stripe size of unsharded tenants, which will be used for splits that do
not specify a stripe size. However, for backwards compatibility, these
stripe sizes were optional.
## Summary of changes
Make the stripe sizes required for reattach responses and on-disk
location configs. These will always be provided by the previous
(current) release.
The previous behavior was for the compute to override control plane
options if there was a conflict. We want to change the behavior so that
the control plane has the absolute power on what is right. In the event
that we need a new option passed to the compute as soon as possible, we
can initially roll it out in the control plane, and then migrate the
option to EXTRA_OPTIONS within the compute later, for instance.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
We need to specify the number of safekeepers for neon_local without
`testing` feature.
Also we need this option for testing different configurations of
safekeeper migration code.
We cannot set it in `neon_fixtures.py` and in the default config of
`neon_local` yet, because it will fail compatibility tests. I'll make a
separate PR with removing `cfg!("testing")` completely and specifying
this option in the config when this option reaches the release branch.
- Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12298
## Summary of changes
- Add `timeline_safekeeper_count` config option to storcon and
neon_local
Enable it across tests and set it as default. Marks the first milestone
of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9114. We already enabled
it in all AWS regions and planning to enable it in all Azure regions
next week.
will merge after we roll out in all regions.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Timeline GC is very aggressive with regards to layer map locking.
We've seen timelines with loads of layers in production that hold the
write lock for the layer map for 30 minutes at a time.
This blocks reads and the write path to some extent.
## Summary of changes
Determining the set of layers to GC is done under the read lock.
Applying the updates is done under the write lock.
Previously, everything was done under write lock.
See #11942
Idea:
* if connections are short lived, they can get enqueued and then also
remove themselves later if they never made it to redis. This reduces the
load on the queue.
* short lived connections (<10m, most?) will only issue 1 command, we
remove the delete command and rely on ttl.
* we can enqueue as many commands as we want, as we can always cancel
the enqueue, thanks to the ~~intrusive linked lists~~ `BTreeMap`.
This improves `pagebench getpage-latest-lsn` gRPC support by:
* Using `page_api::Client`.
* Removing `--protocol`, and using the `page-server-connstring` scheme
instead.
* Adding `--compression` to enable zstd compression.
## Problem
Pagebench does not support gRPC for `basebackup` benchmarks.
Requires #12243.
Touches #11728.
## Summary of changes
Add gRPC support via gRPC connstrings, e.g. `pagebench basebackup
--page-service-connstring grpc://localhost:51051`.
Also change `--gzip-probability` to `--no-compression`, since this must
be specified per-client for gRPC.
Introduce a separate `postgres_ffi_types` crate which contains a few
types and functions that were used in the API. `postgres_ffi_types` is a
much small crate than `postgres_ffi`, and it doesn't depend on bindgen
or the Postgres C headers.
Move NeonWalRecord and Value types to wal_decoder crate. They are only
used in the pageserver-safekeeper "ingest" API. The rest of the ingest
API types are defined in wal_decoder, so move these there as well.
We have been bad at keeping them up-to-date, several contrib modules and
neon extensions were missing from the clean rules. Give up trying, and
remove the targets altogether. In practice, it's straightforward to just
do `rm -rf pg_install/build`, so the clean-targets are hardly worth the
maintenance effort.
I kept `make distclean` though. The rule for that is simple enough.
Since commit 87ad50c925, storage_controller has used diesel_async, which
in turn uses tokio-postgres as the Postgres client, which doesn't
require libpq. Thus we no longer need libpq in the storage image.
## Problem
The gRPC page service should support compression.
Requires #12111.
Touches #11728.
Touches https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/25679.
## Summary of changes
Add support for gzip and zstd compression in the server, and a client
parameter to enable compression.
This will need further benchmarking under realistic network conditions.
## Problem
GC info is an input to updating layer visibility.
Currently, gc info is updated on timeline activation and visibility is
computed on tenant attach, so we ignore branch points and compute
visibility by taking all layers into account.
Side note: gc info is also updated when timelines are created and
dropped. That doesn't help because we create the timelines in
topological order from the root. Hence the root timeline goes first,
without context of where the branch points are.
The impact of this in prod is that shards need to rehydrate layers after
live migration since the non-visible ones were excluded from the
heatmap.
## Summary of Changes
Move the visibility calculation into tenant attachment instead of
activation.
## Problem
`test_runner` integration tests should support gRPC.
Touches #11926.
## Summary of changes
* Enable gRPC for Pageservers, with dynamic port allocations.
* Add a `grpc` parameter for endpoint creation, plumbed through to
`neon_local endpoint create`.
No tests actually use gRPC yet, since computes don't support it yet.
## Problem
`test_sharding_failures` is flaky due to interference from the
`background_reconcile` process.
The details are in the issue
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12029.
## Summary of changes
- Use `reconcile_until_idle` to ensure a stable state before running
test assertions
- Added error tolerance in `reconcile_until_idle` test function (Failure
cases: 1, 3, 19, 20)
- Ignore the `Keeping extra secondaries` warning message since it i
retryable (Failure case: 2)
- Deduplicated code in `assert_rolled_back` and `assert_split_done`
- Added a log message before printing plenty of Node `X` seen on
pageserver `Y`
## Problem
- We run the large tenant oltp workload with a fixed size (larger than
existing customers' workloads).
Our customer's workloads are continuously growing and our testing should
stay ahead of the customers' production workloads.
- we want to touch all tables in the tenant's database (updates) so that
we simulate a continuous change in layer files like in a real production
workload
- our current oltp benchmark uses a mixture of read and write
transactions, however we also want a separate test run with read-only
transactions only
## Summary of changes
- modify the existing workload to have a separate run with pgbench
custom scripts that are read-only
- create a new workload that
- grows all large tables in each run (for the reuse branch in the large
oltp tenant's project)
- updates a percentage of rows in all large tables in each run (to
enforce table bloat and auto-vacuum runs and layer rebuild in
pageservers
Each run of the new workflow increases the logical database size about
16 GB.
We start with 6 runs per day which will give us about 96-100 GB growth
per day.
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Co-authored-by: Alexander Lakhin <alexander.lakhin@neon.tech>
- Add optional `?mode=fast|immediate` to `/terminate`, `fast` is
default. Immediate avoids waiting 30
seconds before returning from `terminate`.
- Add `TerminateMode` to `ComputeStatus::TerminationPending`
- Use `/terminate?mode=immediate` in `neon_local` instead of `pg_ctl
stop` for `test_replica_promotes`.
- Change `test_replica_promotes` to check returned LSN
- Annotate `finish_sync_safekeepers` as `noreturn`.
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29807
This check API only cheks the safekeeper_connstrings at the moment, and
the validation is limited to checking we have at least one entry in
there, and no duplicates.
## Problem
If the compute_ctl service is started with an empty list of safekeepers,
then hard-to-debug errors may happen at runtime, where it would be much
easier to catch them early.
## Summary of changes
Add an entry point in the compute_ctl API to validate the configuration
for safekeeper_connstrings.
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Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Create a separate stage for downloading the Rust toolchain for pgrx, so
that it can be cached independently of the pg-build layer. Before this,
the 'pg-build-nonroot=with-cargo' layer was unnecessarily rebuilt every
time there was a change in PostgreSQL sources. Furthermore, this allows
using the same cached layer for building the compute images of all
Postgres versions.
## Problem
Full basebackups are used in tests, and may be useful for debugging as
well, so we should support them in the gRPC API.
Touches #11728.
## Summary of changes
Add `GetBaseBackupRequest::full` to generate full base backups.
The libpq implementation also allows specifying `prev_lsn` for full
backups, i.e. the end LSN of the previous WAL record. This is omitted in
the gRPC API, since it's not used by any tests, and presumably of
limited value since it's autodetected. We can add it later if we find
that we need it.
## Problem
The checksum for eigen (a dependency for onnxruntime) has changed which
breaks compute image build.
## Summary of changes
- Add a patch for onnxruntime which backports changes from
f57db79743
(we keep the current version)
Ref https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/24861
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7570
Even triggers are supported only for superusers.
## Summary of changes
Temporary switch to superuser when even trigger is created and disable
execution of user's even triggers under superuser.
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Co-authored-by: Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
When converting `proto::GetPageRequest` into `page_api::GetPageRequest`
and validating the request, errors are returned as `tonic::Status`. This
will tear down the GetPage stream, which is disruptive and unnecessary.
## Summary of changes
Emit invalid request errors as `GetPageResponse` with an appropriate
`status_code` instead.
Also move the conversion from `tonic::Status` to `GetPageResponse` out
into the stream handler.
## Problem
Compatibility tests may be run against a compatibility snapshot
generated with --timelines-onto-safekeepers=false. We need to start the
compute without a generation (or with 0 generation) if the timeline is
not storcon-managed, otherwise the compute will hang.
- Follow up on https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/12203
- Relates to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712
## Summary of changes
- Handle compatibility snapshot generated with no
`--timelines-onot-safekeepers` properly
## Problem
The cache was introduced as a hackathon project and the only supported
limit was the number of entries.
The basebackup entry size may vary. We need to have more control over
disk space usage to ship it to production.
- Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29353
## Summary of changes
- Store the size of entries in the cache and use it to limit
`max_total_size_bytes`
- Add the size of the cache in bytes to metrics.
## Problem
`neon_local` should support endpoints using gRPC, by providing `grpc://`
connstrings with the Pageservers' gRPC ports.
Requires #12268.
Touches #11926.
## Summary of changes
* Add `--grpc` switch for `neon_local endpoint create`.
* Generate `grpc://` connstrings for endpoints when enabled.
Computes don't actually support `grpc://` connstrings yet, but will
soon.
gRPC is configured when the endpoint is created, not when it's started,
such that it continues to use gRPC across restarts and reconfigurations.
In particular, this is necessary for the storage controller's local
notify hook, which can't easily plumb through gRPC configuration from
the start/reconfigure commands but has access to the endpoint's
configuration.
## Problem
The metrics `storage_controller_safekeeper_request_error` and
`storage_controller_safekeeper_request_latency` currently use
`pageserver_id` as a label.
This can be misleading, as the metrics are about safekeeper requests.
We want to replace this with a more accurate label — either
`safekeeper_id` or `node_id`.
## Summary of changes
- Introduced `SafekeeperRequestLabelGroup` with `safekeeper_id`.
- Updated the affected metrics to use the new label group.
- Fixed incorrect metric usage in safekeeper_client.rs
## Follow-up
- Review usage of these metrics in alerting rules and existing Grafana
dashboards to ensure this change does not break something.
## Problem
Pageservers now expose a gRPC API on a separate address and port. This
must be registered with the storage controller such that it can be
plumbed through to the compute via cplane.
Touches #11926.
## Summary of changes
This patch registers the gRPC address and port with the storage
controller:
* Add gRPC address to `nodes` database table and `NodePersistence`, with
a Diesel migration.
* Add gRPC address in `NodeMetadata`, `NodeRegisterRequest`,
`NodeDescribeResponse`, and `TenantLocateResponseShard`.
* Add gRPC address flags to `storcon_cli node-register`.
These changes are backwards-compatible, since all structs will ignore
unknown fields during deserialization.
## Problem
The gRPC base backup implementation has a few issues: chunks are not
properly bounded, and it's not possible to omit the LSN.
Touches #11728.
## Summary of changes
* Properly bound chunks by using a limited writer.
* Use an `Option<Lsn>` rather than a `ReadLsn` (the latter requires an
LSN).
## Problem
The `stably_attached` function is hard to read due to deeply nested
conditionals
## Summary of Changes
- Refactored `stably_attached` to use early returns and the `?` operator
for improved readability
## Problem
If the node intent includes more than one secondary, we can generate a
replace optimization using a candidate node that is already a secondary
location.
## Summary of changes
- Exclude all other secondary nodes from the scoring process to ensure
optimal candidate selection.
## Problem
We could easily miss a sanitizer-detected defect, if it occurred due to
some race condition, as we just rerun the test and if it succeeds, the
overall test run is considered successful. It was more reasonable
before, when we had much more unstable tests in main, but now we can
track all test failures.
## Summary of changes
Don't rerun failed tests.
## Problem
We don't test debug builds for v14..v16 in the regular "Build and Test"
runs to perform the testing faster, but it means we can't detect
assertion failures in those versions.
(See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11891,
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11997)
## Summary of changes
Add a new workflow to test all build types and all versions on all
architectures.
## Problem
In our environment, we don't always have access to the pagectl tool on
the pageserver. We have to download the page files to local env to
introspect them. Hence, it'll be useful to be able to parse the local
files using `pagectl`.
## Summary of changes
* Add `dump-layer-local` to `pagectl` that takes a local path as
argument and returns the layer content:
```
cargo run -p pagectl layer dump-layer-local ~/Desktop/000000067F000040490002800000FFFFFFFF-030000000000000000000000000000000002__00003E7A53EDE611-00003E7AF27BFD19-v1-00000001
```
* Bonus: Fix a bug in `pageserver/ctl/src/draw_timeline_dir.rs` in which
we don't filter out temporary files.
## Problem
The `page_api` domain types are missing a few derives.
## Summary of changes
Add `Clone`, `Copy`, and `Debug` derives for all types where
appropriate.
## Problem
Comment for `storage_controller_reconcile_long_running` metric was
copy-pasted and not updated in #9207
## Summary of changes
- Fixed comment
## Problem
Comment is in incorrect place: `/metrics` code is above its description
comment.
## Summary of changes
- `/metrics` code is now below the comment
## Problem
Need to fix naming `safkeeper` -> `safekeeper`
## Summary of changes
- `storage_controller_safkeeper_reconciles_*` renamed to
`storage_controller_safekeeper_reconciles_*`
## Problem
ChaosInjector is intended to skip non-active scheduling policies, but
the current logic skips active shards instead.
## Summary of changes
- Fixed shard eligibility condition to correctly allow chaos injection
for shards with an Active scheduling policy.
## Problem
We would easily hit this limit for a tenant running for enough long
time.
## Summary of changes
Remove the max key limit for time-travel recovery if the command is
running locally.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Part of #11813
PostHog has two endpoints to retrieve feature flags: the old project ID
one that uses personal API token, and the new one using a special
feature flag secure token that can only retrieve feature flag. The new
API I added in this patch is not documented in the PostHog API doc but
it's used in their Python SDK.
## Summary of changes
Add support for "feature flag secure token API". The API has no way of
providing a project ID so we verify if the retrieved spec is consistent
with the project ID specified by comparing the `team_id` field.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
`test_historic_storage_formats` uses `/tenant_import` to import historic
data. Tenant import does not create timelines onto safekeepers, because
they might already exist on some safekeeper set. If it does, then we may
end up with two different quorums accepting WAL for the same timeline.
If the tenant import is used in a real deployment, the administrator is
responsible for looking for the proper safekeeper set and migrate
timelines into storcon-managed timelines.
- Relates to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712
## Summary of changes
- Create timelines onto safekeepers manually after tenant import in
`test_historic_storage_formats`
- Add a note to tenant import that timelines will be not storcon-managed
after the import.
## Problem
* Inside `compact_with_gc_inner`, there is a similar log line:
db24ba95d1/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/compaction.rs (L3181-L3187)
* Also, I think it would be useful when debugging to have the ability to
select a particular sub-compaction job (e.g., `1/100`) to see all the
logs for that job.
## Summary of changes
* Attach a span to the `compact_with_gc_inner`.
CC: @skyzh
Sometimes during a failed redis connection attempt at the init stage
proxy pod can continuously restart. This, in turn, can aggravate the
problem if redis is overloaded.
Solves the #11114
## Problem
The location config (which includes the stripe size) is stored on
pageserver disk.
For unsharded tenants we [do not include the shard identity in the
serialized
description](ad88ec9257/pageserver/src/tenant/config.rs (L64-L66)).
When the pageserver restarts, it reads that configuration and will use
the stripe size from there
and rely on storcon input from reattach for generation and mode.
The default deserialization is ShardIdentity::unsharded. This has the
new default stripe size of 2048.
Hence, for unsharded tenants we can be running with a stripe size
different from that the one in the
storcon observed state. This is not a problem until we shard split
without specifying a stripe size (i.e. manual splits via the UI or
storcon_cli). When that happens the new shards will use the 2048 stripe
size until storcon realises and switches them back. At that point it's
too late, since we've ingested data with the wrong stripe sizes.
## Summary of changes
Ideally, we would always have the full shard identity on disk. To
achieve this over two releases we do:
1. Always persist the shard identity in the location config on the PS.
2. Storage controller includes the stripe size to use in the re attach
response.
After the first release, we will start persisting correct stripe sizes
for any tenant shard that the storage controller
explicitly sends a location_conf. After the second release, the
re-attach change kicks in and we'll persist the
shard identity for all shards.
## Problem
Base64 0.13 is outdated.
## Summary of changes
Update base64 to 0.22. Affects mostly proxy and proxy libs. Also upgrade
serde_with to remove another dep on base64 0.13 from dep tree.
## Problem
The test creates an endpoint and deletes its tenant. The compute cannot
stop gracefully because it tries to write a checkpoint shutdown record
into the WAL, but the timeline had been already deleted from
safekeepers.
- Relates to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712
## Summary of changes
Stop the compute before deleting a tenant
## Problem
Compatibility tests may be run against a compatibility snapshot
generated with `--timelines-onto-safekeepers=false`. We need to start
the compute without a generation (or with 0 generation) if the timeline
is not storcon-managed, otherwise the compute will hang.
This handler is needed to check if the timeline is storcon-managed.
It's also needed for better test coverage of safekeeper migration code.
- Relates to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712
## Summary of changes
- Implement `tenant_timeline_locate` handler in storcon to get
safekeeper info from storcon's DB
## Problem
We hold the layer map for too long on occasion.
## Summary of changes
This should help us identify the places where it's happening from.
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/12182
## Problem
DROP FUNCTION doesn't allow to specify default for parameters.
## Summary of changes
Remove DEFAULT clause from pgxn/neon/neon--1.6--1.5.sql
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
The project limits were not respected, resulting in errors.
## Summary of changes
Now limits are checked before running an action, and if the action is
not possible to run, another random action will be run.
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Co-authored-by: Peter Bendel <peterbendel@neon.tech>
## Problem
PGLB/Neonkeeper needs to separate the concerns of connecting to compute,
and authenticating to compute.
Additionally, the code within `connect_to_compute` is rather messy,
spending effort on recovering the authentication info after
wake_compute.
## Summary of changes
Split `ConnCfg` into `ConnectInfo` and `AuthInfo`. `wake_compute` only
returns `ConnectInfo` and `AuthInfo` is determined separately from the
`handshake`/`authenticate` process.
Additionally, `ConnectInfo::connect_raw` is in-charge or establishing
the TLS connection, and the `postgres_client::Config::connect_raw` is
configured to use `NoTls` which will force it to skip the TLS
negotiation. This should just work.
## Problem
Removed nodes can re-add themselves on restart if not properly
tombstoned. We need a mechanism (e.g. soft-delete flag) to prevent this,
especially in cases where the node is unreachable.
More details there: #12036
## Summary of changes
- Introduced `NodeLifecycle` enum to represent node lifecycle states.
- Added a string representation of `NodeLifecycle` to the `nodes` table.
- Implemented node removal using a tombstone mechanism.
- Introduced `/debug/v1/tombstone*` handlers to manage the tombstone
state.
## Problem
Makes it easier to debug AWS permission issues (i.e., storage scrubber)
## Summary of changes
Install awscliv2 into the docker image.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
neon_local's timeline import subcommand creates timelines manually, but
doesn't create them on the safekeepers. If a test then tries to open an
endpoint to read from the timeline, it will error in the new world with
`--timelines-onto-safekeepers`.
Therefore, if that flag is enabled, create the timelines on the
safekeepers.
Note that this import functionality is different from the fast import
feature (https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10188, #11801).
Part of #11670
As well as part of #11712
## Problem
After introducing a naive downtime calculation for the Postgres process
inside compute in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11346, I
noticed that some amount of computes regularly report short downtime.
After checking some particular cases, it looks like all of them report
downtime close to the end of the life of the compute, i.e., when the
control plane calls a `/terminate` and we are waiting for Postgres to
exit.
Compute monitor also produces a lot of error logs because Postgres stops
accepting connections, but it's expected during the termination process.
## Summary of changes
Regularly check the compute status inside the main compute monitor loop
and exit gracefully when the compute is in some terminal or
soon-to-be-terminal state.
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Co-authored-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
- `test_basebackup_cache` fails in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11712 because after the
timelines on safekeepers are managed by storage controller, they do
contain proper start_lsn and the compute_ctl tool sends the first
basebackup request with this LSN.
- `Failed to prepare basebackup` log messages during timeline
initialization, because the timeline is not yet in the global timeline
map.
- Relates to https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/29353
## Summary of changes
- Account for `timeline_onto_safekeepers` storcon's option in the test.
- Do not trigger basebackup prepare during the timeline initialization.
## Problem
The new gRPC page service protocol supports client-side batches. The
current libpq protocol only does best-effort server-side batching.
To compare these approaches, Pagebench should support submitting
contiguous page batches, similar to how Postgres will submit them (e.g.
with prefetches or vectored reads).
## Summary of changes
Add a `--batch-size` parameter specifying the size of contiguous page
batches. One batch counts as 1 RPS and 1 queue depth.
For the libpq protocol, a batch is submitted as individual requests and
we rely on the server to batch them for us. This will give a realistic
comparison of how these would be processed in the wild (e.g. when
Postgres sends 100 prefetch requests).
This patch also adds some basic validation of responses.
## Problem
We support two ingest protocols on the pageserver: vanilla and
interpreted.
Interpreted has been the only protocol in use for a long time.
## Summary of changes
* Remove the ingest handling of the vanilla protocol
* Remove tenant and pageserver configuration for it
* Update all tests that tweaked the ingest protocol
## Compatibility
Backward compatibility:
* The new pageserver version can read the existing pageserver
configuration and it will ignore the unknown field.
* When the tenant config is read from the storcon db or from the
pageserver disk, the extra field will be ignored.
Forward compatiblity:
* Both the pageserver config and the tenant config map missing fields to
their default value.
I'm not aware of any tenant level override that was made for this knob.
## Problem
It will be useful to understand what kind of queries our clients are
executed.
And one of the most important characteristic of query is query execution
time - at least it allows to distinguish OLAP and OLTP queries. Also
monitoring query execution time can help to detect problem with
performance (assuming that workload is more or less stable).
## Summary of changes
Add query execution time histogram.
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Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Split the modules responsible for passing data and connecting to compute
from auth and waking for PGLB.
This PR just moves files. The waking is going to get removed from pglb
after this.
## Problem
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11813
In PostHog UI, we need to create the properties before using them as a
filter. We report all variants automatically when we start the
pageserver. In the future, we can report all real tenants instead of
fake tenants (we do that now to save money + we don't need real tenants
in the UI).
## Summary of changes
* Collect `region`, `availability_zone`, `pageserver_id` properties and
use them in the feature evaluation.
* Report 10 fake tenants on each pageserver startup.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
I believe in all environments we now specify either required/rejected
for proxy-protocol V2 as required. We no longer rely on the supported
flow. This means we no longer need to keep around read bytes incase
they're not in a header.
While I designed ChainRW to be fast (the hot path with an empty buffer
is very easy to branch predict), it's still unnecessary.
## Summary of changes
* Remove the ChainRW wrapper
* Refactor how we read the proxy-protocol header using read_exact.
Slightly worse perf but it's hardly significant.
* Don't try and parse the header if it's rejected.
`safekeepers_cmp` was added by #8840 to make changes of the safekeeper
set order independent: a `sk1,sk2,sk3` specifier changed to
`sk3,sk1,sk2` should not cause a walproposer restart. However, this
check didn't support generations, in the sense that it would see the
`g#123:` as part of the first safekeeper in the list, and if the first
safekeeper changes, it would also restart the walproposer.
Therefore, parse the generation properly and make it not be a part of
the generation.
This PR doesn't add a specific test, but I have confirmed locally that
`test_safekeepers_reconfigure_reorder` is fixed with the changes of PR
#11712 applied thanks to this PR.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11670
## Problem
Inbetween adding the TLS config for compute-ctl, and adding the TLS
config in controlplane, we switched from using a provision flag to a
bind flag. This happened to work in all of my testing in preview regions
as they have no VM pool, so each bind was also a provision. However, in
staging I found that the TLS config is still only processed during
provision, even though it's only sent on bind.
## Summary of changes
* Add a new feature flag value, `tls_experimental`, which tells
postgres/pgbouncer/local_proxy to use the TLS certificates on bind.
* compute_ctl on provision will be told where the certificates are,
instead of being told on bind.
Url::to_string() adds a trailing slash on the base URL, so when we did
the format!(), we were adding a double forward slash.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
The gRPC page service doesn't respect `get_vectored_concurrent_io` and
always uses sequential IO.
## Summary of changes
Spawn a sidecar task for concurrent IO when enabled.
Cancellation will be addressed separately.
## Problem
The script `compute.sh` had a non-consistent coding style and didn't
follow best practices for modern bash scripts
## Summary of changes
The coding style was fixed to follow best practices.
## Problem
We want to repro an OOM situation, but large partial reads are required.
## Summary of Changes
Make the max partial read size configurable for import jobs.
## Problem
When aborting a split, the code accidentally removes all other tenant
shards from the in-memory map that have the same shard count as the
aborted split, causing "tenant not found" errors. It will recover on a
storcon restart, when it loads the persisted state. This issue has been
present for at least a year.
Resolves https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/28589.
## Summary of changes
Only remove shards belonging to the relevant tenant when aborting a
split.
Also adds a regression test.
## Problem
We didn't consider tombstones in replorigin read path in the past. This
was fine because tombstones are stored as LSN::Invalid before we
universally define what the tombstone is for sparse keyspaces.
Now we remove non-inherited keys during detach ancestor and write the
universal tombstone "empty image". So we need to consider it across all
the read paths.
related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11299
## Summary of changes
Empty value gets ignored for replorigin scans.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
If all batched requests are excluded from the query by
`Timeine::get_rel_page_at_lsn_batched` (e.g. because they are past the
end of the relation), the read path would panic since it doesn't expect
empty queries. This is a change in behaviour that was introduced with
the scattered query implementation.
## Summary of Changes
Handle empty queries explicitly.
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/14538136318/job/40790985693?pr=11645
failed, even though the relevant parts of the CI had passed and
auto-merge determined the PR is ready to merge. After that, commenting
failed.
## Summary of changes
- set GH_TOKEN for commenting after fast-forward failure
- allow merging with mergeable_state unstable
(cherry picked from commit 04370b48b3)
Conflicts:
storage_controller/src/service.rs
Because `release` head doesn't yet have
`storcon: timetime table, creation and deletion (#11058)`
## Problem
As part of the disaster recovery tool. Partly for
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9114.
## Summary of changes
* Add a new pageserver API to force patch the fields in index_part and
modify the timeline internal structures.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Shard zero needs to track the start LSN of the latest record
in adition to the LSN of the next record to ingest. The former
is included in basebackup persisted by the compute in WAL.
Previously, empty records were skipped for all shards. This caused
the prev LSN tracking on the PS to fall behind and led to logical
replication
issues.
## Summary of changes
Shard zero now receives emtpy interpreted records for LSN tracking
purposes.
A test is included too.
## Problem
On unarchival, we update the previous heatmap with all visible layers.
When the primary generates a new heatmap it includes all those layers,
so the secondary will download them. Since they're not actually resident
on the primary (we didn't call the warm up API), they'll never be
evicted, so they remain in the heatmap.
This leads to oversized secondary locations like we saw in pre-prod.
## Summary of changes
Gate the loading of the previous heatmaps and the heatmap generation on
unarchival behind configuration
flags. They are disabled by default, but enabled in tests.
## Problem
`wait_for_active_tenant()`, used when starting background tasks, has a
race condition that can cause it to wait forever (until cancelled). It
first checks the current tenant state, and then subscribes for state
updates, but if the state changes between these then it won't be
notified about it.
We've seen this wedge compaction tasks, which can cause unbounded layer
file buildup and read amplification.
## Summary of changes
Use `watch::Receiver::wait_for()` to check both the current and new
tenant states.
## Problem
JWT tokens aren't in place, so all SK heartbeats fail. This is
equivalent to a wait before applying the PS heartbeats and makes things
more flaky.
## Summary of Changes
Add a flag that skips loading SKs from the db on start-up and at
runtime.
## Problem
The storage controller treats durations in the tenant config as strings.
These are loaded from the db.
The pageserver maps these durations to a seconds only format and we
always get a mismatch compared
to what's in the db.
## Summary of changes
Treat durations as durations inside the storage controller and not as
strings.
Nothing changes in the cross service API's themselves or the way things
are stored in the db.
I also added some logging which I would have made the investigation a
10min job:
1. Reason for why the reconciliation was spawned
2. Location config diff between the observed and wanted states
## Problem
Read errors during repartition should be a critical error.
## Summary of changes
<del>We only have one call site</del> We have two call sites of
`repartition` where one of them is during the initial image upload
optimization and another is during image layer creation, so I added a
`critical!` here instead of inside `collect_keyspace`.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
This reverts commit 443c8d0b4b.
## Problem
We observe a massive amount of compaction errors.
## Summary of changes
If the tenant did not write any L1 layers (i.e., they accumulate L0
layers where number of them is below L0 threshold), image creation will
always fail. Therefore, it's not correct to simply use the
disk_consistent_lsn or L0/L1 boundary for the image creation.
## Problem
In #10707 some new fields were introduced in TimelineInfo.
I forgot that we do not only use TimelineInfo for encoding, but also
decoding when the storage controller calls into a pageserver, so this
broke some calls from controller to pageserver while in a mixed-version
state.
## Summary of changes
- Make new fields have default behavior so that they are optional
## Problem
Some situations may produce a large number of pending reconciles. If we
experience an issue where reconciles are processed more slowly than
expected, that can prevent us responding promptly to user requests like
tenant/timeline CRUD.
This is a cleaner implementation of the hotfix in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10815
## Summary of changes
- Introduce a second semaphore for high priority tasks, with
configurable units (default 256). The intent is that in practical
situations these user-facing requests should never have to wait.
- Use the high priority semaphore for: tenant/timeline CRUD, and shard
splitting operations. Use normal priority for everything else.
## Problem
We had code for stripping IDs out of proxied paths to reduce cardinality
of metrics, but it was only stripping out tenant IDs, and leaving in
timeline IDs and query parameters (e.g. LSN in lsn->timestamp lookups).
## Summary of changes
- Use a more general regex approach.
There is still some risk that a future pageserver API might include a
parameter in `/the/path/`, but we control that API and it is not often
extended. We will also alert on metrics cardinality in staging so that
if we made that mistake we would notice.
# Problem
Say we have a batch of 10 responses to send out.
Then, even with
- #10728
we've still only called observe_execution_end_flush_start for the first
3 responses.
The remaining 7 response timers are still ticking.
When compute now closes the connection, the waiting flush fails with an
error and we `drop()` the remaining 7 responses' smgr op timers. The
`impl Drop for SmgrOpTimer` will observe an execution time that includes
the flush time.
In practice, this is supsected to produce the `+Inf` observations in the
smgr op latency histogram we've seen since the introduction of
pipelining, even after shipping #10728.
refs:
- fixup of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10042
- fixup of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10728
- fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10754
## Problem
Since enabling continuous profiling in staging, we've seen frequent seg
faults. This is suspected to be because jemalloc and pprof-rs take a
stack trace at the same time, and the handlers aren't signal safe.
jemalloc does this probabilistically on every allocation, regardless of
whether someone is taking a heap profile, which means that any CPU
profile has a chance to cause a seg fault.
Touches #10225.
## Summary of changes
For now, just disable heap profiles -- CPU profiles are more important,
and we need to be able to take them without risking a crash.
## Problem
With pipelining enabled, the time a request spends in the batcher stage
counts towards the smgr op latency.
If pipelining is disabled, that time is not accounted for.
In practice, this results in a jump in smgr getpage latencies in various
dashboards and degrades the internal SLO.
## Solution
In a similar vein to #10042 and with a similar rationale, this PR stops
counting the time spent in batcher stage towards smgr op latency.
The smgr op latency metric is reduced to the actual execution time.
Time spent in batcher stage is tracked in a separate histogram.
I expect to remove that histogram after batching rollout is complete,
but it will be helpful in the meantime to reason about the rollout.
## Problem
Protobuf doesn't support 128 bit integers, so we encode the keys as two
64 bit integers. Issue is that when we split the 128 bit compact key we
use signed 64 bit integers to represent the two halves. This may result
in a negative lower half when relnode is larger than `0x00800000`. When
we convert the lower half to an i128 we get a negative `CompactKey`.
## Summary of Changes
Use unsigned integers when encoding into Protobuf.
## Deployment
* Prod: We disabled the interpreted proto, so no compat concerns.
* Staging: Disable the interpreted proto, do one release, and then
release the fixed version.
We do this because a negative int32 will convert to a large uint32 value
and could give
a key in the actual pageserver space. In production we would around this
by adding new
fields to the proto and deprecating the old ones, but we can make our
lives easy here.
* Pre-prod: Same as staging
Removes some unnecessary initdb arguments, and fixes Neon for MacOS
since it doesn't seem to ship a C.UTF-8 locale.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Perf benchmarks produce a lot of layers.
## Summary of changes
Bumping the threshold and ignore the warning.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
storage hotfix release 2024-09-20
This storage hotfix release adds valuable metrics to pageserver.
We will only deploy this hotfix manually to a dedicated pageserver that is currently empty.
Context https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C07MU9ES6NP/p1726827244185729
Created using
```
git switch -c releases/2024-09-20-hotfix
git reset --hard origin/release
git merge ec5dce04eb
```
Merge main into release with merge commit.
This is a no-op PR which will incorporate into release branch last commits from main under their original SHA to prevent merge conflicts when doing release.
Noticed this while debugging a test failure in #8673 which only occurs
with real S3 instead of mock S3: if you authenticate to S3 via
`AWS_PROFILE`, then it requires the `HOME` env var to be set so that it
can read inside the `~/.aws` directory.
The scrubber abstraction `StorageScrubber::scrubber_cli` in
`neon_fixtures.py` would otherwise not work. My earlier PR #6556 has
done similar things for the `neon_local` wrapper.
You can try:
```
aws sso login --profile dev
export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=y REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1 AWS_PROFILE=dev
RUST_BACKTRACE=1 BUILD_TYPE=debug DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=16 ./scripts/pytest -vv --tb=short -k test_scrubber_tenant_snapshot
```
before and after this patch: this patch fixes it.
## Problem
This page had many dead links, and was confusing for folks looking for
documentation about our product.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8535
## Summary of changes
- Add a link to the product docs up top
- Remove dead/placeholder links
## Problem
We install and try to use `cachepot`. But it is not configured correctly
and doesn't work (after https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2290)
## Summary of changes
- Remove `cachepot`
## Problem
Migrations of tenant shards with cold secondaries are holding up drains
in during production deployments.
## Summary of changes
If a secondary locations is lagging by more than 256MiB (configurable,
but that's the default), then skip cutting it over to the secondary as part of the node drain.
## Problem
This type of error can happen during shutdown & was triggering a circuit
breaker alert.
## Summary of changes
- Map NotIntialized::Stopped to CompactionError::ShuttingDown, so that
we may handle it cleanly
## Problem
Azure login fails in `pin-build-tools-image` workflow because the job
doesn't have the required permissions.
```
Error: Please make sure to give write permissions to id-token in the workflow.
Error: Login failed with Error: Error message: Unable to get ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URL env variable. Double check if the 'auth-type' is correct. Refer to https://github.com/Azure/login#readme for more information.
```
## Summary of changes
- Add `id-token: write` permission to `pin-build-tools-image`
- Add an input to force image tagging
- Unify pushing to Docker Hub with other registries
- Split the job into two to have less if's
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8653
Disable create tablespace stmt. It turns out it requires much less
effort to do the regress test mode flag than patching the test cases,
and given that we might need to support tablespaces in the future, I
decided to add a new flag `regress_test_mode` to change the behavior of
create tablespace.
Tested manually that without setting regress_test_mode, create
tablespace will be rejected.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
This reverts #8076 - which was already reverted from the release branch
since forever (it would have been a breaking change to release for all
users who currently set TimeZone options). It's causing conflicts now so
we should revert it here as well.
## Problem
Latency from one cloud provider to another one is higher than within the
same cloud provider.
Some of our benchmarks are latency sensitive - we run a pgbench or psql
in the github action runner and the system under test is running in Neon
(database project).
For realistic perf tps and latency results we need to compare apples to
apples and run the database client in the same "latency distance" for
all tests.
## Summary of changes
Move job steps that test Neon databases deployed on Azure into Azure
action runners.
- bench strategy variant using azure database
- pgvector strategy variant using azure database
- pgbench-compare strategy variants using azure database
## Test run
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/10314848502
## Problem
We're adding more third party dependencies to support more diverse +
realistic test cases in `test_runner/logical_repl`. I ❤️ these
tests, they are a good thing.
The slight glitch is that python packaging is hard, and some third party
python packages have issues. For example the current kafka dependency
doesn't work on latest python. We can mitigate that by only importing
these more specialized dependencies in the tests that use them.
## Summary of changes
- Move the `kafka` import into a test body, so that folks running the
regular `test_runner/regress` tests don't have to have a working kafka
client package.
## Problem
This code was to mitigate risk in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8427
As expected, we did not hit this code path - the new continuous updates
of gc_info are working fine, we can remove this code now.
## Summary of changes
- Remove block that double-checks retain_lsns
avoid "leaking" the completions of BackgroundPurges by:
1. switching it to TaskTracker for provided close+wait
2. stop using tokio::fs::remove_dir_all which will consume two units of
memory instead of one blocking task
Additionally, use more graceful shutdown in tests which do actually some
background cleanup.
## Problem
See
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C03QLRH7PPD/p1723038557449239?thread_ts=1722868375.476789&cid=C03QLRH7PPD
Logical replication subscription by default use `synchronous_commit=off`
which cause problems with safekeeper
## Summary of changes
Set `synchronous_commit=on` for logical replication subscription in
test_subscriber_restart.py
## 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
---------
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
## Problem
Some developers build on MacOS, which doesn't have io_uring.
## Summary of changes
- Add `io_engine_for_bench`, which on linux will give io_uring or panic
if it's unavailable, and on MacOS will always panic.
We do not want to run such benchmarks with StdFs: the results aren't
interesting, and will actively waste the time of any developers who
start investigating performance before they realize they're using a
known-slow I/O backend.
Why not just conditionally compile this benchmark on linux only? Because
even on linux, I still want it to refuse to run if it can't get
io_uring.
Part of #8130, [RFC: Direct IO For Pageserver](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/problame/direct-io-rfc/docs/rfcs/034-direct-io-for-pageserver.md)
## Description
Add pageserver config for evaluating/enabling direct I/O.
- Disabled: current default, uses buffered io as is.
- Evaluate: still uses buffered io, but could do alignment checking and
perf simulation (pad latency by direct io RW to a fake file).
- Enabled: uses direct io, behavior on alignment error is configurable.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Earlier I was thinking we'd need a (ancestor_lsn, timeline_id) ordered
list of reparented. Turns out we did not need it at all. Replace it with
an unordered hashset. Additionally refactor the reparented direct
children query out, it will later be used from more places.
Split off from #8430.
Cc: #6994
Ephemeral files cleanup on drop but did not delay shutdown, leading to
problems with restarting the tenant. The solution is as proposed:
- make ephemeral files carry the gate guard to delay `Timeline::gate`
closing
- flush in-memory layers and strong references to those on
`Timeline::shutdown`
The above are realized by making LayerManager an `enum` with `Open` and
`Closed` variants, and fail requests to modify `LayerMap`.
Additionally:
- fix too eager anyhow conversions in compaction
- unify how we freeze layers and handle errors
- optimize likely_resident_layers to read LayerFileManager hashmap
values instead of bouncing through LayerMap
Fixes: #7830
## Problem
1. Hard to correlate startup parameters with the endpoint that provided
them.
2. Some configurations are not needed in the `ProxyConfig` struct.
## Summary of changes
Because of some borrow checker fun, I needed to switch to an
interior-mutability implementation of our `RequestMonitoring` context
system. Using https://docs.rs/try-lock/latest/try_lock/ as a cheap lock
for such a use-case (needed to be thread safe).
Removed the lock of each startup message, instead just logging only the
startup params in a successful handshake.
Also removed from values from `ProxyConfig` and kept as arguments.
(needed for local-proxy config)
Timeline cancellation running in parallel with gc yields error log lines
like:
```
Gc failed 1 times, retrying in 2s: TimelineCancelled
```
They are completely harmless though and normal to occur. Therefore, only
print those messages at an info level. Still print them at all so that
we know what is going on if we focus on a single timeline.
Part of #8128.
## Problem
Currently, scrubber `scan_metadata` command will return with an error
code if the metadata on remote storage is corrupted with fatal errors.
To safely deploy this command in a cronjob, we want to differentiate
between failures while running scrubber command and the erroneous
metadata. At the same time, we also want our regression tests to catch
corrupted metadata using the scrubber command.
## Summary of changes
- Return with error code only when the scrubber command fails
- Uses explicit checks on errors and warnings to determine metadata
health in regression tests.
**Resolve conflict with `tenant-snapshot` command (after shard split):**
[`test_scrubber_tenant_snapshot`](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/yuchen/scrubber-scan-cleanup-before-prod/test_runner/regress/test_storage_scrubber.py#L23)
failed before applying 422a8443dd
- When taking a snapshot, the old `index_part.json` in the unsharded
tenant directory is not kept.
- The current `list_timeline_blobs` implementation consider no
`index_part.json` as a parse error.
- During the scan, we are only analyzing shards with highest shard
count, so we will not get a parse error. but we do need to add the
layers to tenant object listing, otherwise we will get index is
referencing a layer that is not in remote storage error.
- **Action:** Add s3_layers from `list_timeline_blobs` regardless of
parsing error
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
## Problem
We lack a rust bench for the inmemory layer and delta layer write paths:
it is useful to benchmark these components independent of postgres & WAL
decoding.
Related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8452
## Summary of changes
- Refactor DeltaLayerWriter to avoid carrying a Timeline, so that it can
be cleanly tested + benched without a Tenant/Timeline test harness. It
only needed the Timeline for building `Layer`, so this can be done in a
separate step.
- Add `bench_ingest`, which exercises a variety of workload "shapes"
(big values, small values, sequential keys, random keys)
- Include a small uncontroversial optimization: in `freeze`, only
exhaustively walk values to assert ordering relative to end_lsn in debug
mode.
These benches are limited by drive performance on a lot of machines, but
still useful as a local tool for iterating on CPU/memory improvements
around this code path.
Anecdotal measurements on Hetzner AX102 (Ryzen 7950xd):
```
ingest-small-values/ingest 128MB/100b seq
time: [1.1160 s 1.1230 s 1.1289 s]
thrpt: [113.38 MiB/s 113.98 MiB/s 114.70 MiB/s]
Found 1 outliers among 10 measurements (10.00%)
1 (10.00%) low mild
Benchmarking ingest-small-values/ingest 128MB/100b rand: Warming up for 3.0000 s
Warning: Unable to complete 10 samples in 10.0s. You may wish to increase target time to 18.9s.
ingest-small-values/ingest 128MB/100b rand
time: [1.9001 s 1.9056 s 1.9110 s]
thrpt: [66.982 MiB/s 67.171 MiB/s 67.365 MiB/s]
Benchmarking ingest-small-values/ingest 128MB/100b rand-1024keys: Warming up for 3.0000 s
Warning: Unable to complete 10 samples in 10.0s. You may wish to increase target time to 11.0s.
ingest-small-values/ingest 128MB/100b rand-1024keys
time: [1.0715 s 1.0828 s 1.0937 s]
thrpt: [117.04 MiB/s 118.21 MiB/s 119.46 MiB/s]
ingest-small-values/ingest 128MB/100b seq, no delta
time: [425.49 ms 429.07 ms 432.04 ms]
thrpt: [296.27 MiB/s 298.32 MiB/s 300.83 MiB/s]
Found 1 outliers among 10 measurements (10.00%)
1 (10.00%) low mild
ingest-big-values/ingest 128MB/8k seq
time: [373.03 ms 375.84 ms 379.17 ms]
thrpt: [337.58 MiB/s 340.57 MiB/s 343.13 MiB/s]
Found 1 outliers among 10 measurements (10.00%)
1 (10.00%) high mild
ingest-big-values/ingest 128MB/8k seq, no delta
time: [81.534 ms 82.811 ms 83.364 ms]
thrpt: [1.4994 GiB/s 1.5095 GiB/s 1.5331 GiB/s]
Found 1 outliers among 10 measurements (10.00%)
```
## Problem
Sometimes, a layer is Covered by hasn't yet been evicted from local disk
(e.g. shortly after image layer generation). It is not good use of
resources to download these to a secondary location, as there's a good
chance they will never be read.
This follows the previous change that added layer visibility:
- #8511
Part of epic:
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8398
## Summary of changes
- When generating heatmaps, only include Visible layers
- Update test_secondary_downloads to filter to visible layers when
listing layers from an attached location
## Problem
In staging, we could see that occasionally tenants were wrapping their
pageserver_visible_physical_size metric past zero to 2^64.
This is harmless right now, but will matter more later when we start
using visible size in things like the /utilization endpoint.
## Summary of changes
- Add debug asserts that detect this case. `test_gc_of_remote_layers`
works as a reproducer for this issue once the asserts are added.
- Tighten up the interface around access_stats so that only Layer can
mutate it.
- In Layer, wrap calls to `record_access` in code that will update the
visible size statistic if the access implicitly marks the layer visible
(this was what caused the bug)
- In LayerManager::rewrite_layers, use the proper set_visibility layer
function instead of directly using access_stats (this is an additional
path where metrics could go bad.)
- Removed unused instances of LayerAccessStats in DeltaLayer and
ImageLayer which I noticed while reviewing the code paths that call
record_access.
## Problem
The controller scale test does random migrations. These mutate secondary
locations, and therefore can cause secondary optimizations to happen in
the background, violating the test's expectation that consistency_check
will work as there are no reconciliations running.
Example:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/main/10247161379/index.html#suites/07874de07c4a1c9effe0d92da7755ebf/6316beacd3fb3060/
## Summary of changes
- Only migrate to existing secondary locations, not randomly picked
nodes, so that we can do a fast reconcile_until_idle (otherwise
reconcile_until_idle is takes a long time to create new secondary
locations).
- Do a reconcile_until_idle before consistency_check.
## Problem
We need to test the logical replication with some external consumers.
## Summary of changes
A test of the logical replication with Debezium as a consumer was added.
---------
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
We don't use it for packaging, and 'poetry install' will soon error
otherwise. Also remove name and version fields as these are not required for
non-packaging mode.
#8600 missed the hunk changing index_part.json informative version.
Include it in this PR, in addition add more non-warning index_part.json
versions to scrubber.
## Problem
We have been maintaining two read paths (legacy and vectored) for a
while now. The legacy read-path was only used for cross validation in some tests.
## Summary of changes
* Tweak all tests that were using the legacy read path to use the
vectored read path instead
* Remove the read path dispatching based on the pageserver configs
* Remove the legacy read path code
We will be able to remove the single blob io code in
`pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs` when https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7386 is complete.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8005
Currently, we do not have facilities to persistently block GC on a
tenant for whatever reason. We could do a tenant configuration update,
but that is risky for generation numbers and would also be transient.
Introduce a `gc_block` facility in the tenant, which manages per
timeline blocking reasons.
Additionally, add HTTP endpoints for enabling/disabling manual gc
blocking for a specific timeline. For debugging, individual tenant
status now includes a similar string representation logged when GC is
skipped.
Cc: #6994
Add dry-run mode that does not produce any image layer + delta layer. I
will use this code to do some experiments and see how much space we can
reclaim for tenants on staging. Part of
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
* Add dry-run mode that runs the full compaction process without
updating the layer map. (We never call finish on the writers and the
files will be removed before exiting the function).
* Add compaction statistics and print them at the end of compaction.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
> Currently, long-running LR tests recreate endpoints every night. We'd
like to have along-running buildup of history to exercise the pageserver
in this case (instead of "unit-testing" the same behavior everynight).
Closes#8317
## Summary of changes
- Update Postgres version for replication tests
- Set `BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_PUB`/`BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_SUB` env vars to
projects that were created for this purpose
---------
Co-authored-by: Sasha Krassovsky <krassovskysasha@gmail.com>
Currently if `GET
/v1/tenant/x/timeline/y?force-await-initial-logical-size=true` is
requested for a root timeline created within the current pageserver
session, the request handler panics hitting the debug assertion. These
timelines will always have an accurate (at initdb import) calculated
logical size. Fix is to never attempt prioritizing timeline size
calculation if we already have an exact value.
Split off from #8528.
## Problem
In some cases, a deadlock between `build-and-test` and
`trigger-e2e-tests` workflows can happen:
```
Build and Test
Canceling since a deadlock for concurrency group 'Build and Test-8600/merge-anysha' was detected between 'top level workflow' and 'trigger-e2e-tests'
```
I don't understand the reason completely, probably `${{ github.workflow
}}` got evaluated to the same value and somehow caused the issue.
We don't need to limit concurrency for `trigger-e2e-tests`
workflow.
See
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C059ZC138NR/p1722869486708179?thread_ts=1722869027.960029&cid=C059ZC138NR
## Problem
We don't trigger e2e tests for draft PRs, but we do trigger them once a
PR is in the "Ready for review" state.
Sometimes, a PR can be marked as "Ready for review" before we finish
image building. In such cases, triggering e2e tests fails.
## Summary of changes
- Make `trigger-e2e-tests` job poll status of `promote-images` job from
the build-and-test workflow for the last commit. And trigger only if the
status is `success`
- Remove explicit image checking from the workflow
- Add `concurrency` for `triggere-e2e-tests` workflow to make it
possible to cancel jobs in progress (if PR moves from "Draft" to "Ready
for review" several times in a row)
## Problem
PR #7992 was merged without correspondent changes in Postgres submodules
and this is why test_oid_overflow.py is failed now.
## Summary of changes
Bump Postgres versions
## 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
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
There is an unused safekeeper option `partial_backup_enabled`.
`partial_backup_enabled` was implemented in #6530, but this option was
always turned into enabled in #8022.
If you intended to keep this option for a specific reason, I will close
this PR.
## Summary of changes
I removed an unused safekeeper option `partial_backup_enabled`.
We've noticed increased memory usage with the latest release. Drain the
joinset of `page_service` connection handlers to avoid leaking them
until shutdown. An alternative would be to use a TaskTracker.
TaskTracker was not discussed in original PR #8339 review, so not hot
fixing it in here either.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
## Summary of changes
Add a `SplitImageWriter` that automatically splits image layer based on
estimated target image layer size. This does not consider compression
and we might need a better metrics.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
We need both compaction and gc lock for gc-compaction. The lock order
should be the same everywhere, otherwise there could be a deadlock where
A waits for B and B waits for A.
We also had a double-lock issue. The compaction lock gets acquired in
the outer `compact` function. Note that the unit tests directly call
`compact_with_gc`, and therefore not triggering the issue.
## Summary of changes
Ensure all places acquire compact lock and then gc lock. Remove an extra
compact lock acqusition.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Currently, our backward compatibility tests only look one release back.
That means, for example, that when we switch on image layer compression
by default, we'll test reading of uncompressed layers for one release,
and then stop doing it. When we make an index_part.json format change,
we'll test against the old format for a week, then stop (unless we write
separate unit tests for each old format).
The reality in the field is that data in old formats will continue to
exist for weeks/months/years. When we make major format changes, we
should retain examples of the old format data, and continuously verify
that the latest code can still read them.
This test uses contents from a new path in the public S3 bucket,
`compatibility-data-snapshots/`. It is populated by hand. The first
important artifact is one from before we switch on compression, so that
we will keep testing reads of uncompressed data. We will generate more
artifacts ahead of other key changes, like when we update remote storage
format for archival timelines.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/15576
This commit tries to fix regular load spikes on staging, caused by too
many eviction and partial upload operations running at the same time.
Usually it was hapenning after restart, for partial backup the load was
delayed.
- Add a semaphore for evictions (2 permits by default)
- Rename `resident_since` to `evict_not_before` and smooth out the curve
by using random duration
- Use random duration in partial uploads as well
related to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6338
some discussion in
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1720601531744029
Makes `flush_frozen_layer` add a barrier to the upload queue and makes
it wait for that barrier to be reached until it lets the flushing be
completed.
This gives us backpressure and ensures that writes can't build up in an
unbounded fashion.
Fixes#7317
Chaos injection bridges the gap between automated testing (where we do
lots of different things with small, short-lived tenants), and staging
(where we do many fewer things, but with larger, long-lived tenants).
This PR adds a first type of chaos which isn't really very chaotic: it's
live migration of tenants between healthy pageservers. This nevertheless
provides continuous checks that things like clean, prompt shutdown of
tenants works for realistically deployed pageservers with realistically
large tenants.
## Problem
Previously, when we do a timeline deletion, shards will delete layers
that belong to an ancestor. That is not a correctness issue, because
when we delete a timeline, we're always deleting it from all shards, and
destroying data for that timeline is clearly fine.
However, there exists a race where one shard might start doing this
deletion while another shard has not yet received the deletion request,
and might try to access an ancestral layer. This creates ambiguity over
the "all layers referenced by my index should always exist" invariant,
which is important to detecting and reporting corruption.
Now that we have a GC mode for clearing up ancestral layers, we can rely
on that to clean up such layers, and avoid deleting them right away.
This makes things easier to reason about: there are now no cases where a
shard will delete a layer that belongs to a ShardIndex other than
itself.
## Summary of changes
- Modify behavior of RemoteTimelineClient::delete_all
- Add `test_scrubber_physical_gc_timeline_deletion` to exercise this
case
- Tweak AWS SDK config in the scrubber to enable retries. Motivated by
seeing the test for this feature encounter some transient "service
error" S3 errors (which are probably nothing to do with the changes in
this PR)
## Problem
`allure_attach_from_dir` method might create `tar.zst` archives even
if `--alluredir` is not set (i.e. Allure results collection is disabled)
## Summary of changes
- Don't run `allure_attach_from_dir` if `--alluredir` is not set
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
Due to the limitation of the current layer map implementation, we cannot
directly replace a layer. It's interpreted as an insert and a deletion,
and there will be file exist error when renaming the newly-created layer
to replace the old layer. We work around that by changing the end key of
the image layer. A long-term fix would involve a refactor around the
layer file naming. For delta layers, we simply skip layers with the same
key range produced, though it is possible to add an extra key as an
alternative solution.
* The image layer range for the layers generated from gc-compaction will
be Key::MIN..(Key..MAX-1), to avoid being recognized as an L0 delta
layer.
* Skip existing layers if it turns out that we need to generate a layer
with the same persistent key in the same generation.
Note that it is possible that the newly-generated layer has different
content from the existing layer. For example, when the user drops a
retain_lsn, the compaction could have combined or dropped some records,
therefore creating a smaller layer than the existing one. We discard the
"optimized" layer for now because we cannot deal with such rewrites
within the same generation.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
We recently added a "visibility" state to layers, but nothing
initializes it.
Part of:
- #8398
## Summary of changes
- Add a dependency on `range-set-blaze`, which is used as a fast
incrementally updated alternative to KeySpace. We could also use this to
replace the internals of KeySpaceRandomAccum if we wanted to. Writing a
type that does this kind of "BtreeMap & merge overlapping entries" thing
isn't super complicated, but no reason to write this ourselves when
there's a third party impl available.
- Add a function to layermap to calculate visibilities for each layer
- Add a function to Timeline to call into layermap and then apply these
visibilities to the Layer objects.
- Invoke the calculation during startup, after image layer creations,
and when removing branches. Branch removal and image layer creation are
the two ways that a layer can go from Visible to Covered.
- Add unit test & benchmark for the visibility calculation
- Expose `pageserver_visible_physical_size` metric, which should always
be <= `pageserver_remote_physical_size`.
- This metric will feed into the /v1/utilization endpoint later: the
visible size indicates how much space we would like to use on this
pageserver for this tenant.
- When `pageserver_visible_physical_size` is greater than
`pageserver_resident_physical_size`, this is a sign that the tenant has
long-idle branches, which result in layers that are visible in
principle, but not used in practice.
This does not keep visibility hints up to date in all cases:
particularly, when creating a child timeline, any previously covered
layers will not get marked Visible until they are accessed.
Updates after image layer creation could be implemented as more of a
special case, but this would require more new code: the existing depth
calculation code doesn't maintain+yield the list of deltas that would be
covered by an image layer.
## Performance
This operation is done rarely (at startup and at timeline deletion), so
needs to be efficient but not ultra-fast.
There is a new `visibility` bench that measures runtime for a synthetic
100k layers case (`sequential`) and a real layer map (`real_map`) with
~26k layers.
The benchmark shows runtimes of single digit milliseconds (on a ryzen
7950). This confirms that the runtime shouldn't be a problem at startup
(as we already incur S3-level latencies there), but that it's slow
enough that we definitely shouldn't call it more often than necessary,
and it may be worthwhile to optimize further later (things like: when
removing a branch, only bother scanning layers below the branchpoint)
```
visibility/sequential time: [4.5087 ms 4.5894 ms 4.6775 ms]
change: [+2.0826% +3.9097% +5.8995%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
Performance has regressed.
Found 24 outliers among 100 measurements (24.00%)
2 (2.00%) high mild
22 (22.00%) high severe
min: 0/1696070, max: 93/1C0887F0
visibility/real_map time: [7.0796 ms 7.0832 ms 7.0871 ms]
change: [+0.3900% +0.4505% +0.5164%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
Change within noise threshold.
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
3 (3.00%) high mild
1 (1.00%) high severe
min: 0/1696070, max: 93/1C0887F0
visibility/real_map_many_branches
time: [4.5285 ms 4.5355 ms 4.5434 ms]
change: [-1.0012% -0.8004% -0.5969%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
Change within noise threshold.
```
Before, we had four versions of linux-raw-sys in our dependency graph:
```
linux-raw-sys@0.1.4
linux-raw-sys@0.3.8
linux-raw-sys@0.4.13
linux-raw-sys@0.6.4
```
now it's only two:
```
linux-raw-sys@0.4.13
linux-raw-sys@0.6.4
```
The changes in this PR are minimal. In order to get to its state one
only has to update procfs in Cargo.toml to 0.16 and do `cargo update -p
tempfile -p is-terminal -p prometheus`.
# Motivation
The working theory for hung systemd during PS deploy
(https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/11387) is that leftover
walredo processes trigger a race condition.
In https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8150 I arranged that a
clean Tenant shutdown does actually kill its walredo processes.
But many prod machines don't manage to shut down all their tenants until
the 10s systemd timeout hits and, presumably, triggers the race
condition in systemd / the Linux kernel that causes the frozen systemd
# Solution
This PR bolts on a rather ugly mechanism to shut down tenant managers
out of order 8s after we've received the SIGTERM from systemd.
# Changes
- add a global registry of `Weak<WalRedoManager>`
- add a special thread spawned during `shutdown_pageserver` that sleeps
for 8s, then shuts down all redo managers in the registry and prevents
new redo managers from being created
- propagate the new failure mode of tenant spawning throughout the code
base
- make sure shut down tenant manager results in
PageReconstructError::Cancelled so that if Timeline::get calls come in
after the shutdown, they do the right thing
## Problem
In https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8241 I've accidentally
removed `create-test-report` dependency on `benchmarks` job
## Summary of changes
- Run `create-test-report` after `benchmarks` job
Uses the newly added APIs from #8541 named `stream_tenants_generic` and
`stream_objects_with_retries` and extends them with
`list_objects_with_retries_generic` and
`stream_tenant_timelines_generic` to migrate the `find-garbage` command
of the scrubber to `GenericRemoteStorage`.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7547
## Problem
This code was confusing, untested and covered:
- an impossible case, where intent state is AttacheStale (we never do
this)
- a rare edge case (going from AttachedMulti to Attached), which we were
not testing, and in any case the pageserver internally does the same
Tenant reset in this transition as it would do if we incremented
generation.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8367
## Summary of changes
- Simplify the logic to only skip incrementing the generation if the
location already has the expected generation and the exact same mode.
In some cases, we can get a negative metric for replication_delay_bytes.
My best guess from all the research I've done is that we evaluate
pg_last_wal_receive_lsn() before pg_last_wal_replay_lsn(), and that by
the time everything is said and done, the replay LSN has advanced past
the receive LSN. In this case, our lag can effectively be modeled as
0 due to the speed of the WAL reception and replay.
Since the introduction of sharding, the protocol handling loop in
`handle_pagerequests` cannot know anymore which concrete
`Tenant`/`Timeline` object any of the incoming `PagestreamFeMessage`
resolves to.
In fact, one message might resolve to one `Tenant`/`Timeline` while
the next one may resolve to another one.
To avoid going to tenant manager, we added the `shard_timelines` which
acted as an ever-growing cache that held timeline gate guards open for
the lifetime of the connection.
The consequence of holding the gate guards open was that we had to be
sensitive to every cached `Timeline::cancel` on each interaction with
the network connection, so that Timeline shutdown would not have to wait
for network connection interaction.
We can do better than that, meaning more efficiency & better
abstraction.
I proposed a sketch for it in
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8286
and this PR implements an evolution of that sketch.
The main idea is is that `mod page_service` shall be solely concerned
with the following:
1. receiving requests by speaking the protocol / pagestream subprotocol
2. dispatching the request to a corresponding method on the correct
shard/`Timeline` object
3. sending response by speaking the protocol / pagestream subprotocol.
The cancellation sensitivity responsibilities are clear cut:
* while in `page_service` code, sensitivity to page_service cancellation
is sufficient
* while in `Timeline` code, sensitivity to `Timeline::cancel` is
sufficient
To enforce these responsibilities, we introduce the notion of a
`timeline::handle::Handle` to a `Timeline` object that is checked out
from a `timeline::handle::Cache` for **each request**.
The `Handle` derefs to `Timeline` and is supposed to be used for a
single async method invocation on `Timeline`.
See the lengthy doc comment in `mod handle` for details of the design.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
For child branches, we will pull the image of the modified keys from the
parant into the child branch, which creates a full history for
generating key retention. If there are not enough delta keys, the image
won't be wrote eventually, and we will only keep the deltas inside the
child branch. We could avoid the wasteful work to pull the image from
the parent if we can know the number of deltas in advance, in the future
(currently we always pull image for all modified keys in the child
branch)
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
We run regression tests on `release` & `debug` builds for each of the
three supported Postgres versions (6 in total).
With upcoming ARM support and Postgres 17, the number of jobs will jump
to 16, which is a lot.
See the internal discussion here:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033A2WE6BZ/p1722365908404329
## Summary of changes
- Run `regress-tests` job in debug builds only with the latest Postgres
version
- Do not do `debug` builds on release branches
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8184
# Problem
We want to bypass PS PageCache for all data block reads, but
`compact_level0_phase1` currently uses `ValueRef::load` to load the WAL
records from delta layers.
Internally, that maps to `FileBlockReader:read_blk` which hits the
PageCache
[here](e78341e1c2/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs (L229-L236)).
# Solution
This PR adds a mode for `compact_level0_phase1` that uses the
`MergeIterator` for reading the `Value`s from the delta layer files.
`MergeIterator` is a streaming k-merge that uses vectored blob_io under
the hood, which bypasses the PS PageCache for data blocks.
Other notable changes:
* change the `DiskBtreeReader::into_stream` to buffer the node, instead
of holding a `PageCache` `PageReadGuard`.
* Without this, we run out of page cache slots in
`test_pageserver_compaction_smoke`.
* Generally, `PageReadGuard`s aren't supposed to be held across await
points, so, this is a general bugfix.
# Testing / Validation / Performance
`MergeIterator` has not yet been used in production; it's being
developed as part of
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
Therefore, this PR adds a validation mode that compares the existing
approach's value iterator with the new approach's stream output, item by
item.
If they're not identical, we log a warning / fail the unit/regression
test.
To avoid flooding the logs, we apply a global rate limit of once per 10
seconds.
In any case, we use the existing approach's value.
Expected performance impact that will be monitored in staging / nightly
benchmarks / eventually pre-prod:
* with validation:
* increased CPU usage
* ~doubled VirtualFile read bytes/second metric
* no change in disk IO usage because the kernel page cache will likely
have the pages buffered on the second read
* without validation:
* slightly higher DRAM usage because each iterator participating in the
k-merge has a dedicated buffer (as opposed to before, where compactions
would rely on the PS PageCaceh as a shared evicting buffer)
* less disk IO if previously there were repeat PageCache misses (likely
case on a busy production Pageserver)
* lower CPU usage: PageCache out of the picture, fewer syscalls are made
(vectored blob io batches reads)
# Rollout
The new code is used with validation mode enabled-by-default.
This gets us validation everywhere by default, specifically in
- Rust unit tests
- Python tests
- Nightly pagebench (shouldn't really matter)
- Staging
Before the next release, I'll merge the following aws.git PR that
configures prod to continue using the existing behavior:
* https://github.com/neondatabase/aws/pull/1663
# Interactions With Other Features
This work & rollout should complete before Direct IO is enabled because
Direct IO would double the IOPS & latency for each compaction read
(#8240).
# Future Work
The streaming k-merge's memory usage is proportional to the amount of
memory per participating layer.
But `compact_level0_phase1` still loads all keys into memory for
`all_keys_iter`.
Thus, it continues to have active memory usage proportional to the
number of keys involved in the compaction.
Future work should replace `all_keys_iter` with a streaming keys
iterator.
This PR has a draft in its first commit, which I later reverted because
it's not necessary to achieve the goal of this PR / issue #8184.
Change Azure storage configuration to point to new variables/secrets. They have
the `_NEW` suffix in order not to disrupt any tests while we complete the
switch.
Part of #8128, followup to #8480. closes#8421.
Enable scrubber to optionally post metadata scan health results to
storage controller.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Part of #8128, followed by #8502.
## Problem
Currently we lack mechanism to alert unhealthy `scan_metadata` status if
we start running this scrubber command as part of a cronjob. With the
storage controller client introduced to storage scrubber in #8196, it is
viable to set up alert by storing health status in the storage
controller database.
We intentionally do not store the full output to the database as the
json blobs potentially makes the table really huge. Instead, only a
health status and a timestamp recording the last time metadata health
status is posted on a tenant shard.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
This tests the ability to push into ACR using OIDC. Proved it worked by running slightly modified YAML.
In `promote-images` we push the following images `neon compute-tools {vm-,}compute-node-{v14,v15,v16}` into `neoneastus2`.
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/14640
## Problem
We don't allow regular end-users to use `k8s-pod` provisioner,
but we still use it in nightly benchmarks
## Summary of changes
- Remove `provisioner` input from `neon-create-project` action, use
`k8s-neonvm` as a default provioner
- Change `neon-` platform prefix to `neonvm-`
- Remove `neon-captest-freetier` and `neon-captest-new` as we already
have their `neonvm` counterparts
Add two new functions `stream_objects_with_retries` and
`stream_tenants_generic` and use them in the `find-large-objects`
subcommand, migrating it to `remote_storage`.
Also adds the `size` field to the `ListingObject` struct.
Part of #7547
If compression is enabled, we currently try compressing each image
larger than a specific size and if the compressed version is smaller, we
write that one, otherwise we use the uncompressed image. However, this
might sometimes be a wasteful process, if there is a substantial amount
of images that don't compress well.
The compression metrics added in #8420
`pageserver_compression_image_in_bytes_total` and
`pageserver_compression_image_out_bytes_total` are well designed for
answering the question how space efficient the total compression process
is end-to-end, which helps one to decide whether to enable it or not.
To answer the question of how much waste there is in terms of trial
compression, so CPU time, we add two metrics:
* one about the images that have been trial-compressed (considered), and
* one about the images where the compressed image has actually been
written (chosen).
There is different ways of weighting them, like for example one could
look at the count, or the compressed data. But the main contributor to
compression CPU usage is amount of data processed, so we weight the
images by their *uncompressed* size. In other words, the two metrics
are:
* `pageserver_compression_image_in_bytes_considered`
* `pageserver_compression_image_in_bytes_chosen`
Part of #5431
## Problem
Old storage buckets can contain a lot of tenants that aren't known to
the control plane at all, because they belonged to test jobs that get
their control plane state cleaned up shortly after running.
In general, it's somewhat unsafe to purge these, as it's hard to
distinguish "control plane doesn't know about this, so it's garbage"
from "control plane said it didn't know about this, which is a bug in
the scrubber, control plane, or API URL configured".
However, the most common case is that we see only a small husk of a
tenant in S3 from a specific old behavior of the software, for example:
- We had a bug where heatmaps weren't deleted on tenant delete
- When WAL DR was first deployed, we didn't delete initdb.tar.zst on
tenant deletion
## Summary of changes
- Add a KnownBug variant for the garbage reason
- Include such cases in the "safe" deletion mode (`--mode=deleted`)
- Add code that inspects tenants missing in control plane to identify
cases of known bugs (this is kind of slow, but should go away once we've
cleaned all these up)
- Add an additional `-min-age` safety check similar to physical GC,
where even if everything indicates objects aren't needed, we won't
delete something that has been modified too recently.
---------
Co-authored-by: Yuchen Liang <70461588+yliang412@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
## Problem
The secondary download HTTP API is meant to return 200 if the download
is complete, and 202 if it is still in progress. In #8198 the download
implementation was changed to drop out with success early if it
over-runs a time budget, which resulted in 200 responses for incomplete
downloads.
This breaks storcon_cli's "tenant-warmup" command, which uses the OK
status to indicate download complete.
## Summary of changes
- Only return 200 if we get an Ok() _and_ the progress stats indicate
the download is complete.
## Problem
We need to test logical replication with 3rd-party tools regularly.
## Summary of changes
Added a test using ClickHouse as a client
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
Uses the Stream based `list_streaming` function added by #8457 in tenant
deletion, as suggested in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7932#issuecomment-2150480180 .
We don't have to worry about retries, as the function is wrapped inside
an outer retry block. If there is a retryable error either during the
listing or during deletion, we just do a fresh start.
Also adds `+ Send` bounds as they are required by the
`delete_tenant_remote` function.
update pg_jsonschema extension to v 0.3.1
update pg_graphql extension to v1.5.7
update pgx_ulid extension to v0.1.5
update pg_tiktoken extension, patch Cargo.toml to use new pgrx
In general, replace:
* 'lfc_approximate_working_set_size' with
* 'lfc_approximate_working_set_size_windows'
For the "main" metrics that are actually scraped and used internally,
the old one is just marked as deprecated.
For the "autoscaling" metrics, we're not currently using the old one, so
we can get away with just replacing it.
Also, for the user-visible metrics we'll only store & expose a few
different time windows, to avoid making the UI overly busy or bloating
our internal metrics storage.
But for the autoscaling-related scraper, we aren't storing the metrics,
and it's useful to be able to programmatically operate on the trendline
of how WSS increases (or doesn't!) with window size. So there, we can
just output datapoints for each minute.
Part of neondatabase/autoscaling#872
See also https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/cca38138fadd45eaa753d81b859490c6
## Storage & Compute release 2024-07-22
This PR has so many commits because the release branch diverged from `main`.
Details https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033A2WE6BZ/p1721650938949059?thread_ts=1721308848.034069&cid=C033A2WE6BZ
The commit range that is truly new since the last storage release are the the `main` commit which I cherry-picked using this command
```
git cherry-pick 8a8b83df27383a07bb7dbba519325c15d2f46357..4e547e6
```
PR #8299 has switched the storage scrubber to use
`DefaultCredentialsChain`. Now we do this for `remote_storage`, as it
allows us to use `remote_storage` from inside kubernetes. Most of the
diff is due to `GenericRemoteStorage::from_config` becoming `async fn`.
This adds an archival_config endpoint to the pageserver. Currently it
has no effect, and always "works", but later the intent is that it will
make a timeline archived/unarchived.
- [x] add yml spec
- [x] add endpoint handler
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8088
## Problem
There are some swagger errors in `pageserver/src/http/openapi_spec.yml`
```
Error 431 15000 Object includes not allowed fields
Error 569 3100401 should always have a 'required'
Error 569 15000 Object includes not allowed fields
Error 1111 10037 properties members must be schemas
```
## Summary of changes
Fixed the above errors.
## Problem
After a shard split, the pageserver leaves the ancestor shard's content
in place. It may be referenced by child shards, but eventually child
shards will de-reference most ancestor layers as they write their own
data and do GC. We would like to eventually clean up those ancestor
layers to reclaim space.
## Summary of changes
- Extend the physical GC command with `--mode=full`, which includes
cleaning up unreferenced ancestor shard layers
- Add test `test_scrubber_physical_gc_ancestors`
- Remove colored log output: in testing this is irritating ANSI code
spam in logs, and in interactive use doesn't add much.
- Refactor storage controller API client code out of storcon_client into
a `storage_controller/client` crate
- During physical GC of ancestors, call into the storage controller to
check that the latest shards seen in S3 reflect the latest state of the
tenant, and there is no shard split in progress.
We're removing the usage of this long-meaningless config field in
https://github.com/neondatabase/aws/pull/1599
Once that PR has been deployed to staging and prod, we can merge this
PR.
## Problem
My prior PR https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8422
caused leftovers in the GitHub action runner work directory with root
permission.
As an example see here
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/10001857641/job/27646237324#step:3:37
To work-around we install vanilla postgres as non-root using deb
packages in /home/nonroot user directory
## Summary of changes
- since we cannot use root we install the deb pkgs directly and create
symbolic links for psql, pgbench and libs in expected places
- continue jobs an aws even if azure jobs fail (because this region is
currently unreliable)
Successor of #8288 , just enable zstd in tests. Also adds a test that
creates easily compressable data.
Part of #5431
---------
Co-authored-by: John Spray <john@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
The error means that manager exited earlier than `ResidenceGuard` and
it's not unexpected with current deletion implementation. This commit
changes log level to reduse noise.
Use the k-merge iterator in the compaction process to reduce memory
footprint.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
## Summary of changes
* refactor the bottom-most compaction code to use k-merge iterator
* add Send bound on some structs as it is used across the await points
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
We have an issue that some partial uploaded segments can be actually
missing in remote storage. I found this issue when was looking at the
logs in staging, and it can be triggered by failed uploads:
1. Code tries to upload `SEG_TERM_LSN_LSN_sk5.partial`, but receives
error from S3
2. The failed attempt is saved to `segments` vec
3. After some time, the code tries to upload
`SEG_TERM_LSN_LSN_sk5.partial` again
4. This time the upload is successful and code calls `gc()` to delete
previous uploads
5. Since new object and old object share the same name, uploaded data
gets deleted from remote storage
This commit fixes the issue by patching `gc()` not to delete objects
with the same name as currently uploaded.
---------
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
## Problem
Ahead of enabling eviction in the field, where it will become the
normal/default mode, let's enable it by default throughout our tests in
case any issues become visible there.
## Summary of changes
- Make default `extra_opts` for safekeepers enable offload & deletion
- Set low timeouts in `extra_opts` so that tests running for tens of
seconds have a chance to hit some of these background operations.
## Problem
These tests time out ~1 in 50 runs when in debug mode.
There is no indication of a real issue: they're just wrappers that have
large numbers of individual tests contained within on pytest case.
## Summary of changes
- Bump pg_regress timeout from 600 to 900s
- Bump test_isolation timeout from 300s (default) to 600s
In future it would be nice to break out these tests to run individual
cases (or batches thereof) as separate tests, rather than this monolith.
## Problem
This test would occasionally fail its metric check. This could happen in
the rare case that the nodes had all been restarted before their most
recent eviction.
The metric check was added in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8348
## Summary of changes
- Check metrics before each restart, accumulate into a bool that we
assert on at the end of the test
When `NeonEnv.from_repo_dir` was introduced, storage controller stored
its
state exclusively `attachments.json`.
Since then, it has moved to using Postgres, which stores its state in
`storage_controller_db`.
But `NeonEnv.from_repo_dir` wasn't adjusted to do this.
This PR rectifies the situation.
Context for this is failures in
`test_pageserver_characterize_throughput_with_n_tenants`
CF:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1721035799502239?thread_ts=1720901332.293769&cid=C033RQ5SPDH
Notably, `from_repo_dir` is also used by the backwards- and
forwards-compatibility.
Thus, the changes in this PR affect those tests as well.
However, it turns out that the compatibility snapshot already contains
the `storage_controller_db`.
Thus, it should just work and in fact we can remove hacks like
`fixup_storage_controller`.
Follow-ups created as part of this work:
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8399
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8400
## Problem
There are something wrong in the comment of
`control_plane/src/broker.rs` and `control_plane/src/pageserver.rs`
## Summary of changes
Fixed the comment about component name and their data path in
`control_plane/src/broker.rs` and `control_plane/src/pageserver.rs`.
## Problem
We lack insight into:
- How much of a tenant's physical size is image vs. delta layers
- Average sizes of image vs. delta layers
- Total layer counts per timeline, indicating size of index_part object
As well as general observability love, this is motivated by
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6738, where we need to
define some sensible thresholds for storage amplification, and using
total physical size may not work well (if someone does a lot of DROPs
then it's legitimate for the physical-synthetic ratio to be huge), but
the ratio between image layer size and delta layer size may be a better
indicator of whether we're generating unreasonable quantities of image
layers.
## Summary of changes
- Add pageserver_layer_bytes and pageserver_layer_count metrics,
labelled by timeline and `kind` (delta or image)
- Add & subtract these with LayerInner's lifetime.
I'm intentionally avoiding using a generic metric RAII guard object, to
avoid bloating LayerInner: it already has all the information it needs
to update metric on new+drop.
This test reproduces the case of a writer creating a deep stack of L0
layers. It uses realistic layer sizes and writes several gigabytes of
data, therefore runs as a performance test although it is validating
memory footprint rather than performance per se.
It acts a regression test for two recent fixes:
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8401
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8391
In future it will demonstrate the larger improvement of using a k-merge
iterator for L0 compaction (#8184)
This test can be extended to enforce limits on the memory consumption of
other housekeeping steps, by restarting the pageserver and then running
other things to do the same "how much did RSS increase" measurement.
Existing tenants and some selection of layers might produce duplicated
keys. Add tests to ensure the k-merge iterator handles it correctly. We
also enforced ordering of the k-merge iterator to put images before
deltas.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
## Problem
We want to run performance tests on all supported cloud providers.
We want to run most tests on the postgres version which is default for
new projects in production, currently (July 24) this is postgres version
16
## Summary of changes
- change default postgres version for some (performance) tests to 16
(which is our default for new projects in prod anyhow)
- add azure region to pgbench_compare jobs
- add azure region to pgvector benchmarking jobs
- re-used project `weathered-snowflake-88107345` was prepared with 1
million embeddings running on 7 minCU 7 maxCU in azure region to compare
with AWS region (pgvector indexing and hnsw queries)
- see job pgbench-pgvector
- Note we now have a 11 environments combinations where we run
pgbench-compare and 5 are for k8s-pod (deprecated) which we can remove
in the future once auto-scaling team approves.
## Logs
A current run with the changes from this pull request is running here
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/9972096222
Note that we currently expect some failures due to
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8275
- instability of projects on azure region
## Problem
When a tenant creates a new timeline that they will treat as their
'main' history,
it is awkward to permanently retain an 'old main' timeline as its
ancestor. Currently
this is necessary because it is forbidden to delete a timeline which has
descendents.
## Summary of changes
A new pageserver API is proposed to 'adopt' data from a parent timeline
into
one of its children, such that the link between ancestor and child can
be severed,
leaving the parent in a state where it may then be deleted.
---------
Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
## Problem
ValueRef is an unnecessarily large structure, because it carries a
cursor. L0 compaction currently instantiates gigabytes of these under
some circumstances.
## Summary of changes
- Carry a ref to the parent layer instead of a cursor, and construct a
cursor on demand.
This reduces RSS high watermark during L0 compaction by about 20%.
## Problem
The `evictions_with_low_residence_duration` is used as an indicator of
cache thrashing. However, there are situations where it is quite
legitimate to only have a short residence during compaction, where a
delta is downloaded, used to generate an image layer, and then
discarded. This can lead to false positive alerts.
## Summary of changes
- Only track low residence duration for layers that have been accessed
at least once (compaction doesn't count as an access). This will give us
a metric that indicates thrashing on layers that the _user_ is using,
rather than those we're downloading for housekeeping purposes.
Once we add "layer visibility" as an explicit property of layers, this
can also be used as a cleaner condition (residence of non-visible layers
should never be alertable)
## Problem
close https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8389
## Summary of changes
A quick mitigation for tenants with fast writes. We compact at most 60
delta layers at a time, expecting a memory footprint of 15GB. We will
pick the oldest 60 L0 layers.
This should be a relatively safe change so no test is added. Question is
whether to make this parameter configurable via tenant config.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: John Spray <john@neon.tech>
- `horizon` is a confusing term, it's not at all obvious that this means
space-based retention limit, rather than the total GC history limit.
Rename to `GcCutoffs::space`.
- `pitr` is less confusing, but still an unecessary level of indirection
from what we really mean: a time-based condition. The fact that we use
that that time-history for Point In Time Recovery doesn't mean we have
to refer to time as "pitr" everywhere. Rename to `GcCutoffs::time`.
As described in #8385, the likely source for flakiness in
test_tenant_creation_fails is the following sequence of events:
1. test instructs the storage controller to create the tenant
2. storage controller adds the tenant and persists it to the database.
issues a creation request
3. the pageserver restarts with the failpoint disabled
4. storage controller's background reconciliation still wants to create
the tenant
5. pageserver gets new request to create the tenant from background
reconciliation
This commit just avoids the storage controller entirely. It has its own
set of issues, as the re-attach request will obviously not include the
tenant, but it's still useful to test for non-existence of the tenant.
The generation is also not optional any more during tenant attachment.
If you omit it, the pageserver yields an error. We change the signature
of `tenant_attach` to reflect that.
Alternative to #8385Fixes#8266
## Problem
This structure was in an Arc<> unnecessarily, making it harder to reason
about its lifetime (i.e. it was superficially possible for LayerManager
to outlive timeline, even though no code used it that way)
## Summary of changes
- Remove the Arc<>
Right now timeline detach ancestor reports an error (409, "no ancestor")
on a new attempt after successful completion. This makes it troublesome
for storage controller retries. Fix it to respond with `200 OK` as if
the operation had just completed quickly.
Additionally, the returned timeline identifiers in the 200 OK response
are now ordered so that responses between different nodes for error
comparison are done by the storage controller added in #8353.
Design-wise, this PR introduces a new strategy for accessing the latest
uploaded IndexPart:
`RemoteTimelineClient::initialized_upload_queue(&self) ->
Result<UploadQueueAccessor<'_>, NotInitialized>`. It should be a more
scalable way to query the latest uploaded `IndexPart` than to add a
query method for each question directly on `RemoteTimelineClient`.
GC blocking will need to be introduced to make the operation fully
idempotent. However, it is idempotent for the cases demonstrated by
tests.
Cc: #6994
## Problem
Pageserver GC uses a size-based condition (GC "horizon" in addition to
time-based "PITR").
Eventually we plan to retire the size-based condition:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6374
Currently, we always apply the more conservative of the two, meaning
that tenants always retain at least 64MB of history (default horizon),
even after a very long time has passed. This is particularly acute in
cases where someone has dropped tables/databases, and then leaves a
database idle: the horizon can prevent GCing very large quantities of
historical data (we already account for this in synthetic size by
ignoring gc horizon).
We're not entirely removing GC horizon right now because we don't want
to 100% rely on standby_horizon for robustness of physical replication,
but we can tweak our logic to avoid retaining that 64MB LSN length
indefinitely.
## Summary of changes
- Rework `Timeline::find_gc_cutoffs`, with new logic:
- If there is no PITR set, then use `DEFAULT_PITR_INTERVAL` (1 week) to
calculate a time threshold. Retain either the horizon or up to that
thresholds, whichever requires less data.
- When there is a PITR set, and we have unambiguously resolved the
timestamp to an LSN, then ignore the GC horizon entirely. For typical
PITRs (1 day, 1 week), this will still easily retain enough data to
avoid stressing read only replicas.
The key property we end up with, whether a PITR is set or not, is that
after enough time has passed, our GC cutoff on an idle timeline will
catch up with the last_record_lsn.
Using `DEFAULT_PITR_INTERVAL` is a bit of an arbitrary hack, but this
feels like it isn't really worth the noise of exposing in TenantConfig.
We could just make it a different named constant though. The end-end
state will be that there is no gc_horizon at all, and that tenants with
pitr_interval=0 would truly retain no history, so this constant would go
away.
Currently storage controller does not support forwarding timeline detach
ancestor requests to pageservers. Add support for forwarding `PUT
.../:tenant_id/timelines/:timeline_id/detach_ancestor`. Implement the
support mostly as is, because the timeline detach ancestor will be made
(mostly) idempotent in future PR.
Cc: #6994
## Problem
Right now if there are too many running xacts to be restored from CLOG
at replica startup,
then replica is not trying to restore them and wait for non-overflown
running-xacs WAL record from primary.
But if primary is not active, then replica will not start at all.
Too many running xacts can be caused by transactions with large number
of subtractions.
But right now it can be also cause by two reasons:
- Lack of shutdown checkpoint which updates `oldestRunningXid` (because
of immediate shutdown)
- nextXid alignment on 1024 boundary (which cause loosing ~1k XIDs on
each restart)
Both problems are somehow addressed now.
But we have existed customers with "sparse" CLOG and lack of
checkpoints.
To be able to start RO replicas for such customers I suggest to add GUC
which allows replica to start even in case of subxacts overflow.
## Summary of changes
Add `neon.running_xacts_overflow_policy` with the following values:
- ignore: restore from CLOG last N XIDs and accept connections
- skip: do not restore any XIDs from CXLOGbut still accept connections
- wait: wait non-overflown running xacts record from primary node
## 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
---------
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
This test would sometimes violate the min resident size during disk
eviction and fail due to the generate warning log.
Disk usage candidate collection only takes into account active tenants.
However, the statvfs call takes into account the entire tenants
directory, which includes tenants which haven't become active yet.
After re-starting the pageserver, disk usage eviction may kick in
*before* both tenants have become active. Hence, the logic will try to satisfy
thedisk usage requirements by evicting everything belonging to the active
tenant, and hence violating the tenant minimum resident size.
## Summary of changes
Allow the warning
## Problem
new clippy warnings on nightly.
## Summary of changes
broken up each commit by warning type.
1. Remove some unnecessary refs.
2. In edition 2024, inference will default to `!` and not `()`.
3. Clippy complains about doc comment indentation
4. Fix `Trait + ?Sized` where `Trait: Sized`.
5. diesel_derives triggering `non_local_defintions`
## Problem
We already back off on compaction retries, but the impact of a failing
compaction can be so great that backing off up to 300s isn't enough. The
impact is consuming a lot of I/O+CPU in the case of image layer
generation for large tenants, and potentially also leaking disk space.
Compaction failures are extremely rare and almost always indicate a bug,
frequently a bug that will not let compaction to proceed until it is
fixed.
Related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6738
## Summary of changes
- Introduce a CircuitBreaker type
- Add a circuit breaker for compaction, with a policy that after 5
failures, compaction will not be attempted again for 24 hours.
- Add metrics that we can alert on: any >0 value for
`pageserver_circuit_breaker_broken_total` should generate an alert.
- Add a test that checks this works as intended.
Couple notes to reviewers:
- Circuit breakers are intrinsically a defense-in-depth measure: this is
not the solution to any underlying issues, it is just a general
mitigation for "unknown unknowns" that might be encountered in future.
- This PR isn't primarily about writing a perfect CircuitBreaker type:
the one in this PR is meant to be just enough to mitigate issues in
compaction, and make it easy to monitor/alert on these failures. We can
refine this type in future as/when we want to use it elsewhere.
Implement decompression of images for vectored reads.
This doesn't implement support for still treating blobs as uncompressed
with the bits we reserved for compression, as we have removed that
functionality in #8300 anyways.
Part of #5431
We need to pass on the configured compression param during image layer
generation.
This was an oversight of #8106, and the likely cause why #8288 didn't
bring any interesting regressions.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5431
## Problem
I need `neon_superuser` to be allowed to create snapshots for
replication tests
## Summary of changes
Adds a migration that grants these functions to neon_superuser
Rewrite streaming vectored read planner to be a separate struct. The API
is designed to produce batches around `max_read_size` instead of exactly
less than that so that `handle_XX` returns one batch a time.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
In anticipation of later adding a really nice drain+delete API, I
initially only added an intentionally basic `/drop` API that is just
about usable for deleting nodes in a pinch, but requires some ugly
storage controller restarts to persuade it to restart secondaries.
## Summary of changes
I started making a few tiny fixes, and ended up writing the delete
API...
- Quality of life nit: ordering of node + tenant listings in storcon_cli
- Papercut: Fix the attach_hook using the wrong operation type for
reporting slow locks
- Make Service::spawn tolerate `generation_pageserver` columns that
point to nonexistent node IDs. I started out thinking of this as a
general resilience thing, but when implementing the delete API I
realized it was actually a legitimate end state after the delete API is
called (as that API doesn't wait for all reconciles to succeed).
- Add a `DELETE` API for nodes, which does not gracefully drain, but
does reschedule everything. This becomes safe to use when the system is
in any state, but will incur availability gaps for any tenants that
weren't already live-migrated away. If tenants have already been
drained, this becomes a totally clean + safe way to decom a node.
- Add a test and a storcon_cli wrapper for it
This is meant to be a robust initial API that lets us remove nodes
without doing ugly things like restarting the storage controller -- it's
not quite a totally graceful node-draining routine yet. There's more
work in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8333 to get to our
end-end state.
## Problem
Follow up to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8335, to improve
observability of how many evict/restores we are doing.
## Summary of changes
- Add `safekeeper_eviction_events_started_total` and
`safekeeper_eviction_events_completed_total`, with a "kind" label of
evict or restore. This gives us rates, and also ability to calculate how
many are in progress.
- Generalize SafekeeperMetrics test type to use the same helpers as
pageserver, and enable querying any metric.
- Read the new metrics at the end of the eviction test.
## Problem
SeqWait::would_wait_for returns Ok in the case when we would not wait
for the sequence number and Err otherwise.
ReconcilerWaiter::get_status uses it the wrong way around. This can
cause the storage controller to go into a busy loop
and make it look unavailable to the k8s controller.
## Summary of changes
Use `SeqWait::would_wait_for` correctly.
`trace_read_requests` is a per `Tenant`-object option.
But the `handle_pagerequests` loop doesn't know which
`Tenant` object (i.e., which shard) the request is for.
The remaining use of the `Tenant` object is to check `tenant.cancel`.
That check is incorrect [if the pageserver hosts multiple
shards](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7427#issuecomment-2220577518).
I'll fix that in a future PR where I completely eliminate the holding
of `Tenant/Timeline` objects across requests.
See [my code RFC](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8286) for
the
high level idea.
Note that we can always bring the tracing functionality if we need it.
But since it's actually about logging the `page_service` wire bytes,
it should be a `page_service`-level config option, not per-Tenant.
And for enabling tracing on a single connection, we can implement
a `set pageserver_trace_connection;` option.
Set core rmilit to ulimited in compute_ctl, so that all child processes
inherit it. We could also set rlimit in relevant startup script, but
that way we would depend on external setup and might inadvertently
disable it again (core dumping worked in pods, but not in VMs with
inittab-based startup).
## Problem
- The condition for eviction is not time-based: it is possible for a
timeline to be restored in response to a client, that client times out,
and then as soon as the timeline is restored it is immediately evicted
again.
- There is no delay on eviction at startup of the safekeeper, so when it
starts up and sees many idle timelines, it does many evictions which
will likely be immediately restored when someone uses the timeline.
## Summary of changes
- Add `eviction_min_resident` parameter, and use it in
`ready_for_eviction` to avoid evictions if the timeline has been
resident for less than this period.
- This also implicitly delays evictions at startup for
`eviction_min_resident`
- Set this to a very low number for the existing eviction test, which
expects immediate eviction.
The default period is 15 minutes. The general reasoning for that is that
in the worst case where we thrash ~10k timelines on one safekeeper,
downloading 16MB for each one, we should set a period that would not
overwhelm the node's bandwidth.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002. This pull
request adds a k-merge iterator for bottom-most compaction.
## Summary of changes
* Added back lsn_range / key_range in delta layer inner. This was
removed due to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8050, but added
back because iterators need that information to process lazy loading.
* Added lazy-loading k-merge iterator.
* Added iterator wrapper as a unified iterator type for image+delta
iterator.
The current status and test should cover the use case for L0 compaction
so that the L0 compaction process can bypass page cache and have a fixed
amount of memory usage. The next step is to integrate this with the new
bottom-most compaction.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
Removes the `ImageCompressionAlgorithm::DisabledNoDecompress` variant.
We now assume any blob with the specific bits set is actually a
compressed blob.
The `ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Disabled` variant still remains and is
the new default.
Reverts large parts of #8238 , as originally intended in that PR.
Part of #5431
## Problem
This test incorrectly assumed that a post-split compaction would only
drop content. This was easily destabilized by any changes to image
generation rules.
## Summary of changes
- Before split, do a full image layer generation pass, to guarantee that
post-split compaction should only drop data, never create it.
- Fix the force_image_layer_creation mode of compaction that we use from
tests like this: previously it would try and generate image layers even
if one already existed with the same layer key, which caused compaction
to fail.
## Problem
#7809 - we do not support sslnegotiation=direct
#7810 - we do not support negotiating down the protocol extensions.
## Summary of changes
1. Same as postgres, check the first startup packet byte for tls header
`0x16`, and check the ALPN.
2. Tell clients using protocol >3.0 to downgrade
I want to fix bugs in `page_service`
([issue](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7427)) and the
`import basebackup` / `import wal` stand in the way / make the
refactoring more complicated.
We don't use these methods anyway in practice, but, there have been some
objections to removing the functionality completely.
So, this PR preserves the existing functionality but moves it into the
HTTP management API.
Note that I don't try to fix existing bugs in the code, specifically not
fixing
* it only ever worked correctly for unsharded tenants
* it doesn't clean up on error
All errors are mapped to `ApiError::InternalServerError`.
## Problem
Slack thread:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1720511577862519
We're seeing OOMs in staging on a pageserver that has
l0_flush.mode=Direct enabled.
There's a strong correlation between jumps in `maxrss_kb` and
`pageserver_timeline_ephemeral_bytes`, so, it's quite likely that
l0_flush.mode=Direct is the culprit.
Notably, the expected max memory usage on that staging server by the
l0_flush.mode=Direct is ~2GiB but we're seeing as much as 24GiB max RSS
before the OOM kill.
One hypothesis is that we're dropping the semaphore permit before all
the dirtied pages have been flushed to disk. (The flushing to disk
likely happens in the fsync inside the `.finish()` call, because we're
using ext4 in data=ordered mode).
## Summary of changes
Hold the permit until after we're done with `.finish()`.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/14024, k8s does not
always have a volume available for logging, and I'm running into weird
permission errors... While I could spend time figuring out how to create
temp directories for logging, I think it would be better to just disable
file logging as k8s containers are ephemeral and we cannot retrieve
anything on the fs after the container gets removed.
## Summary of changes
`PAGESERVER_DISABLE_FILE_LOGGING=1` -> file logging disabled
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
This tweaks the rows-to-JSON rendering logic in order to avoid
allocating 0-sized temporary vectors and later growing them
to insert elements.
As the exact size is known in advance, both vectors can be built
with an exact capacity upfront. This will avoid further vector
growing/reallocation in the rendering hotpath.
Signed-off-by: Luca BRUNO <lucab@lucabruno.net>
## Problem
In https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8161, we changed the path
to Neon artefacts by adding commit sha to it, but we missed adding these
changes to `promote-compatibility-data` job that we use for
backward/forward- compatibility testing.
## Summary of changes
- Add commit sha to `promote-compatibility-data`
## Summary of changes
Increase the `assert_size_approx_equal` threshold to avoid flakiness of
`test_lsn_lease_size`. Still needs more investigation to fully resolve
#8293.
- Also set `autovacuum=off` for the endpoint we are running in the test.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
## Problem
`test_timeline_size_quota_on_startup` assumed that writing data beyond
the size limit would always be blocked. This is not so: the limit is
only enforced if feedback makes it back from the pageserver to the
safekeeper + compute.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6562
## Summary of changes
- Modify the test to wait for the pageserver to catch up. The size limit
was never actually being enforced robustly, the original version of this
test was just writing much more than 30MB and about 98% of the time
getting lucky such that the feedback happened to arrive before the tests
for loop was done.
- If the test fails, log the logical size as seen by the pageserver.
## Problem
Debug-mode runs of test_pg_regress are rather slow since
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8105, and occasionally exceed
their 600s timeout.
## Summary of changes
- Use 8MiB layer files, avoiding large ephemeral layers
On a hetzner AX102, this takes the runtime from 230s to 190s. Which
hopefully will be enough to get the runtime on github runners more
reliably below its 600s timeout.
This has the side benefit of exercising more of the pageserver stack
(including compaction) under a workload that exercises a more diverse
set of postgres functionality than most of our tests.
## Problem
We currently use 'immediate' mode in the most commonly used shutdown
path, when the control plane calls a `compute_ctl` API to terminate
Postgres inside compute without waiting for the actual pod / VM
termination. Yet, 'immediate' shutdown doesn't create a shutdown
checkpoint and ROs have bad times figuring out the list of running xacts
during next start.
## Summary of changes
Use 'fast' mode, which creates a shutdown checkpoint that is important
for ROs to get a list of running xacts faster instead of going through
the CLOG. On the control plane side, we poll this `compute_ctl`
termination API for 10s, it should be enough as we don't really write
any data at checkpoint time. If it times out, we anyway switch to the
slow k8s-based termination.
See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/server-shutdown.html for the
list of modes and signals.
The default VM shutdown hook already uses `fast` mode, see [1]
[1]
c9fd8d7693/vm-image-spec.yaml (L30-L31)
Related to #6211
## Problem
LSN Leases introduced in #8084 is a new API that is made shard-aware
from day 1. To support ephemeral endpoint in #7994 without linking
Postgres C API against `compute_ctl`, part of the sharding needs to
reside in `utils`.
## Summary of changes
- Create a new `shard` module in utils crate.
- Move more interface related part of tenant sharding API to utils and
re-export them in pageserver_api.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
## Problem
Rarely, a dbdir entry can exist with no `relmap_file_key` data. This
causes compaction to fail, because it assumes that if the database
exists, then so does the relmap file.
Basebackup already handled this using a boolean to record whether such a
key exists, but `collect_keyspace` didn't.
## Summary of changes
- Respect the flag for whether a relfilemap exists in collect_keyspace
- The reproducer for this issue will merge separately in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8232
These tests will help verify that replication, both physical and
logical, works as expected in Neon.
Co-authored-by: Sasha Krassovsky <sasha@neon.tech>
Allows a process to run without blocking program execution, which can be
useful for certain test scenarios.
Co-authored-by: Sasha Krassovsky <sasha@neon.tech>
## Problem
- Resident memory on long running pageserver processes tends to climb:
memory fragmentation is suspected.
- Total resident memory may be a limiting factor for running on smaller
nodes.
## Summary of changes
- As a low-energy experiment, switch the pageserver to use jemalloc (not
a net-new dependency, proxy already use it)
- Decide at end of week whether to revert before next release.
## Problem
Sparse keyspaces were constructed with ranges out of order: this didn't break things obviously, but meant that users of KeySpace functions that assume ordering would assert out.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8277
## Summary of changes
make sure the sparse keyspace has ordered keyspace parts
The find-large-objects scrubber subcommand is quite fast if you run it
in an environment with low latency to the S3 bucket (say an EC2 instance
in the same region). However, the higher the latency gets, the slower
the command becomes. Therefore, add a concurrency param and make it
parallelized. This doesn't change that general relationship, but at
least lets us do multiple requests in parallel and therefore hopefully
faster.
Running with concurrency of 64 (default):
```
2024-07-05T17:30:22.882959Z INFO lazy_load_identity [...]
[...]
2024-07-05T17:30:28.289853Z INFO Scanned 500 shards. [...]
```
With concurrency of 1, simulating state before this PR:
```
2024-07-05T17:31:43.375153Z INFO lazy_load_identity [...]
[...]
2024-07-05T17:33:51.987092Z INFO Scanned 500 shards. [...]
```
In other words, to list 500 shards, speed is increased from 2:08 minutes
to 6 seconds.
Follow-up of #8257, part of #5431
Improve parsing of the `ImageCompressionAlgorithm` enum to allow level
customization like `zstd(1)`, as strum only takes `Default::default()`,
i.e. `None` as the level.
Part of #5431
## Problem
test_subscriber_restart has quit large failure rate'
https://neonprod.grafana.net/d/fddp4rvg7k2dcf/regression-test-failures?orgId=1&var-test_name=test_subscriber_restart&var-max_count=100&var-restrict=false
I can be caused by too small timeout (5 seconds) to wait until changes
are propagated.
Related to #8097
## Summary of changes
Increase timeout to 30 seconds.
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checklist
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
We want to be able to test how our infrastructure reacts on segfaults in
Postgres (for example, we collect cores, and get some required
logs/metrics, etc)
## Summary of changes
- Add `trigger_segfauls` function to `neon_test_utils` to trigger a
segfault in Postgres
- Add `trigger_panic` function to `neon_test_utils` to trigger SIGABRT
(by using `elog(PANIC, ...))
- Fix cleanup logic in regression tests in endpoint crashed
## Problem
Assume a timeline with the following workload: very slow ingest of
updates to a small number of keys that fit within the same partition (as decided by
`KeySpace::partition`). These tenants will create small L0 layers since due to time
based rolling, and, consequently, the L1 layers will also be small.
Currently, by default, we need to ingest 512 MiB of WAL before checking
if an image layer is required. This scheme works fine under the assumption that L1s are roughly of
checkpoint distance size, but as the first paragraph explained, that's not the case for all workloads.
## Summary of changes
Check if new image layers are required at least once every checkpoint timeout interval.
## Problem
Safekeepers left running for a long time use a lot of memory (up to the
point of OOMing, on small nodes) for deleted timelines, because the
`Timeline` struct is kept alive as a guard against recreating deleted
timelines.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6810
## Summary of changes
- Create separate tombstones that just record a ttid and when the
timeline was deleted.
- Add a periodic housekeeping task that cleans up tombstones older than
a hardcoded TTL (24h)
I think this also makes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6766
un-needed, as the tombstone is also checked during deletion.
I considered making the overall timeline map use an enum type containing
active or deleted, but having a separate map of tombstones avoids
bloating that map, so that calls like `get()` can still go straight to a
timeline without having to walk a hashmap that also contains tombstones.
## Problem
This test directly manages locations on pageservers and configuration of
an endpoint. However, it did not switch off the parts of the storage
controller that attempt to do the same: occasionally, the test would
fail in a strange way such as a compute failing to accept a
reconfiguration request.
## Summary of changes
- Wire up the storage controller's compute notification hook to a no-op
handler
- Configure the tenant's scheduling policy to Stop.
## Problem
See #7466
## Summary of changes
Implement algorithm descried in
https://hal.science/hal-00465313/document
Now new GUC is added:
`neon.wss_max_duration` which specifies size of sliding window (in
seconds). Default value is 1 hour.
It is possible to request estimation of working set sizes (within this
window using new function
`approximate_working_set_size_seconds`. Old function
`approximate_working_set_size` is preserved for backward compatibility.
But its scope is also limited by `neon.wss_max_duration`.
Version of Neon extension is changed to 1.4
## 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
---------
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Matthias van de Meent <matthias@neon.tech>
Part of #7497, closes#8071. (accidentally closed#8208, reopened here)
## Problem
After the changes in #8084, we need synthetic size to also account for
leased LSNs so that users do not get free retention by running a small
ephemeral endpoint for a long time.
## Summary of changes
This PR integrates LSN leases into the synthetic size calculation. We
model leases as read-only branches started at the leased LSN (except it
does not have a timeline id).
Other changes:
- Add new unit tests testing whether a lease behaves like a read-only
branch.
- Change `/size_debug` response to include lease point in the SVG
visualization.
- Fix `/lsn_lease` HTTP API to do proper parsing for POST.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
Adds a find-large-objects subcommand to the scrubber to allow listing
layer objects larger than a specific size.
To be used like:
```
AWS_PROFILE=dev REGION=us-east-2 BUCKET=neon-dev-storage-us-east-2 cargo run -p storage_scrubber -- find-large-objects --min-size 250000000 --ignore-deltas
```
Part of #5431
## Problem
When generations were new, these messages were an important way of
noticing if something unexpected was going on. We found some real issues
when investigating tests that unexpectedly tripped them.
At time has gone on, this code is now pretty battle-tested, and as we do
more live migrations etc, it's fairly normal to see the occasional
message from a node with a stale generation.
At this point the cognitive load on developers to selectively allow-list
these logs outweighs the benefit of having them at warn severity.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8080
## Summary of changes
- Downgrade "Dropped remote consistent LSN updates" and "Dropping stale
deletions" messages to INFO
- Remove all the allow-list entries for these logs.
## Problem
`pg-clients` workflow looks different from the main `build-and-test`
workflow for historical reasons (it was my very first task at Neon, and
back then I wasn't really familiar with the rest of the CI pipelines).
This PR unifies `pg-clients` workflow with `build-and-test`
## Summary of changes
- Rename `pg_clients.yml` to `pg-clients.yml`
- Run the workflow on changes in relevant files
- Create Allure report for tests
- Send slack notifications to `#on-call-qa-staging-stream` channel
(instead of `#on-call-staging-stream`)
- Update Client libraries once we're here
## Problem
I'd like to keep this in the tree since it might be useful in prod as
well. It's a bit too noisy as is and missing the lsn.
## Summary of changes
Add an lsn field and and increase the rate limit duration.
## Problem
Currently, if you need to rename a job and the job is listed in [branch
protection
rules](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/settings/branch_protection_rules),
the PR won't be allowed to merge.
## Summary of changes
- Add `conclusion` job that fails if any of its dependencies don't
finish successfully
## Problem
If there's a quota error, it makes sense to cache it for a short window
of time. Many clients do not handle database connection errors
gracefully, so just spam retry 🤡
## Summary of changes
Updates the node_info cache to support storing console errors. Store
console errors if they cannot be retried (using our own heuristic.
should only trigger for quota exceeded errors).
## Problem
The metrics we have today aren't convenient for planning around the
impact of timeline archival on costs.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8108
## Summary of changes
- Add metric `pageserver_archive_size`, which indicates the logical
bytes of data which we would expect to write into an archived branch.
- Add metric `pageserver_pitr_history_size`, which indicates the
distance between last_record_lsn and the PITR cutoff.
These metrics are somewhat temporary: when we implement #8088 and
associated consumption metric changes, these will reach a final form.
For now, an "archived" branch is just any branch outside of its parent's
PITR window: later, archival will become an explicit state (which will
_usually_ correspond to falling outside the parent's PITR window).
The overall volume of timeline metrics is something to watch, but we are
removing many more in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8245
than this PR is adding.
I'd like to add some constraints to the layer map we generate in tests.
(1) is the layer map that the current compaction algorithm will produce.
There is a property that for all delta layer, all delta layer overlaps
with it on the LSN axis will have the same LSN range.
(2) is the layer map that cannot be produced with the legacy compaction
algorithm.
(3) is the layer map that will be produced by the future
tiered-compaction algorithm. The current validator does not allow that
but we can modify the algorithm to allow it in the future.
## Summary of changes
Add a validator to check if the layer map is valid and refactor the test
cases to include delta layer start/end LSN.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
We record detailed histograms for all page_service op types, which
mostly aren't very interesting, but make our prometheus scrapes huge.
Closes: #8223
## Summary of changes
- Only track GetPageAtLsn histograms on a per-timeline granularity. For
all other operation types, rely on existing node-wide histograms.
we want to run some specific pagebench test cases on dedicated hardware
to get reproducible results
run1: 1 client per tenant => characterize throughput with n tenants.
- 500 tenants
- scale 13 (200 MB database)
- 1 hour duration
- ca 380 GB layer snapshot files
run2.singleclient: 1 client per tenant => characterize latencies
run2.manyclient: N clients per tenant => characterize throughput
scalability within one tenant.
- 1 tenant with 1 client for latencies
- 1 tenant with 64 clients because typically for a high number of
connections we recommend the connection pooler
which by default uses 64 connections (for scalability)
- scale 136 (2048 MB database)
- 20 minutes each
PR #8106 was created with the assumption that no blob is larger than
`256 MiB`. Due to #7852 we have checking for *writes* of blobs larger
than that limit, but we didn't have checking for *reads* of such large
blobs: in theory, we could be reading these blobs every day but we just
don't happen to write the blobs for some reason.
Therefore, we now add a warning for *reads* of such large blobs as well.
To make deploying compression less dangerous, we therefore only assume a
blob is compressed if the compression setting is present in the config.
This also means that we can't back out of compression once we enabled
it.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5431
## Problem
test_location_conf_churn fails on log errors when it tries to shutdown a
pageserver immediately after starting a tenant attach, like this:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8224/9761000525/index.html#/testresult/15fb6beca5c7327c
```
shutdown:shutdown{tenant_id=35f5c55eb34e7e5e12288c5d8ab8b909 shard_id=0000}:timeline_shutdown{timeline_id=30936747043353a98661735ad09cbbfe shutdown_mode=FreezeAndFlush}: failed to freeze and flush: cannot flush frozen layers when flush_loop is not running, state is Exited\n')
```
This is happening because Tenant::shutdown fires its cancellation token
early if the tenant is not fully attached by the time shutdown is
called, so the flush loop is shutdown by the time we try and flush.
## Summary of changes
- In the early-cancellation case, also set the shutdown mode to Hard to
skip trying to do a flush that will fail.
## Problem
GitHub Actions complain that we use actions that depend on deprecated
Node 16:
```
Node.js 16 actions are deprecated. Please update the following actions to use Node.js 20: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
```
But also, the latest `docker/setup-buildx-action` fails with the following
error:
```
/nvme/actions-runner/_work/_actions/docker/setup-buildx-action/v3/webpack:/docker-setup-buildx/node_modules/@actions/cache/lib/cache.js:175
throw new Error(`Path Validation Error: Path(s) specified in the action for caching do(es) not exist, hence no cache is being saved.`);
^
Error: Path Validation Error: Path(s) specified in the action for caching do(es) not exist, hence no cache is being saved.
at Object.rejected (/nvme/actions-runner/_work/_actions/docker/setup-buildx-action/v3/webpack:/docker-setup-buildx/node_modules/@actions/cache/lib/cache.js:175:1)
at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
at fulfilled (/nvme/actions-runner/_work/_actions/docker/setup-buildx-action/v3/webpack:/docker-setup-buildx/node_modules/@actions/cache/lib/cache.js:29:1)
```
We can work this around by setting `cache-binary: false` for `uses:
docker/setup-buildx-action@v3`
## Summary of changes
- Update `docker/setup-buildx-action` from `v2` to `v3`, set
`cache-binary: false`
- Update `docker/login-action` from `v2` to `v3`
- Update `docker/build-push-action` from `v4`/`v5` to `v6`
All the code to ensure the WAL record lands at a page boundary was
unnecessary for reproducing the original problem. In fact, it's a pretty
basic test that checks that outbound replication (= neon as publisher)
still works after restarting the endpoint. It just used to be very
broken before commit 5ceccdc7de, which also added this test.
To verify that:
1. Check out commit f3af5f4660 (because the next commit, 7dd58e1449,
fixed the same bug in a different way, making it infeasible to revert
the bug fix in an easy way)
2. Revert the bug fix from commit 5ceccdc7de with this:
```
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/walproposer_pg.c b/pgxn/neon/walproposer_pg.c
index 7debb6325..9f03bbd99 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/walproposer_pg.c
+++ b/pgxn/neon/walproposer_pg.c
@@ -1437,8 +1437,10 @@ XLogWalPropWrite(WalProposer *wp, char *buf, Size nbytes, XLogRecPtr recptr)
*
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5749
*/
+#if 0
if (!wp->config->syncSafekeepers)
XLogUpdateWalBuffers(buf, recptr, nbytes);
+#endif
while (nbytes > 0)
{
```
3. Run the test_wal_page_boundary_start regression test. It fails, as
expected
4. Apply this commit to the test, and run it again. It still fails, with
the same error mentioned in issue #5749:
```
PG:2024-06-30 20:49:08.805 GMT [1248196] STATEMENT: START_REPLICATION SLOT "sub1" LOGICAL 0/0 (proto_version '4', origin 'any', publication_names '"pub1"')
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.567 GMT [1467972] LOG: starting logical decoding for slot "sub1"
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.567 GMT [1467972] DETAIL: Streaming transactions committing after 0/1532330, reading WAL from 0/1531C78.
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.567 GMT [1467972] STATEMENT: START_REPLICATION SLOT "sub1" LOGICAL 0/0 (proto_version '4', origin 'any', publication_names '"pub1"')
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.567 GMT [1467972] LOG: logical decoding found consistent point at 0/1531C78
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.567 GMT [1467972] DETAIL: There are no running transactions.
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.567 GMT [1467972] STATEMENT: START_REPLICATION SLOT "sub1" LOGICAL 0/0 (proto_version '4', origin 'any', publication_names '"pub1"')
PG:2024-06-30 21:37:52.568 GMT [1467972] ERROR: could not find record while sending logically-decoded data: invalid contrecord length 312 (expected 6) at 0/1533FD8
```
## Problem
See https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/14289
and PR #8210
## Summary of changes
Add test for problems fixed in #8210
## Checklist before requesting a review
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- [ ] 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?
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## Problem
Some of the Nightly benchmarks fail with the error
```
+ /tmp/neon/pg_install/v14/bin/pgbench --version
/tmp/neon/pg_install/v14/bin/pgbench: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```
Originally, we added the `pgbench --version` call to check that
`pgbench` is installed and to fail earlier if it's not.
The failure happens because we don't have `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` set for
every job, and it also affects `psql` command.
We can move it to `actions/run-python-test-set` so as not to duplicate
code (as it already have `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` set).
## Summary of changes
- Remove `pgbench --version` call
- Move `psql` commands to common `actions/run-python-test-set`
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7418
# Motivation
(reproducing #7418)
When we do an `InMemoryLayer::write_to_disk`, there is a tremendous
amount of random read I/O, as deltas from the ephemeral file (written in
LSN order) are written out to the delta layer in key order.
In benchmarks (https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7409) we can
see that this delta layer writing phase is substantially more expensive
than the initial ingest of data, and that within the delta layer write a
significant amount of the CPU time is spent traversing the page cache.
# High-Level Changes
Add a new mode for L0 flush that works as follows:
* Read the full ephemeral file into memory -- layers are much smaller
than total memory, so this is afforable
* Do all the random reads directly from this in memory buffer instead of
using blob IO/page cache/disk reads.
* Add a semaphore to limit how many timelines may concurrently do this
(limit peak memory).
* Make the semaphore configurable via PS config.
# Implementation Details
The new `BlobReaderRef::Slice` is a temporary hack until we can ditch
`blob_io` for `InMemoryLayer` => Plan for this is laid out in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8183
# Correctness
The correctness of this change is quite obvious to me: we do what we did
before (`blob_io`) but read from memory instead of going to disk.
The highest bug potential is in doing owned-buffers IO. I refactored the
API a bit in preliminary PR
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8186 to make it less
error-prone, but still, careful review is requested.
# Performance
I manually measured single-client ingest performance from `pgbench -i
...`.
Full report:
https://neondatabase.notion.site/2024-06-28-benchmarking-l0-flush-performance-e98cff3807f94cb38f2054d8c818fe84?pvs=4
tl;dr:
* no speed improvements during ingest, but
* significantly lower pressure on PS PageCache (eviction rate drops to
1/3)
* (that's why I'm working on this)
* noticable but modestly lower CPU time
This is good enough for merging this PR because the changes require
opt-in.
We'll do more testing in staging & pre-prod.
# Stability / Monitoring
**memory consumption**: there's no _hard_ limit on max `InMemoryLayer`
size (aka "checkpoint distance") , hence there's no hard limit on the
memory allocation we do for flushing. In practice, we a) [log a
warning](23827c6b0d/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs (L5741-L5743))
when we flush oversized layers, so we'd know which tenant is to blame
and b) if we were to put a hard limit in place, we would have to decide
what to do if there is an InMemoryLayer that exceeds the limit.
It seems like a better option to guarantee a max size for frozen layer,
dependent on `checkpoint_distance`. Then limit concurrency based on
that.
**metrics**: we do have the
[flush_time_histo](23827c6b0d/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs (L3725-L3726)),
but that includes the wait time for the semaphore. We could add a
separate metric for the time spent after acquiring the semaphore, so one
can infer the wait time. Seems unnecessary at this point, though.
Add support for reading and writing zstd-compressed blobs for use in
image layer generation, but maybe one day useful also for delta layers.
The reading of them is unconditional while the writing is controlled by
the `image_compression` config variable allowing for experiments.
For the on-disk format, we re-use some of the bitpatterns we currently
keep reserved for blobs larger than 256 MiB. This assumes that we have
never ever written any such large blobs to image layers.
After the preparation in #7852, we now are unable to read blobs with a
size larger than 256 MiB (or write them).
A non-goal of this PR is to come up with good heuristics of when to
compress a bitpattern. This is left for future work.
Parts of the PR were inspired by #7091.
cc #7879
Part of #5431
## Problem
At high percentiles we see more than 800 layers being visited by the
read path. We need the tenant/timeline to investigate.
## Summary of changes
Add a rate limited log line when the average number of layers visited
per key is in the last specified histogram bucket.
I plan to use this to identify tenants in us-east-2 staging that exhibit
this behaviour. Will revert before next week's release.
Before this PR, during timeline shutdown, we'd occasionally see
log lines like this one:
```
2024-06-26T18:28:11.063402Z INFO initial_size_calculation{tenant_id=$TENANT,shard_id=0000 timeline_id=$TIMELINE}:logical_size_calculation_task:get_or_maybe_download{layer=000000000000000000000000000000000000-000000067F0001A3950001C1630100000000__0000000D88265898}: layer file download failed, and caller has been cancelled: Cancelled, shutting down
Stack backtrace:
0: <core::result::Result<T,F> as core::ops::try_trait::FromResidual<core::result::Result<core::convert::Infallible,E>>>::from_residual
at /rustc/129f3b9964af4d4a709d1383930ade12dfe7c081/library/core/src/result.rs:1964:27
pageserver::tenant::remote_timeline_client::RemoteTimelineClient::download_layer_file::{{closure}}
at /home/nonroot/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs:531:13
pageserver::tenant::storage_layer::layer::LayerInner::download_and_init::{{closure}}
at /home/nonroot/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs:1136:14
pageserver::tenant::storage_layer::layer::LayerInner::download_init_and_wait::{{closure}}::{{closure}}
at /home/nonroot/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs:1082:74
```
We can eliminate the anyhow backtrace with no loss of information
because the conversion to anyhow::Error happens in exactly one place.
refs #7427
## Problem
Tenant attachment has error paths for failures to write local
configuration, but these types of local storage I/O errors should be
considered fatal for the process. Related thread on an earlier PR that
touched this code:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7947#discussion_r1655134114
## Summary of changes
- Make errors writing tenant config fatal (abort process)
- When reading tenant config, make all I/O errors except ENOENT fatal
- Replace use of bare anyhow errors with `LoadConfigError`
Before this PR, `RemoteStorageConfig::from_toml` would support
deserializing an
empty `{}` TOML inline table to a `None`, otherwise try `Some()`.
We can instead let
* in proxy: let clap derive handle the Option
* in PS & SK: assume that if the field is specified, it must be a valid
RemtoeStorageConfig
(This PR started with a much simpler goal of factoring out the
`deserialize_item` function because I need that in another PR).
## Problem
See https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/14289
## Summary of changes
Check connection status after calling PQconnectStartParams
## 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
---------
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
This makes it much more convenient to use in the common case that you
want to flush all the WAL. (Passing pg_current_wal_insert_lsn() as the
argument doesn't work for the same reasons as explained in the comments:
we need to be back off to the beginning of a page if the previous record
ended at page boundary.)
I plan to use this to fix the issue that Arseny Sher called out at
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7288#discussion_r1660063852
## Problem
We use `build-tools` image as a base image to build other images, and it
has a pretty old `libpq-dev` installed (v13; it wasn't that old until I
removed system Postgres 14 from `build-tools` image in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6540)
## Summary of changes
- Remove `libpq-dev` from `build-tools` image
- Set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` for tests (for different Postgres binaries that
we use, like psql and pgbench)
- Set `PQ_LIB_DIR` to build Storage Controller
- Set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`/`DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` in the Storage Controller
where it calls Postgres binaries
## Problem
We lack visibility of how much local disk space is used by secondary
tenant locations
Close: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8181
## Summary of changes
- Add `pageserver_secondary_resident_physical_size`, tagged by tenant
- Register & de-register label sets from SecondaryTenant
- Add+use wrappers in SecondaryDetail that update metrics when
adding+removing layers/timelines
We have one pretty serious MVCC visibility bug with hot standby
replicas. We incorrectly treat any transactions that are in progress
in the primary, when the standby is started, as aborted. That can
break MVCC for queries running concurrently in the standby. It can
also lead to hint bits being set incorrectly, and that damage can last
until the replica is restarted.
The fundamental bug was that we treated any replica start as starting
from a shut down server. The fix for that is straightforward: we need
to set 'wasShutdown = false' in InitWalRecovery() (see changes in the
postgres repo).
However, that introduces a new problem: with wasShutdown = false, the
standby will not open up for queries until it receives a running-xacts
WAL record from the primary. That's correct, and that's how Postgres
hot standby always works. But it's a problem for Neon, because:
* It changes the historical behavior for existing users. Currently,
the standby immediately opens up for queries, so if they now need to
wait, we can breka existing use cases that were working fine
(assuming you don't hit the MVCC issues).
* The problem is much worse for Neon than it is for standalone
PostgreSQL, because in Neon, we can start a replica from an
arbitrary LSN. In standalone PostgreSQL, the replica always starts
WAL replay from a checkpoint record, and the primary arranges things
so that there is always a running-xacts record soon after each
checkpoint record. You can still hit this issue with PostgreSQL if
you have a transaction with lots of subtransactions running in the
primary, but it's pretty rare in practice.
To mitigate that, we introduce another way to collect the
running-xacts information at startup, without waiting for the
running-xacts WAL record: We can the CLOG for XIDs that haven't been
marked as committed or aborted. It has limitations with
subtransactions too, but should mitigate the problem for most users.
See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7236.
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
This makes it much more convenient to use in the common case that you
want to flush all the WAL. (Passing pg_current_wal_insert_lsn() as the
argument doesn't work for the same reasons as explained in the
comments: we need to be back off to the beginning of a page if the
previous record ended at page boundary.)
I plan to use this to fix the issue that Arseny Sher called out at
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7288#discussion_r1660063852
The 'running' boolean was replaced with a semaphore in commit
f0e2bb79b2, but this initialization was missed. Remove it so that if a
test tries to access it, you get an error rather than always claiming
that the endpoint is not running.
Spotted by Arseny at
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7288#discussion_r1660068657
Reverts neondatabase/neon#7956
Rationale: compute incompatibilties
Slack thread:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1718011276665839?thread_ts=1718008160.431869&cid=C033RQ5SPDH
Relevant quotes from @hlinnaka
> If we go through with the current release candidate, but the compute
is pinned, people who create new projects will get that warning, which
is silly. To them, it looks like the ICU version was downgraded, because
initdb was run with newer version.
> We should upgrade the ICU version eventually. And when we do that,
users with old projects that use ICU will start to see that warning. I
think that's acceptable, as long as we do homework, notify users, and
communicate that properly.
> When do that, we should to try to upgrade the storage and compute
versions at roughly the same time.
## Problem
See https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/10845
## Summary of changes
Do not report error if GIN page is not restored
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Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
After [0e4f182680] which introduce async
connect
Neon is not able to connect to page server.
## Summary of changes
Perform sync commit at MacOS/X
## Checklist before requesting a review
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## Checklist before merging
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checklist
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Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
## Summary of changes
## 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?
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## Checklist before merging
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checklist
## Problem
"John pointed out that the switch to protocol version 2 made
test_gc_aggressive test flaky:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7692.
I tracked it down, and that is indeed an issue. Conditions for hitting
the issue:
The problem occurs in the primary
GC horizon is set to a very low value, e.g. 0.
If the primary is actively writing WAL, and GC runs in the pageserver at
the same time that the primary sends a GetPage request, it's possible
that the GC advances the GC horizon past the GetPage request's LSN. I'm
working on a fix here: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7708."
- Heikki
## Summary of changes
Use protocol version 1 as default.
## Problem
- #7451
INIT_FORKNUM blocks must be stored on shard 0 to enable including them
in basebackup.
This issue can be missed in simple tests because creating an unlogged
table isn't sufficient -- to repro I had to create an _index_ on an
unlogged table (then restart the endpoint).
Closes: #7451
## Summary of changes
- Add a reproducer for the issue.
- Tweak the condition for `key_is_shard0` to include anything that isn't
a normal relation block _and_ any normal relation block whose forknum is
INIT_FORKNUM.
- To enable existing databases to recover from the issue, add a special
case that omits relations if they were stored on the wrong INITFORK.
This enables postgres to start and the user to drop the table and
recreate it.
Part of neondatabase/cloud#12047.
The basic idea is that for our VMs, we want to enable swap and disable
Linux memory overcommit. Alongside these, we should set postgres'
dynamic_shared_memory_type to mmap, but we want to avoid setting it to
mmap if swap is not enabled.
Implementing this in the control plane would be fiddly, but it's
relatively straightforward to add to compute_ctl.
Manual testing of the changes in #7160 revealed that, if the
thread-local destructor ever runs (it apparently doesn't in our test
suite runs, otherwise #7160 would not have auto-merged), we can
encounter an `abort()` due to a double-panic in the tracing code.
This github comment here contains the stack trace:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7160#issuecomment-2003778176
This PR reverts #7160 and uses a atomic counter to identify the
thread-local in log messages, instead of the memory address of the
thread local, which may be re-used.
The PR #7141 added log message
```
ThreadLocalState is being dropped and id might be re-used in the future
```
which was supposed to be emitted when the thread-local is destroyed.
Instead, it was emitted on _each_ call to `thread_local_system()`,
ie.., on each tokio-epoll-uring operation.
## Problem
Previously we always wrote out both legacy and modern tenant config
files. The legacy write enabled rollbacks, but we are long past the
point where that is needed.
We still need the legacy format for situations where someone is running
tenants without generations (that will be yanked as well eventually),
but we can avoid writing it out at all if we do have a generation number
set. We implicitly also avoid writing the legacy config if our mode is
Secondary (secondary mode is newer than generations).
## Summary of changes
- Make writing legacy tenant config conditional on there being no
generation number set.
## Problem
In a recent refactor, we accidentally dropped the cancel session early
## Summary of changes
Hold the cancel session during proxy passthrough
## Problem
Not really a problem, just refactoring.
## Summary of changes
Separate authenticate from wake compute.
Do not call wake compute second time if we managed to connect to
postgres or if we got it not from cache.
## Problem
hard to see where time is taken during HTTP flow.
## Summary of changes
add a lot more for query state. add a conn_id field to the sql-over-http
span
## Problem
`tokio::io::copy_bidirectional` doesn't close the connection once one of
the sides closes it. It's not really suitable for the postgres protocol.
## Summary of changes
Fork `copy_bidirectional` and initiate a shutdown for both connections.
---------
Co-authored-by: Conrad Ludgate <conradludgate@gmail.com>
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).
## Problem
When a tenant is in Attaching state, and waiting for the
`concurrent_tenant_warmup` semaphore, it also listens for the tenant
cancellation token. When that token fires, Tenant::attach drops out.
Meanwhile, Tenant::set_stopping waits forever for the tenant to exit
Attaching state.
Fixes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6423
## Summary of changes
- In the absence of a valid state for the tenant, it is set to Broken in
this path. A more elegant solution will require more refactoring, beyond
this minimal fix.
(cherry picked from commit 93572a3e99)
Before this patch, the select! still retured immediately if `futs` was
empty. Must have tested a stale build in my manual testing of #6388.
(cherry picked from commit 15c0df4de7)
To exercise MAX_SEND_SIZE sending from safekeeper; we've had a bug with WAL
records torn across several XLogData messages. Add failpoint to safekeeper to
slow down sending. Also check for corrupted WAL complains in standby log.
Make the test a bit simpler in passing, e.g. we don't need explicit commits as
autocommit is enabled by default.
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C05L7D1JAUS/p1703774799114719https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/9057
Otherwise they are left orphaned when compute_ctl is terminated with a
signal. It was invisible most of the time because normally neon_local or k8s
kills postgres directly and then compute_ctl finishes gracefully. However, in
some tests compute_ctl gets stuck waiting for sync-safekeepers which
intentionally never ends because safekeepers are offline, and we want to stop
compute_ctl without leaving orphanes behind.
This is a quite rough approach which doesn't wait for children termination. A
better way would be to convert compute_ctl to async which would make waiting
easy.
Release 2023-12-19
We need to do a config change that requires restarting the pageservers.
Slip in two metrics-related commits that didn't make this week's regularly release.
Pre-merge `git merge --squash` of
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6115
Lowering the tracing level in get_value_reconstruct_data and
get_or_maybe_download from info to debug reduces the overhead
of span creation in non-debug environments.
## Problem
#6112 added some logs and metrics: clean these up a bit:
- Avoid counting startup completions for tenants launched after startup
- exclude no-op cases from timing histograms
- remove a rogue log messages
Error indicating request cancellation OR timeline shutdown was deemed as
a reason to exit the background worker that calculated synthetic size.
Fix it to only be considered for avoiding logging such of such errors.
This conflicted on tenant_shard_id having already replaced tenant_id on
`main`.
```
could not start the compute node: compute is in state "failed": db error: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/timescaledb-2.10.1": No such file or directory Caused by: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/timescaledb-2.10.1": No such file or directory
```
Only applicable change was neondatabase/autoscaling#584, setting
pgbouncer auth_dbname=postgres in order to fix superuser connections
from preventing dropping databases.
Only applicable change was neondatabase/autoscaling#571, removing the
postgres_exporter flags `--auto-discover-databases` and
`--exclude-databases=...`
## Problem
Logical replication requires new AUX_FILES_KEY which is definitely
absent in existed database.
We do not have function to check if key exists in our KV storage.
So I have to handle the error in `list_aux_files` method.
But this key is also included in key space range and accessed y
`create_image_layer` method.
## Summary of changes
Check if AUX_FILES_KEY exists before including it in keyspace.
---------
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Shany Pozin <shany@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes an issue we observed on staging that happens when the
autoscaler-agent attempts to immediately downscale the VM after binding,
which is typical for pooled computes.
The issue was occurring because the autoscaler-agent was requesting
downscaling before the vm-monitor had gathered sufficient cgroup memory
stats to be confident in approving it. When the vm-monitor returned an
internal error instead of denying downscaling, the autoscaler-agent
retried the connection and immediately hit the same issue (in part
because cgroup stats are collected per-connection, rather than
globally).
There's currently an issue with the vm-monitor on staging that's not
really feasible to debug because the current display impl gives no
context to the errors (just says "failed to downscale").
Logging the full error should help.
For communications with the autoscaler-agent, it's ok to only provide
the outermost cause, because we can cross-reference with the VM logs.
At some point in the future, we may want to change that.
tl;dr it's really hard to avoid throttling from memory.high, and it
counts tmpfs & page cache usage, so it's also hard to make sense of.
In the interest of fixing things quickly with something that should be
*good enough*, this PR switches to instead periodically fetch memory
statistics from the cgroup's memory.stat and use that data to determine
if and when we should upscale.
This PR fixes#5444, which has a lot more detail on the difficulties
we've hit with memory.high. This PR also supersedes #5488.
Before this PR, when we restarted pageserver, we'd see a rush of
`$number_of_tenants` concurrent eviction tasks starting to do imitate
accesses building up in the period of `[init_order allows activations,
$random_access_delay + EvictionPolicyLayerAccessThreshold::period]`.
We simply cannot handle that degree of concurrent IO.
We already solved the problem for compactions by adding a semaphore.
So, this PR shares that semaphore for use by evictions.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5479
Which is again part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4743
Risks / Changes In System Behavior
==================================
* we don't do evictions as timely as we currently do
* we log a bunch of warnings about eviction taking too long
* imitate accesses and compactions compete for the same concurrency
limit, so, they'll slow each other down through this shares semaphore
Changes
=======
- Move the `CONCURRENT_COMPACTIONS` semaphore into `tasks.rs`
- Rename it to `CONCURRENT_BACKGROUND_TASKS`
- Use it also for the eviction imitate accesses:
- Imitate acceses are both per-TIMELINE and per-TENANT
- The per-TENANT is done through coalescing all the per-TIMELINE
tasks via a tokio mutex `eviction_task_tenant_state`.
- We acquire the CONCURRENT_BACKGROUND_TASKS permit early, at the
beginning of the eviction iteration, much before the imitate
acesses start (and they may not even start at all in the given
iteration, as they happen only every $threshold).
- Acquiring early is **sub-optimal** because when the per-timline
tasks coalesce on the `eviction_task_tenant_state` mutex,
they are already holding a CONCURRENT_BACKGROUND_TASKS permit.
- It's also unfair because tenants with many timelines win
the CONCURRENT_BACKGROUND_TASKS more often.
- I don't think there's another way though, without refactoring
more of the imitate accesses logic, e.g, making it all per-tenant.
- Add metrics for queue depth behind the semaphore.
I found these very useful to understand what work is queued in the
system.
- The metrics are tagged by the new `BackgroundLoopKind`.
- On a green slate, I would have used `TaskKind`, but we already had
pre-existing labels whose names didn't map exactly to task kind.
Also the task kind is kind of a lower-level detail, so, I think
it's fine to have a separate enum to identify background work kinds.
Future Work
===========
I guess I could move the eviction tasks from a ticker to "sleep for
$period".
The benefit would be that the semaphore automatically "smears" the
eviction task scheduling over time, so, we only have the rush on restart
but a smeared-out rush afterward.
The downside is that this perverts the meaning of "$period", as we'd
actually not run the eviction at a fixed period. It also means the the
"took to long" warning & metric becomes meaningless.
Then again, that is already the case for the compaction and gc tasks,
which do sleep for `$period` instead of using a ticker.
(cherry picked from commit 9256788273)
## Problem
Folks have re-taged releases for `pg_jsonschema` and `pg_graphql` (to
increase timeouts on their CI), for us, these are a noop changes,
but unfortunately, this will cause our builds to fail due to checksums
mismatch (this might not strike right away because of the build cache).
- 8ba7c7be9d
- aa7509370a
## Summary of changes
- `pg_jsonschema` update checksum
- `pg_graphql` update checksum
When you log more than a few blocks, you need to reserve the space in
advance. We didn't do that, so we got errors. Now we do that, and
shouldn't get errors.
## Problem
See https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C05L7D1JAUS/p1694614585955029https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/Duplicate-key-issue-651627ce843c45188fbdcb2d30fd2178
## Summary of changes
Swap old/new block references
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---------
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
The sequence that can lead to a deadlock:
1. DELETE request gets all the way to `tenant.shutdown(progress,
false).await.is_err() ` , while holding TENANTS.read()
2. POST request for tenant creation comes in, calls `tenant_map_insert`,
it does `let mut guard = TENANTS.write().await;`
3. Something that `tenant.shutdown()` needs to wait for needs a
`TENANTS.read().await`.
The only case identified in exhaustive manual scanning of the code base
is this one:
Imitate size access does `get_tenant().await`, which does
`TENANTS.read().await` under the hood.
In the above case (1) waits for (3), (3)'s read-lock request is queued
behind (2)'s write-lock, and (2) waits for (1).
Deadlock.
I made a reproducer/proof-that-above-hypothesis-holds in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/5281 , but, it's not ready for
merge yet and we want the fix _now_.
fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5284
## Problem
We were returning Pending when a connection had a notice/notification
(introduced recently in #5020). When returning pending, the runtime
assumes you will call `cx.waker().wake()` in order to continue
processing.
We weren't doing that, so the connection task would get stuck
## Summary of changes
Don't return pending. Loop instead
## Problem
cargo deny lint broken
Links to the CVEs:
[rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0052](https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0052)
[rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0053](https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0053)
One is fixed, the other one isn't so we allow it (for now), to unbreak
CI. Then later we'll try to get rid of webpki in favour of the rustls
fork.
## Summary of changes
```
+ignore = ["RUSTSEC-2023-0052"]
```
## Problem
When an endpoint is shutting down, it can take a few seconds. Currently
when starting a new compute, this causes an "endpoint is in transition"
error. We need to add delays before retrying to ensure that we allow
time for the endpoint to shutdown properly.
## Summary of changes
Adds a delay before retrying in auth. connect_to_compute already has
this delay
commit
commit 5f8fd640bf
Author: Alek Westover <alek.westover@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 08:24:03 2023 -0400
Upload Test Remote Extensions (#4792)
switched to using the release tag instead of `latest`, but,
the `promote-images` job only uploads `latest` to the prod ECR.
The switch to using release tag was good in principle, but,
reverting that part to make the release pipeine work.
Note that a proper fix should abandon use of `:latest` tag
at all: currently, if a `main` pipeline runs concurrently
with a `release` pipeline, the `release` pipeline may end
up using the `main` pipeline's images.
## Problem
If we fail to wake up the compute node, a subsequent connect attempt
will definitely fail. However, kubernetes won't fail the connection
immediately, instead it hangs until we timeout (10s).
## Summary of changes
Refactor the loop to allow fast retries of compute_wake and to skip a
connect attempt.
## Problem
#4598 compute nodes are not accessible some time after wake up due to
kubernetes DNS not being fully propagated.
## Summary of changes
Update connect retry mechanism to support handling IO errors and
sleeping for 100ms
## Checklist before requesting a review
- [x] 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.
```
CREATE EXTENSION embedding;
CREATE TABLE t (val real[]);
INSERT INTO t (val) VALUES ('{0,0,0}'), ('{1,2,3}'), ('{1,1,1}'), (NULL);
CREATE INDEX ON t USING hnsw (val) WITH (maxelements = 10, dims=3, m=3);
INSERT INTO t (val) VALUES (array[1,2,4]);
SELECT * FROM t ORDER BY val <-> array[3,3,3];
val
---------
{1,2,3}
{1,2,4}
{1,1,1}
{0,0,0}
(5 rows)
```
The consumption metrics synthetic size worker does logical size calculation.
Logical size calculation currently does synchronous disk IO.
This blocks the MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME's executor threads, starving other futures.
While there's work on the way to move the synchronous disk IO into spawn_blocking,
the quickfix here is to use the BACKGROUND_RUNTIME instead of MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME.
Actually it's not just a quickfix. We simply shouldn't be blocking MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME
executor threads on CPU or sync disk IO.
That work isn't done yet, as many of the mgmt tasks still _do_ disk IO.
But it's not as intensive as the logical size calculations that we're fixing here.
While we're at it, fix disk-usage-based eviction in a similar way.
It wasn't the culprit here, according to prod logs, but it can theoretically be
a little CPU-intensive.
More context, including graphs from Prod:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C03F5SM1N02/p1687541681336949
(cherry picked from commit d6e35222ea)
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.
## Problem
Compatibility tests don't support Postgres 15 yet, but we're still
trying to upload compatibility snapshot (which we do not collect).
Ref
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/actions/runs/4991394158/jobs/8940369368#step:4:38129
## Summary of changes
Add `pg_version` parameter to `run-python-test-set` actions and do not
upload compatibility snapshot for Postgres 15
This reverts commit 732acc5.
Reverted PR: #3869
As noted in PR #4094, we do in fact try to insert duplicates to the
layer map, if L0->L1 compaction is interrupted. We do not have a proper
fix for that right now, and we are in a hurry to make a release to
production, so revert the changes related to this to the state that we
have in production currently. We know that we have a bug here, but
better to live with the bug that we've had in production for a long
time, than rush a fix to production without testing it in staging first.
Cc: #4094, #4088
Otherwise they get lost. Normally buffer is empty before proxy pass, but this is
not the case with pipeline mode of out npm driver; fixes connection hangup
introduced by b80fe41af3 for it.
fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3822
## Describe your changes
We have previously changed the neon-proxy to use RollingUpdate. This
should be enabled in legacy proxy too in order to avoid breaking
connections for the clients and allow for example backups to run even
during deployment. (https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3683)
## Issue ticket number and link
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3333
## Describe your changes
Rebase vendored PostgreSQL onto 14.7 and 15.2
## Issue ticket number and link
#3579
## Checklist before requesting a review
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my code.
- [x] 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?
- [x] If this PR requires public announcement, mark it with
/release-notes label and add several sentences in this section.
```
The version of PostgreSQL that we use is updated to 14.7 for PostgreSQL
14 and 15.2 for PostgreSQL 15.
```
previously we applied the ratelimiting only up to receiving the headers
from s3, or somewhere near it. the commit adds an adapter which carries
the permit until the AsyncRead has been disposed.
fixes#3662.
Calculation of logical size is now async because of layer downloads, so
we shouldn't use spawn_blocking for it. Use of `spawn_blocking`
exhausted resources which are needed by `tokio::io::copy` when copying
from a stream to a file which lead to deadlock.
Fixes: #3657
these are happening in tests because of #3655 but they sure took some
time to appear.
makes the `Compaction failed, retrying in 2s: Cannot run compaction
iteration on inactive tenant` into a globally allowed error, because it
has been seen failing on different test cases.
Small changes, but hopefully this will help with the panic detected in
staging, for which we cannot get the debugging information right now
(end-of-branch before branch-point).
Before only the timelines which have passed the `gc_horizon` were
processed which failed with orphans at the tree_sort phase. Example
input in added `test_branched_empty_timeline_size` test case.
The PR changes iteration to happen through all timelines, and in
addition to that, any learned branch points will be calculated as they
would had been in the original implementation if the ancestor branch had
been over the `gc_horizon`.
This also changes how tenants where all timelines are below `gc_horizon`
are handled. Previously tenant_size 0 was returned, but now they will
have approximately `initdb_lsn` worth of tenant_size.
The PR also adds several new tenant size tests that describe various corner
cases of branching structure and `gc_horizon` setting.
They are currently disabled to not consume time during CI.
Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@neon.tech>
Previously, we were trying to re-assign owned objects of the already
deleted role. This were causing a crash loop in the case when compute
was restarted with a spec that includes delta operation for role
deletion. To avoid such cases, check that role is still present before
calling `reassign_owned_objects`.
Resolvesneondatabase/cloud#3553
This reverts commit 826e89b9ce.
The problem with that commit was that it deletes the TempDir while
there are still EphemeralFile instances open.
At first I thought this could be fixed by simply adding
Handle::current().block_on(task_mgr::shutdown(None, Some(tenant_id), None))
to TenantHarness::drop, but it turned out to be insufficient.
So, reverting the commit until we find a proper solution.
refs https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3385
Refactors Compute::prepare_and_run. It's split into subroutines
differently, to make it easier to attach tracing spans to the
different stages. The high-level logic for waiting for Postgres to
exit is moved to the caller.
Replace 'env_logger' with 'tracing', and add `#instrument` directives
to different stages fo the startup process. This is a fairly
mechanical change, except for the changes in 'spec.rs'. 'spec.rs'
contained some complicated formatting, where parts of log messages
were printed directly to stdout with `print`s. That was a bit messed
up because the log normally goes to stderr, but those lines were
printed to stdout. In our docker images, stderr and stdout both go to
the same place so you wouldn't notice, but I don't think it was
intentional.
This changes the log format to the default
'tracing_subscriber::format' format. It's different from the Postgres
log format, however, and because both compute_tools and Postgres print
to the same log, it's now a mix of two different formats. I'm not
sure how the Grafana log parsing pipeline can handle that. If it's a
problem, we can build custom formatter to change the compute_tools log
format to be the same as Postgres's, like it was before this commit,
or we can change the Postgres log format to match tracing_formatter's,
or we can start printing compute_tool's log output to a different
destination than Postgres
IMDSv2 has limits, and if we query it on every s3 interaction we are
going to go over those limits. Changes the s3_bucket client
configuration to use:
- ChainCredentialsProvider to handle env variables or imds usage
- LazyCachingCredentialsProvider to actually cache any credentials
Related: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-rust/issues/629
Possibly related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3118
plv8 can only be built with a fairly new gold linker version. We used to install
it via binutils packages from testing, but it also updates libc and that causes
troubles in the resulting image as different extensions were built against
different libc versions. We could either use libc from debian-testing everywhere
or restrain from using testing packages and install necessary programs manually.
This patch uses the latter approach: gold for plv8 and cmake for h3 are
installed manually.
In a passing declare h3_postgis as a safe extension (previous omission).
`GRANT CREATE ON SCHEMA public` fails if there is no schema `public`.
Disable it in release for now and make a better fix later (it is
needed for v15 support).
* Check for entire range during sasl validation (#2281)
* Gen2 GH runner (#2128)
* Re-add rustup override
* Try s3 bucket
* Set git version
* Use v4 cache key to prevent problems
* Switch to v5 for key
* Add second rustup fix
* Rebase
* Add kaniko steps
* Fix typo and set compress level
* Disable global run default
* Specify shell for step
* Change approach with kaniko
* Try less verbose shell spec
* Add submodule pull
* Add promote step
* Adjust dependency chain
* Try default swap again
* Use env
* Don't override aws key
* Make kaniko build conditional
* Specify runs on
* Try without dependency link
* Try soft fail
* Use image with git
* Try passing to next step
* Fix duplicate
* Try other approach
* Try other approach
* Fix typo
* Try other syntax
* Set env
* Adjust setup
* Try step 1
* Add link
* Try global env
* Fix mistake
* Debug
* Try other syntax
* Try other approach
* Change order
* Move output one step down
* Put output up one level
* Try other syntax
* Skip build
* Try output
* Re-enable build
* Try other syntax
* Skip middle step
* Update check
* Try first step of dockerhub push
* Update needs dependency
* Try explicit dir
* Add missing package
* Try other approach
* Try other approach
* Specify region
* Use with
* Try other approach
* Add debug
* Try other approach
* Set region
* Follow AWS example
* Try github approach
* Skip Qemu
* Try stdin
* Missing steps
* Add missing close
* Add echo debug
* Try v2 endpoint
* Use v1 endpoint
* Try without quotes
* Revert
* Try crane
* Add debug
* Split steps
* Fix duplicate
* Add shell step
* Conform to options
* Add verbose flag
* Try single step
* Try workaround
* First request fails hunch
* Try bullseye image
* Try other approach
* Adjust verbose level
* Try previous step
* Add more debug
* Remove debug step
* Remove rogue indent
* Try with larger image
* Add build tag step
* Update workflow for testing
* Add tag step for test
* Remove unused
* Update dependency chain
* Add ownership fix
* Use matrix for promote
* Force update
* Force build
* Remove unused
* Add new image
* Add missing argument
* Update dockerfile copy
* Update Dockerfile
* Update clone
* Update dockerfile
* Go to correct folder
* Use correct format
* Update dockerfile
* Remove cd
* Debug find where we are
* Add debug on first step
* Changedir to postgres
* Set workdir
* Use v1 approach
* Use other dependency
* Try other approach
* Try other approach
* Update dockerfile
* Update approach
* Update dockerfile
* Update approach
* Update dockerfile
* Update dockerfile
* Add workspace hack
* Update Dockerfile
* Update Dockerfile
* Update Dockerfile
* Change last step
* Cleanup pull in prep for review
* Force build images
* Add condition for latest tagging
* Use pinned version
* Try without name value
* Remove more names
* Shorten names
* Add kaniko comments
* Pin kaniko
* Pin crane and ecr helper
* Up one level
* Switch to pinned tag for rust image
* Force update for test
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* Add missing step output, revert one deploy step (#2285)
* Add missing step output, revert one deploy step
* Conform to syntax
* Update approach
* Add missing value
* Add missing needs
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* Error for fatal not git repo (#2286)
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* Use main, not branch for ref check (#2288)
* Use main, not branch for ref check
* Add more debug
* Count main, not head
* Try new approach
* Conform to syntax
* Update approach
* Get full history
* Skip checkout
* Cleanup debug
* Remove more debug
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* Fix docker zombie process issue (#2289)
* Fix docker zombie process issue
* Init everywhere
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* Fix 1.63 clippy lints (#2282)
* split out timeline metrics, track layer map loading and size calculation
* reset rust cache for clippy run to avoid an ICE
additionally remove trailing whitespaces
* Rename pg_control_ffi.h to bindgen_deps.h, for clarity.
The pg_control_ffi.h name implies that it only includes stuff related to
pg_control.h. That's mostly true currently, but really the point of the
file is to include everything that we need to generate Rust definitions
from.
* Make local mypy behave like CI mypy (#2291)
* Fix flaky pageserver restarts in tests (#2261)
* Remove extra type aliases (#2280)
* Update cachepot endpoint (#2290)
* Update cachepot endpoint
* Update dockerfile & remove env
* Update image building process
* Cannot use metadata endpoint for this
* Update workflow
* Conform to kaniko syntax
* Update syntax
* Update approach
* Update dockerfiles
* Force update
* Update dockerfiles
* Update dockerfile
* Cleanup dockerfiles
* Update s3 test location
* Revert s3 experiment
* Add more debug
* Specify aws region
* Remove debug, add prefix
* Remove one more debug
Co-authored-by: Rory de Zoete <rdezoete@RorysMacStudio.fritz.box>
* workflows/benchmarking: increase timeout (#2294)
* Rework `init` in pageserver CLI (#2272)
* Do not create initial tenant and timeline (adjust Python tests for that)
* Rework config handling during init, add --update-config to manage local config updates
* Fix: Always build images (#2296)
* Always build images
* Remove unused
Co-authored-by: Rory de Zoete <rdezoete@RorysMacStudio.fritz.box>
* Move auto-generated 'bindings' to a separate inner module.
Re-export only things that are used by other modules.
In the future, I'm imagining that we run bindgen twice, for Postgres
v14 and v15. The two sets of bindings would go into separate
'bindings_v14' and 'bindings_v15' modules.
Rearrange postgres_ffi modules.
Move function, to avoid Postgres version dependency in timelines.rs
Move function to generate a logical-message WAL record to postgres_ffi.
* fix cargo test
* Fix walreceiver and safekeeper bugs (#2295)
- There was an issue with zero commit_lsn `reason: LaggingWal { current_commit_lsn: 0/0, new_commit_lsn: 1/6FD90D38, threshold: 10485760 } }`. The problem was in `send_wal.rs`, where we initialized `end_pos = Lsn(0)` and in some cases sent it to the pageserver.
- IDENTIFY_SYSTEM previously returned `flush_lsn` as a physical end of WAL. Now it returns `flush_lsn` (as it was) to walproposer and `commit_lsn` to everyone else including pageserver.
- There was an issue with backoff where connection was cancelled right after initialization: `connected!` -> `safekeeper_handle_db: Connection cancelled` -> `Backoff: waiting 3 seconds`. The problem was in sleeping before establishing the connection. This is fixed by reworking retry logic.
- There was an issue with getting `NoKeepAlives` reason in a loop. The issue is probably the same as the previous.
- There was an issue with filtering safekeepers based on retry attempts, which could filter some safekeepers indefinetely. This is fixed by using retry cooldown duration instead of retry attempts.
- Some `send_wal.rs` connections failed with errors without context. This is fixed by adding a timeline to safekeepers errors.
New retry logic works like this:
- Every candidate has a `next_retry_at` timestamp and is not considered for connection until that moment
- When walreceiver connection is closed, we update `next_retry_at` using exponential backoff, increasing the cooldown on every disconnect.
- When `last_record_lsn` was advanced using the WAL from the safekeeper, we reset the retry cooldown and exponential backoff, allowing walreceiver to reconnect to the same safekeeper instantly.
* on safekeeper registration pass availability zone param (#2292)
Co-authored-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Rory de Zoete <33318916+zoete@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Dmitry Rodionov <dmitry@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: bojanserafimov <bojan.serafimov7@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Anton Galitsyn <agalitsyn@users.noreply.github.com>
* github/workflows: Fix git dubious ownership (#2223)
* Move relation size cache from WalIngest to DatadirTimeline (#2094)
* Move relation sie cache to layered timeline
* Fix obtaining current LSN for relation size cache
* Resolve merge conflicts
* Resolve merge conflicts
* Reestore 'lsn' field in DatadirModification
* adjust DatadirModification lsn in ingest_record
* Fix formatting
* Pass lsn to get_relsize
* Fix merge conflict
* Update pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@zenith.tech>
* Update pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@zenith.tech>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@zenith.tech>
* refactor: replace lazy-static with once-cell (#2195)
- Replacing all the occurrences of lazy-static with `once-cell::sync::Lazy`
- fixes#1147
Signed-off-by: Ankur Srivastava <best.ankur@gmail.com>
* Add more buckets to pageserver latency metrics (#2225)
* ignore record property warning to fix benchmarks
* increase statement timeout
* use event so it fires only if workload thread successfully finished
* remove debug log
* increase timeout to pass test with real s3
* avoid duplicate parameter, increase timeout
* Major migration script (#2073)
This script can be used to migrate a tenant across breaking storage versions, or (in the future) upgrading postgres versions. See the comment at the top for an overview.
Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@neon.tech>
* Fix etcd typos
* Fix links to safekeeper protocol docs. (#2188)
safekeeper/README_PROTO.md was moved to docs/safekeeper-protocol.md in
commit 0b14fdb078, as part of reorganizing the docs into 'mdbook' format.
Fixes issue #1475. Thanks to @banks for spotting the outdated references.
In addition to fixing the above issue, this patch also fixes other broken links as a result of 0b14fdb078. See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2188#pullrequestreview-1055918480.
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Thang Pham <thang@neon.tech>
* Update CONTRIBUTING.md
* Update CONTRIBUTING.md
* support node id and remote storage params in docker_entrypoint.sh
* Safe truncate (#2218)
* Move relation sie cache to layered timeline
* Fix obtaining current LSN for relation size cache
* Resolve merge conflicts
* Resolve merge conflicts
* Reestore 'lsn' field in DatadirModification
* adjust DatadirModification lsn in ingest_record
* Fix formatting
* Pass lsn to get_relsize
* Fix merge conflict
* Update pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@zenith.tech>
* Update pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@zenith.tech>
* Check if relation exists before trying to truncat it
refer #1932
* Add test reporducing FSM truncate problem
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@zenith.tech>
* Fix exponential backoff values
* Update back `vendor/postgres` back; it was changed accidentally. (#2251)
Commit 4227cfc96e accidentally reverted vendor/postgres to an older
version. Update it back.
* Add pageserver checkpoint_timeout option.
To flush inmemory layer eventually when no new data arrives, which helps
safekeepers to suspend activity (stop pushing to the broker). Default 10m should
be ok.
* Share exponential backoff code and fix logic for delete task failure (#2252)
* Fix bug when import large (>1GB) relations (#2172)
Resolves#2097
- use timeline modification's `lsn` and timeline's `last_record_lsn` to determine the corresponding LSN to query data in `DatadirModification::get`
- update `test_import_from_pageserver`. Split the test into 2 variants: `small` and `multisegment`.
+ `small` is the old test
+ `multisegment` is to simulate #2097 by using a larger number of inserted rows to create multiple segment files of a relation. `multisegment` is configured to only run with a `release` build
* Fix timeline physical size flaky tests (#2244)
Resolves#2212.
- use `wait_for_last_flush_lsn` in `test_timeline_physical_size_*` tests
## Context
Need to wait for the pageserver to catch up with the compute's last flush LSN because during the timeline physical size API call, it's possible that there are running `LayerFlushThread` threads. These threads flush new layers into disk and hence update the physical size. This results in a mismatch between the physical size reported by the API and the actual physical size on disk.
### Note
The `LayerFlushThread` threads are processed **concurrently**, so it's possible that the above error still persists even with this patch. However, making the tests wait to finish processing all the WALs (not flushing) before calculating the physical size should help reduce the "flakiness" significantly
* postgres_ffi/waldecoder: validate more header fields
* postgres_ffi/waldecoder: remove unused startlsn
* postgres_ffi/waldecoder: introduce explicit `enum State`
Previously it was emulated with a combination of nullable fields.
This change should make the logic more readable.
* disable `test_import_from_pageserver_multisegment` (#2258)
This test failed consistently on `main` now. It's better to temporarily disable it to avoid blocking others' PRs while investigating the root cause for the test failure.
See: #2255, #2256
* get_binaries uses DOCKER_TAG taken from docker image build step (#2260)
* [proxy] Rework wire format of the password hack and some errors (#2236)
The new format has a few benefits: it's shorter, simpler and
human-readable as well. We don't use base64 anymore, since
url encoding got us covered.
We also show a better error in case we couldn't parse the
payload; the users should know it's all about passing the
correct project name.
* test_runner/pg_clients: collect docker logs (#2259)
* get_binaries script fix (#2263)
* get_binaries uses DOCKER_TAG taken from docker image build step
* remove docker tag discovery at all and fix get_binaries for version variable
* Better storage sync logs (#2268)
* Find end of WAL on safekeepers using WalStreamDecoder.
We could make it inside wal_storage.rs, but taking into account that
- wal_storage.rs reading is async
- we don't need s3 here
- error handling is different; error during decoding is normal
I decided to put it separately.
Test
cargo test test_find_end_of_wal_last_crossing_segment
prepared earlier by @yeputons passes now.
Fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/544https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/2004
Supersedes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2066
* Improve walreceiver logic (#2253)
This patch makes walreceiver logic more complicated, but it should work better in most cases. Added `test_wal_lagging` to test scenarios where alive safekeepers can lag behind other alive safekeepers.
- There was a bug which looks like `etcd_info.timeline.commit_lsn > Some(self.local_timeline.get_last_record_lsn())` filtered all safekeepers in some strange cases. I removed this filter, it should probably help with #2237
- Now walreceiver_connection reports status, including commit_lsn. This allows keeping safekeeper connection even when etcd is down.
- Safekeeper connection now fails if pageserver doesn't receive safekeeper messages for some time. Usually safekeeper sends messages at least once per second.
- `LaggingWal` check now uses `commit_lsn` directly from safekeeper. This fixes the issue with often reconnects, when compute generates WAL really fast.
- `NoWalTimeout` is rewritten to trigger only when we know about the new WAL and the connected safekeeper doesn't stream any WAL. This allows setting a small `lagging_wal_timeout` because it will trigger only when we observe that the connected safekeeper has stuck.
* increase timeout in wait_for_upload to avoid spurious failures when testing with real s3
* Bump vendor/postgres to include XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD fix. (#2274)
* Set up a workflow to run pgbench against captest (#2077)
Signed-off-by: Ankur Srivastava <best.ankur@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
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[HOTFIX] Release deploy fix
This PR uses this branch neondatabase/postgres#171 and several required commits from the main to use only locally built compute-tools. This should allow us to rollout safekeepers sync issue fix on prod
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In this RFC, we will describe how we will implement per-tenant feature flags.
## PostHog as Feature Flag Service
Before we start, let's talk about how current feature flag services work. PostHog is the feature flag service we are currently using across multiple user-facing components in the company. PostHog has two modes of operation: HTTP evaluation and server-side local evaluation.
Let's assume we have a storage feature flag called gc-compaction and we want to roll it out to scale-tier users with resident size >= 10GB and <= 100GB.
### Define User Profiles
The first step is to synchronize our user profiles to the PostHog service. We can simply assume that each tenant is a user in PostHog. Each user profile has some properties associated with it. In our case, it will be: plan type (free, scale, enterprise, etc); resident size (in bytes); primary pageserver (string); region (string).
### Define Feature Flags
We would create a feature flag called gc-compaction in PostHog with 4 variants: disabled, stage-1, stage-2, fully-enabled. We will flip the feature flags from disabled to fully-enabled stage by stage for some percentage of our users.
### Option 1: HTTP Evaluation Mode
When using PostHog's HTTP evaluation mode, the client will make request to the PostHog service, asking for the value of a feature flag for a specific user.
* Control plane will report the plan type to PostHog each time it attaches a tenant to the storcon or when the user upgrades/downgrades. It calls the PostHog profile API to associate tenant ID with the plan type. Assume we have X active tenants and such attach or plan change event happens each week, that would be 4X profile update requests per month.
* Pageservers will report the resident size and the primary pageserver to the PostHog service. Assume we report resident size every 24 hours, that would be 30X requests per month.
* Each tenant will request the state of the feature flag every 1 hour, that's 720X requests per month.
* The Rust client would be easy to implement as we only need to call the `/decide` API on PostHog.
Using the HTTP evaluation mode we will issue 754X requests a month.
### Option 2: Local Evaluation Mode
When using PostHog's HTTP evaluation mode, the client (usually the server in a browser/server architecture) will poll the feature flag configuration every 30s (default in the Python client) from PostHog. Such configuration contains data like:
<details>
<summary>Example JSON response from the PostHog local evaluation API</summary>
```
[
{
"id": 1,
"name": "Beta Feature",
"key": "person-flag",
"is_simple_flag": True,
"active": True,
"filters": {
"groups": [
{
"properties": [
{
"key": "location",
"operator": "exact",
"value": ["Straße"],
"type": "person",
}
],
"rollout_percentage": 100,
},
{
"properties": [
{
"key": "star",
"operator": "exact",
"value": ["ſun"],
"type": "person",
}
],
"rollout_percentage": 100,
},
],
},
}
]
```
</details>
Note that the API only contains information like "under what condition => rollout percentage". The user is responsible to provide the properties required to the client for local evaluation, and the PostHog service (web UI) cannot know if a feature is enabled for the tenant or not until the client uses the `capture` API to report the result back. To control the rollout percentage, the user ID gets mapped to a float number in `[0, 1)` on a consistent hash ring. All values <= the percentage will get the feature enabled or set to the desired value.
To use the local evaluation mode, the system needs:
* Assume each pageserver will poll PostHog for the local evaluation JSON every 5 minutes (instead of the 30s default as it's too frequent). That's 8640Y per month, Y is the number of pageservers. Local evaluation requests cost 10x more than the normal decide request, so that's 86400Y request units to bill.
* Storcon needs to store the plan type in the database and pass that information to the pageserver when attaching the tenant.
* Storcon also needs to update PostHog with the active tenants, for example, when the tenant gets detached/attached. Assume each active tenant gets detached/attached every week, that would be 4X requests per month.
* We do not need to update bill type or resident size to PostHog as all these are evaluated locally.
* After each local evaluation of the feature flag, we need to call PostHog's capture event API to update the result of the evaluation that the feature is enabled. We can do this when the flag gets changed compared with the last cached state in memory. That would be at least 4X (assume we do deployment every week so the cache gets cleared) and maybe an additional multiplifier of 10 assume we have 10 active features.
In this case, we will issue 86400Y + 40X requests per month.
Assume X = 1,000,000 and Y = 100,
| | HTTP Evaluation | Local Evaluation |
|---|---|---|
| Latency of propagating the conditions/properties for feature flag | 24 hours | available locally |
| Latency of applying the feature flag | 1 hour | 5 minutes |
| Can properties be reported from different services | Yes | No |
| Do we need to sync billing info etc to pageserver | No | Yes |
| Cost | 75400$ / month | 4864$ / month |
# Our Solution
We will use PostHog _only_ as an UI to configure the feature flags. Whether a feature is enabled or not can only be queried through storcon/pageserver instead of using the PostHog UI. (We could report it back to PostHog via `capture_event` but it costs $$$.) This allows us to ramp up the feature flag functionality fast at first. At the same time, it would also give us the option to migrate to our own solution once we want to have more properties and more complex evaluation rules in our system.
* We will create several fake users (tenants) in PostHog that contains all the properties we will use for evaluating a feature flag (i.e., resident size, billing type, pageserver id, etc.)
* We will use PostHog's local evaluation API to poll the configuration of the feature flags and evaluate them locally on each of the pageserver.
* The evaluation result will not be reported back to PostHog.
* Storcon needs to pull some information from cplane database.
* To know if a feature is currently enabled or not, we need to call the storcon/pageserver API; and we won't be able to know if a feature has been enabled on a tenant before easily: we need to look at the Grafana logs.
We only need to pay for the 86400Y local evaluation requests (that would be setting Y=0 in solution 2 => $864/month, and even less if we proxy it through storcon).
## Implementation
* Pageserver: implement a PostHog local evaluation client. The client will be shared across all tenants on the pageserver with a single API: `evaluate(tenant_id, feature_flag, properties) -> json`.
* Storcon: if we need plan type as the evaluation condition, pull it from cplane database.
* Storcon/Pageserver: implement an HTTP API `:tenant_id/feature/:feature` to retrieve the current feature flag status.
* Storcon/Pageserver: a loop to update the feature flag spec on both storcon and pageserver. Pageserver loop will only be activated if storcon does not push the specs to the pageserver.
## Difference from Tenant Config
* Feature flags can be modified by percentage, and the default config for each feature flag can be modified in UI without going through the release process.
* Feature flags are more flexible and won't be persisted anywhere and will be passed as plain JSON over the wire so that do not need to handle backward/forward compatibility as in tenant config.
* The expectation of tenant config is that once we add a flag we cannot remove it (or it will be hard to remove), but feature flags are more flexible.
# Final Implementation
* We added a new crate `posthog_lite_client` that supports local feature evaluations.
* We set up two projects "Storage (staging)" and "Storage (production)" in the PostHog console.
* Each pageserver reports 10 fake tenants to PostHog so that we can get all combinations of regions (and other properties) in the PostHog UI.
* Supported properties: AZ, neon_region, pageserver, tenant_id.
* You may use "Pageserver Feature Flags" dashboard to see the evaluation status.
* The feature flag spec is polled on storcon every 30s (in each of the region) and storcon will propagate the spec to the pageservers.
* The pageserver housekeeping loop updates the tenant-specific properties (e.g., remote size) for evaluation.
Each tenant has a `feature_resolver` object. After you add a feature flag in the PostHog console, you can retrieve it with:
```rust
// Boolean flag
self
.feature_resolver
.evaluate_boolean("flag")
.is_ok()
// Multivariate flag
self
.feature_resolver
.evaluate_multivariate("gc-comapction-strategy")
.ok();
```
The user needs to handle the case where the evaluation result is an error. This can occur in a variety of cases:
* During the pageserver start, the feature flag spec has not been retrieved.
* No condition group is matched.
* The feature flag spec contains an operand/operation not supported by the lite PostHog library.
For boolean flags, the return value is `Result<(), Error>`. `Ok(())` means the flag is evaluated to true. Otherwise,
there is either an error in evaluation or it does not match any groups.
For multivariate flags, the return value is `Result<String, Error>`. `Ok(variant)` indicates the flag is evaluated
to a variant. Otherwise, there is either an error in evaluation or it does not match any groups.
The evaluation logic is documented in the PostHog lite library. It compares the consistent hash of a flag key + tenant_id
with the rollout percentage and determines which tenant to roll out a specific feature.
Users can use the feature flag evaluation API to get the flag evaluation result of a specific tenant for debugging purposes.
This RFC describes an approach to reduce performance degradation due to missing caches after compute node restart, i.e.:
1. Rolling restart of the running instance via 'warm' replica.
2. Auto-prewarm compute caches after unplanned restart or scale-to-zero.
## Motivation
Neon currently implements several features that guarantee high uptime of compute nodes:
1. Storage high-availability (HA), i.e. each tenant shard has a secondary pageserver location, so we can quickly switch over compute to it in case of primary pageserver failure.
2. Fast compute provisioning, i.e. we have a fleet of pre-created empty computes, that are ready to serve workload, so restarting unresponsive compute is very fast.
3. Preemptive NeonVM compute provisioning in case of k8s node unavailability.
This helps us to be well-within the uptime SLO of 99.95% most of the time. Problems begin when we go up to multi-TB workloads and 32-64 CU computes.
During restart, compute loses all caches: LFC, shared buffers, file system cache. Depending on the workload, it can take a lot of time to warm up the caches,
so that performance could be degraded and might be even unacceptable for certain workloads. The latter means that although current approach works well for small to
medium workloads, we still have to do some additional work to avoid performance degradation after restart of large instances.
## Non Goals
- Details of the persistence storage for prewarm data are out of scope, there is a separate RFC for that: <https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9661>.
- Complete compute/Postgres HA setup and flow. Although it was originally in scope of this RFC, during preliminary research it appeared to be a rabbit hole, so it's worth of a separate RFC.
- Low-level implementation details for Postgres replica-to-primary promotion. There are a lot of things to think and care about: how to start walproposer, [logical replication failover](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication-failover.html), and so on, but it's worth of at least a separate one-pager design document if not RFC.
## Impacted components
Postgres, compute_ctl, Control plane, Endpoint storage for unlogged storage of compute files.
For the latter, we will need to implement a uniform abstraction layer on top of S3, ABS, etc., but
S3 is used in text interchangeably with 'endpoint storage' for simplicity.
## Proposed implementation
### compute_ctl spec changes and auto-prewarm
We are going to extend the current compute spec with the following attributes
```rust
structComputeSpec{
/// [All existing attributes]
...
/// Whether to do auto-prewarm at start or not.
/// Default to `false`.
publfc_auto_prewarm: bool
/// Interval in seconds between automatic dumps of
/// LFC state into S3. Default `None`, which means 'off'.
publfc_dump_interval_sec: Option<i32>
}
```
When `lfc_dump_interval_sec` is set to `N`, `compute_ctl` will periodically dump the LFC state
and store it in S3, so that it could be used either for auto-prewarm after restart or by replica
during the rolling restart. For enabling periodic dumping, we should consider the following value
`lfc_dump_interval_sec=300` (5 minutes), same as in the upstream's `pg_prewarm.autoprewarm_interval`.
When `lfc_auto_prewarm` is set to `true`, `compute_ctl` will start prewarming the LFC upon restart
iif some of the previous states is present in S3.
### compute_ctl API
1.`POST /store_lfc_state` -- dump LFC state using Postgres SQL interface and store result in S3.
This has to be a blocking call, i.e. it will return only after the state is stored in S3.
If there is any concurrent request in progress, we should return `429 Too Many Requests`,
and let the caller to retry.
2.`GET /dump_lfc_state` -- dump LFC state using Postgres SQL interface and return it as is
in text format suitable for the future restore/prewarm. This API is not strictly needed at
the end state, but could be useful for a faster prototyping of a complete rolling restart flow
with prewarm, as it doesn't require persistent for LFC state storage.
3.`POST /restore_lfc_state` -- restore/prewarm LFC state with request
```yaml
RestoreLFCStateRequest:
oneOf:
- type: object
required:
- lfc_state
properties:
lfc_state:
type: string
description: Raw LFC content dumped with GET `/dump_lfc_state`
- type: object
required:
- lfc_cache_key
properties:
lfc_cache_key:
type: string
description: |
endpoint_id of the source endpoint on the same branch
to use as a 'donor' for LFC content. Compute will look up
LFC content dump in S3 using this key and do prewarm.
```
where `lfc_state` and `lfc_cache_key` are mutually exclusive.
The actual prewarming will happen asynchronously, so the caller need to check the
prewarm status using the compute's standard `GET /status` API.
4. `GET /status` -- extend existing API with following attributes
```rust
struct ComputeStatusResponse {
// [All existing attributes]
...
pub prewarm_state: PrewarmState
}
/// Compute prewarm state. Will be stored in the shared Compute state
/// in compute_ctl
struct PrewarmState {
pub status: PrewarmStatus
/// Total number of pages to prewarm
pub pages_total: i64
/// Number of pages prewarmed so far
pub pages_processed: i64
/// Optional prewarm error
pub error: Option<String>
}
pub enum PrewarmStatus {
/// Prewarming was never requested on this compute
Off,
/// Prewarming was requested, but not started yet
Pending,
/// Prewarming is in progress. The caller should follow
/// `PrewarmState::progress`.
InProgress,
/// Prewarming has been successfully completed
Completed,
/// Prewarming failed. The caller should look at
/// `PrewarmState::error` for the reason.
Failed,
/// It is intended to be used by auto-prewarm if none of
/// the previous LFC states is available in S3.
/// This is a distinct state from the `Failed` because
/// technically it's not a failure and could happen if
/// compute was restart before it dumped anything into S3,
/// or just after the initial rollout of the feature.
Skipped,
}
```
5. `POST /promote` -- this is a **blocking** API call to promote compute replica into primary.
This API should be very similar to the existing `POST /configure` API, i.e. accept the
spec (primary spec, because originally compute was started as replica). It's a distinct
API method because semantics and response codes are different:
- If promotion is done successfully, it will return `200 OK`.
- If compute is already primary, the call will be no-op and `compute_ctl`
will return `412 Precondition Failed`.
- If, for some reason, second request reaches compute that is in progress of promotion,
it will respond with `429 Too Many Requests`.
- If compute hit any permanent failure during promotion `500 Internal Server Error`
will be returned.
### Control plane operations
The complete flow will be present as a sequence diagram in the next section, but here
we just want to list some important steps that have to be done by control plane during
the rolling restart via warm replica, but without much of low-level implementation details.
1. Register the 'intent' of the instance restart, but not yet interrupt any workload at
primary and also accept new connections. This may require some endpoint state machine
changes, e.g. introduction of the `pending_restart` state. Being in this state also
**mustn't prevent any other operations except restart**: suspend, live-reconfiguration
(e.g. due to notify-attach call from the storage controller), deletion.
2. Start new replica compute on the same timeline and start prewarming it. This process
may take quite a while, so the same concurrency considerations as in 1. should be applied
here as well.
3. When warm replica is ready, control plane should:
3.1. Terminate the primary compute. Starting from here, **this is a critical section**,
if anything goes off, the only option is to start the primary normally and proceed
with auto-prewarm.
3.2. Send cache invalidation message to all proxies, notifying them that all new connections
should request and wait for the new connection details. At this stage, proxy has to also
drop any existing connections to the old primary, so they didn't do stale reads.
3.3. Attach warm replica compute to the primary endpoint inside control plane metadata
database.
3.4. Promote replica to primary.
3.5. When everything is done, finalize the endpoint state to be just `active`.
### Complete rolling restart flow
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant proxy as Neon proxy
participant cplane as Control plane
participant primary as Compute (primary)
box Compute (replica)
participant ctl as compute_ctl
participant pg as Postgres
end
box Endpoint unlogged storage
participant s3proxy as Endpoint storage service
participant s3 as S3/ABS/etc.
end
cplane ->> primary: POST /store_lfc_state
primary -->> cplane: 200 OK
cplane ->> ctl: POST /restore_lfc_state
activate ctl
ctl -->> cplane: 202 Accepted
activate cplane
cplane ->> ctl: GET /status: poll prewarm status
ctl ->> s3proxy: GET /read_file
s3proxy ->> s3: read file
s3 -->> s3proxy: file content
s3proxy -->> ctl: 200 OK: file content
proxy ->> cplane: GET /proxy_wake_compute
cplane -->> proxy: 200 OK: old primary conninfo
ctl ->> pg: prewarm LFC
activate pg
pg -->> ctl: prewarm is completed
deactivate pg
ctl -->> cplane: 200 OK: prewarm is completed
deactivate ctl
deactivate cplane
cplane -->> cplane: reassign replica compute to endpoint,<br>start terminating the old primary compute
activate cplane
cplane ->> proxy: invalidate caches
proxy ->> cplane: GET /proxy_wake_compute
cplane -x primary: POST /terminate
primary -->> cplane: 200 OK
note over primary: old primary<br>compute terminated
cplane ->> ctl: POST /promote
activate ctl
ctl ->> pg: pg_ctl promote
activate pg
pg -->> ctl: done
deactivate pg
ctl -->> cplane: 200 OK
deactivate ctl
cplane -->> cplane: finalize operation
cplane -->> proxy: 200 OK: new primary conninfo
deactivate cplane
```
### Network bandwidth and prewarm speed
It's currently known that pageserver can sustain about 3000 RPS per shard for a few running computes.
Large tenants are usually split into 8 shards, so the final formula may look like this:
```text
8 shards * 3000 RPS * 8 KB =~ 190 MB/s
```
so depending on the LFC size, prewarming will take at least:
- ~5s for 1 GB
- ~50s for 10 GB
- ~5m for 100 GB
- \>1h for 1 TB
In total, one pageserver is normally capped by 30k RPS, so it obviously can't sustain many computes
doing prewarm at the same time. Later, we may need an additional mechanism for computes to throttle
the prewarming requests gracefully.
### Reliability, failure modes and corner cases
We consider following failures while implementing this RFC:
1. Compute got interrupted/crashed/restarted during prewarm. The caller -- control plane -- should
detect that and start prewarm from the beginning.
2. Control plane promotion request timed out or hit network issues. If it never reached the
compute, control plane should just repeat it. If it did reach the compute, then during
retry control plane can hit `409` as previous request triggered the promotion already.
In this case, control plane need to retry until either `200` or
permanent error `500` is returned.
3. Compute got interrupted/crashed/restarted during promotion. At restart it will ask for
a spec from control plane, and its content should signal compute to start as **primary**,
so it's expected that control plane will continue polling for certain period of time and
will discover that compute is ready to accept connections if restart is fast enough.
4. Any other unexpected failure or timeout during prewarming. This **failure mustn't be fatal**,
control plane has to report failure, terminate replica and keep primary running.
5. Any other unexpected failure or timeout during promotion. Unfortunately, at this moment
we already have the primary node stopped, so the only option is to start primary again
and proceed with auto-prewarm.
6. Any unexpected failure during auto-prewarm. This **failure mustn't be fatal**,
`compute_ctl` has to report the failure, but do not crash the compute.
7. Control plane failed to confirm that old primary has terminated. This can happen, especially
in the future HA setup. In this case, control plane has to ensure that it sent VM deletion
and pod termination requests to k8s, so long-term we do not have two running primaries
on the same timeline.
### Security implications
There are two security implications to consider:
1. Access to `compute_ctl` API. It has to be accessible from the outside of compute, so all
new API methods have to be exposed on the **external** HTTP port and **must** be authenticated
with JWT.
2. Read/write only your own LFC state data in S3. Although it's not really a security concern,
since LFC state is just a mapping of blocks present in LFC at certain moment in time;
it still has to be highly restricted, so that i) only computes on the same timeline can
read S3 state; ii) each compute can only write to the path that contains it's `endpoint_id`.
Both of this must be validated by Endpoint storage service using the JWT token provided by `compute_ctl`.
### Unresolved questions
#### Billing, metrics and monitoring
Currently, we only label computes with `endpoint_id` after attaching them to the endpoint.
In this proposal, this means that temporary replica will remain unlabelled until it's promoted
to primary. We can also hide it from users in the control plane API, but what to do with
billing and monitoring is still unclear.
We can probably mark it as 'billable' and tag with `project_id`, so it will be billed, but
not interfere in any way with the current primary monitoring.
Another thing to consider is how logs and metrics export will switch to the new compute.
It's expected that OpenTelemetry collector will auto-discover the new compute and start
scraping metrics from it.
#### Auto-prewarm
It's still an open question whether we need auto-prewarm at all. The author's gut-feeling is
that yes, we need it, but might be not for all workloads, so it could end up exposed as a
user-controllable knob on the endpoint. There are two arguments for that:
1. Auto-prewarm existing in upstream's `pg_prewarm`, _probably for a reason_.
2. There are still could be 2 flows when we cannot perform the rolling restart via the warm
replica: i) any failure or interruption during promotion; ii) wake up after scale-to-zero.
The latter might be challenged as well, i.e. one can argue that auto-prewarm may and will
compete with user-workload for storage resources. This is correct, but it might as well
reduce the time to get warm LFC and good performance.
#### Low-level details of the replica promotion
There are many things to consider here, but three items just off the top of my head:
1. How to properly start the `walproposer` inside Postgres.
2. What to do with logical replication. Currently, we do not include logical replication slots
inside basebackup, because nobody advances them at replica, so they just prevent the WAL
deletion. Yet, we do need to have them at primary after promotion. Starting with Postgres 17,
ProtocolError::Protocol(format!("unexpected message in COPY stream {:?}",msg)),
ProtocolError::Protocol(format!("unexpected message in COPY stream {msg:?}")),
))),
},
None=>Err(CopyStreamHandlerEnd::EOF),
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