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Use write_and_fsync in save_metadata
Make save_metadata async fn
2026-01-20 20:02:56 +00:00 · 2023-09-01 00:19:47 +02:00 · 2023-09-01 00:19:47 +02:00 · 2023-09-01 00:19:47 +02:00 · 2023-09-01 00:19:47 +02:00 · 2023-09-01 00:19:47 +02:00
380 changed files with 33986 additions and 12074 deletions
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ opt-level = 3
 # Turn on a small amount of optimization in Development mode.
 opt-level = 1

+[build]
+# This is only present for local builds, as it will be overridden
+# by the RUSTDOCFLAGS env var in CI.
+rustdocflags = ["-Arustdoc::private_intra_doc_links"]
+
 [alias]
 build_testing = ["build", "--features", "testing"]
 neon = ["run", "--bin", "neon_local"]
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 !pgxn/
 !proxy/
 !safekeeper/
+!s3_scrubber/
 !storage_broker/
 !trace/
 !vendor/postgres-v14/
@@ -21,4 +22,5 @@
 !workspace_hack/
 !neon_local/
 !scripts/ninstall.sh
+!scripts/combine_control_files.py
 !vm-cgconfig.conf
--- a/.github/actions/allure-report-generate/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/allure-report-generate/action.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
 name: 'Create Allure report'
 description: 'Generate Allure report from uploaded by actions/allure-report-store tests results'

+inputs:
+  store-test-results-into-db:
+    description: 'Whether to store test results into the database. TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR/TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW should be set'
+    type: boolean
+    required: false
+    default: false
+
 outputs:
+  base-url:
+    description: 'Base URL for Allure report'
+    value: ${{ steps.generate-report.outputs.base-url }}
+  base-s3-url:
+    description: 'Base S3 URL for Allure report'
+    value: ${{ steps.generate-report.outputs.base-s3-url }}
  report-url:
    description: 'Allure report URL'
    value: ${{ steps.generate-report.outputs.report-url }}
@@ -63,8 +76,8 @@ runs:
          rm -f ${ALLURE_ZIP}
        fi
      env:
-        ALLURE_VERSION: 2.22.1
-        ALLURE_ZIP_SHA256: fdc7a62d94b14c5e0bf25198ae1feded6b005fdbed864b4d3cb4e5e901720b0b
+        ALLURE_VERSION: 2.23.1
+        ALLURE_ZIP_SHA256: 11141bfe727504b3fd80c0f9801eb317407fd0ac983ebb57e671f14bac4bcd86

    # Potentially we could have several running build for the same key (for example, for the main branch), so we use improvised lock for this
    - name: Acquire lock
@@ -102,18 +115,22 @@ runs:
        REPORT_PREFIX=reports/${BRANCH_OR_PR}
        RAW_PREFIX=reports-raw/${BRANCH_OR_PR}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}

+        BASE_URL=https://${BUCKET}.s3.amazonaws.com/${REPORT_PREFIX}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}
+        BASE_S3_URL=s3://${BUCKET}/${REPORT_PREFIX}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}
+        REPORT_URL=${BASE_URL}/index.html
+        REPORT_JSON_URL=${BASE_URL}/data/suites.json
+
        # Get previously uploaded data for this run
        ZSTD_NBTHREADS=0

-        S3_FILEPATHS=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${RAW_PREFIX}/ | jq --raw-output  '.Contents[].Key')
+        S3_FILEPATHS=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${RAW_PREFIX}/ | jq --raw-output '.Contents[]?.Key')
        if [ -z "$S3_FILEPATHS" ]; then
          # There's no previously uploaded data for this $GITHUB_RUN_ID
          exit 0
        fi
-        for S3_FILEPATH in ${S3_FILEPATHS}; do
-          time aws s3 cp --only-show-errors "s3://${BUCKET}/${S3_FILEPATH}" "${WORKDIR}"

-          archive=${WORKDIR}/$(basename $S3_FILEPATH)
+        time aws s3 cp --recursive --only-show-errors "s3://${BUCKET}/${RAW_PREFIX}/" "${WORKDIR}/"
+        for archive in $(find ${WORKDIR} -name "*.tar.zst"); do
          mkdir -p ${archive%.tar.zst}
          time tar -xf ${archive} -C ${archive%.tar.zst}
          rm -f ${archive}
@@ -130,9 +147,10 @@ runs:

        # Upload a history and the final report (in this particular order to not to have duplicated history in 2 places)
        time aws s3 mv --recursive --only-show-errors "${WORKDIR}/report/history" "s3://${BUCKET}/${REPORT_PREFIX}/latest/history"
-        time aws s3 mv --recursive --only-show-errors "${WORKDIR}/report" "s3://${BUCKET}/${REPORT_PREFIX}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}"

-        REPORT_URL=https://${BUCKET}.s3.amazonaws.com/${REPORT_PREFIX}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}/index.html
+        # Use aws s3 cp (instead of aws s3 sync) to keep files from previous runs to make old URLs work,
+        # and to keep files on the host to upload them to the database
+        time aws s3 cp --recursive --only-show-errors "${WORKDIR}/report" "s3://${BUCKET}/${REPORT_PREFIX}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}"

        # Generate redirect
        cat <<EOF > ${WORKDIR}/index.html
@@ -144,8 +162,10 @@ runs:
        EOF
        time aws s3 cp --only-show-errors ${WORKDIR}/index.html "s3://${BUCKET}/${REPORT_PREFIX}/latest/index.html"

-        echo "report-url=${REPORT_URL}"                                   >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        echo "report-json-url=${REPORT_URL%/index.html}/data/suites.json" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        echo "base-url=${BASE_URL}"               >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        echo "base-s3-url=${BASE_S3_URL}"         >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        echo "report-url=${REPORT_URL}"           >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        echo "report-json-url=${REPORT_JSON_URL}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

        echo "[Allure Report](${REPORT_URL})" >> ${GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY}

@@ -159,6 +179,41 @@ runs:
          aws s3 rm "s3://${BUCKET}/${LOCK_FILE}"
        fi

+    - name: Store Allure test stat in the DB
+      if: ${{ !cancelled() && inputs.store-test-results-into-db == 'true' }}
+      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
+      env:
+        COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+        REPORT_JSON_URL: ${{ steps.generate-report.outputs.report-json-url }}
+      run: |
+        export DATABASE_URL=${REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR}
+
+        ./scripts/pysync
+
+        poetry run python3 scripts/ingest_regress_test_result.py \
+          --revision ${COMMIT_SHA} \
+          --reference ${GITHUB_REF} \
+          --build-type unified \
+          --ingest ${WORKDIR}/report/data/suites.json
+
+    - name: Store Allure test stat in the DB (new)
+      if: ${{ !cancelled() && inputs.store-test-results-into-db == 'true' }}
+      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
+      env:
+        COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+        BASE_S3_URL: ${{ steps.generate-report.outputs.base-s3-url }}
+      run: |
+        export DATABASE_URL=${REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW}
+
+        ./scripts/pysync
+
+        poetry run python3 scripts/ingest_regress_test_result-new-format.py \
+          --reference ${GITHUB_REF} \
+          --revision ${COMMIT_SHA} \
+          --run-id ${GITHUB_RUN_ID} \
+          --run-attempt ${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT} \
+          --test-cases-dir ${WORKDIR}/report/data/test-cases
+
    - name: Cleanup
      if: always()
      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
--- a/.github/actions/download/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/download/action.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ runs:
        BUCKET=neon-github-public-dev
        FILENAME=$(basename $ARCHIVE)

-        S3_KEY=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${PREFIX%$GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT} | jq -r '.Contents[].Key' | grep ${FILENAME} | sort --version-sort | tail -1 || true)
+        S3_KEY=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${PREFIX%$GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT} | jq -r '.Contents[]?.Key' | grep ${FILENAME} | sort --version-sort | tail -1 || true)
        if [ -z "${S3_KEY}" ]; then
          if [ "${SKIP_IF_DOES_NOT_EXIST}" = "true" ]; then
            echo 'SKIPPED=true' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
--- a/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
@@ -145,11 +145,23 @@ runs:

        if [ "${RERUN_FLAKY}" == "true" ]; then
          mkdir -p $TEST_OUTPUT
-          poetry run ./scripts/flaky_tests.py "${TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR}" --days 10 --output "$TEST_OUTPUT/flaky.json"
+          poetry run ./scripts/flaky_tests.py "${TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR}" \
+                                              --days 7 \
+                                              --output "$TEST_OUTPUT/flaky.json" \
+                                              --pg-version "${DEFAULT_PG_VERSION}" \
+                                              --build-type "${BUILD_TYPE}"

          EXTRA_PARAMS="--flaky-tests-json $TEST_OUTPUT/flaky.json $EXTRA_PARAMS"
        fi

+        # We use pytest-split plugin to run benchmarks in parallel on different CI runners
+        if [ "${TEST_SELECTION}" = "test_runner/performance" ] && [ "${{ inputs.build_type }}" != "remote" ]; then
+          mkdir -p $TEST_OUTPUT
+          poetry run ./scripts/benchmark_durations.py "${TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR}" --days 10 --output "$TEST_OUTPUT/benchmark_durations.json"
+
+          EXTRA_PARAMS="--durations-path $TEST_OUTPUT/benchmark_durations.json $EXTRA_PARAMS"
+        fi
+
        if [[ "${{ inputs.build_type }}" == "debug" ]]; then
          cov_prefix=(scripts/coverage "--profraw-prefix=$GITHUB_JOB" --dir=/tmp/coverage run)
        elif [[ "${{ inputs.build_type }}" == "release" ]]; then
@@ -201,4 +213,4 @@ runs:
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-store
      with:
        report-dir: /tmp/test_output/allure/results
-        unique-key: ${{ inputs.build_type }}
+        unique-key: ${{ inputs.build_type }}-${{ inputs.pg_version }}
--- a/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+name: Handle `approved-for-ci-run` label
+# This workflow helps to run CI pipeline for PRs made by external contributors (from forks).
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      # Default types that triggers a workflow ([1]):
+      # - [1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#pull_request
+      - opened
+      - synchronize
+      - reopened
+      # Types that we wand to handle in addition to keep labels tidy:
+      - closed
+      # Actual magic happens here:
+      - labeled
+
+env:
+  GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+  PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+
+jobs:
+  remove-label:
+    # Remove `approved-for-ci-run` label if the workflow is triggered by changes in a PR.
+    # The PR should be reviewed and labelled manually again.
+
+    runs-on: [ ubuntu-latest ]
+
+    if: |
+      contains(fromJSON('["opened", "synchronize", "reopened", "closed"]'), github.event.action) &&
+      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'approved-for-ci-run')
+
+    steps:
+      - run: gh pr --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" edit "${PR_NUMBER}" --remove-label "approved-for-ci-run"
+
+  create-branch:
+    # Create a local branch for an `approved-for-ci-run` labelled PR to run CI pipeline in it.
+
+    runs-on: [ ubuntu-latest ]
+
+    if: |
+      github.event.action == 'labeled' &&
+      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'approved-for-ci-run')
+
+    steps:
+      - run: gh pr --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" edit "${PR_NUMBER}" --remove-label "approved-for-ci-run"
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: main
+
+      - run: gh pr checkout "${PR_NUMBER}"
+
+      - run: git checkout -b "ci-run/pr-${PR_NUMBER}"
+
+      - run: git push --force origin "ci-run/pr-${PR_NUMBER}"
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ jobs:
      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/rust:pinned
      options: --init

-    timeout-minutes: 360 # 6h
+    # Increase timeout to 8h, default timeout is 6h
+    timeout-minutes: 480

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -321,8 +322,6 @@ jobs:
      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/rust:pinned
      options: --init

-    timeout-minutes: 360 # 6h
-
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

@@ -414,8 +413,6 @@ jobs:
      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/rust:pinned
      options: --init

-    timeout-minutes: 360 # 6h
-
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

@@ -501,8 +498,6 @@ jobs:
      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/rust:pinned
      options: --init

-    timeout-minutes: 360 # 6h
-
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ on:
    branches:
      - main
      - release
+      - ci-run/pr-*
  pull_request:

 defaults:
@@ -127,6 +128,11 @@ jobs:
      - name: Run cargo clippy (release)
        run: cargo hack --feature-powerset clippy --release $CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS

+      - name: Check documentation generation
+        run: cargo doc --workspace --no-deps --document-private-items
+        env:
+            RUSTDOCFLAGS: "-Dwarnings -Arustdoc::private_intra_doc_links"
+
      # Use `${{ !cancelled() }}` to run quck tests after the longer clippy run
      - name: Check formatting
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
@@ -155,7 +161,7 @@ jobs:
        build_type: [ debug, release ]
    env:
      BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build_type }}
-      GIT_VERSION: ${{ github.sha }}
+      GIT_VERSION: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}

    steps:
      - name: Fix git ownership
@@ -174,6 +180,27 @@ jobs:
          submodules: true
          fetch-depth: 1

+      - name: Check Postgres submodules revision
+        shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}
+        run: |
+          # This is a temporary solution to ensure that the Postgres submodules revision is correct (i.e. the updated intentionally).
+          # Eventually it will be replaced by a regression test https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/4603
+
+          FAILED=false
+          for postgres in postgres-v14 postgres-v15; do
+            expected=$(cat vendor/revisions.json | jq --raw-output '."'"${postgres}"'"')
+            actual=$(git rev-parse "HEAD:vendor/${postgres}")
+            if [ "${expected}" != "${actual}" ]; then
+              echo >&2 "Expected ${postgres} rev to be at '${expected}', but it is at '${actual}'"
+              FAILED=true
+            fi
+          done
+
+          if [ "${FAILED}" = "true" ]; then
+            echo >&2 "Please update vendors/revisions.json if these changes are intentional"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
      - name: Set pg 14 revision for caching
        id: pg_v14_rev
        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v14) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
@@ -264,7 +291,7 @@ jobs:
          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-public-dev
          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
          # Avoid `$CARGO_FEATURES` since there's no `testing` feature in the e2e tests now
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo test $CARGO_FLAGS --package remote_storage --test pagination_tests -- s3_pagination_should_work --exact
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo test $CARGO_FLAGS --package remote_storage --test test_real_s3

      - name: Install rust binaries
        run: |
@@ -369,13 +396,11 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
+        pytest_split_group: [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
        build_type: [ release ]
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-          fetch-depth: 1

      - name: Pytest benchmarks
        uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
@@ -384,9 +409,11 @@ jobs:
          test_selection: performance
          run_in_parallel: false
          save_perf_report: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' }}
+          extra_params: --splits ${{ strategy.job-total }} --group ${{ matrix.pytest_split_group }}
        env:
          VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
          PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
+          TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
      # XXX: no coverage data handling here, since benchmarks are run on release builds,
      # while coverage is currently collected for the debug ones

@@ -405,6 +432,11 @@ jobs:
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
        id: create-allure-report
        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
+        with:
+          store-test-results-into-db: true
+        env:
+          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}
+          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}

      - uses: actions/github-script@v6
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
@@ -425,25 +457,6 @@ jobs:
              report,
            })

-      - name: Store Allure test stat in the DB
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-json-url }}
-        env:
-          COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
-          REPORT_JSON_URL: ${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-json-url }}
-          TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}
-        run: |
-          ./scripts/pysync
-
-          curl --fail --output suites.json "${REPORT_JSON_URL}"
-          export BUILD_TYPE=unified
-          export DATABASE_URL="$TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR"
-
-          poetry run python3 scripts/ingest_regress_test_result.py \
-            --revision ${COMMIT_SHA} \
-            --reference ${GITHUB_REF} \
-            --build-type ${BUILD_TYPE} \
-            --ingest suites.json
-
  coverage-report:
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
    container:
@@ -614,7 +627,7 @@ jobs:
          /kaniko/executor --reproducible --snapshot-mode=redo --skip-unused-stages --cache=true
                           --cache-repo 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cache
                           --context .
-                           --build-arg GIT_VERSION=${{ github.sha }}
+                           --build-arg GIT_VERSION=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
                           --build-arg REPOSITORY=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
                           --destination 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/neon:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
                           --destination neondatabase/neon:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
@@ -623,51 +636,6 @@ jobs:
      - name: Cleanup ECR folder
        run: rm -rf ~/.ecr

-
-  neon-image-depot:
-    # For testing this will run side-by-side for a few merges.
-    # This action is not really optimized yet, but gets the job done
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, large ]
-    needs: [ tag ]
-    container: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/base:pinned
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      id-token: write
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Setup go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
-        with:
-          go-version: '1.19'
-
-      - name: Set up Depot CLI
-        uses: depot/setup-action@v1
-
-      - name: Install Crane & ECR helper
-        run: go install github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper/ecr-login/cli/docker-credential-ecr-login@69c85dc22db6511932bbf119e1a0cc5c90c69a7f # v0.6.0
-
-      - name: Configure ECR login
-        run: |
-          mkdir /github/home/.docker/
-          echo "{\"credsStore\":\"ecr-login\"}" > /github/home/.docker/config.json
-
-      - name: Build and push
-        uses: depot/build-push-action@v1
-        with:
-          # if no depot.json file is at the root of your repo, you must specify the project id
-          project: nrdv0s4kcs
-          push: true
-          tags: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/neon:depot-${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
-          build-args: |
-            GIT_VERSION=${{ github.sha }}
-            REPOSITORY=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
-
  compute-tools-image:
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, large ]
    needs: [ tag ]
@@ -703,7 +671,8 @@ jobs:
          /kaniko/executor --reproducible --snapshot-mode=redo --skip-unused-stages --cache=true
                           --cache-repo 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cache
                           --context .
-                           --build-arg GIT_VERSION=${{ github.sha }}
+                           --build-arg GIT_VERSION=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+                           --build-arg BUILD_TAG=${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
                           --build-arg REPOSITORY=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
                           --dockerfile Dockerfile.compute-tools
                           --destination 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/compute-tools:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
@@ -759,12 +728,14 @@ jobs:
          /kaniko/executor --reproducible --snapshot-mode=redo --skip-unused-stages --cache=true
                           --cache-repo 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cache
                           --context .
-                           --build-arg GIT_VERSION=${{ github.sha }}
+                           --build-arg GIT_VERSION=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
                           --build-arg PG_VERSION=${{ matrix.version }}
+                           --build-arg BUILD_TAG=${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
                           --build-arg REPOSITORY=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
                           --dockerfile Dockerfile.compute-node
                           --destination 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
                           --destination neondatabase/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
+                           --cleanup

      # Cleanup script fails otherwise - rm: cannot remove '/nvme/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_github_home/.ecr': Permission denied
      - name: Cleanup ECR folder
@@ -781,7 +752,7 @@ jobs:
      run:
        shell: sh -eu {0}
    env:
-      VM_BUILDER_VERSION: v0.8.0
+      VM_BUILDER_VERSION: v0.17.5

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
@@ -802,7 +773,11 @@ jobs:

      - name: Build vm image
        run: |
-          ./vm-builder -enable-file-cache -src=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}} -dst=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/vm-compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
+          ./vm-builder \
+            -enable-file-cache \
+            -cgroup-uid=postgres \
+            -src=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}} \
+            -dst=369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/vm-compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}

      - name: Pushing vm-compute-node image
        run: |
@@ -924,6 +899,46 @@ jobs:
      - name: Cleanup ECR folder
        run: rm -rf ~/.ecr

+  build-private-extensions:
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
+    container:
+      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/base:pinned
+      options: --init
+    needs: [ tag ]
+    steps:
+      - name: Set PR's status to pending and request a remote CI test
+        run: |
+          COMMIT_SHA=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          COMMIT_SHA=${COMMIT_SHA:-${{ github.sha }}}
+          REMOTE_REPO="${{ github.repository_owner }}/build-custom-extensions"
+
+          curl -f -X POST \
+          https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/statuses/$COMMIT_SHA \
+          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
+          --user "${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
+          --data \
+            "{
+              \"state\": \"pending\",
+              \"context\": \"build-and-upload-extensions\",
+              \"description\": \"[$REMOTE_REPO] Remote CI job is about to start\"
+            }"
+
+          curl -f -X POST \
+          https://api.github.com/repos/$REMOTE_REPO/actions/workflows/build_and_upload_extensions.yml/dispatches \
+          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
+          --user "${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
+          --data \
+            "{
+              \"ref\": \"main\",
+              \"inputs\": {
+                \"ci_job_name\": \"build-and-upload-extensions\",
+                \"commit_hash\": \"$COMMIT_SHA\",
+                \"remote_repo\": \"${{ github.repository }}\",
+                \"compute_image_tag\": \"${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}\",
+                \"remote_branch_name\": \"${{ github.ref_name }}\"
+              }
+            }"
+
  deploy:
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
    container: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ansible:latest
@@ -959,6 +974,20 @@ jobs:
            exit 1
          fi

+      - name: Create git tag
+        if: github.ref_name == 'release'
+        uses: actions/github-script@v6
+        with:
+          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
+          retries: 5
+          script: |
+            github.rest.git.createRef({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              ref: "refs/tags/${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}",
+              sha: context.sha,
+            })
+
  promote-compatibility-data:
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
    container:
@@ -987,7 +1016,7 @@ jobs:
            OLD_PREFIX=artifacts/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}
            FILENAME=neon-${{ runner.os }}-${build_type}-artifact.tar.zst

-            S3_KEY=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${OLD_PREFIX} | jq -r '.Contents[].Key' | grep ${FILENAME} | sort --version-sort | tail -1 || true)
+            S3_KEY=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${OLD_PREFIX} | jq -r '.Contents[]?.Key' | grep ${FILENAME} | sort --version-sort | tail -1 || true)
            if [ -z "${S3_KEY}" ]; then
              echo >&2 "Neither s3://${BUCKET}/${OLD_PREFIX}/${FILENAME} nor its version from previous attempts exist"
              exit 1
--- a/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ name: Check neon with extra platform builds
 on:
  push:
    branches:
-    - main
+      - main
+      - ci-run/pr-*
  pull_request:

 defaults:
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ name: Create Release Branch
 on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 10 * * 2'
+  workflow_dispatch:

 jobs:
  create_release_branch:
--- a/13
+++ b/13
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-/compute_tools/ @neondatabase/control-plane
+/compute_tools/ @neondatabase/control-plane @neondatabase/compute
 /control_plane/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/storage
 /libs/pageserver_api/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/storage
-/libs/postgres_ffi/ @neondatabase/compute 
-/libs/remote_storage/ @neondatabase/storage 
-/libs/safekeeper_api/ @neondatabase/safekeepers  
-/pageserver/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/storage 
+/libs/postgres_ffi/ @neondatabase/compute
+/libs/remote_storage/ @neondatabase/storage
+/libs/safekeeper_api/ @neondatabase/safekeepers
+/libs/vm_monitor/ @neondatabase/autoscaling @neondatabase/compute
+/pageserver/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/storage
 /pgxn/ @neondatabase/compute
-/proxy/ @neondatabase/control-plane 
+/proxy/ @neondatabase/proxy
 /safekeeper/ @neondatabase/safekeepers
 /vendor/ @neondatabase/compute
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,9 +7,24 @@ members = [
    "proxy",
    "safekeeper",
    "storage_broker",
+    "s3_scrubber",
    "workspace_hack",
    "trace",
-    "libs/*",
+    "libs/compute_api",
+    "libs/pageserver_api",
+    "libs/postgres_ffi",
+    "libs/safekeeper_api",
+    "libs/utils",
+    "libs/consumption_metrics",
+    "libs/postgres_backend",
+    "libs/pq_proto",
+    "libs/tenant_size_model",
+    "libs/metrics",
+    "libs/postgres_connection",
+    "libs/remote_storage",
+    "libs/tracing-utils",
+    "libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft",
+    "libs/vm_monitor",
 ]

 [workspace.package]
@@ -19,20 +34,23 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 ## All dependency versions, used in the project
 [workspace.dependencies]
 anyhow = { version = "1.0", features = ["backtrace"] }
+async-compression = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["tokio", "gzip"] }
+flate2 = "1.0.26"
 async-stream = "0.3"
 async-trait = "0.1"
-atty = "0.2.14"
-aws-config = { version = "0.55", default-features = false, features=["rustls"] }
-aws-sdk-s3 = "0.27"
-aws-smithy-http = "0.55"
-aws-credential-types = "0.55"
-aws-types = "0.55"
+aws-config = { version = "0.56", default-features = false, features=["rustls"] }
+aws-sdk-s3 = "0.29"
+aws-smithy-http = "0.56"
+aws-credential-types = "0.56"
+aws-types = "0.56"
+axum = { version = "0.6.20", features = ["ws"] }
 base64 = "0.13.0"
 bincode = "1.3"
 bindgen = "0.65"
 bstr = "1.0"
 byteorder = "1.4"
 bytes = "1.0"
+cfg-if = "1.0.0"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive"] }
 close_fds = "0.3.2"
@@ -40,6 +58,7 @@ comfy-table = "6.1"
 const_format = "0.2"
 crc32c = "0.6"
 crossbeam-utils = "0.8.5"
+dashmap = "5.5.0"
 either = "1.8"
 enum-map = "2.4.2"
 enumset = "1.0.12"
@@ -59,6 +78,7 @@ humantime = "2.1"
 humantime-serde = "1.1.1"
 hyper = "0.14"
 hyper-tungstenite = "0.9"
+inotify = "0.10.2"
 itertools = "0.10"
 jsonwebtoken = "8"
 libc = "0.2"
@@ -70,30 +90,34 @@ notify = "5.0.0"
 num_cpus = "1.15"
 num-traits = "0.2.15"
 once_cell = "1.13"
-opentelemetry = "0.18.0"
-opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.11.0", default_features=false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.10.0"
+opentelemetry = "0.19.0"
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.12.0", default_features=false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
+opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.11.0"
 parking_lot = "0.12"
+pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["simple", "std"] }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
 prometheus = {version = "0.13", default_features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
 prost = "0.11"
 rand = "0.8"
 regex = "1.4"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"] }
-reqwest-tracing = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["opentelemetry_0_18"] }
+reqwest-tracing = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["opentelemetry_0_19"] }
 reqwest-middleware = "0.2.0"
+reqwest-retry = "0.2.2"
 routerify = "3"
 rpds = "0.13"
-rustls = "0.20"
+rustls = "0.21"
 rustls-pemfile = "1"
 rustls-split = "0.3"
 scopeguard = "1.1"
-sentry = { version = "0.30", default-features = false, features = ["backtrace", "contexts", "panic", "rustls", "reqwest" ] }
+sysinfo = "0.29.2"
+sentry = { version = "0.31", default-features = false, features = ["backtrace", "contexts", "panic", "rustls", "reqwest" ] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 serde_with = "2.0"
 sha2 = "0.10.2"
 signal-hook = "0.3"
+smallvec = "1.11"
 socket2 = "0.5"
 strum = "0.24"
 strum_macros = "0.24"
@@ -102,24 +126,25 @@ sync_wrapper = "0.1.2"
 tar = "0.4"
 test-context = "0.1"
 thiserror = "1.0"
-tls-listener = { version = "0.6", features = ["rustls", "hyper-h1"] }
+tls-listener = { version = "0.7", features = ["rustls", "hyper-h1"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.17", features = ["macros"] }
 tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.0"
-tokio-postgres-rustls = "0.9.0"
-tokio-rustls = "0.23"
+tokio-postgres-rustls = "0.10.0"
+tokio-rustls = "0.24"
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
+tokio-tar = "0.3"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["io"] }
 toml = "0.7"
 toml_edit = "0.19"
 tonic = {version = "0.9", features = ["tls", "tls-roots"]}
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
-tracing-opentelemetry = "0.18.0"
-tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
+tracing-opentelemetry = "0.19.0"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default_features = false, features = ["smallvec", "fmt", "tracing-log", "std", "env-filter", "json"] }
 url = "2.2"
 uuid = { version = "1.2", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
 walkdir = "2.3.2"
-webpki-roots = "0.23"
+webpki-roots = "0.25"
 x509-parser = "0.15"

 ## TODO replace this with tracing
@@ -127,12 +152,11 @@ env_logger = "0.10"
 log = "0.4"

 ## Libraries from neondatabase/ git forks, ideally with changes to be upstreamed
-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="2e9b5f1ddc481d1a98fa79f6b9378ac4f170b7c9" }
-postgres-native-tls = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="2e9b5f1ddc481d1a98fa79f6b9378ac4f170b7c9" }
-postgres-protocol = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="2e9b5f1ddc481d1a98fa79f6b9378ac4f170b7c9" }
-postgres-types = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="2e9b5f1ddc481d1a98fa79f6b9378ac4f170b7c9" }
-tokio-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="2e9b5f1ddc481d1a98fa79f6b9378ac4f170b7c9" }
-tokio-tar = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/tokio-tar.git", rev="404df61437de0feef49ba2ccdbdd94eb8ad6e142" }
+postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="9011f7110db12b5e15afaf98f8ac834501d50ddc" }
+postgres-native-tls = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="9011f7110db12b5e15afaf98f8ac834501d50ddc" }
+postgres-protocol = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="9011f7110db12b5e15afaf98f8ac834501d50ddc" }
+postgres-types = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="9011f7110db12b5e15afaf98f8ac834501d50ddc" }
+tokio-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="9011f7110db12b5e15afaf98f8ac834501d50ddc" }

 ## Other git libraries
 heapless = { default-features=false, features=[], git = "https://github.com/japaric/heapless.git", rev = "644653bf3b831c6bb4963be2de24804acf5e5001" } # upstream release pending
@@ -152,14 +176,15 @@ storage_broker = { version = "0.1", path = "./storage_broker/" } # Note: main br
 tenant_size_model = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/tenant_size_model/" }
 tracing-utils = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/tracing-utils/" }
 utils = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/utils/" }
+vm_monitor = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/vm_monitor/" }

 ## Common library dependency
 workspace_hack = { version = "0.1", path = "./workspace_hack/" }

 ## Build dependencies
-criterion = "0.4"
-rcgen = "0.10"
-rstest = "0.17"
+criterion = "0.5.1"
+rcgen = "0.11"
+rstest = "0.18"
 tempfile = "3.4"
 tonic-build = "0.9"

@@ -167,12 +192,7 @@ tonic-build = "0.9"

 # This is only needed for proxy's tests.
 # TODO: we should probably fork `tokio-postgres-rustls` instead.
-tokio-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="2e9b5f1ddc481d1a98fa79f6b9378ac4f170b7c9" }
-
-# Changes the MAX_THREADS limit from 4096 to 32768.
-# This is a temporary workaround for using tracing from many threads in safekeepers code,
-# until async safekeepers patch is merged to the main.
-sharded-slab = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/sharded-slab.git", rev="98d16753ab01c61f0a028de44167307a00efea00" }
+tokio-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="9011f7110db12b5e15afaf98f8ac834501d50ddc" }

 ################# Binary contents sections

--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ RUN set -e \
      --bin safekeeper  \
      --bin storage_broker  \
      --bin proxy  \
+      --bin neon_local \
      --locked --release \
    && cachepot -s

@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/pagectl
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/safekeeper          /usr/local/bin
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/storage_broker         /usr/local/bin
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/proxy               /usr/local/bin
+COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/neon_local               /usr/local/bin

 COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v14 /usr/local/v14/
 COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v15 /usr/local/v15/
--- a/Dockerfile.compute-node
+++ b/Dockerfile.compute-node
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ARG PG_VERSION
 ARG REPOSITORY=neondatabase
 ARG IMAGE=rust
 ARG TAG=pinned
+ARG BUILD_TAG

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ FROM debian:bullseye-slim AS build-deps
 RUN apt update &&  \
    apt install -y git autoconf automake libtool build-essential bison flex libreadline-dev \
    zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libossp-uuid-dev wget pkg-config libssl-dev \
-    libicu-dev libxslt1-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev
+    libicu-dev libxslt1-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev zstd

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ RUN apt update && \
 RUN wget https://gitlab.com/Oslandia/SFCGAL/-/archive/v1.3.10/SFCGAL-v1.3.10.tar.gz -O SFCGAL.tar.gz && \
    echo "4e39b3b2adada6254a7bdba6d297bb28e1a9835a9f879b74f37e2dab70203232 SFCGAL.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir sfcgal-src && cd sfcgal-src && tar xvzf ../SFCGAL.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    cmake . && make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
+    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release . && make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    DESTDIR=/sfcgal make install -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    make clean && cp -R /sfcgal/* /

@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH"
 RUN wget https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-3.3.2.tar.gz -O postgis.tar.gz && \
    echo "9a2a219da005a1730a39d1959a1c7cec619b1efb009b65be80ffc25bad299068 postgis.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir postgis-src && cd postgis-src && tar xvzf ../postgis.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /before.txt &&\
    ./autogen.sh && \
    ./configure --with-sfcgal=/usr/local/bin/sfcgal-config && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
@@ -88,17 +90,28 @@ RUN wget https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-3.3.2.tar.gz -O postg
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder.control && \
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis_topology.control && \
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/address_standardizer.control && \
-    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/address_standardizer_data_us.control
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/address_standardizer_data_us.control && \
+    mkdir -p /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis_raster.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis_sfcgal.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/postgis_topology.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/address_standardizer.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/address_standardizer_data_us.control /extensions/postgis

 RUN wget https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/archive/v3.4.2.tar.gz -O pgrouting.tar.gz && \
    echo "cac297c07d34460887c4f3b522b35c470138760fe358e351ad1db4edb6ee306e pgrouting.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pgrouting-src && cd pgrouting-src && tar xvzf ../pgrouting.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    mkdir build && \
-    cd build && \
-    cmake .. && \
+    mkdir build && cd build && \
+    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
-    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pgrouting.control
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pgrouting.control && \
+    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /after.txt &&\
+    cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pgrouting.control /extensions/postgis && \
+    sort -o /before.txt /before.txt && sort -o /after.txt /after.txt && \
+    comm -13 /before.txt /after.txt | tar --directory=/usr/local/pgsql --zstd -cf /extensions/postgis.tar.zst -T -

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -131,10 +144,20 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/plv8/plv8/archive/refs/tags/v3.1.5.tar.gz -O plv8.ta
 FROM build-deps AS h3-pg-build
 COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/

-# packaged cmake is too old
-RUN wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.24.2/cmake-3.24.2-linux-x86_64.sh \
+RUN case "$(uname -m)" in \
+      "x86_64") \
+        export CMAKE_CHECKSUM=739d372726cb23129d57a539ce1432453448816e345e1545f6127296926b6754 \
+        ;; \
+      "aarch64") \
+        export CMAKE_CHECKSUM=281b42627c9a1beed03e29706574d04c6c53fae4994472e90985ef018dd29c02 \
+        ;; \
+      *) \
+        echo "Unsupported architecture '$(uname -m)'. Supported are x86_64 and aarch64" && exit 1 \
+        ;; \
+    esac && \
+    wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.24.2/cmake-3.24.2-linux-$(uname -m).sh \
      -q -O /tmp/cmake-install.sh \
-      && echo "739d372726cb23129d57a539ce1432453448816e345e1545f6127296926b6754 /tmp/cmake-install.sh" | sha256sum --check \
+      && echo "${CMAKE_CHECKSUM} /tmp/cmake-install.sh" | sha256sum --check \
      && chmod u+x /tmp/cmake-install.sh \
      && /tmp/cmake-install.sh --skip-license --prefix=/usr/local/ \
      && rm /tmp/cmake-install.sh
@@ -188,8 +211,8 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/df7cb/postgresql-unit/archive/refs/tags/7.7.tar.gz -
 FROM build-deps AS vector-pg-build
 COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/

-RUN wget https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/archive/refs/tags/v0.4.0.tar.gz -O pgvector.tar.gz && \
-    echo "b76cf84ddad452cc880a6c8c661d137ddd8679c000a16332f4f03ecf6e10bcc8 pgvector.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.0.tar.gz -O pgvector.tar.gz && \
+    echo "d8aa3504b215467ca528525a6de12c3f85f9891b091ce0e5864dd8a9b757f77b pgvector.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pgvector-src && cd pgvector-src && tar xvzf ../pgvector.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config && \
@@ -355,7 +378,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
    wget https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/archive/refs/tags/2.10.1.tar.gz -O timescaledb.tar.gz && \
    echo "6fca72a6ed0f6d32d2b3523951ede73dc5f9b0077b38450a029a5f411fdb8c73 timescaledb.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir timescaledb-src && cd timescaledb-src && tar xvzf ../timescaledb.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    ./bootstrap -DSEND_TELEMETRY_DEFAULT:BOOL=OFF -DUSE_TELEMETRY:BOOL=OFF -DAPACHE_ONLY:BOOL=ON && \
+    ./bootstrap -DSEND_TELEMETRY_DEFAULT:BOOL=OFF -DUSE_TELEMETRY:BOOL=OFF -DAPACHE_ONLY:BOOL=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release && \
    cd build && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    make install -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
@@ -408,12 +431,16 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
    wget https://github.com/ketteq-neon/postgres-exts/archive/e0bd1a9d9313d7120c1b9c7bb15c48c0dede4c4e.tar.gz -O kq_imcx.tar.gz && \
    echo "dc93a97ff32d152d32737ba7e196d9687041cda15e58ab31344c2f2de8855336 kq_imcx.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir kq_imcx-src && cd kq_imcx-src && tar xvzf ../kq_imcx.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    mkdir build && \
-    cd build && \
-    cmake .. && \
+    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /before.txt &&\
+    mkdir build && cd build && \
+    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
-    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/kq_imcx.control
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/kq_imcx.control && \
+    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /after.txt &&\
+    mkdir -p /extensions/kq_imcx && cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/kq_imcx.control /extensions/kq_imcx && \
+    sort -o /before.txt /before.txt && sort -o /after.txt /after.txt && \
+    comm -13 /before.txt /after.txt | tar --directory=/usr/local/pgsql --zstd -cf /extensions/kq_imcx.tar.zst -T -

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -432,6 +459,126 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron/archive/refs/tags/v1.5.2.tar.gz -O
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_cron.control

+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "rdkit-pg-build"
+# compile rdkit extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM build-deps AS rdkit-pg-build
+COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y \
+        cmake \
+        libboost-iostreams1.74-dev \
+        libboost-regex1.74-dev \
+        libboost-serialization1.74-dev \
+        libboost-system1.74-dev \
+        libeigen3-dev \
+        libfreetype6-dev
+
+ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:/usr/local/pgsql/:$PATH"
+RUN wget https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/archive/refs/tags/Release_2023_03_1.tar.gz -O rdkit.tar.gz && \
+    echo "db346afbd0ba52c843926a2a62f8a38c7b774ffab37eaf382d789a824f21996c rdkit.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir rdkit-src && cd rdkit-src && tar xvzf ../rdkit.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    cmake \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_CAIRO_SUPPORT=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_INCHI_SUPPORT=ON \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_AVALON_SUPPORT=ON \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_PYTHON_WRAPPERS=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_DESCRIPTORS3D=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_FREESASA_SUPPORT=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_COORDGEN_SUPPORT=ON \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_MOLINTERCHANGE_SUPPORT=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_YAEHMOP_SUPPORT=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_STRUCTCHECKER_SUPPORT=OFF \
+        -D RDK_USE_URF=OFF \
+        -D RDK_BUILD_PGSQL=ON \
+        -D RDK_PGSQL_STATIC=ON \
+        -D PostgreSQL_CONFIG=pg_config \
+        -D PostgreSQL_INCLUDE_DIR=`pg_config --includedir` \
+        -D PostgreSQL_TYPE_INCLUDE_DIR=`pg_config --includedir-server` \
+        -D PostgreSQL_LIBRARY_DIR=`pg_config --libdir` \
+        -D RDK_INSTALL_INTREE=OFF \
+        -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+        . && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/rdkit.control
+
+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg-uuidv7-pg-build"
+# compile pg_uuidv7 extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM build-deps AS pg-uuidv7-pg-build
+COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+
+ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:$PATH"
+RUN wget https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.1.tar.gz -O pg_uuidv7.tar.gz && \
+    echo "0d0759ab01b7fb23851ecffb0bce27822e1868a4a5819bfd276101c716637a7a pg_uuidv7.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pg_uuidv7-src && cd pg_uuidv7-src && tar xvzf ../pg_uuidv7.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_uuidv7.control
+
+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg-roaringbitmap-pg-build"
+# compile pg_roaringbitmap extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM build-deps AS pg-roaringbitmap-pg-build
+COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+
+ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:$PATH"
+RUN wget https://github.com/ChenHuajun/pg_roaringbitmap/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.4.tar.gz -O pg_roaringbitmap.tar.gz && \
+    echo "b75201efcb1c2d1b014ec4ae6a22769cc7a224e6e406a587f5784a37b6b5a2aa pg_roaringbitmap.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pg_roaringbitmap-src && cd pg_roaringbitmap-src && tar xvzf ../pg_roaringbitmap.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/roaringbitmap.control
+
+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg-embedding-pg-build"
+# compile pg_embedding extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM build-deps AS pg-embedding-pg-build
+COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+
+ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:$PATH"
+RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_embedding/archive/refs/tags/0.3.5.tar.gz -O pg_embedding.tar.gz && \
+    echo "0e95b27b8b6196e2cf0a0c9ec143fe2219b82e54c5bb4ee064e76398cbe69ae9 pg_embedding.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pg_embedding-src && cd pg_embedding-src && tar xvzf ../pg_embedding.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/embedding.control
+
+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg-anon-pg-build"
+# compile anon extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM build-deps AS pg-anon-pg-build
+COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+
+ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:$PATH"
+RUN wget https://gitlab.com/dalibo/postgresql_anonymizer/-/archive/1.1.0/postgresql_anonymizer-1.1.0.tar.gz -O pg_anon.tar.gz && \
+    echo "08b09d2ff9b962f96c60db7e6f8e79cf7253eb8772516998fc35ece08633d3ad pg_anon.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pg_anon-src && cd pg_anon-src && tar xvzf ../pg_anon.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /before.txt &&\
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config && \
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/anon.control && \
+    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /after.txt &&\
+    mkdir -p /extensions/anon && cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/anon.control /extensions/anon && \
+    sort -o /before.txt /before.txt && sort -o /after.txt /after.txt && \
+    comm -13 /before.txt /after.txt | tar --directory=/usr/local/pgsql --zstd -cf /extensions/anon.tar.zst -T -
+
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layer "rust extensions"
@@ -517,6 +664,22 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/kelvich/pg_tiktoken/archive/801f84f08c6881c8aa30f405
    cargo pgx install --release && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_tiktoken.control

+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg-pgx-ulid-build"
+# Compile "pgx_ulid" extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+
+FROM rust-extensions-build AS pg-pgx-ulid-build
+
+RUN wget https://github.com/pksunkara/pgx_ulid/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.0.tar.gz -O pgx_ulid.tar.gz && \
+    echo "908b7358e6f846e87db508ae5349fb56a88ee6305519074b12f3d5b0ff09f791 pgx_ulid.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pgx_ulid-src && cd pgx_ulid-src && tar xvzf ../pgx_ulid.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
+    sed -i 's/pgx        = "=0.7.3"/pgx = { version = "0.7.3", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    cargo pgx install --release && \
+    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/ulid.control
+
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layer "neon-pg-ext-build"
@@ -524,6 +687,7 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/kelvich/pg_tiktoken/archive/801f84f08c6881c8aa30f405
 #
 #########################################################################################
 FROM build-deps AS neon-pg-ext-build
+# Public extensions
 COPY --from=postgis-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=postgis-build /sfcgal/* /
 COPY --from=plv8-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
@@ -547,6 +711,11 @@ COPY --from=timescaledb-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg-hint-plan-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=kq-imcx-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg-cron-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+COPY --from=pg-pgx-ulid-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+COPY --from=rdkit-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+COPY --from=pg-uuidv7-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+COPY --from=pg-roaringbitmap-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+COPY --from=pg-embedding-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY pgxn/ pgxn/

 RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
@@ -556,6 +725,10 @@ RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
        PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
        -C pgxn/neon_utils \
+        -s install && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
+        PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
+        -C pgxn/hnsw \
        -s install

 #########################################################################################
@@ -564,6 +737,9 @@ RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
 #
 #########################################################################################
 FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS compute-tools
+ARG BUILD_TAG
+ENV BUILD_TAG=$BUILD_TAG
+
 USER nonroot
 # Copy entire project to get Cargo.* files with proper dependencies for the whole project
 COPY --chown=nonroot . .
@@ -616,14 +792,20 @@ COPY --from=compute-tools --chown=postgres /home/nonroot/target/release-line-deb
 # libgeos, libgdal, libsfcgal1, libproj and libprotobuf-c1 for PostGIS
 # libxml2, libxslt1.1 for xml2
 # libzstd1 for zstd
+# libboost*, libfreetype6, and zlib1g for rdkit
+# ca-certificates for communicating with s3 by compute_ctl
 RUN apt update &&  \
    apt install --no-install-recommends -y \
        gdb \
-        locales \
        libicu67 \
        liblz4-1 \
        libreadline8 \
+        libboost-iostreams1.74.0 \
+        libboost-regex1.74.0 \
+        libboost-serialization1.74.0 \
+        libboost-system1.74.0 \
        libossp-uuid16 \
+        libfreetype6 \
        libgeos-c1v5 \
        libgdal28 \
        libproj19 \
@@ -633,7 +815,10 @@ RUN apt update &&  \
        libxslt1.1 \
        libzstd1 \
        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
-        procps && \
+        locales \
+        procps \
+        zlib1g \
+        ca-certificates && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* && \
    localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8

--- a/Dockerfile.compute-tools
+++ b/Dockerfile.compute-tools
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ARG REPOSITORY=neondatabase
 ARG IMAGE=rust
 ARG TAG=pinned
+ARG BUILD_TAG

 FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS rust-build
 WORKDIR /home/nonroot
@@ -16,6 +17,8 @@ ENV CACHEPOT_S3_KEY_PREFIX=cachepot
 ARG CACHEPOT_BUCKET=neon-github-dev
 #ARG AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
 #ARG AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
+ARG BUILD_TAG
+ENV BUILD_TAG=$BUILD_TAG

 COPY . .

--- a/10
+++ b/10
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ postgres-%: postgres-configure-% \
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_buffercache install
 	+@echo "Compiling pageinspect $*"
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pageinspect install
+	+@echo "Compiling amcheck $*"
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/amcheck install

 .PHONY: postgres-clean-%
 postgres-clean-%:
@@ -138,6 +140,11 @@ neon-pg-ext-%: postgres-%
 	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config CFLAGS='$(PG_CFLAGS) $(COPT)' \
 		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-utils-$* \
 		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_utils/Makefile install
+	+@echo "Compiling hnsw $*"
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/hnsw-$*
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config CFLAGS='$(PG_CFLAGS) $(COPT)' \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/hnsw-$* \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/hnsw/Makefile install

 .PHONY: neon-pg-ext-clean-%
 neon-pg-ext-clean-%:
@@ -153,6 +160,9 @@ neon-pg-ext-clean-%:
 	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config \
 	-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-utils-$* \
 	-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_utils/Makefile clean
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config \
+	-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/hnsw-$* \
+	-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/hnsw/Makefile clean

 .PHONY: neon-pg-ext
 neon-pg-ext: \
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,18 +28,19 @@ See developer documentation in [SUMMARY.md](/docs/SUMMARY.md) for more informati
 * On Ubuntu or Debian, this set of packages should be sufficient to build the code:
 ```bash
 apt install build-essential libtool libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev flex bison libseccomp-dev \
-libssl-dev clang pkg-config libpq-dev cmake postgresql-client protobuf-compiler
+libssl-dev clang pkg-config libpq-dev cmake postgresql-client protobuf-compiler \
+libcurl4-openssl-dev openssl python-poetry
 ```
 * On Fedora, these packages are needed:
 ```bash
 dnf install flex bison readline-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel \
  libseccomp-devel perl clang cmake postgresql postgresql-contrib protobuf-compiler \
-  protobuf-devel
+  protobuf-devel libcurl-devel openssl poetry
 ```
 * On Arch based systems, these packages are needed:
 ```bash
 pacman -S base-devel readline zlib libseccomp openssl clang \
-postgresql-libs cmake postgresql protobuf
+postgresql-libs cmake postgresql protobuf curl
 ```

 Building Neon requires 3.15+ version of `protoc` (protobuf-compiler). If your distribution provides an older version, you can install a newer version from [here](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases).
@@ -131,13 +132,13 @@ Python (3.9 or higher), and install python3 packages using `./scripts/pysync` (r
 # Create repository in .neon with proper paths to binaries and data
 # Later that would be responsibility of a package install script
 > cargo neon init
-Starting pageserver at '127.0.0.1:64000' in '.neon'.
+Initializing pageserver node 1 at '127.0.0.1:64000' in ".neon"

 # start pageserver, safekeeper, and broker for their intercommunication
 > cargo neon start
-Starting neon broker at 127.0.0.1:50051
+Starting neon broker at 127.0.0.1:50051.
 storage_broker started, pid: 2918372
-Starting pageserver at '127.0.0.1:64000' in '.neon'.
+Starting pageserver node 1 at '127.0.0.1:64000' in ".neon".
 pageserver started, pid: 2918386
 Starting safekeeper at '127.0.0.1:5454' in '.neon/safekeepers/sk1'.
 safekeeper 1 started, pid: 2918437
@@ -151,8 +152,7 @@ Setting tenant 9ef87a5bf0d92544f6fafeeb3239695c as a default one
 # start postgres compute node
 > cargo neon endpoint start main
 Starting new endpoint main (PostgreSQL v14) on timeline de200bd42b49cc1814412c7e592dd6e9 ...
-Extracting base backup to create postgres instance: path=.neon/pgdatadirs/tenants/9ef87a5bf0d92544f6fafeeb3239695c/main port=55432
-Starting postgres at 'host=127.0.0.1 port=55432 user=cloud_admin dbname=postgres'
+Starting postgres at 'postgresql://cloud_admin@127.0.0.1:55432/postgres'

 # check list of running postgres instances
 > cargo neon endpoint list
@@ -188,18 +188,17 @@ Created timeline 'b3b863fa45fa9e57e615f9f2d944e601' at Lsn 0/16F9A00 for tenant:
 # start postgres on that branch
 > cargo neon endpoint start migration_check --branch-name migration_check
 Starting new endpoint migration_check (PostgreSQL v14) on timeline b3b863fa45fa9e57e615f9f2d944e601 ...
-Extracting base backup to create postgres instance: path=.neon/pgdatadirs/tenants/9ef87a5bf0d92544f6fafeeb3239695c/migration_check port=55433
-Starting postgres at 'host=127.0.0.1 port=55433 user=cloud_admin dbname=postgres'
+Starting postgres at 'postgresql://cloud_admin@127.0.0.1:55434/postgres'

 # check the new list of running postgres instances
 > cargo neon endpoint list
 ENDPOINT         ADDRESS          TIMELINE                          BRANCH NAME      LSN        STATUS
 main             127.0.0.1:55432  de200bd42b49cc1814412c7e592dd6e9  main             0/16F9A38  running
- migration_check  127.0.0.1:55433  b3b863fa45fa9e57e615f9f2d944e601  migration_check  0/16F9A70  running
+ migration_check  127.0.0.1:55434  b3b863fa45fa9e57e615f9f2d944e601  migration_check  0/16F9A70  running

 # this new postgres instance will have all the data from 'main' postgres,
 # but all modifications would not affect data in original postgres
-> psql -p55433 -h 127.0.0.1 -U cloud_admin postgres
+> psql -p55434 -h 127.0.0.1 -U cloud_admin postgres
 postgres=# select * from t;
 key | value
 -----+-------
@@ -236,6 +235,13 @@ CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS="--features=testing" make
 ./scripts/pytest
 ```

+By default, this runs both debug and release modes, and all supported postgres versions. When
+testing locally, it is convenient to run just run one set of permutations, like this:
+
+```sh
+DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=15 BUILD_TYPE=release ./scripts/pytest
+```
+
 ## Documentation

 [docs](/docs) Contains a top-level overview of all available markdown documentation.
--- a/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
+++ b/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ license.workspace = true

 [dependencies]
 anyhow.workspace = true
+async-compression.workspace = true
 chrono.workspace = true
+cfg-if.workspace = true
 clap.workspace = true
+flate2.workspace = true
 futures.workspace = true
 hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
 notify.workspace = true
@@ -21,6 +24,7 @@ tar.workspace = true
 reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-postgres.workspace = true
+tokio-util.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-opentelemetry.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
@@ -30,3 +34,7 @@ url.workspace = true
 compute_api.workspace = true
 utils.workspace = true
 workspace_hack.workspace = true
+toml_edit.workspace = true
+remote_storage = { version = "0.1", path = "../libs/remote_storage/" }
+vm_monitor = { version = "0.1", path = "../libs/vm_monitor/" }
+zstd = "0.12.4"
--- a/compute_tools/README.md
+++ b/compute_tools/README.md
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ Also `compute_ctl` spawns two separate service threads:
 - `http-endpoint` runs a Hyper HTTP API server, which serves readiness and the
  last activity requests.

-If the `vm-informant` binary is present at `/bin/vm-informant`, it will also be started. For VM
-compute nodes, `vm-informant` communicates with the VM autoscaling system. It coordinates
-downscaling and (eventually) will request immediate upscaling under resource pressure.
+If `AUTOSCALING` environment variable is set, `compute_ctl` will start the
+`vm-monitor` located in [`neon/libs/vm_monitor`]. For VM compute nodes,
+`vm-monitor` communicates with the VM autoscaling system. It coordinates
+downscaling and requests immediate upscaling under resource pressure.

 Usage example:
 ```sh
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 //! - `compute_ctl` accepts cluster (compute node) specification as a JSON file.
 //! - Every start is a fresh start, so the data directory is removed and
 //!   initialized again on each run.
+//! - If remote_extension_config is provided, it will be used to fetch extensions list
+//!  and download `shared_preload_libraries` from the remote storage.
 //! - Next it will put configuration files into the `PGDATA` directory.
 //! - Sync safekeepers and get commit LSN.
 //! - Get `basebackup` from pageserver using the returned on the previous step LSN.
@@ -18,24 +20,25 @@
 //! - `http-endpoint` runs a Hyper HTTP API server, which serves readiness and the
 //!   last activity requests.
 //!
-//! If the `vm-informant` binary is present at `/bin/vm-informant`, it will also be started. For VM
-//! compute nodes, `vm-informant` communicates with the VM autoscaling system. It coordinates
-//! downscaling and (eventually) will request immediate upscaling under resource pressure.
+//! If `AUTOSCALING` environment variable is set, `compute_ctl` will start the
+//! `vm-monitor` located in [`neon/libs/vm_monitor`]. For VM compute nodes,
+//! `vm-monitor` communicates with the VM autoscaling system. It coordinates
+//! downscaling and requests immediate upscaling under resource pressure.
 //!
 //! Usage example:
 //! ```sh
 //! compute_ctl -D /var/db/postgres/compute \
 //!             -C 'postgresql://cloud_admin@localhost/postgres' \
 //!             -S /var/db/postgres/specs/current.json \
-//!             -b /usr/local/bin/postgres
+//!             -b /usr/local/bin/postgres \
+//!             -r {"bucket": "neon-dev-extensions-eu-central-1", "region": "eu-central-1"}
 //! ```
 //!
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::fs::File;
-use std::panic;
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::process::exit;
-use std::sync::{mpsc, Arc, Condvar, Mutex};
+use std::sync::{mpsc, Arc, Condvar, Mutex, RwLock};
 use std::{thread, time::Duration};

 use anyhow::{Context, Result};
@@ -48,17 +51,37 @@ use compute_api::responses::ComputeStatus;

 use compute_tools::compute::{ComputeNode, ComputeState, ParsedSpec};
 use compute_tools::configurator::launch_configurator;
+use compute_tools::extension_server::{get_pg_version, init_remote_storage};
 use compute_tools::http::api::launch_http_server;
 use compute_tools::logger::*;
 use compute_tools::monitor::launch_monitor;
 use compute_tools::params::*;
 use compute_tools::spec::*;

+// this is an arbitrary build tag. Fine as a default / for testing purposes
+// in-case of not-set environment var
+const BUILD_TAG_DEFAULT: &str = "5670669815";
+
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
    init_tracing_and_logging(DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL)?;

-    let matches = cli().get_matches();
+    let build_tag = option_env!("BUILD_TAG")
+        .unwrap_or(BUILD_TAG_DEFAULT)
+        .to_string();
+    info!("build_tag: {build_tag}");

+    let matches = cli().get_matches();
+    let pgbin_default = String::from("postgres");
+    let pgbin = matches.get_one::<String>("pgbin").unwrap_or(&pgbin_default);
+
+    let remote_ext_config = matches.get_one::<String>("remote-ext-config");
+    let ext_remote_storage = remote_ext_config.map(|x| {
+        init_remote_storage(x).expect("cannot initialize remote extension storage from config")
+    });
+
+    let http_port = *matches
+        .get_one::<u16>("http-port")
+        .expect("http-port is required");
    let pgdata = matches
        .get_one::<String>("pgdata")
        .expect("PGDATA path is required");
@@ -119,14 +142,12 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let compute_id = matches.get_one::<String>("compute-id");
    let control_plane_uri = matches.get_one::<String>("control-plane-uri");

-    // Try to use just 'postgres' if no path is provided
-    let pgbin = matches.get_one::<String>("pgbin").unwrap();
-
    let spec;
    let mut live_config_allowed = false;
    match spec_json {
        // First, try to get cluster spec from the cli argument
        Some(json) => {
+            info!("got spec from cli argument {}", json);
            spec = Some(serde_json::from_str(json)?);
        }
        None => {
@@ -159,8 +180,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {

    let mut new_state = ComputeState::new();
    let spec_set;
+
    if let Some(spec) = spec {
        let pspec = ParsedSpec::try_from(spec).map_err(|msg| anyhow::anyhow!(msg))?;
+        info!("new pspec.spec: {:?}", pspec.spec);
        new_state.pspec = Some(pspec);
        spec_set = true;
    } else {
@@ -170,19 +193,35 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        connstr: Url::parse(connstr).context("cannot parse connstr as a URL")?,
        pgdata: pgdata.to_string(),
        pgbin: pgbin.to_string(),
+        pgversion: get_pg_version(pgbin),
        live_config_allowed,
        state: Mutex::new(new_state),
        state_changed: Condvar::new(),
+        ext_remote_storage,
+        ext_download_progress: RwLock::new(HashMap::new()),
+        build_tag,
    };
    let compute = Arc::new(compute_node);

+    // If this is a pooled VM, prewarm before starting HTTP server and becoming
+    // available for binding. Prewarming helps postgres start quicker later,
+    // because QEMU will already have it's memory allocated from the host, and
+    // the necessary binaries will alreaady be cached.
+    if !spec_set {
+        compute.prewarm_postgres()?;
+    }
+
    // Launch http service first, so we were able to serve control-plane
    // requests, while configuration is still in progress.
-    let _http_handle = launch_http_server(&compute).expect("cannot launch http endpoint thread");
+    let _http_handle =
+        launch_http_server(http_port, &compute).expect("cannot launch http endpoint thread");
+
+    let extension_server_port: u16 = http_port;

    if !spec_set {
        // No spec provided, hang waiting for it.
        info!("no compute spec provided, waiting");
+
        let mut state = compute.state.lock().unwrap();
        while state.status != ComputeStatus::ConfigurationPending {
            state = compute.state_changed.wait(state).unwrap();
@@ -213,14 +252,13 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
    drop(state);

    // Launch remaining service threads
-    let _monitor_handle = launch_monitor(&compute).expect("cannot launch compute monitor thread");
-    let _configurator_handle =
-        launch_configurator(&compute).expect("cannot launch configurator thread");
+    let _monitor_handle = launch_monitor(&compute);
+    let _configurator_handle = launch_configurator(&compute);

    // Start Postgres
    let mut delay_exit = false;
    let mut exit_code = None;
-    let pg = match compute.start_compute() {
+    let pg = match compute.start_compute(extension_server_port) {
        Ok(pg) => Some(pg),
        Err(err) => {
            error!("could not start the compute node: {:?}", err);
@@ -233,6 +271,57 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        }
    };

+    // Start the vm-monitor if directed to. The vm-monitor only runs on linux
+    // because it requires cgroups.
+    cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+        if #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] {
+            use std::env;
+            use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
+            use tracing::warn;
+            let vm_monitor_addr = matches.get_one::<String>("vm-monitor-addr");
+            let file_cache_connstr = matches.get_one::<String>("filecache-connstr");
+            let cgroup = matches.get_one::<String>("cgroup");
+            let file_cache_on_disk = matches.get_flag("file-cache-on-disk");
+
+            // Only make a runtime if we need to.
+            // Note: it seems like you can make a runtime in an inner scope and
+            // if you start a task in it it won't be dropped. However, make it
+            // in the outermost scope just to be safe.
+            let rt = match (env::var_os("AUTOSCALING"), vm_monitor_addr) {
+                (None, None) => None,
+                (None, Some(_)) => {
+                    warn!("--vm-monitor-addr option set but AUTOSCALING env var not present");
+                    None
+                }
+                (Some(_), None) => {
+                    panic!("AUTOSCALING env var present but --vm-monitor-addr option not set")
+                }
+                (Some(_), Some(_)) => Some(
+                    tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+                        .worker_threads(4)
+                        .enable_all()
+                        .build()
+                        .expect("failed to create tokio runtime for monitor"),
+                ),
+            };
+
+            // This token is used internally by the monitor to clean up all threads
+            let token = CancellationToken::new();
+
+            let vm_monitor = &rt.as_ref().map(|rt| {
+                rt.spawn(vm_monitor::start(
+                    Box::leak(Box::new(vm_monitor::Args {
+                        cgroup: cgroup.cloned(),
+                        pgconnstr: file_cache_connstr.cloned(),
+                        addr: vm_monitor_addr.cloned().unwrap(),
+                        file_cache_on_disk,
+                    })),
+                    token.clone(),
+                ))
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
    // Wait for the child Postgres process forever. In this state Ctrl+C will
    // propagate to Postgres and it will be shut down as well.
    if let Some(mut pg) = pg {
@@ -246,6 +335,34 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        exit_code = ecode.code()
    }

+    // Terminate the vm_monitor so it releases the file watcher on
+    // /sys/fs/cgroup/neon-postgres.
+    // Note: the vm-monitor only runs on linux because it requires cgroups.
+    cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+        if #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] {
+            if let Some(handle) = vm_monitor {
+                // Kills all threads spawned by the monitor
+                token.cancel();
+                // Kills the actual task running the monitor
+                handle.abort();
+
+                // If handle is some, rt must have been used to produce it, and
+                // hence is also some
+                rt.unwrap().shutdown_timeout(Duration::from_secs(2));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Maybe sync safekeepers again, to speed up next startup
+    let compute_state = compute.state.lock().unwrap().clone();
+    let pspec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
+    if matches!(pspec.spec.mode, compute_api::spec::ComputeMode::Primary) {
+        info!("syncing safekeepers on shutdown");
+        let storage_auth_token = pspec.storage_auth_token.clone();
+        let lsn = compute.sync_safekeepers(storage_auth_token)?;
+        info!("synced safekeepers at lsn {lsn}");
+    }
+
    if let Err(err) = compute.check_for_core_dumps() {
        error!("error while checking for core dumps: {err:?}");
    }
@@ -286,6 +403,14 @@ fn cli() -> clap::Command {
    let version = option_env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").unwrap_or("unknown");
    clap::Command::new("compute_ctl")
        .version(version)
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("http-port")
+                .long("http-port")
+                .value_name("HTTP_PORT")
+                .default_value("3080")
+                .value_parser(clap::value_parser!(u16))
+                .required(false),
+        )
        .arg(
            Arg::new("connstr")
                .short('C')
@@ -331,6 +456,40 @@ fn cli() -> clap::Command {
                .long("control-plane-uri")
                .value_name("CONTROL_PLANE_API_BASE_URI"),
        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("remote-ext-config")
+                .short('r')
+                .long("remote-ext-config")
+                .value_name("REMOTE_EXT_CONFIG"),
+        )
+        // TODO(fprasx): we currently have default arguments because the cloud PR
+        // to pass them in hasn't been merged yet. We should get rid of them once
+        // the PR is merged.
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("vm-monitor-addr")
+                .long("vm-monitor-addr")
+                .default_value("0.0.0.0:10301")
+                .value_name("VM_MONITOR_ADDR"),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("cgroup")
+                .long("cgroup")
+                .default_value("neon-postgres")
+                .value_name("CGROUP"),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("filecache-connstr")
+                .long("filecache-connstr")
+                .default_value(
+                    "host=localhost port=5432 dbname=postgres user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable",
+                )
+                .value_name("FILECACHE_CONNSTR"),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("file-cache-on-disk")
+                .long("file-cache-on-disk")
+                .action(clap::ArgAction::SetTrue),
+        )
 }

 #[test]
--- a/compute_tools/src/checker.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/checker.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,39 @@
-use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Ok, Result};
+use postgres::Client;
 use tokio_postgres::NoTls;
 use tracing::{error, instrument};

 use crate::compute::ComputeNode;

+/// Create a special service table for availability checks
+/// only if it does not exist already.
+pub fn create_availability_check_data(client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
+    let query = "
+        DO $$
+        BEGIN
+            IF NOT EXISTS(
+                SELECT 1
+                FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables
+                WHERE tablename = 'health_check'
+            )
+            THEN
+            CREATE TABLE health_check (
+                id serial primary key,
+                updated_at timestamptz default now()
+            );
+            INSERT INTO health_check VALUES (1, now())
+                ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE
+                 SET updated_at = now();
+            END IF;
+        END
+        $$;";
+    client.execute(query, &[])?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 /// Update timestamp in a row in a special service table to check
 /// that we can actually write some data in this particular timeline.
-/// Create table if it's missing.
 #[instrument(skip_all)]
 pub async fn check_writability(compute: &ComputeNode) -> Result<()> {
    // Connect to the database.
@@ -24,19 +51,15 @@ pub async fn check_writability(compute: &ComputeNode) -> Result<()> {
    });

    let query = "
-    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS health_check (
-        id serial primary key,
-        updated_at timestamptz default now()
-    );
    INSERT INTO health_check VALUES (1, now())
        ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE
         SET updated_at = now();";

    let result = client.simple_query(query).await?;

-    if result.len() != 2 {
+    if result.len() != 1 {
        return Err(anyhow::format_err!(
-            "expected 2 query results, but got {}",
+            "expected 1 query result, but got {}",
            result.len()
        ));
    }
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
@@ -1,40 +1,37 @@
-//
-// XXX: This starts to be scarry similar to the `PostgresNode` from `control_plane`,
-// but there are several things that makes `PostgresNode` usage inconvenient in the
-// cloud:
-// - it inherits from `LocalEnv`, which contains **all-all** the information about
-//   a complete service running
-// - it uses `PageServerNode` with information about http endpoint, which we do not
-//   need in the cloud again
-// - many tiny pieces like, for example, we do not use `pg_ctl` in the cloud
-//
-// Thus, to use `PostgresNode` in the cloud, we need to 'mock' a bunch of required
-// attributes (not required for the cloud). Yet, it is still tempting to unify these
-// `PostgresNode` and `ComputeNode` and use one in both places.
-//
-// TODO: stabilize `ComputeNode` and think about using it in the `control_plane`.
-//
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::env;
 use std::fs;
+use std::io::BufRead;
 use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
 use std::str::FromStr;
-use std::sync::{Condvar, Mutex};
+use std::sync::{Condvar, Mutex, RwLock};
+use std::time::Instant;

 use anyhow::{Context, Result};
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
+use futures::future::join_all;
+use futures::stream::FuturesUnordered;
+use futures::StreamExt;
 use postgres::{Client, NoTls};
+use tokio;
 use tokio_postgres;
-use tracing::{info, instrument, warn};
+use tracing::{error, info, instrument, warn};
 use utils::id::{TenantId, TimelineId};
 use utils::lsn::Lsn;

 use compute_api::responses::{ComputeMetrics, ComputeStatus};
 use compute_api::spec::{ComputeMode, ComputeSpec};
+use utils::measured_stream::MeasuredReader;

-use crate::config;
+use remote_storage::{DownloadError, GenericRemoteStorage, RemotePath};
+
+use crate::checker::create_availability_check_data;
 use crate::pg_helpers::*;
 use crate::spec::*;
+use crate::sync_sk::{check_if_synced, ping_safekeeper};
+use crate::{config, extension_server};

 /// Compute node info shared across several `compute_ctl` threads.
 pub struct ComputeNode {
@@ -42,6 +39,7 @@ pub struct ComputeNode {
    pub connstr: url::Url,
    pub pgdata: String,
    pub pgbin: String,
+    pub pgversion: String,
    /// We should only allow live re- / configuration of the compute node if
    /// it uses 'pull model', i.e. it can go to control-plane and fetch
    /// the latest configuration. Otherwise, there could be a case:
@@ -61,6 +59,19 @@ pub struct ComputeNode {
    pub state: Mutex<ComputeState>,
    /// `Condvar` to allow notifying waiters about state changes.
    pub state_changed: Condvar,
+    ///  the S3 bucket that we search for extensions in
+    pub ext_remote_storage: Option<GenericRemoteStorage>,
+    // key: ext_archive_name, value: started download time, download_completed?
+    pub ext_download_progress: RwLock<HashMap<String, (DateTime<Utc>, bool)>>,
+    pub build_tag: String,
+}
+
+// store some metrics about download size that might impact startup time
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct RemoteExtensionMetrics {
+    num_ext_downloaded: u64,
+    largest_ext_size: u64,
+    total_ext_download_size: u64,
 }

 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
@@ -100,36 +111,65 @@ pub struct ParsedSpec {
    pub tenant_id: TenantId,
    pub timeline_id: TimelineId,
    pub pageserver_connstr: String,
+    pub safekeeper_connstrings: Vec<String>,
    pub storage_auth_token: Option<String>,
 }

 impl TryFrom<ComputeSpec> for ParsedSpec {
    type Error = String;
    fn try_from(spec: ComputeSpec) -> Result<Self, String> {
+        // Extract the options from the spec file that are needed to connect to
+        // the storage system.
+        //
+        // For backwards-compatibility, the top-level fields in the spec file
+        // may be empty. In that case, we need to dig them from the GUCs in the
+        // cluster.settings field.
        let pageserver_connstr = spec
-            .cluster
-            .settings
-            .find("neon.pageserver_connstring")
+            .pageserver_connstring
+            .clone()
+            .or_else(|| spec.cluster.settings.find("neon.pageserver_connstring"))
            .ok_or("pageserver connstr should be provided")?;
+        let safekeeper_connstrings = if spec.safekeeper_connstrings.is_empty() {
+            if matches!(spec.mode, ComputeMode::Primary) {
+                spec.cluster
+                    .settings
+                    .find("neon.safekeepers")
+                    .ok_or("safekeeper connstrings should be provided")?
+                    .split(',')
+                    .map(|str| str.to_string())
+                    .collect()
+            } else {
+                vec![]
+            }
+        } else {
+            spec.safekeeper_connstrings.clone()
+        };
        let storage_auth_token = spec.storage_auth_token.clone();
-        let tenant_id: TenantId = spec
-            .cluster
-            .settings
-            .find("neon.tenant_id")
-            .ok_or("tenant id should be provided")
-            .map(|s| TenantId::from_str(&s))?
-            .or(Err("invalid tenant id"))?;
-        let timeline_id: TimelineId = spec
-            .cluster
-            .settings
-            .find("neon.timeline_id")
-            .ok_or("timeline id should be provided")
-            .map(|s| TimelineId::from_str(&s))?
-            .or(Err("invalid timeline id"))?;
+        let tenant_id: TenantId = if let Some(tenant_id) = spec.tenant_id {
+            tenant_id
+        } else {
+            spec.cluster
+                .settings
+                .find("neon.tenant_id")
+                .ok_or("tenant id should be provided")
+                .map(|s| TenantId::from_str(&s))?
+                .or(Err("invalid tenant id"))?
+        };
+        let timeline_id: TimelineId = if let Some(timeline_id) = spec.timeline_id {
+            timeline_id
+        } else {
+            spec.cluster
+                .settings
+                .find("neon.timeline_id")
+                .ok_or("timeline id should be provided")
+                .map(|s| TimelineId::from_str(&s))?
+                .or(Err("invalid timeline id"))?
+        };

        Ok(ParsedSpec {
            spec,
            pageserver_connstr,
+            safekeeper_connstrings,
            storage_auth_token,
            tenant_id,
            timeline_id,
@@ -137,6 +177,105 @@ impl TryFrom<ComputeSpec> for ParsedSpec {
    }
 }

+/// If we are a VM, returns a [`Command`] that will run in the `neon-postgres`
+/// cgroup. Otherwise returns the default `Command::new(cmd)`
+///
+/// This function should be used to start postgres, as it will start it in the
+/// neon-postgres cgroup if we are a VM. This allows autoscaling to control
+/// postgres' resource usage. The cgroup will exist in VMs because vm-builder
+/// creates it during the sysinit phase of its inittab.
+fn maybe_cgexec(cmd: &str) -> Command {
+    // The cplane sets this env var for autoscaling computes.
+    // use `var_os` so we don't have to worry about the variable being valid
+    // unicode. Should never be an concern . . . but just in case
+    if env::var_os("AUTOSCALING").is_some() {
+        let mut command = Command::new("cgexec");
+        command.args(["-g", "memory:neon-postgres"]);
+        command.arg(cmd);
+        command
+    } else {
+        Command::new(cmd)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Create special neon_superuser role, that's a slightly nerfed version of a real superuser
+/// that we give to customers
+fn create_neon_superuser(spec: &ComputeSpec, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
+    let roles = spec
+        .cluster
+        .roles
+        .iter()
+        .map(|r| escape_literal(&r.name))
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+    let dbs = spec
+        .cluster
+        .databases
+        .iter()
+        .map(|db| escape_literal(&db.name))
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+    let roles_decl = if roles.is_empty() {
+        String::from("roles text[] := NULL;")
+    } else {
+        format!(
+            r#"
+               roles text[] := ARRAY(SELECT rolname
+                                     FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles
+                                     WHERE rolname IN ({}));"#,
+            roles.join(", ")
+        )
+    };
+
+    let database_decl = if dbs.is_empty() {
+        String::from("dbs text[] := NULL;")
+    } else {
+        format!(
+            r#"
+               dbs text[] := ARRAY(SELECT datname
+                                   FROM pg_catalog.pg_database
+                                   WHERE datname IN ({}));"#,
+            dbs.join(", ")
+        )
+    };
+
+    // ALL PRIVILEGES grants CREATE, CONNECT, and TEMPORARY on all databases
+    // (see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html)
+    let query = format!(
+        r#"
+            DO $$
+                DECLARE
+                    r text;
+                    {}
+                    {}
+                BEGIN
+                    IF NOT EXISTS (
+                        SELECT FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles WHERE rolname = 'neon_superuser')
+                    THEN
+                        CREATE ROLE neon_superuser CREATEDB CREATEROLE NOLOGIN IN ROLE pg_read_all_data, pg_write_all_data;
+                        IF array_length(roles, 1) IS NOT NULL THEN
+                            EXECUTE format('GRANT neon_superuser TO %s',
+                                           array_to_string(ARRAY(SELECT quote_ident(x) FROM unnest(roles) as x), ', '));
+                            FOREACH r IN ARRAY roles LOOP
+                                EXECUTE format('ALTER ROLE %s CREATEROLE CREATEDB', quote_ident(r));
+                            END LOOP;
+                        END IF;
+                        IF array_length(dbs, 1) IS NOT NULL THEN
+                            EXECUTE format('GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE %s TO neon_superuser',
+                                           array_to_string(ARRAY(SELECT quote_ident(x) FROM unnest(dbs) as x), ', '));
+                        END IF;
+                    END IF;
+                END
+            $$;"#,
+        roles_decl, database_decl,
+    );
+    info!("Neon superuser created:\n{}", &query);
+    client
+        .simple_query(&query)
+        .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!(e).context(query))?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 impl ComputeNode {
    pub fn set_status(&self, status: ComputeStatus) {
        let mut state = self.state.lock().unwrap();
@@ -161,10 +300,10 @@ impl ComputeNode {

    // Get basebackup from the libpq connection to pageserver using `connstr` and
    // unarchive it to `pgdata` directory overriding all its previous content.
-    #[instrument(skip(self, compute_state))]
+    #[instrument(skip_all, fields(%lsn))]
    fn get_basebackup(&self, compute_state: &ComputeState, lsn: Lsn) -> Result<()> {
        let spec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
-        let start_time = Utc::now();
+        let start_time = Instant::now();

        let mut config = postgres::Config::from_str(&spec.pageserver_connstr)?;

@@ -177,37 +316,165 @@ impl ComputeNode {
            info!("Storage auth token not set");
        }

+        // Connect to pageserver
        let mut client = config.connect(NoTls)?;
+        let pageserver_connect_micros = start_time.elapsed().as_micros() as u64;
+
        let basebackup_cmd = match lsn {
-            Lsn(0) => format!("basebackup {} {}", spec.tenant_id, spec.timeline_id), // First start of the compute
-            _ => format!("basebackup {} {} {}", spec.tenant_id, spec.timeline_id, lsn),
+            // HACK We don't use compression on first start (Lsn(0)) because there's no API for it
+            Lsn(0) => format!("basebackup {} {}", spec.tenant_id, spec.timeline_id),
+            _ => format!(
+                "basebackup {} {} {} --gzip",
+                spec.tenant_id, spec.timeline_id, lsn
+            ),
        };
+
        let copyreader = client.copy_out(basebackup_cmd.as_str())?;
+        let mut measured_reader = MeasuredReader::new(copyreader);
+
+        // Check the magic number to see if it's a gzip or not. Even though
+        // we might explicitly ask for gzip, an old pageserver with no implementation
+        // of gzip compression might send us uncompressed data. After some time
+        // passes we can assume all pageservers know how to compress and we can
+        // delete this check.
+        //
+        // If the data is not gzip, it will be tar. It will not be mistakenly
+        // recognized as gzip because tar starts with an ascii encoding of a filename,
+        // and 0x1f and 0x8b are unlikely first characters for any filename. Moreover,
+        // we send the "global" directory first from the pageserver, so it definitely
+        // won't be recognized as gzip.
+        let mut bufreader = std::io::BufReader::new(&mut measured_reader);
+        let gzip = {
+            let peek = bufreader.fill_buf().unwrap();
+            peek[0] == 0x1f && peek[1] == 0x8b
+        };

        // Read the archive directly from the `CopyOutReader`
        //
        // Set `ignore_zeros` so that unpack() reads all the Copy data and
        // doesn't stop at the end-of-archive marker. Otherwise, if the server
        // sends an Error after finishing the tarball, we will not notice it.
-        let mut ar = tar::Archive::new(copyreader);
-        ar.set_ignore_zeros(true);
-        ar.unpack(&self.pgdata)?;
+        if gzip {
+            let mut ar = tar::Archive::new(flate2::read::GzDecoder::new(&mut bufreader));
+            ar.set_ignore_zeros(true);
+            ar.unpack(&self.pgdata)?;
+        } else {
+            let mut ar = tar::Archive::new(&mut bufreader);
+            ar.set_ignore_zeros(true);
+            ar.unpack(&self.pgdata)?;
+        };

-        self.state.lock().unwrap().metrics.basebackup_ms = Utc::now()
+        // Report metrics
+        let mut state = self.state.lock().unwrap();
+        state.metrics.pageserver_connect_micros = pageserver_connect_micros;
+        state.metrics.basebackup_bytes = measured_reader.get_byte_count() as u64;
+        state.metrics.basebackup_ms = start_time.elapsed().as_millis() as u64;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    pub async fn check_safekeepers_synced_async(
+        &self,
+        compute_state: &ComputeState,
+    ) -> Result<Option<Lsn>> {
+        // Construct a connection config for each safekeeper
+        let pspec: ParsedSpec = compute_state
+            .pspec
+            .as_ref()
+            .expect("spec must be set")
+            .clone();
+        let sk_connstrs: Vec<String> = pspec.safekeeper_connstrings.clone();
+        let sk_configs = sk_connstrs.into_iter().map(|connstr| {
+            // Format connstr
+            let id = connstr.clone();
+            let connstr = format!("postgresql://no_user@{}", connstr);
+            let options = format!(
+                "-c timeline_id={} tenant_id={}",
+                pspec.timeline_id, pspec.tenant_id
+            );
+
+            // Construct client
+            let mut config = tokio_postgres::Config::from_str(&connstr).unwrap();
+            config.options(&options);
+            if let Some(storage_auth_token) = pspec.storage_auth_token.clone() {
+                config.password(storage_auth_token);
+            }
+
+            (id, config)
+        });
+
+        // Create task set to query all safekeepers
+        let mut tasks = FuturesUnordered::new();
+        let quorum = sk_configs.len() / 2 + 1;
+        for (id, config) in sk_configs {
+            let timeout = tokio::time::Duration::from_millis(100);
+            let task = tokio::time::timeout(timeout, ping_safekeeper(id, config));
+            tasks.push(tokio::spawn(task));
+        }
+
+        // Get a quorum of responses or errors
+        let mut responses = Vec::new();
+        let mut join_errors = Vec::new();
+        let mut task_errors = Vec::new();
+        let mut timeout_errors = Vec::new();
+        while let Some(response) = tasks.next().await {
+            match response {
+                Ok(Ok(Ok(r))) => responses.push(r),
+                Ok(Ok(Err(e))) => task_errors.push(e),
+                Ok(Err(e)) => timeout_errors.push(e),
+                Err(e) => join_errors.push(e),
+            };
+            if responses.len() >= quorum {
+                break;
+            }
+            if join_errors.len() + task_errors.len() + timeout_errors.len() >= quorum {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // In case of error, log and fail the check, but don't crash.
+        // We're playing it safe because these errors could be transient
+        // and we don't yet retry. Also being careful here allows us to
+        // be backwards compatible with safekeepers that don't have the
+        // TIMELINE_STATUS API yet.
+        if responses.len() < quorum {
+            error!(
+                "failed sync safekeepers check {:?} {:?} {:?}",
+                join_errors, task_errors, timeout_errors
+            );
+            return Ok(None);
+        }
+
+        Ok(check_if_synced(responses))
+    }
+
+    // Fast path for sync_safekeepers. If they're already synced we get the lsn
+    // in one roundtrip. If not, we should do a full sync_safekeepers.
+    pub fn check_safekeepers_synced(&self, compute_state: &ComputeState) -> Result<Option<Lsn>> {
+        let start_time = Utc::now();
+
+        // Run actual work with new tokio runtime
+        let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
+            .enable_all()
+            .build()
+            .expect("failed to create rt");
+        let result = rt.block_on(self.check_safekeepers_synced_async(compute_state));
+
+        // Record runtime
+        self.state.lock().unwrap().metrics.sync_sk_check_ms = Utc::now()
            .signed_duration_since(start_time)
            .to_std()
            .unwrap()
            .as_millis() as u64;
-        Ok(())
+        result
    }

    // Run `postgres` in a special mode with `--sync-safekeepers` argument
    // and return the reported LSN back to the caller.
-    #[instrument(skip(self, storage_auth_token))]
-    fn sync_safekeepers(&self, storage_auth_token: Option<String>) -> Result<Lsn> {
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
+    pub fn sync_safekeepers(&self, storage_auth_token: Option<String>) -> Result<Lsn> {
        let start_time = Utc::now();

-        let sync_handle = Command::new(&self.pgbin)
+        let sync_handle = maybe_cgexec(&self.pgbin)
            .args(["--sync-safekeepers"])
            .env("PGDATA", &self.pgdata) // we cannot use -D in this mode
            .envs(if let Some(storage_auth_token) = &storage_auth_token {
@@ -248,25 +515,37 @@ impl ComputeNode {

    /// Do all the preparations like PGDATA directory creation, configuration,
    /// safekeepers sync, basebackup, etc.
-    #[instrument(skip(self, compute_state))]
-    pub fn prepare_pgdata(&self, compute_state: &ComputeState) -> Result<()> {
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
+    pub fn prepare_pgdata(
+        &self,
+        compute_state: &ComputeState,
+        extension_server_port: u16,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
        let pspec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
        let spec = &pspec.spec;
        let pgdata_path = Path::new(&self.pgdata);

        // Remove/create an empty pgdata directory and put configuration there.
        self.create_pgdata()?;
-        config::write_postgres_conf(&pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf"), &pspec.spec)?;
+        config::write_postgres_conf(
+            &pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf"),
+            &pspec.spec,
+            Some(extension_server_port),
+        )?;

        // Syncing safekeepers is only safe with primary nodes: if a primary
        // is already connected it will be kicked out, so a secondary (standby)
        // cannot sync safekeepers.
        let lsn = match spec.mode {
            ComputeMode::Primary => {
-                info!("starting safekeepers syncing");
-                let lsn = self
-                    .sync_safekeepers(pspec.storage_auth_token.clone())
-                    .with_context(|| "failed to sync safekeepers")?;
+                info!("checking if safekeepers are synced");
+                let lsn = if let Ok(Some(lsn)) = self.check_safekeepers_synced(compute_state) {
+                    lsn
+                } else {
+                    info!("starting safekeepers syncing");
+                    self.sync_safekeepers(pspec.storage_auth_token.clone())
+                        .with_context(|| "failed to sync safekeepers")?
+                };
                info!("safekeepers synced at LSN {}", lsn);
                lsn
            }
@@ -295,8 +574,8 @@ impl ComputeNode {
        update_pg_hba(pgdata_path)?;

        match spec.mode {
-            ComputeMode::Primary | ComputeMode::Static(..) => {}
-            ComputeMode::Replica => {
+            ComputeMode::Primary => {}
+            ComputeMode::Replica | ComputeMode::Static(..) => {
                add_standby_signal(pgdata_path)?;
            }
        }
@@ -304,9 +583,53 @@ impl ComputeNode {
        Ok(())
    }

+    /// Start and stop a postgres process to warm up the VM for startup.
+    pub fn prewarm_postgres(&self) -> Result<()> {
+        info!("prewarming");
+
+        // Create pgdata
+        let pgdata = &format!("{}.warmup", self.pgdata);
+        create_pgdata(pgdata)?;
+
+        // Run initdb to completion
+        info!("running initdb");
+        let initdb_bin = Path::new(&self.pgbin).parent().unwrap().join("initdb");
+        Command::new(initdb_bin)
+            .args(["-D", pgdata])
+            .output()
+            .expect("cannot start initdb process");
+
+        // Write conf
+        use std::io::Write;
+        let conf_path = Path::new(pgdata).join("postgresql.conf");
+        let mut file = std::fs::File::create(conf_path)?;
+        writeln!(file, "shared_buffers=65536")?;
+        writeln!(file, "port=51055")?; // Nobody should be connecting
+        writeln!(file, "shared_preload_libraries = 'neon'")?;
+
+        // Start postgres
+        info!("starting postgres");
+        let mut pg = maybe_cgexec(&self.pgbin)
+            .args(["-D", pgdata])
+            .spawn()
+            .expect("cannot start postgres process");
+
+        // Stop it when it's ready
+        info!("waiting for postgres");
+        wait_for_postgres(&mut pg, Path::new(pgdata))?;
+        pg.kill()?;
+        info!("sent kill signal");
+        pg.wait()?;
+        info!("done prewarming");
+
+        // clean up
+        let _ok = fs::remove_dir_all(pgdata);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
    /// Start Postgres as a child process and manage DBs/roles.
    /// After that this will hang waiting on the postmaster process to exit.
-    #[instrument(skip(self))]
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
    pub fn start_postgres(
        &self,
        storage_auth_token: Option<String>,
@@ -314,7 +637,7 @@ impl ComputeNode {
        let pgdata_path = Path::new(&self.pgdata);

        // Run postgres as a child process.
-        let mut pg = Command::new(&self.pgbin)
+        let mut pg = maybe_cgexec(&self.pgbin)
            .args(["-D", &self.pgdata])
            .envs(if let Some(storage_auth_token) = &storage_auth_token {
                vec![("NEON_AUTH_TOKEN", storage_auth_token)]
@@ -330,7 +653,7 @@ impl ComputeNode {
    }

    /// Do initial configuration of the already started Postgres.
-    #[instrument(skip(self, compute_state))]
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
    pub fn apply_config(&self, compute_state: &ComputeState) -> Result<()> {
        // If connection fails,
        // it may be the old node with `zenith_admin` superuser.
@@ -351,6 +674,8 @@ impl ComputeNode {
                    .map_err(|_| anyhow::anyhow!("invalid connstr"))?;

                let mut client = Client::connect(zenith_admin_connstr.as_str(), NoTls)?;
+                // Disable forwarding so that users don't get a cloud_admin role
+                client.simple_query("SET neon.forward_ddl = false")?;
                client.simple_query("CREATE USER cloud_admin WITH SUPERUSER")?;
                client.simple_query("GRANT zenith_admin TO cloud_admin")?;
                drop(client);
@@ -361,31 +686,29 @@ impl ComputeNode {
            Ok(client) => client,
        };

-        // Proceed with post-startup configuration. Note, that order of operations is important.
        // Disable DDL forwarding because control plane already knows about these roles/databases.
        client.simple_query("SET neon.forward_ddl = false")?;
+
+        // Proceed with post-startup configuration. Note, that order of operations is important.
        let spec = &compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set").spec;
+        create_neon_superuser(spec, &mut client)?;
        handle_roles(spec, &mut client)?;
        handle_databases(spec, &mut client)?;
        handle_role_deletions(spec, self.connstr.as_str(), &mut client)?;
-        handle_grants(spec, self.connstr.as_str(), &mut client)?;
+        handle_grants(spec, self.connstr.as_str())?;
        handle_extensions(spec, &mut client)?;
+        create_availability_check_data(&mut client)?;

        // 'Close' connection
        drop(client);

-        info!(
-            "finished configuration of compute for project {}",
-            spec.cluster.cluster_id
-        );
-
        Ok(())
    }

    // We could've wrapped this around `pg_ctl reload`, but right now we don't use
    // `pg_ctl` for start / stop, so this just seems much easier to do as we already
    // have opened connection to Postgres and superuser access.
-    #[instrument(skip(self, client))]
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
    fn pg_reload_conf(&self, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
        client.simple_query("SELECT pg_reload_conf()")?;
        Ok(())
@@ -393,13 +716,13 @@ impl ComputeNode {

    /// Similar to `apply_config()`, but does a bit different sequence of operations,
    /// as it's used to reconfigure a previously started and configured Postgres node.
-    #[instrument(skip(self))]
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
    pub fn reconfigure(&self) -> Result<()> {
        let spec = self.state.lock().unwrap().pspec.clone().unwrap().spec;

        // Write new config
        let pgdata_path = Path::new(&self.pgdata);
-        config::write_postgres_conf(&pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf"), &spec)?;
+        config::write_postgres_conf(&pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf"), &spec, None)?;

        let mut client = Client::connect(self.connstr.as_str(), NoTls)?;
        self.pg_reload_conf(&mut client)?;
@@ -411,7 +734,7 @@ impl ComputeNode {
            handle_roles(&spec, &mut client)?;
            handle_databases(&spec, &mut client)?;
            handle_role_deletions(&spec, self.connstr.as_str(), &mut client)?;
-            handle_grants(&spec, self.connstr.as_str(), &mut client)?;
+            handle_grants(&spec, self.connstr.as_str())?;
            handle_extensions(&spec, &mut client)?;
        }

@@ -428,36 +751,72 @@ impl ComputeNode {
        Ok(())
    }

-    #[instrument(skip(self))]
-    pub fn start_compute(&self) -> Result<std::process::Child> {
+    #[instrument(skip_all)]
+    pub fn start_compute(&self, extension_server_port: u16) -> Result<std::process::Child> {
        let compute_state = self.state.lock().unwrap().clone();
-        let spec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
+        let pspec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
        info!(
            "starting compute for project {}, operation {}, tenant {}, timeline {}",
-            spec.spec.cluster.cluster_id,
-            spec.spec.operation_uuid.as_deref().unwrap_or("None"),
-            spec.tenant_id,
-            spec.timeline_id,
+            pspec.spec.cluster.cluster_id.as_deref().unwrap_or("None"),
+            pspec.spec.operation_uuid.as_deref().unwrap_or("None"),
+            pspec.tenant_id,
+            pspec.timeline_id,
        );

-        self.prepare_pgdata(&compute_state)?;
+        info!(
+            "start_compute spec.remote_extensions {:?}",
+            pspec.spec.remote_extensions
+        );
+
+        // This part is sync, because we need to download
+        // remote shared_preload_libraries before postgres start (if any)
+        if let Some(remote_extensions) = &pspec.spec.remote_extensions {
+            // First, create control files for all availale extensions
+            extension_server::create_control_files(remote_extensions, &self.pgbin);
+
+            let library_load_start_time = Utc::now();
+            let remote_ext_metrics = self.prepare_preload_libraries(&pspec.spec)?;
+
+            let library_load_time = Utc::now()
+                .signed_duration_since(library_load_start_time)
+                .to_std()
+                .unwrap()
+                .as_millis() as u64;
+            let mut state = self.state.lock().unwrap();
+            state.metrics.load_ext_ms = library_load_time;
+            state.metrics.num_ext_downloaded = remote_ext_metrics.num_ext_downloaded;
+            state.metrics.largest_ext_size = remote_ext_metrics.largest_ext_size;
+            state.metrics.total_ext_download_size = remote_ext_metrics.total_ext_download_size;
+            info!(
+                "Loading shared_preload_libraries took {:?}ms",
+                library_load_time
+            );
+            info!("{:?}", remote_ext_metrics);
+        }
+
+        self.prepare_pgdata(&compute_state, extension_server_port)?;

        let start_time = Utc::now();
+        let pg = self.start_postgres(pspec.storage_auth_token.clone())?;

-        let pg = self.start_postgres(spec.storage_auth_token.clone())?;
-
-        if spec.spec.mode == ComputeMode::Primary {
+        let config_time = Utc::now();
+        if pspec.spec.mode == ComputeMode::Primary && !pspec.spec.skip_pg_catalog_updates {
            self.apply_config(&compute_state)?;
        }

        let startup_end_time = Utc::now();
        {
            let mut state = self.state.lock().unwrap();
-            state.metrics.config_ms = startup_end_time
+            state.metrics.start_postgres_ms = config_time
                .signed_duration_since(start_time)
                .to_std()
                .unwrap()
                .as_millis() as u64;
+            state.metrics.config_ms = startup_end_time
+                .signed_duration_since(config_time)
+                .to_std()
+                .unwrap()
+                .as_millis() as u64;
            state.metrics.total_startup_ms = startup_end_time
                .signed_duration_since(compute_state.start_time)
                .to_std()
@@ -466,6 +825,18 @@ impl ComputeNode {
        }
        self.set_status(ComputeStatus::Running);

+        info!(
+            "finished configuration of compute for project {}",
+            pspec.spec.cluster.cluster_id.as_deref().unwrap_or("None")
+        );
+
+        // Log metrics so that we can search for slow operations in logs
+        let metrics = {
+            let state = self.state.lock().unwrap();
+            state.metrics.clone()
+        };
+        info!(?metrics, "compute start finished");
+
        Ok(pg)
    }

@@ -571,4 +942,173 @@ LIMIT 100",
            "{{\"pg_stat_statements\": []}}".to_string()
        }
    }
+
+    // download an archive, unzip and place files in correct locations
+    pub async fn download_extension(
+        &self,
+        real_ext_name: String,
+        ext_path: RemotePath,
+    ) -> Result<u64, DownloadError> {
+        let remote_storage = self
+            .ext_remote_storage
+            .as_ref()
+            .ok_or(DownloadError::BadInput(anyhow::anyhow!(
+                "Remote extensions storage is not configured",
+            )))?;
+
+        let ext_archive_name = ext_path.object_name().expect("bad path");
+
+        let mut first_try = false;
+        if !self
+            .ext_download_progress
+            .read()
+            .expect("lock err")
+            .contains_key(ext_archive_name)
+        {
+            self.ext_download_progress
+                .write()
+                .expect("lock err")
+                .insert(ext_archive_name.to_string(), (Utc::now(), false));
+            first_try = true;
+        }
+        let (download_start, download_completed) =
+            self.ext_download_progress.read().expect("lock err")[ext_archive_name];
+        let start_time_delta = Utc::now()
+            .signed_duration_since(download_start)
+            .to_std()
+            .unwrap()
+            .as_millis() as u64;
+
+        // how long to wait for extension download if it was started by another process
+        const HANG_TIMEOUT: u64 = 3000; // milliseconds
+
+        if download_completed {
+            info!("extension already downloaded, skipping re-download");
+            return Ok(0);
+        } else if start_time_delta < HANG_TIMEOUT && !first_try {
+            info!("download {ext_archive_name} already started by another process, hanging untill completion or timeout");
+            let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(tokio::time::Duration::from_millis(500));
+            loop {
+                info!("waiting for download");
+                interval.tick().await;
+                let (_, download_completed_now) =
+                    self.ext_download_progress.read().expect("lock")[ext_archive_name];
+                if download_completed_now {
+                    info!("download finished by whoever else downloaded it");
+                    return Ok(0);
+                }
+            }
+            // NOTE: the above loop will get terminated
+            // based on the timeout of the download function
+        }
+
+        // if extension hasn't been downloaded before or the previous
+        // attempt to download was at least HANG_TIMEOUT ms ago
+        // then we try to download it here
+        info!("downloading new extension {ext_archive_name}");
+
+        let download_size = extension_server::download_extension(
+            &real_ext_name,
+            &ext_path,
+            remote_storage,
+            &self.pgbin,
+        )
+        .await
+        .map_err(DownloadError::Other);
+
+        self.ext_download_progress
+            .write()
+            .expect("bad lock")
+            .insert(ext_archive_name.to_string(), (download_start, true));
+
+        download_size
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::main]
+    pub async fn prepare_preload_libraries(
+        &self,
+        spec: &ComputeSpec,
+    ) -> Result<RemoteExtensionMetrics> {
+        if self.ext_remote_storage.is_none() {
+            return Ok(RemoteExtensionMetrics {
+                num_ext_downloaded: 0,
+                largest_ext_size: 0,
+                total_ext_download_size: 0,
+            });
+        }
+        let remote_extensions = spec
+            .remote_extensions
+            .as_ref()
+            .ok_or(anyhow::anyhow!("Remote extensions are not configured",))?;
+
+        info!("parse shared_preload_libraries from spec.cluster.settings");
+        let mut libs_vec = Vec::new();
+        if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
+            libs_vec = libs
+                .split(&[',', '\'', ' '])
+                .filter(|s| *s != "neon" && !s.is_empty())
+                .map(str::to_string)
+                .collect();
+        }
+        info!("parse shared_preload_libraries from provided postgresql.conf");
+
+        // that is used in neon_local and python tests
+        if let Some(conf) = &spec.cluster.postgresql_conf {
+            let conf_lines = conf.split('\n').collect::<Vec<&str>>();
+            let mut shared_preload_libraries_line = "";
+            for line in conf_lines {
+                if line.starts_with("shared_preload_libraries") {
+                    shared_preload_libraries_line = line;
+                }
+            }
+            let mut preload_libs_vec = Vec::new();
+            if let Some(libs) = shared_preload_libraries_line.split("='").nth(1) {
+                preload_libs_vec = libs
+                    .split(&[',', '\'', ' '])
+                    .filter(|s| *s != "neon" && !s.is_empty())
+                    .map(str::to_string)
+                    .collect();
+            }
+            libs_vec.extend(preload_libs_vec);
+        }
+
+        // Don't try to download libraries that are not in the index.
+        // Assume that they are already present locally.
+        libs_vec.retain(|lib| remote_extensions.library_index.contains_key(lib));
+
+        info!("Downloading to shared preload libraries: {:?}", &libs_vec);
+
+        let mut download_tasks = Vec::new();
+        for library in &libs_vec {
+            let (ext_name, ext_path) =
+                remote_extensions.get_ext(library, true, &self.build_tag, &self.pgversion)?;
+            download_tasks.push(self.download_extension(ext_name, ext_path));
+        }
+        let results = join_all(download_tasks).await;
+
+        let mut remote_ext_metrics = RemoteExtensionMetrics {
+            num_ext_downloaded: 0,
+            largest_ext_size: 0,
+            total_ext_download_size: 0,
+        };
+        for result in results {
+            let download_size = match result {
+                Ok(res) => {
+                    remote_ext_metrics.num_ext_downloaded += 1;
+                    res
+                }
+                Err(err) => {
+                    // if we failed to download an extension, we don't want to fail the whole
+                    // process, but we do want to log the error
+                    error!("Failed to download extension: {}", err);
+                    0
+                }
+            };
+
+            remote_ext_metrics.largest_ext_size =
+                std::cmp::max(remote_ext_metrics.largest_ext_size, download_size);
+            remote_ext_metrics.total_ext_download_size += download_size;
+        }
+        Ok(remote_ext_metrics)
+    }
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/config.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/config.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use std::path::Path;

 use anyhow::Result;

+use crate::pg_helpers::escape_conf_value;
 use crate::pg_helpers::PgOptionsSerialize;
 use compute_api::spec::{ComputeMode, ComputeSpec};

@@ -32,14 +33,44 @@ pub fn line_in_file(path: &Path, line: &str) -> Result<bool> {
 }

 /// Create or completely rewrite configuration file specified by `path`
-pub fn write_postgres_conf(path: &Path, spec: &ComputeSpec) -> Result<()> {
+pub fn write_postgres_conf(
+    path: &Path,
+    spec: &ComputeSpec,
+    extension_server_port: Option<u16>,
+) -> Result<()> {
    // File::create() destroys the file content if it exists.
    let mut file = File::create(path)?;

-    writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl: begin")?;
+    // Write the postgresql.conf content from the spec file as is.
+    if let Some(conf) = &spec.cluster.postgresql_conf {
+        writeln!(file, "{}", conf)?;
+    }

    write!(file, "{}", &spec.cluster.settings.as_pg_settings())?;

+    // Add options for connecting to storage
+    writeln!(file, "# Neon storage settings")?;
+    if let Some(s) = &spec.pageserver_connstring {
+        writeln!(file, "neon.pageserver_connstring={}", escape_conf_value(s))?;
+    }
+    if !spec.safekeeper_connstrings.is_empty() {
+        writeln!(
+            file,
+            "neon.safekeepers={}",
+            escape_conf_value(&spec.safekeeper_connstrings.join(","))
+        )?;
+    }
+    if let Some(s) = &spec.tenant_id {
+        writeln!(file, "neon.tenant_id={}", escape_conf_value(&s.to_string()))?;
+    }
+    if let Some(s) = &spec.timeline_id {
+        writeln!(
+            file,
+            "neon.timeline_id={}",
+            escape_conf_value(&s.to_string())
+        )?;
+    }
+
    match spec.mode {
        ComputeMode::Primary => {}
        ComputeMode::Static(lsn) => {
@@ -53,7 +84,16 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(path: &Path, spec: &ComputeSpec) -> Result<()> {
        }
    }

-    writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl: end")?;
+    // If there are any extra options in the 'settings' field, append those
+    if spec.cluster.settings.is_some() {
+        writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl: begin")?;
+        write!(file, "{}", spec.cluster.settings.as_pg_settings())?;
+        writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl: end")?;
+    }
+
+    if let Some(port) = extension_server_port {
+        writeln!(file, "neon.extension_server_port={}", port)?;
+    }

    Ok(())
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/configurator.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/configurator.rs
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::thread;

-use anyhow::Result;
 use tracing::{error, info, instrument};

 use compute_api::responses::ComputeStatus;

 use crate::compute::ComputeNode;

-#[instrument(skip(compute))]
+#[instrument(skip_all)]
 fn configurator_main_loop(compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) {
    info!("waiting for reconfiguration requests");
    loop {
@@ -42,13 +41,14 @@ fn configurator_main_loop(compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) {
    }
 }

-pub fn launch_configurator(compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> Result<thread::JoinHandle<()>> {
+pub fn launch_configurator(compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> thread::JoinHandle<()> {
    let compute = Arc::clone(compute);

-    Ok(thread::Builder::new()
+    thread::Builder::new()
        .name("compute-configurator".into())
        .spawn(move || {
            configurator_main_loop(&compute);
            info!("configurator thread is exited");
-        })?)
+        })
+        .expect("cannot launch configurator thread")
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/extension_server.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/extension_server.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
+// Download extension files from the extension store
+// and put them in the right place in the postgres directory (share / lib)
+/*
+The layout of the S3 bucket is as follows:
+5615610098 // this is an extension build number
+├── v14
+│   ├── extensions
+│   │   ├── anon.tar.zst
+│   │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+│   └── ext_index.json
+└── v15
+    ├── extensions
+    │   ├── anon.tar.zst
+    │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+    └── ext_index.json
+5615261079
+├── v14
+│   ├── extensions
+│   │   └── anon.tar.zst
+│   └── ext_index.json
+└── v15
+    ├── extensions
+    │   └── anon.tar.zst
+    └── ext_index.json
+5623261088
+├── v14
+│   ├── extensions
+│   │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+│   └── ext_index.json
+└── v15
+    ├── extensions
+    │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+    └── ext_index.json
+
+Note that build number cannot be part of prefix because we might need extensions
+from other build numbers.
+
+ext_index.json stores the control files and location of extension archives
+It also stores a list of public extensions and a library_index
+
+We don't need to duplicate extension.tar.zst files.
+We only need to upload a new one if it is updated.
+(Although currently we just upload every time anyways, hopefully will change
+this sometime)
+
+*access* is controlled by spec
+
+More specifically, here is an example ext_index.json
+{
+    "public_extensions": [
+        "anon",
+        "pg_buffercache"
+    ],
+    "library_index": {
+        "anon": "anon",
+        "pg_buffercache": "pg_buffercache"
+    },
+    "extension_data": {
+        "pg_buffercache": {
+            "control_data": {
+                "pg_buffercache.control": "# pg_buffercache extension \ncomment = 'examine the shared buffer cache' \ndefault_version = '1.3' \nmodule_pathname = '$libdir/pg_buffercache' \nrelocatable = true \ntrusted=true"
+            },
+            "archive_path": "5670669815/v14/extensions/pg_buffercache.tar.zst"
+        },
+        "anon": {
+            "control_data": {
+                "anon.control": "# PostgreSQL Anonymizer (anon) extension \ncomment = 'Data anonymization tools' \ndefault_version = '1.1.0' \ndirectory='extension/anon' \nrelocatable = false \nrequires = 'pgcrypto' \nsuperuser = false \nmodule_pathname = '$libdir/anon' \ntrusted = true \n"
+            },
+            "archive_path": "5670669815/v14/extensions/anon.tar.zst"
+        }
+    }
+}
+*/
+use anyhow::Context;
+use anyhow::{self, Result};
+use compute_api::spec::RemoteExtSpec;
+use remote_storage::*;
+use serde_json;
+use std::io::Read;
+use std::num::{NonZeroU32, NonZeroUsize};
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::str;
+use tar::Archive;
+use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
+use tracing::info;
+use tracing::log::warn;
+use zstd::stream::read::Decoder;
+
+fn get_pg_config(argument: &str, pgbin: &str) -> String {
+    // gives the result of `pg_config [argument]`
+    // where argument is a flag like `--version` or `--sharedir`
+    let pgconfig = pgbin
+        .strip_suffix("postgres")
+        .expect("bad pgbin")
+        .to_owned()
+        + "/pg_config";
+    let config_output = std::process::Command::new(pgconfig)
+        .arg(argument)
+        .output()
+        .expect("pg_config error");
+    std::str::from_utf8(&config_output.stdout)
+        .expect("pg_config error")
+        .trim()
+        .to_string()
+}
+
+pub fn get_pg_version(pgbin: &str) -> String {
+    // pg_config --version returns a (platform specific) human readable string
+    // such as "PostgreSQL 15.4". We parse this to v14/v15
+    let human_version = get_pg_config("--version", pgbin);
+    if human_version.contains("15") {
+        return "v15".to_string();
+    } else if human_version.contains("14") {
+        return "v14".to_string();
+    }
+    panic!("Unsuported postgres version {human_version}");
+}
+
+// download the archive for a given extension,
+// unzip it, and place files in the appropriate locations (share/lib)
+pub async fn download_extension(
+    ext_name: &str,
+    ext_path: &RemotePath,
+    remote_storage: &GenericRemoteStorage,
+    pgbin: &str,
+) -> Result<u64> {
+    info!("Download extension {:?} from {:?}", ext_name, ext_path);
+    let mut download = remote_storage.download(ext_path).await?;
+    let mut download_buffer = Vec::new();
+    download
+        .download_stream
+        .read_to_end(&mut download_buffer)
+        .await?;
+    let download_size = download_buffer.len() as u64;
+    // it's unclear whether it is more performant to decompress into memory or not
+    // TODO: decompressing into memory can be avoided
+    let mut decoder = Decoder::new(download_buffer.as_slice())?;
+    let mut decompress_buffer = Vec::new();
+    decoder.read_to_end(&mut decompress_buffer)?;
+    let mut archive = Archive::new(decompress_buffer.as_slice());
+    let unzip_dest = pgbin
+        .strip_suffix("/bin/postgres")
+        .expect("bad pgbin")
+        .to_string()
+        + "/download_extensions";
+    archive.unpack(&unzip_dest)?;
+    info!("Download + unzip {:?} completed successfully", &ext_path);
+
+    let sharedir_paths = (
+        unzip_dest.to_string() + "/share/extension",
+        Path::new(&get_pg_config("--sharedir", pgbin)).join("extension"),
+    );
+    let libdir_paths = (
+        unzip_dest.to_string() + "/lib",
+        Path::new(&get_pg_config("--pkglibdir", pgbin)).to_path_buf(),
+    );
+    // move contents of the libdir / sharedir in unzipped archive to the correct local paths
+    for paths in [sharedir_paths, libdir_paths] {
+        let (zip_dir, real_dir) = paths;
+        info!("mv {zip_dir:?}/*  {real_dir:?}");
+        for file in std::fs::read_dir(zip_dir)? {
+            let old_file = file?.path();
+            let new_file =
+                Path::new(&real_dir).join(old_file.file_name().context("error parsing file")?);
+            info!("moving {old_file:?} to {new_file:?}");
+
+            // extension download failed: Directory not empty (os error 39)
+            match std::fs::rename(old_file, new_file) {
+                Ok(()) => info!("move succeeded"),
+                Err(e) => {
+                    warn!("move failed, probably because the extension already exists: {e}")
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    info!("done moving extension {ext_name}");
+    Ok(download_size)
+}
+
+// Create extension control files from spec
+pub fn create_control_files(remote_extensions: &RemoteExtSpec, pgbin: &str) {
+    let local_sharedir = Path::new(&get_pg_config("--sharedir", pgbin)).join("extension");
+    for (ext_name, ext_data) in remote_extensions.extension_data.iter() {
+        // Check if extension is present in public or custom.
+        // If not, then it is not allowed to be used by this compute.
+        if let Some(public_extensions) = &remote_extensions.public_extensions {
+            if !public_extensions.contains(ext_name) {
+                if let Some(custom_extensions) = &remote_extensions.custom_extensions {
+                    if !custom_extensions.contains(ext_name) {
+                        continue; // skip this extension, it is not allowed
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (control_name, control_content) in &ext_data.control_data {
+            let control_path = local_sharedir.join(control_name);
+            if !control_path.exists() {
+                info!("writing file {:?}{:?}", control_path, control_content);
+                std::fs::write(control_path, control_content).unwrap();
+            } else {
+                warn!("control file {:?} exists both locally and remotely. ignoring the remote version.", control_path);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// This function initializes the necessary structs to use remote storage
+pub fn init_remote_storage(remote_ext_config: &str) -> anyhow::Result<GenericRemoteStorage> {
+    #[derive(Debug, serde::Deserialize)]
+    struct RemoteExtJson {
+        bucket: String,
+        region: String,
+        endpoint: Option<String>,
+        prefix: Option<String>,
+    }
+    let remote_ext_json = serde_json::from_str::<RemoteExtJson>(remote_ext_config)?;
+
+    let config = S3Config {
+        bucket_name: remote_ext_json.bucket,
+        bucket_region: remote_ext_json.region,
+        prefix_in_bucket: remote_ext_json.prefix,
+        endpoint: remote_ext_json.endpoint,
+        concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize::new(100).expect("100 != 0"),
+        max_keys_per_list_response: None,
+    };
+    let config = RemoteStorageConfig {
+        max_concurrent_syncs: NonZeroUsize::new(100).expect("100 != 0"),
+        max_sync_errors: NonZeroU32::new(100).expect("100 != 0"),
+        storage: RemoteStorageKind::AwsS3(config),
+    };
+    GenericRemoteStorage::from_config(&config)
+}
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/api.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/api.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ use hyper::{Body, Method, Request, Response, Server, StatusCode};
 use num_cpus;
 use serde_json;
 use tokio::task;
-use tracing::{error, info};
+use tracing::{error, info, warn};
 use tracing_utils::http::OtelName;

 fn status_response_from_state(state: &ComputeState) -> ComputeStatusResponse {
@@ -121,6 +121,83 @@ async fn routes(req: Request<Body>, compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> Response<Body
            }
        }

+        // download extension files from S3 on demand
+        (&Method::POST, route) if route.starts_with("/extension_server/") => {
+            info!("serving {:?} POST request", route);
+            info!("req.uri {:?}", req.uri());
+
+            // don't even try to download extensions
+            // if no remote storage is configured
+            if compute.ext_remote_storage.is_none() {
+                info!("no extensions remote storage configured");
+                let mut resp = Response::new(Body::from("no remote storage configured"));
+                *resp.status_mut() = StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
+                return resp;
+            }
+
+            let mut is_library = false;
+            if let Some(params) = req.uri().query() {
+                info!("serving {:?} POST request with params: {}", route, params);
+                if params == "is_library=true" {
+                    is_library = true;
+                } else {
+                    let mut resp = Response::new(Body::from("Wrong request parameters"));
+                    *resp.status_mut() = StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST;
+                    return resp;
+                }
+            }
+            let filename = route.split('/').last().unwrap().to_string();
+            info!("serving /extension_server POST request, filename: {filename:?} is_library: {is_library}");
+
+            // get ext_name and path from spec
+            // don't lock compute_state for too long
+            let ext = {
+                let compute_state = compute.state.lock().unwrap();
+                let pspec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
+                let spec = &pspec.spec;
+
+                // debug only
+                info!("spec: {:?}", spec);
+
+                let remote_extensions = match spec.remote_extensions.as_ref() {
+                    Some(r) => r,
+                    None => {
+                        info!("no remote extensions spec was provided");
+                        let mut resp = Response::new(Body::from("no remote storage configured"));
+                        *resp.status_mut() = StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
+                        return resp;
+                    }
+                };
+
+                remote_extensions.get_ext(
+                    &filename,
+                    is_library,
+                    &compute.build_tag,
+                    &compute.pgversion,
+                )
+            };
+
+            match ext {
+                Ok((ext_name, ext_path)) => {
+                    match compute.download_extension(ext_name, ext_path).await {
+                        Ok(_) => Response::new(Body::from("OK")),
+                        Err(e) => {
+                            error!("extension download failed: {}", e);
+                            let mut resp = Response::new(Body::from(e.to_string()));
+                            *resp.status_mut() = StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
+                            resp
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    warn!("extension download failed to find extension: {}", e);
+                    let mut resp = Response::new(Body::from("failed to find file"));
+                    *resp.status_mut() = StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
+                    resp
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
        // Return the `404 Not Found` for any other routes.
        _ => {
            let mut not_found = Response::new(Body::from("404 Not Found"));
@@ -220,8 +297,8 @@ fn render_json_error(e: &str, status: StatusCode) -> Response<Body> {

 // Main Hyper HTTP server function that runs it and blocks waiting on it forever.
 #[tokio::main]
-async fn serve(state: Arc<ComputeNode>) {
-    let addr = SocketAddr::from(([0, 0, 0, 0], 3080));
+async fn serve(port: u16, state: Arc<ComputeNode>) {
+    let addr = SocketAddr::from(([0, 0, 0, 0], port));

    let make_service = make_service_fn(move |_conn| {
        let state = state.clone();
@@ -256,10 +333,10 @@ async fn serve(state: Arc<ComputeNode>) {
 }

 /// Launch a separate Hyper HTTP API server thread and return its `JoinHandle`.
-pub fn launch_http_server(state: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> Result<thread::JoinHandle<()>> {
+pub fn launch_http_server(port: u16, state: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> Result<thread::JoinHandle<()>> {
    let state = Arc::clone(state);

    Ok(thread::Builder::new()
        .name("http-endpoint".into())
-        .spawn(move || serve(state))?)
+        .spawn(move || serve(port, state))?)
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/openapi_spec.yaml
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/openapi_spec.yaml
@@ -139,6 +139,34 @@ paths:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/GenericError"
+  /extension_server:
+    post:
+      tags:
+      - Extension
+      summary: Download extension from S3 to local folder.
+      description: ""
+      operationId: downloadExtension
+      responses:
+        200:
+          description: Extension downloaded
+          content:
+            text/plain:
+              schema:
+                type: string
+                description: Error text or 'OK' if download succeeded.
+                example: "OK"
+        400:
+        description: Request is invalid.
+        content:
+          application/json:
+            schema:
+              $ref: "#/components/schemas/GenericError"
+        500:
+        description: Extension download request failed.
+        content:
+          application/json:
+            schema:
+              $ref: "#/components/schemas/GenericError"

 components:
  securitySchemes:
--- a/compute_tools/src/lib.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ pub mod http;
 #[macro_use]
 pub mod logger;
 pub mod compute;
+pub mod extension_server;
 pub mod monitor;
 pub mod params;
 pub mod pg_helpers;
 pub mod spec;
+pub mod sync_sk;
--- a/compute_tools/src/logger.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/logger.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pub fn init_tracing_and_logging(default_log_level: &str) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new(default_log_level));

    let fmt_layer = tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
+        .with_ansi(false)
        .with_target(false)
        .with_writer(std::io::stderr);

--- a/compute_tools/src/monitor.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/monitor.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::{thread, time};

-use anyhow::Result;
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
 use postgres::{Client, NoTls};
 use tracing::{debug, info};
@@ -105,10 +104,11 @@ fn watch_compute_activity(compute: &ComputeNode) {
 }

 /// Launch a separate compute monitor thread and return its `JoinHandle`.
-pub fn launch_monitor(state: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> Result<thread::JoinHandle<()>> {
+pub fn launch_monitor(state: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> thread::JoinHandle<()> {
    let state = Arc::clone(state);

-    Ok(thread::Builder::new()
+    thread::Builder::new()
        .name("compute-monitor".into())
-        .spawn(move || watch_compute_activity(&state))?)
+        .spawn(move || watch_compute_activity(&state))
+        .expect("cannot launch compute monitor thread")
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
@@ -16,15 +16,26 @@ use compute_api::spec::{Database, GenericOption, GenericOptions, PgIdent, Role};

 const POSTGRES_WAIT_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(60 * 1000); // milliseconds

-/// Escape a string for including it in a SQL literal
-fn escape_literal(s: &str) -> String {
-    s.replace('\'', "''").replace('\\', "\\\\")
+/// Escape a string for including it in a SQL literal. Wrapping the result
+/// with `E'{}'` or `'{}'` is not required, as it returns a ready-to-use
+/// SQL string literal, e.g. `'db'''` or `E'db\\'`.
+/// See <https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/da98d005cdbcd45af563d0c4ac86d0e9772cd15f/src/backend/utils/adt/quote.c#L47>
+/// for the original implementation.
+pub fn escape_literal(s: &str) -> String {
+    let res = s.replace('\'', "''").replace('\\', "\\\\");
+
+    if res.contains('\\') {
+        format!("E'{}'", res)
+    } else {
+        format!("'{}'", res)
+    }
 }

-/// Escape a string so that it can be used in postgresql.conf.
-/// Same as escape_literal, currently.
-fn escape_conf_value(s: &str) -> String {
-    s.replace('\'', "''").replace('\\', "\\\\")
+/// Escape a string so that it can be used in postgresql.conf. Wrapping the result
+/// with `'{}'` is not required, as it returns a ready-to-use config string.
+pub fn escape_conf_value(s: &str) -> String {
+    let res = s.replace('\'', "''").replace('\\', "\\\\");
+    format!("'{}'", res)
 }

 trait GenericOptionExt {
@@ -37,7 +48,7 @@ impl GenericOptionExt for GenericOption {
    fn to_pg_option(&self) -> String {
        if let Some(val) = &self.value {
            match self.vartype.as_ref() {
-                "string" => format!("{} '{}'", self.name, escape_literal(val)),
+                "string" => format!("{} {}", self.name, escape_literal(val)),
                _ => format!("{} {}", self.name, val),
            }
        } else {
@@ -49,7 +60,7 @@ impl GenericOptionExt for GenericOption {
    fn to_pg_setting(&self) -> String {
        if let Some(val) = &self.value {
            match self.vartype.as_ref() {
-                "string" => format!("{} = '{}'", self.name, escape_conf_value(val)),
+                "string" => format!("{} = {}", self.name, escape_conf_value(val)),
                _ => format!("{} = {}", self.name, val),
            }
        } else {
@@ -215,7 +226,7 @@ pub fn get_existing_dbs(client: &mut Client) -> Result<Vec<Database>> {
 /// Wait for Postgres to become ready to accept connections. It's ready to
 /// accept connections when the state-field in `pgdata/postmaster.pid` says
 /// 'ready'.
-#[instrument(skip(pg))]
+#[instrument(skip_all, fields(pgdata = %pgdata.display()))]
 pub fn wait_for_postgres(pg: &mut Child, pgdata: &Path) -> Result<()> {
    let pid_path = pgdata.join("postmaster.pid");

--- a/compute_tools/src/spec.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/spec.rs
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ pub fn get_spec_from_control_plane(
 pub fn handle_configuration(spec: &ComputeSpec, pgdata_path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
    // File `postgresql.conf` is no longer included into `basebackup`, so just
    // always write all config into it creating new file.
-    config::write_postgres_conf(&pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf"), spec)?;
+    config::write_postgres_conf(&pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf"), spec, None)?;

    update_pg_hba(pgdata_path)?;

@@ -269,17 +269,13 @@ pub fn handle_roles(spec: &ComputeSpec, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
                xact.execute(query.as_str(), &[])?;
            }
            RoleAction::Create => {
-                let mut query: String = format!("CREATE ROLE {} ", name.pg_quote());
+                let mut query: String = format!(
+                    "CREATE ROLE {} CREATEROLE CREATEDB BYPASSRLS IN ROLE neon_superuser",
+                    name.pg_quote()
+                );
                info!("role create query: '{}'", &query);
                query.push_str(&role.to_pg_options());
                xact.execute(query.as_str(), &[])?;
-
-                let grant_query = format!(
-                    "GRANT pg_read_all_data, pg_write_all_data TO {}",
-                    name.pg_quote()
-                );
-                xact.execute(grant_query.as_str(), &[])?;
-                info!("role grant query: '{}'", &grant_query);
            }
        }

@@ -401,10 +397,44 @@ pub fn handle_databases(spec: &ComputeSpec, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
                // We do not check either DB exists or not,
                // Postgres will take care of it for us
                "delete_db" => {
-                    let query: String = format!("DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS {}", &op.name.pg_quote());
+                    // In Postgres we can't drop a database if it is a template.
+                    // So we need to unset the template flag first, but it could
+                    // be a retry, so we could've already dropped the database.
+                    // Check that database exists first to make it idempotent.
+                    let unset_template_query: String = format!(
+                        "
+                        DO $$
+                        BEGIN
+                            IF EXISTS(
+                                SELECT 1
+                                FROM pg_catalog.pg_database
+                                WHERE datname = {}
+                            )
+                            THEN
+                            ALTER DATABASE {} is_template false;
+                            END IF;
+                        END
+                        $$;",
+                        escape_literal(&op.name),
+                        &op.name.pg_quote()
+                    );
+                    // Use FORCE to drop database even if there are active connections.
+                    // We run this from `cloud_admin`, so it should have enough privileges.
+                    // NB: there could be other db states, which prevent us from dropping
+                    // the database. For example, if db is used by any active subscription
+                    // or replication slot.
+                    // TODO: deal with it once we allow logical replication. Proper fix should
+                    // involve returning an error code to the control plane, so it could
+                    // figure out that this is a non-retryable error, return it to the user
+                    // and fail operation permanently.
+                    let drop_db_query: String = format!(
+                        "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS {} WITH (FORCE)",
+                        &op.name.pg_quote()
+                    );

                    warn!("deleting database '{}'", &op.name);
-                    client.execute(query.as_str(), &[])?;
+                    client.execute(unset_template_query.as_str(), &[])?;
+                    client.execute(drop_db_query.as_str(), &[])?;
                }
                "rename_db" => {
                    let new_name = op.new_name.as_ref().unwrap();
@@ -476,6 +506,11 @@ pub fn handle_databases(spec: &ComputeSpec, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
                query.push_str(&db.to_pg_options());
                let _guard = info_span!("executing", query).entered();
                client.execute(query.as_str(), &[])?;
+                let grant_query: String = format!(
+                    "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE {} TO neon_superuser",
+                    name.pg_quote()
+                );
+                client.execute(grant_query.as_str(), &[])?;
            }
        };

@@ -495,35 +530,9 @@ pub fn handle_databases(spec: &ComputeSpec, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
 /// Grant CREATE ON DATABASE to the database owner and do some other alters and grants
 /// to allow users creating trusted extensions and re-creating `public` schema, for example.
 #[instrument(skip_all)]
-pub fn handle_grants(spec: &ComputeSpec, connstr: &str, client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {
+pub fn handle_grants(spec: &ComputeSpec, connstr: &str) -> Result<()> {
    info!("cluster spec grants:");

-    // We now have a separate `web_access` role to connect to the database
-    // via the web interface and proxy link auth. And also we grant a
-    // read / write all data privilege to every role. So also grant
-    // create to everyone.
-    // XXX: later we should stop messing with Postgres ACL in such horrible
-    // ways.
-    let roles = spec
-        .cluster
-        .roles
-        .iter()
-        .map(|r| r.name.pg_quote())
-        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-
-    for db in &spec.cluster.databases {
-        let dbname = &db.name;
-
-        let query: String = format!(
-            "GRANT CREATE ON DATABASE {} TO {}",
-            dbname.pg_quote(),
-            roles.join(", ")
-        );
-        info!("grant query {}", &query);
-
-        client.execute(query.as_str(), &[])?;
-    }
-
    // Do some per-database access adjustments. We'd better do this at db creation time,
    // but CREATE DATABASE isn't transactional. So we cannot create db + do some grants
    // atomically.
--- a/compute_tools/src/sync_sk.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/sync_sk.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+// Utils for running sync_safekeepers
+use anyhow::Result;
+use tracing::info;
+use utils::lsn::Lsn;
+
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
+pub enum TimelineStatusResponse {
+    NotFound,
+    Ok(TimelineStatusOkResponse),
+}
+
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct TimelineStatusOkResponse {
+    flush_lsn: Lsn,
+    commit_lsn: Lsn,
+}
+
+/// Get a safekeeper's metadata for our timeline. The id is only used for logging
+pub async fn ping_safekeeper(
+    id: String,
+    config: tokio_postgres::Config,
+) -> Result<TimelineStatusResponse> {
+    // TODO add retries
+
+    // Connect
+    info!("connecting to {}", id);
+    let (client, conn) = config.connect(tokio_postgres::NoTls).await?;
+    tokio::spawn(async move {
+        if let Err(e) = conn.await {
+            eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
+        }
+    });
+
+    // Query
+    info!("querying {}", id);
+    let result = client.simple_query("TIMELINE_STATUS").await?;
+
+    // Parse result
+    info!("done with {}", id);
+    if let postgres::SimpleQueryMessage::Row(row) = &result[0] {
+        use std::str::FromStr;
+        let response = TimelineStatusResponse::Ok(TimelineStatusOkResponse {
+            flush_lsn: Lsn::from_str(row.get("flush_lsn").unwrap())?,
+            commit_lsn: Lsn::from_str(row.get("commit_lsn").unwrap())?,
+        });
+        Ok(response)
+    } else {
+        // Timeline doesn't exist
+        Ok(TimelineStatusResponse::NotFound)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Given a quorum of responses, check if safekeepers are synced at some Lsn
+pub fn check_if_synced(responses: Vec<TimelineStatusResponse>) -> Option<Lsn> {
+    // Check if all responses are ok
+    let ok_responses: Vec<TimelineStatusOkResponse> = responses
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|r| match r {
+            TimelineStatusResponse::Ok(ok_response) => Some(ok_response),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .cloned()
+        .collect();
+    if ok_responses.len() < responses.len() {
+        info!(
+            "not synced. Only {} out of {} know about this timeline",
+            ok_responses.len(),
+            responses.len()
+        );
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    // Get the min and the max of everything
+    let commit: Vec<Lsn> = ok_responses.iter().map(|r| r.commit_lsn).collect();
+    let flush: Vec<Lsn> = ok_responses.iter().map(|r| r.flush_lsn).collect();
+    let commit_max = commit.iter().max().unwrap();
+    let commit_min = commit.iter().min().unwrap();
+    let flush_max = flush.iter().max().unwrap();
+    let flush_min = flush.iter().min().unwrap();
+
+    // Check that all values are equal
+    if commit_min != commit_max {
+        info!("not synced. {:?} {:?}", commit_min, commit_max);
+        return None;
+    }
+    if flush_min != flush_max {
+        info!("not synced. {:?} {:?}", flush_min, flush_max);
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    // Check that commit == flush
+    if commit_max != flush_max {
+        info!("not synced. {:?} {:?}", commit_max, flush_max);
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    Some(*commit_max)
+}
--- a/compute_tools/tests/pg_helpers_tests.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/tests/pg_helpers_tests.rs
@@ -89,4 +89,12 @@ test.escaping = 'here''s a backslash \\ and a quote '' and a double-quote " hoor
        assert_eq!(none_generic_options.find("missed_value"), None);
        assert_eq!(none_generic_options.find("invalid_value"), None);
    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_escape_literal() {
+        assert_eq!(escape_literal("test"), "'test'");
+        assert_eq!(escape_literal("test'"), "'test'''");
+        assert_eq!(escape_literal("test\\'"), "E'test\\\\'''");
+        assert_eq!(escape_literal("test\\'\\'"), "E'test\\\\''\\\\'''");
+    }
 }
--- a/control_plane/Cargo.toml
+++ b/control_plane/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ utils.workspace = true

 compute_api.workspace = true
 workspace_hack.workspace = true
+tracing.workspace = true
--- a/control_plane/src/background_process.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/background_process.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 //! (non-Neon binaries don't necessarily follow our pidfile conventions).
 //! The pid stored in the file is later used to stop the service.
 //!
-//! See [`lock_file`] module for more info.
+//! See the [`lock_file`](utils::lock_file) module for more info.

 use std::ffi::OsStr;
 use std::io::Write;
@@ -180,6 +180,11 @@ pub fn stop_process(immediate: bool, process_name: &str, pid_file: &Path) -> any
    }

    // Wait until process is gone
+    wait_until_stopped(process_name, pid)?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn wait_until_stopped(process_name: &str, pid: Pid) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    for retries in 0..RETRIES {
        match process_has_stopped(pid) {
            Ok(true) => {
--- a/control_plane/src/bin/neon_local.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/bin/neon_local.rs
@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ fn handle_init(init_match: &ArgMatches) -> anyhow::Result<LocalEnv> {

    let mut env =
        LocalEnv::parse_config(&toml_file).context("Failed to create neon configuration")?;
-    env.init(pg_version)
+    let force = init_match.get_flag("force");
+    env.init(pg_version, force)
        .context("Failed to initialize neon repository")?;

    // Initialize pageserver, create initial tenant and timeline.
@@ -476,10 +477,11 @@ fn handle_timeline(timeline_match: &ArgMatches, env: &mut local_env::LocalEnv) -

            println!("Creating endpoint for imported timeline ...");
            cplane.new_endpoint(
-                tenant_id,
                name,
+                tenant_id,
                timeline_id,
                None,
+                None,
                pg_version,
                ComputeMode::Primary,
            )?;
@@ -591,7 +593,7 @@ fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<(

                table.add_row([
                    endpoint_id.as_str(),
-                    &endpoint.address.to_string(),
+                    &endpoint.pg_address.to_string(),
                    &endpoint.timeline_id.to_string(),
                    branch_name,
                    lsn_str.as_str(),
@@ -620,8 +622,8 @@ fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<(
                .get_branch_timeline_id(branch_name, tenant_id)
                .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("Found no timeline id for branch name '{branch_name}'"))?;

-            let port: Option<u16> = sub_args.get_one::<u16>("port").copied();
-
+            let pg_port: Option<u16> = sub_args.get_one::<u16>("pg-port").copied();
+            let http_port: Option<u16> = sub_args.get_one::<u16>("http-port").copied();
            let pg_version = sub_args
                .get_one::<u32>("pg-version")
                .copied()
@@ -639,14 +641,40 @@ fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<(
                (Some(_), true) => anyhow::bail!("cannot specify both lsn and hot-standby"),
            };

-            cplane.new_endpoint(tenant_id, &endpoint_id, timeline_id, port, pg_version, mode)?;
+            cplane.new_endpoint(
+                &endpoint_id,
+                tenant_id,
+                timeline_id,
+                pg_port,
+                http_port,
+                pg_version,
+                mode,
+            )?;
        }
        "start" => {
-            let port: Option<u16> = sub_args.get_one::<u16>("port").copied();
+            let pg_port: Option<u16> = sub_args.get_one::<u16>("pg-port").copied();
+            let http_port: Option<u16> = sub_args.get_one::<u16>("http-port").copied();
            let endpoint_id = sub_args
                .get_one::<String>("endpoint_id")
                .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("No endpoint ID was provided to start"))?;

+            let remote_ext_config = sub_args.get_one::<String>("remote-ext-config");
+
+            // If --safekeepers argument is given, use only the listed safekeeper nodes.
+            let safekeepers =
+                if let Some(safekeepers_str) = sub_args.get_one::<String>("safekeepers") {
+                    let mut safekeepers: Vec<NodeId> = Vec::new();
+                    for sk_id in safekeepers_str.split(',').map(str::trim) {
+                        let sk_id = NodeId(u64::from_str(sk_id).map_err(|_| {
+                            anyhow!("invalid node ID \"{sk_id}\" in --safekeepers list")
+                        })?);
+                        safekeepers.push(sk_id);
+                    }
+                    safekeepers
+                } else {
+                    env.safekeepers.iter().map(|sk| sk.id).collect()
+                };
+
            let endpoint = cplane.endpoints.get(endpoint_id.as_str());

            let auth_token = if matches!(env.pageserver.pg_auth_type, AuthType::NeonJWT) {
@@ -673,7 +701,7 @@ fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<(
                    _ => {}
                }
                println!("Starting existing endpoint {endpoint_id}...");
-                endpoint.start(&auth_token)?;
+                endpoint.start(&auth_token, safekeepers, remote_ext_config)?;
            } else {
                let branch_name = sub_args
                    .get_one::<String>("branch-name")
@@ -709,14 +737,15 @@ fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<(
                println!("Starting new endpoint {endpoint_id} (PostgreSQL v{pg_version}) on timeline {timeline_id} ...");

                let ep = cplane.new_endpoint(
-                    tenant_id,
                    endpoint_id,
+                    tenant_id,
                    timeline_id,
-                    port,
+                    pg_port,
+                    http_port,
                    pg_version,
                    mode,
                )?;
-                ep.start(&auth_token)?;
+                ep.start(&auth_token, safekeepers, remote_ext_config)?;
            }
        }
        "stop" => {
@@ -796,6 +825,16 @@ fn get_safekeeper(env: &local_env::LocalEnv, id: NodeId) -> Result<SafekeeperNod
    }
 }

+// Get list of options to append to safekeeper command invocation.
+fn safekeeper_extra_opts(init_match: &ArgMatches) -> Vec<String> {
+    init_match
+        .get_many::<String>("safekeeper-extra-opt")
+        .into_iter()
+        .flatten()
+        .map(|s| s.to_owned())
+        .collect()
+}
+
 fn handle_safekeeper(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<()> {
    let (sub_name, sub_args) = match sub_match.subcommand() {
        Some(safekeeper_command_data) => safekeeper_command_data,
@@ -812,7 +851,9 @@ fn handle_safekeeper(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Resul

    match sub_name {
        "start" => {
-            if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start() {
+            let extra_opts = safekeeper_extra_opts(sub_args);
+
+            if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(extra_opts) {
                eprintln!("safekeeper start failed: {}", e);
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -837,7 +878,8 @@ fn handle_safekeeper(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Resul
                exit(1);
            }

-            if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start() {
+            let extra_opts = safekeeper_extra_opts(sub_args);
+            if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(extra_opts) {
                eprintln!("safekeeper start failed: {}", e);
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -864,7 +906,7 @@ fn handle_start_all(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> anyhow

    for node in env.safekeepers.iter() {
        let safekeeper = SafekeeperNode::from_env(env, node);
-        if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start() {
+        if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(vec![]) {
            eprintln!("safekeeper {} start failed: {:#}", safekeeper.id, e);
            try_stop_all(env, false);
            exit(1);
@@ -927,6 +969,14 @@ fn cli() -> Command {

    let safekeeper_id_arg = Arg::new("id").help("safekeeper id").required(false);

+    let safekeeper_extra_opt_arg = Arg::new("safekeeper-extra-opt")
+        .short('e')
+        .long("safekeeper-extra-opt")
+        .num_args(1)
+        .action(ArgAction::Append)
+        .help("Additional safekeeper invocation options, e.g. -e=--http-auth-public-key-path=foo")
+        .required(false);
+
    let tenant_id_arg = Arg::new("tenant-id")
        .long("tenant-id")
        .help("Tenant id. Represented as a hexadecimal string 32 symbols length")
@@ -944,11 +994,22 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
        .value_parser(value_parser!(u32))
        .default_value(DEFAULT_PG_VERSION);

-    let port_arg = Arg::new("port")
-        .long("port")
+    let pg_port_arg = Arg::new("pg-port")
+        .long("pg-port")
        .required(false)
        .value_parser(value_parser!(u16))
-        .value_name("port");
+        .value_name("pg-port");
+
+    let http_port_arg = Arg::new("http-port")
+        .long("http-port")
+        .required(false)
+        .value_parser(value_parser!(u16))
+        .value_name("http-port");
+
+    let safekeepers_arg = Arg::new("safekeepers")
+        .long("safekeepers")
+        .required(false)
+        .value_name("safekeepers");

    let stop_mode_arg = Arg::new("stop-mode")
        .short('m')
@@ -965,6 +1026,12 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
        .help("Additional pageserver's configuration options or overrides, refer to pageserver's 'config-override' CLI parameter docs for more")
        .required(false);

+    let remote_ext_config_args = Arg::new("remote-ext-config")
+        .long("remote-ext-config")
+        .num_args(1)
+        .help("Configure the S3 bucket that we search for extensions in.")
+        .required(false);
+
    let lsn_arg = Arg::new("lsn")
        .long("lsn")
        .help("Specify Lsn on the timeline to start from. By default, end of the timeline would be used.")
@@ -976,6 +1043,13 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
        .help("If set, the node will be a hot replica on the specified timeline")
        .required(false);

+    let force_arg = Arg::new("force")
+        .value_parser(value_parser!(bool))
+        .long("force")
+        .action(ArgAction::SetTrue)
+        .help("Force initialization even if the repository is not empty")
+        .required(false);
+
    Command::new("Neon CLI")
        .arg_required_else_help(true)
        .version(GIT_VERSION)
@@ -991,6 +1065,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                        .value_name("config"),
                )
                .arg(pg_version_arg.clone())
+                .arg(force_arg)
        )
        .subcommand(
            Command::new("timeline")
@@ -1070,6 +1145,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                .subcommand(Command::new("start")
                            .about("Start local safekeeper")
                            .arg(safekeeper_id_arg.clone())
+                            .arg(safekeeper_extra_opt_arg.clone())
                )
                .subcommand(Command::new("stop")
                            .about("Stop local safekeeper")
@@ -1080,6 +1156,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                            .about("Restart local safekeeper")
                            .arg(safekeeper_id_arg)
                            .arg(stop_mode_arg.clone())
+                            .arg(safekeeper_extra_opt_arg)
                )
        )
        .subcommand(
@@ -1093,7 +1170,8 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                    .arg(branch_name_arg.clone())
                    .arg(tenant_id_arg.clone())
                    .arg(lsn_arg.clone())
-                    .arg(port_arg.clone())
+                    .arg(pg_port_arg.clone())
+                    .arg(http_port_arg.clone())
                    .arg(
                        Arg::new("config-only")
                            .help("Don't do basebackup, create endpoint directory with only config files")
@@ -1109,9 +1187,12 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                    .arg(branch_name_arg)
                    .arg(timeline_id_arg)
                    .arg(lsn_arg)
-                    .arg(port_arg)
+                    .arg(pg_port_arg)
+                    .arg(http_port_arg)
                    .arg(pg_version_arg)
                    .arg(hot_standby_arg)
+                    .arg(safekeepers_arg)
+                    .arg(remote_ext_config_args)
                )
                .subcommand(
                    Command::new("stop")
--- a/control_plane/src/broker.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/broker.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+//! Code to manage the storage broker
+//!
+//! In the local test environment, the data for each safekeeper is stored in
+//!
+//! ```text
+//!   .neon/safekeepers/<safekeeper id>
+//! ```
 use anyhow::Context;

 use std::path::PathBuf;
--- a/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
@@ -1,41 +1,75 @@
+//! Code to manage compute endpoints
+//!
+//! In the local test environment, the data for each endpoint is stored in
+//!
+//! ```text
+//!   .neon/endpoints/<endpoint id>
+//! ```
+//!
+//! Some basic information about the endpoint, like the tenant and timeline IDs,
+//! are stored in the `endpoint.json` file. The `endpoint.json` file is created
+//! when the endpoint is created, and doesn't change afterwards.
+//!
+//! The endpoint is managed by the `compute_ctl` binary. When an endpoint is
+//! started, we launch `compute_ctl` It synchronizes the safekeepers, downloads
+//! the basebackup from the pageserver to initialize the the data directory, and
+//! finally launches the PostgreSQL process. It watches the PostgreSQL process
+//! until it exits.
+//!
+//! When an endpoint is created, a `postgresql.conf` file is also created in
+//! the endpoint's directory. The file can be modified before starting PostgreSQL.
+//! However, the `postgresql.conf` file in the endpoint directory is not used directly
+//! by PostgreSQL. It is passed to `compute_ctl`, and `compute_ctl` writes another
+//! copy of it in the data directory.
+//!
+//! Directory contents:
+//!
+//! ```text
+//! .neon/endpoints/main/
+//!     compute.log               - log output of `compute_ctl` and `postgres`
+//!     endpoint.json             - serialized `EndpointConf` struct
+//!     postgresql.conf           - postgresql settings
+//!     spec.json                 - passed to `compute_ctl`
+//!     pgdata/
+//!         postgresql.conf       - copy of postgresql.conf created by `compute_ctl`
+//!         zenith.signal
+//!         <other PostgreSQL files>
+//! ```
+//!
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
-use std::fs::{self, File};
-use std::io::Write;
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use std::net::TcpStream;
-use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
-use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
-use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::process::Command;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;

-use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Context, Result};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use serde_with::{serde_as, DisplayFromStr};
-use utils::{
-    id::{TenantId, TimelineId},
-    lsn::Lsn,
-};
+use utils::id::{NodeId, TenantId, TimelineId};

 use crate::local_env::LocalEnv;
 use crate::pageserver::PageServerNode;
 use crate::postgresql_conf::PostgresConf;

-use compute_api::spec::ComputeMode;
+use compute_api::responses::{ComputeState, ComputeStatus};
+use compute_api::spec::{Cluster, ComputeMode, ComputeSpec};

 // contents of a endpoint.json file
 #[serde_as]
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct EndpointConf {
-    name: String,
+    endpoint_id: String,
    #[serde_as(as = "DisplayFromStr")]
    tenant_id: TenantId,
    #[serde_as(as = "DisplayFromStr")]
    timeline_id: TimelineId,
    mode: ComputeMode,
-    port: u16,
+    pg_port: u16,
+    http_port: u16,
    pg_version: u32,
+    skip_pg_catalog_updates: bool,
 }

 //
@@ -57,11 +91,11 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
        let pageserver = Arc::new(PageServerNode::from_env(&env));

        let mut endpoints = BTreeMap::default();
-        for endpoint_dir in fs::read_dir(env.endpoints_path())
+        for endpoint_dir in std::fs::read_dir(env.endpoints_path())
            .with_context(|| format!("failed to list {}", env.endpoints_path().display()))?
        {
            let ep = Endpoint::from_dir_entry(endpoint_dir?, &env, &pageserver)?;
-            endpoints.insert(ep.name.clone(), Arc::new(ep));
+            endpoints.insert(ep.endpoint_id.clone(), Arc::new(ep));
        }

        Ok(ComputeControlPlane {
@@ -76,47 +110,64 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
        1 + self
            .endpoints
            .values()
-            .map(|ep| ep.address.port())
+            .map(|ep| std::cmp::max(ep.pg_address.port(), ep.http_address.port()))
            .max()
            .unwrap_or(self.base_port)
    }

+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub fn new_endpoint(
        &mut self,
+        endpoint_id: &str,
        tenant_id: TenantId,
-        name: &str,
        timeline_id: TimelineId,
-        port: Option<u16>,
+        pg_port: Option<u16>,
+        http_port: Option<u16>,
        pg_version: u32,
        mode: ComputeMode,
    ) -> Result<Arc<Endpoint>> {
-        let port = port.unwrap_or_else(|| self.get_port());
-
+        let pg_port = pg_port.unwrap_or_else(|| self.get_port());
+        let http_port = http_port.unwrap_or_else(|| self.get_port() + 1);
        let ep = Arc::new(Endpoint {
-            name: name.to_owned(),
-            address: SocketAddr::new("127.0.0.1".parse().unwrap(), port),
+            endpoint_id: endpoint_id.to_owned(),
+            pg_address: SocketAddr::new("127.0.0.1".parse().unwrap(), pg_port),
+            http_address: SocketAddr::new("127.0.0.1".parse().unwrap(), http_port),
            env: self.env.clone(),
            pageserver: Arc::clone(&self.pageserver),
            timeline_id,
            mode,
            tenant_id,
            pg_version,
+            // We don't setup roles and databases in the spec locally, so we don't need to
+            // do catalog updates. Catalog updates also include check availability
+            // data creation. Yet, we have tests that check that size and db dump
+            // before and after start are the same. So, skip catalog updates,
+            // with this we basically test a case of waking up an idle compute, where
+            // we also skip catalog updates in the cloud.
+            skip_pg_catalog_updates: true,
        });
-        ep.create_pgdata()?;
+
+        ep.create_endpoint_dir()?;
        std::fs::write(
            ep.endpoint_path().join("endpoint.json"),
            serde_json::to_string_pretty(&EndpointConf {
-                name: name.to_string(),
+                endpoint_id: endpoint_id.to_string(),
                tenant_id,
                timeline_id,
                mode,
-                port,
+                http_port,
+                pg_port,
                pg_version,
+                skip_pg_catalog_updates: true,
            })?,
        )?;
-        ep.setup_pg_conf()?;
+        std::fs::write(
+            ep.endpoint_path().join("postgresql.conf"),
+            ep.setup_pg_conf()?.to_string(),
+        )?;

-        self.endpoints.insert(ep.name.clone(), Arc::clone(&ep));
+        self.endpoints
+            .insert(ep.endpoint_id.clone(), Arc::clone(&ep));

        Ok(ep)
    }
@@ -127,13 +178,15 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct Endpoint {
    /// used as the directory name
-    name: String,
+    endpoint_id: String,
    pub tenant_id: TenantId,
    pub timeline_id: TimelineId,
    pub mode: ComputeMode,

-    // port and address of the Postgres server
-    pub address: SocketAddr,
+    // port and address of the Postgres server and `compute_ctl`'s HTTP API
+    pub pg_address: SocketAddr,
+    pub http_address: SocketAddr,
+
    // postgres major version in the format: 14, 15, etc.
    pg_version: u32,

@@ -141,6 +194,9 @@ pub struct Endpoint {
    // the endpoint runs in.
    pub env: LocalEnv,
    pageserver: Arc<PageServerNode>,
+
+    // Optimizations
+    skip_pg_catalog_updates: bool,
 }

 impl Endpoint {
@@ -158,123 +214,37 @@ impl Endpoint {

        // parse data directory name
        let fname = entry.file_name();
-        let name = fname.to_str().unwrap().to_string();
+        let endpoint_id = fname.to_str().unwrap().to_string();

        // Read the endpoint.json file
        let conf: EndpointConf =
            serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(entry.path().join("endpoint.json"))?)?;

-        // ok now
        Ok(Endpoint {
-            address: SocketAddr::new("127.0.0.1".parse().unwrap(), conf.port),
-            name,
+            pg_address: SocketAddr::new("127.0.0.1".parse().unwrap(), conf.pg_port),
+            http_address: SocketAddr::new("127.0.0.1".parse().unwrap(), conf.http_port),
+            endpoint_id,
            env: env.clone(),
            pageserver: Arc::clone(pageserver),
            timeline_id: conf.timeline_id,
            mode: conf.mode,
            tenant_id: conf.tenant_id,
            pg_version: conf.pg_version,
+            skip_pg_catalog_updates: conf.skip_pg_catalog_updates,
        })
    }

-    fn sync_safekeepers(&self, auth_token: &Option<String>, pg_version: u32) -> Result<Lsn> {
-        let pg_path = self.env.pg_bin_dir(pg_version)?.join("postgres");
-        let mut cmd = Command::new(pg_path);
-
-        cmd.arg("--sync-safekeepers")
-            .env_clear()
-            .env(
-                "LD_LIBRARY_PATH",
-                self.env.pg_lib_dir(pg_version)?.to_str().unwrap(),
-            )
-            .env(
-                "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH",
-                self.env.pg_lib_dir(pg_version)?.to_str().unwrap(),
-            )
-            .env("PGDATA", self.pgdata().to_str().unwrap())
-            .stdout(Stdio::piped())
-            // Comment this to avoid capturing stderr (useful if command hangs)
-            .stderr(Stdio::piped());
-
-        if let Some(token) = auth_token {
-            cmd.env("NEON_AUTH_TOKEN", token);
-        }
-
-        let sync_handle = cmd
-            .spawn()
-            .expect("postgres --sync-safekeepers failed to start");
-
-        let sync_output = sync_handle
-            .wait_with_output()
-            .expect("postgres --sync-safekeepers failed");
-        if !sync_output.status.success() {
-            anyhow::bail!(
-                "sync-safekeepers failed: '{}'",
-                String::from_utf8_lossy(&sync_output.stderr)
-            );
-        }
-
-        let lsn = Lsn::from_str(std::str::from_utf8(&sync_output.stdout)?.trim())?;
-        println!("Safekeepers synced on {}", lsn);
-        Ok(lsn)
-    }
-
-    /// Get basebackup from the pageserver as a tar archive and extract it
-    /// to the `self.pgdata()` directory.
-    fn do_basebackup(&self, lsn: Option<Lsn>) -> Result<()> {
-        println!(
-            "Extracting base backup to create postgres instance: path={} port={}",
-            self.pgdata().display(),
-            self.address.port()
-        );
-
-        let sql = if let Some(lsn) = lsn {
-            format!("basebackup {} {} {}", self.tenant_id, self.timeline_id, lsn)
-        } else {
-            format!("basebackup {} {}", self.tenant_id, self.timeline_id)
-        };
-
-        let mut client = self
-            .pageserver
-            .page_server_psql_client()
-            .context("connecting to page server failed")?;
-
-        let copyreader = client
-            .copy_out(sql.as_str())
-            .context("page server 'basebackup' command failed")?;
-
-        // Read the archive directly from the `CopyOutReader`
-        //
-        // Set `ignore_zeros` so that unpack() reads all the Copy data and
-        // doesn't stop at the end-of-archive marker. Otherwise, if the server
-        // sends an Error after finishing the tarball, we will not notice it.
-        let mut ar = tar::Archive::new(copyreader);
-        ar.set_ignore_zeros(true);
-        ar.unpack(&self.pgdata())
-            .context("extracting base backup failed")?;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn create_pgdata(&self) -> Result<()> {
-        fs::create_dir_all(self.pgdata()).with_context(|| {
+    fn create_endpoint_dir(&self) -> Result<()> {
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(self.endpoint_path()).with_context(|| {
            format!(
-                "could not create data directory {}",
-                self.pgdata().display()
+                "could not create endpoint directory {}",
+                self.endpoint_path().display()
            )
-        })?;
-        fs::set_permissions(self.pgdata().as_path(), fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o700))
-            .with_context(|| {
-                format!(
-                    "could not set permissions in data directory {}",
-                    self.pgdata().display()
-                )
-            })
+        })
    }

-    // Write postgresql.conf with default configuration
-    // and PG_VERSION file to the data directory of a new endpoint.
-    fn setup_pg_conf(&self) -> Result<()> {
+    // Generate postgresql.conf with default configuration
+    fn setup_pg_conf(&self) -> Result<PostgresConf> {
        let mut conf = PostgresConf::new();
        conf.append("max_wal_senders", "10");
        conf.append("wal_log_hints", "off");
@@ -287,25 +257,14 @@ impl Endpoint {
        // wal_sender_timeout is the maximum time to wait for WAL replication.
        // It also defines how often the walreciever will send a feedback message to the wal sender.
        conf.append("wal_sender_timeout", "5s");
-        conf.append("listen_addresses", &self.address.ip().to_string());
-        conf.append("port", &self.address.port().to_string());
+        conf.append("listen_addresses", &self.pg_address.ip().to_string());
+        conf.append("port", &self.pg_address.port().to_string());
        conf.append("wal_keep_size", "0");
        // walproposer panics when basebackup is invalid, it is pointless to restart in this case.
        conf.append("restart_after_crash", "off");

-        // Configure the Neon Postgres extension to fetch pages from pageserver
-        let pageserver_connstr = {
-            let config = &self.pageserver.pg_connection_config;
-            let (host, port) = (config.host(), config.port());
-
-            // NOTE: avoid spaces in connection string, because it is less error prone if we forward it somewhere.
-            format!("postgresql://no_user@{host}:{port}")
-        };
+        // Load the 'neon' extension
        conf.append("shared_preload_libraries", "neon");
-        conf.append_line("");
-        conf.append("neon.pageserver_connstring", &pageserver_connstr);
-        conf.append("neon.tenant_id", &self.tenant_id.to_string());
-        conf.append("neon.timeline_id", &self.timeline_id.to_string());

        conf.append_line("");
        // Replication-related configurations, such as WAL sending
@@ -336,7 +295,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
                        .env
                        .safekeepers
                        .iter()
-                        .map(|sk| format!("localhost:{}", sk.pg_port))
+                        .map(|sk| format!("localhost:{}", sk.get_compute_port()))
                        .collect::<Vec<String>>()
                        .join(",");
                    conf.append("neon.safekeepers", &safekeepers);
@@ -360,12 +319,12 @@ impl Endpoint {

                // TODO: use future host field from safekeeper spec
                // Pass the list of safekeepers to the replica so that it can connect to any of them,
-                // whichever is availiable.
+                // whichever is available.
                let sk_ports = self
                    .env
                    .safekeepers
                    .iter()
-                    .map(|x| x.pg_port.to_string())
+                    .map(|x| x.get_compute_port().to_string())
                    .collect::<Vec<_>>()
                    .join(",");
                let sk_hosts = vec!["localhost"; self.env.safekeepers.len()].join(",");
@@ -390,46 +349,11 @@ impl Endpoint {
            }
        }

-        let mut file = File::create(self.pgdata().join("postgresql.conf"))?;
-        file.write_all(conf.to_string().as_bytes())?;
-
-        let mut file = File::create(self.pgdata().join("PG_VERSION"))?;
-        file.write_all(self.pg_version.to_string().as_bytes())?;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn load_basebackup(&self, auth_token: &Option<String>) -> Result<()> {
-        let backup_lsn = match &self.mode {
-            ComputeMode::Primary => {
-                if !self.env.safekeepers.is_empty() {
-                    // LSN 0 means that it is bootstrap and we need to download just
-                    // latest data from the pageserver. That is a bit clumsy but whole bootstrap
-                    // procedure evolves quite actively right now, so let's think about it again
-                    // when things would be more stable (TODO).
-                    let lsn = self.sync_safekeepers(auth_token, self.pg_version)?;
-                    if lsn == Lsn(0) {
-                        None
-                    } else {
-                        Some(lsn)
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    None
-                }
-            }
-            ComputeMode::Static(lsn) => Some(*lsn),
-            ComputeMode::Replica => {
-                None // Take the latest snapshot available to start with
-            }
-        };
-
-        self.do_basebackup(backup_lsn)?;
-
-        Ok(())
+        Ok(conf)
    }

    pub fn endpoint_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
-        self.env.endpoints_path().join(&self.name)
+        self.env.endpoints_path().join(&self.endpoint_id)
    }

    pub fn pgdata(&self) -> PathBuf {
@@ -439,7 +363,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
    pub fn status(&self) -> &str {
        let timeout = Duration::from_millis(300);
        let has_pidfile = self.pgdata().join("postmaster.pid").exists();
-        let can_connect = TcpStream::connect_timeout(&self.address, timeout).is_ok();
+        let can_connect = TcpStream::connect_timeout(&self.pg_address, timeout).is_ok();

        match (has_pidfile, can_connect) {
            (true, true) => "running",
@@ -457,8 +381,6 @@ impl Endpoint {
                &[
                    "-D",
                    self.pgdata().to_str().unwrap(),
-                    "-l",
-                    self.pgdata().join("pg.log").to_str().unwrap(),
                    "-w", //wait till pg_ctl actually does what was asked
                ],
                args,
@@ -491,39 +413,212 @@ impl Endpoint {
                String::from_utf8_lossy(&pg_ctl.stderr),
            );
        }
+
+        // Also wait for the compute_ctl process to die. It might have some cleanup
+        // work to do after postgres stops, like syncing safekeepers, etc.
+        //
+        // TODO use background_process::stop_process instead
+        let pidfile_path = self.endpoint_path().join("compute_ctl.pid");
+        let pid: u32 = std::fs::read_to_string(pidfile_path)?.parse()?;
+        let pid = nix::unistd::Pid::from_raw(pid as i32);
+        crate::background_process::wait_until_stopped("compute_ctl", pid)?;
+
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub fn start(&self, auth_token: &Option<String>) -> Result<()> {
+    pub fn start(
+        &self,
+        auth_token: &Option<String>,
+        safekeepers: Vec<NodeId>,
+        remote_ext_config: Option<&String>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
        if self.status() == "running" {
            anyhow::bail!("The endpoint is already running");
        }

-        // 1. We always start Postgres from scratch, so
-        // if old dir exists, preserve 'postgresql.conf' and drop the directory
-        let postgresql_conf_path = self.pgdata().join("postgresql.conf");
-        let postgresql_conf = fs::read(&postgresql_conf_path).with_context(|| {
-            format!(
-                "failed to read config file in {}",
-                postgresql_conf_path.to_str().unwrap()
-            )
-        })?;
-        fs::remove_dir_all(self.pgdata())?;
-        self.create_pgdata()?;
+        // Slurp the endpoints/<endpoint id>/postgresql.conf file into
+        // memory. We will include it in the spec file that we pass to
+        // `compute_ctl`, and `compute_ctl` will write it to the postgresql.conf
+        // in the data directory.
+        let postgresql_conf_path = self.endpoint_path().join("postgresql.conf");
+        let postgresql_conf = match std::fs::read(&postgresql_conf_path) {
+            Ok(content) => String::from_utf8(content)?,
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => "".to_string(),
+            Err(e) => {
+                return Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context(format!(
+                    "failed to read config file in {}",
+                    postgresql_conf_path.to_str().unwrap()
+                )))
+            }
+        };

-        // 2. Bring back config files
-        fs::write(&postgresql_conf_path, postgresql_conf)?;
-
-        // 3. Load basebackup
-        self.load_basebackup(auth_token)?;
-
-        if self.mode != ComputeMode::Primary {
-            File::create(self.pgdata().join("standby.signal"))?;
+        // We always start the compute node from scratch, so if the Postgres
+        // data dir exists from a previous launch, remove it first.
+        if self.pgdata().exists() {
+            std::fs::remove_dir_all(self.pgdata())?;
        }

-        // 4. Finally start postgres
-        println!("Starting postgres at '{}'", self.connstr());
-        self.pg_ctl(&["start"], auth_token)
+        let pageserver_connstring = {
+            let config = &self.pageserver.pg_connection_config;
+            let (host, port) = (config.host(), config.port());
+
+            // NOTE: avoid spaces in connection string, because it is less error prone if we forward it somewhere.
+            format!("postgresql://no_user@{host}:{port}")
+        };
+        let mut safekeeper_connstrings = Vec::new();
+        if self.mode == ComputeMode::Primary {
+            for sk_id in safekeepers {
+                let sk = self
+                    .env
+                    .safekeepers
+                    .iter()
+                    .find(|node| node.id == sk_id)
+                    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("safekeeper {sk_id} does not exist"))?;
+                safekeeper_connstrings.push(format!("127.0.0.1:{}", sk.get_compute_port()));
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Create spec file
+        let spec = ComputeSpec {
+            skip_pg_catalog_updates: self.skip_pg_catalog_updates,
+            format_version: 1.0,
+            operation_uuid: None,
+            cluster: Cluster {
+                cluster_id: None, // project ID: not used
+                name: None,       // project name: not used
+                state: None,
+                roles: vec![],
+                databases: vec![],
+                settings: None,
+                postgresql_conf: Some(postgresql_conf),
+            },
+            delta_operations: None,
+            tenant_id: Some(self.tenant_id),
+            timeline_id: Some(self.timeline_id),
+            mode: self.mode,
+            pageserver_connstring: Some(pageserver_connstring),
+            safekeeper_connstrings,
+            storage_auth_token: auth_token.clone(),
+            remote_extensions: None,
+        };
+        let spec_path = self.endpoint_path().join("spec.json");
+        std::fs::write(spec_path, serde_json::to_string_pretty(&spec)?)?;
+
+        // Open log file. We'll redirect the stdout and stderr of `compute_ctl` to it.
+        let logfile = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
+            .create(true)
+            .append(true)
+            .open(self.endpoint_path().join("compute.log"))?;
+
+        // Launch compute_ctl
+        println!("Starting postgres node at '{}'", self.connstr());
+        let mut cmd = Command::new(self.env.neon_distrib_dir.join("compute_ctl"));
+        cmd.args(["--http-port", &self.http_address.port().to_string()])
+            .args(["--pgdata", self.pgdata().to_str().unwrap()])
+            .args(["--connstr", &self.connstr()])
+            .args([
+                "--spec-path",
+                self.endpoint_path().join("spec.json").to_str().unwrap(),
+            ])
+            .args([
+                "--pgbin",
+                self.env
+                    .pg_bin_dir(self.pg_version)?
+                    .join("postgres")
+                    .to_str()
+                    .unwrap(),
+            ])
+            .stdin(std::process::Stdio::null())
+            .stderr(logfile.try_clone()?)
+            .stdout(logfile);
+
+        if let Some(remote_ext_config) = remote_ext_config {
+            cmd.args(["--remote-ext-config", remote_ext_config]);
+        }
+
+        let child = cmd.spawn()?;
+
+        // Write down the pid so we can wait for it when we want to stop
+        // TODO use background_process::start_process instead
+        let pid = child.id();
+        let pidfile_path = self.endpoint_path().join("compute_ctl.pid");
+        std::fs::write(pidfile_path, pid.to_string())?;
+
+        // Wait for it to start
+        let mut attempt = 0;
+        const ATTEMPT_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
+        const MAX_ATTEMPTS: u32 = 10 * 30; // Wait up to 30 s
+        loop {
+            attempt += 1;
+            match self.get_status() {
+                Ok(state) => {
+                    match state.status {
+                        ComputeStatus::Init => {
+                            if attempt == MAX_ATTEMPTS {
+                                bail!("compute startup timed out; still in Init state");
+                            }
+                            // keep retrying
+                        }
+                        ComputeStatus::Running => {
+                            // All good!
+                            break;
+                        }
+                        ComputeStatus::Failed => {
+                            bail!(
+                                "compute startup failed: {}",
+                                state
+                                    .error
+                                    .as_deref()
+                                    .unwrap_or("<no error from compute_ctl>")
+                            );
+                        }
+                        ComputeStatus::Empty
+                        | ComputeStatus::ConfigurationPending
+                        | ComputeStatus::Configuration => {
+                            bail!("unexpected compute status: {:?}", state.status)
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    if attempt == MAX_ATTEMPTS {
+                        return Err(e).context("timed out waiting to connect to compute_ctl HTTP");
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            std::thread::sleep(ATTEMPT_INTERVAL);
+        }
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    // Call the /status HTTP API
+    pub fn get_status(&self) -> Result<ComputeState> {
+        let client = reqwest::blocking::Client::new();
+
+        let response = client
+            .request(
+                reqwest::Method::GET,
+                format!(
+                    "http://{}:{}/status",
+                    self.http_address.ip(),
+                    self.http_address.port()
+                ),
+            )
+            .send()?;
+
+        // Interpret the response
+        let status = response.status();
+        if !(status.is_client_error() || status.is_server_error()) {
+            Ok(response.json()?)
+        } else {
+            // reqwest does not export its error construction utility functions, so let's craft the message ourselves
+            let url = response.url().to_owned();
+            let msg = match response.text() {
+                Ok(err_body) => format!("Error: {}", err_body),
+                Err(_) => format!("Http error ({}) at {}.", status.as_u16(), url),
+            };
+            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(msg))
+        }
    }

    pub fn stop(&self, destroy: bool) -> Result<()> {
@@ -540,7 +635,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
                "Destroying postgres data directory '{}'",
                self.pgdata().to_str().unwrap()
            );
-            fs::remove_dir_all(self.endpoint_path())?;
+            std::fs::remove_dir_all(self.endpoint_path())?;
        } else {
            self.pg_ctl(&["stop"], &None)?;
        }
@@ -549,10 +644,10 @@ impl Endpoint {

    pub fn connstr(&self) -> String {
        format!(
-            "host={} port={} user={} dbname={}",
-            self.address.ip(),
-            self.address.port(),
+            "postgresql://{}@{}:{}/{}",
            "cloud_admin",
+            self.pg_address.ip(),
+            self.pg_address.port(),
            "postgres"
        )
    }
--- a/control_plane/src/local_env.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/local_env.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ pub const DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: u32 = 15;
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct LocalEnv {
    // Base directory for all the nodes (the pageserver, safekeepers and
-    // compute nodes).
+    // compute endpoints).
    //
    // This is not stored in the config file. Rather, this is the path where the
    // config file itself is. It is read from the NEON_REPO_DIR env variable or
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ impl Default for PageServerConf {
 pub struct SafekeeperConf {
    pub id: NodeId,
    pub pg_port: u16,
+    pub pg_tenant_only_port: Option<u16>,
    pub http_port: u16,
    pub sync: bool,
    pub remote_storage: Option<String>,
@@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ impl Default for SafekeeperConf {
        Self {
            id: NodeId(0),
            pg_port: 0,
+            pg_tenant_only_port: None,
            http_port: 0,
            sync: true,
            remote_storage: None,
@@ -158,6 +160,14 @@ impl Default for SafekeeperConf {
    }
 }

+impl SafekeeperConf {
+    /// Compute is served by port on which only tenant scoped tokens allowed, if
+    /// it is configured.
+    pub fn get_compute_port(&self) -> u16 {
+        self.pg_tenant_only_port.unwrap_or(self.pg_port)
+    }
+}
+
 impl LocalEnv {
    pub fn pg_distrib_dir_raw(&self) -> PathBuf {
        self.pg_distrib_dir.clone()
@@ -364,7 +374,7 @@ impl LocalEnv {
    //
    // Initialize a new Neon repository
    //
-    pub fn init(&mut self, pg_version: u32) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    pub fn init(&mut self, pg_version: u32, force: bool) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        // check if config already exists
        let base_path = &self.base_data_dir;
        ensure!(
@@ -372,11 +382,29 @@ impl LocalEnv {
            "repository base path is missing"
        );

-        ensure!(
-            !base_path.exists(),
-            "directory '{}' already exists. Perhaps already initialized?",
-            base_path.display()
-        );
+        if base_path.exists() {
+            if force {
+                println!("removing all contents of '{}'", base_path.display());
+                // instead of directly calling `remove_dir_all`, we keep the original dir but removing
+                // all contents inside. This helps if the developer symbol links another directory (i.e.,
+                // S3 local SSD) to the `.neon` base directory.
+                for entry in std::fs::read_dir(base_path)? {
+                    let entry = entry?;
+                    let path = entry.path();
+                    if path.is_dir() {
+                        fs::remove_dir_all(&path)?;
+                    } else {
+                        fs::remove_file(&path)?;
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+                bail!(
+                    "directory '{}' already exists. Perhaps already initialized? (Hint: use --force to remove all contents)",
+                    base_path.display()
+                );
+            }
+        }
+
        if !self.pg_bin_dir(pg_version)?.join("postgres").exists() {
            bail!(
                "Can't find postgres binary at {}",
@@ -392,7 +420,9 @@ impl LocalEnv {
            }
        }

-        fs::create_dir(base_path)?;
+        if !base_path.exists() {
+            fs::create_dir(base_path)?;
+        }

        // Generate keypair for JWT.
        //
--- a/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
+//! Code to manage pageservers
+//!
+//! In the local test environment, the pageserver stores its data directly in
+//!
+//!   .neon/
+//!
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::{BufReader, Write};
+use std::num::NonZeroU64;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::process::{Child, Command};
 use std::{io, result};

-use anyhow::Context;
+use anyhow::{bail, Context};
 use pageserver_api::models::{self, TenantInfo, TimelineInfo};
 use postgres_backend::AuthType;
 use postgres_connection::{parse_host_port, PgConnectionConfig};
@@ -312,8 +319,68 @@ impl PageServerNode {
        new_tenant_id: Option<TenantId>,
        settings: HashMap<&str, &str>,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<TenantId> {
-        let settings = settings.clone();
-        let config = models::TenantConfig::deserialize_from_settings(settings)?;
+        let mut settings = settings.clone();
+
+        let config = models::TenantConfig {
+            checkpoint_distance: settings
+                .remove("checkpoint_distance")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                .transpose()?,
+            checkpoint_timeout: settings.remove("checkpoint_timeout").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            compaction_target_size: settings
+                .remove("compaction_target_size")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                .transpose()?,
+            compaction_period: settings.remove("compaction_period").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            compaction_threshold: settings
+                .remove("compaction_threshold")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<usize>())
+                .transpose()?,
+            gc_horizon: settings
+                .remove("gc_horizon")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                .transpose()?,
+            gc_period: settings.remove("gc_period").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            image_creation_threshold: settings
+                .remove("image_creation_threshold")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<usize>())
+                .transpose()?,
+            pitr_interval: settings.remove("pitr_interval").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            walreceiver_connect_timeout: settings
+                .remove("walreceiver_connect_timeout")
+                .map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            lagging_wal_timeout: settings
+                .remove("lagging_wal_timeout")
+                .map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            max_lsn_wal_lag: settings
+                .remove("max_lsn_wal_lag")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<NonZeroU64>())
+                .transpose()
+                .context("Failed to parse 'max_lsn_wal_lag' as non zero integer")?,
+            trace_read_requests: settings
+                .remove("trace_read_requests")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<bool>())
+                .transpose()
+                .context("Failed to parse 'trace_read_requests' as bool")?,
+            eviction_policy: settings
+                .remove("eviction_policy")
+                .map(serde_json::from_str)
+                .transpose()
+                .context("Failed to parse 'eviction_policy' json")?,
+            min_resident_size_override: settings
+                .remove("min_resident_size_override")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                .transpose()
+                .context("Failed to parse 'min_resident_size_override' as integer")?,
+            evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold: settings
+                .remove("evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold")
+                .map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            gc_feedback: settings
+                .remove("gc_feedback")
+                .map(|x| x.parse::<bool>())
+                .transpose()
+                .context("Failed to parse 'gc_feedback' as bool")?,
+        };

        // If tenant ID was not specified, generate one
        let new_tenant_id = new_tenant_id.unwrap_or(TenantId::generate());
@@ -322,6 +389,9 @@ impl PageServerNode {
            new_tenant_id,
            config,
        };
+        if !settings.is_empty() {
+            bail!("Unrecognized tenant settings: {settings:?}")
+        }
        self.http_request(Method::POST, format!("{}/tenant", self.http_base_url))?
            .json(&request)
            .send()?
@@ -341,9 +411,81 @@ impl PageServerNode {
    pub fn tenant_config(
        &self,
        tenant_id: TenantId,
-        settings: HashMap<&str, &str>,
+        mut settings: HashMap<&str, &str>,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        let config = models::TenantConfig::deserialize_from_settings(settings)?;
+        let config = {
+            // Braces to make the diff easier to read
+            models::TenantConfig {
+                checkpoint_distance: settings
+                    .remove("checkpoint_distance")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'checkpoint_distance' as an integer")?,
+                checkpoint_timeout: settings.remove("checkpoint_timeout").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                compaction_target_size: settings
+                    .remove("compaction_target_size")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'compaction_target_size' as an integer")?,
+                compaction_period: settings.remove("compaction_period").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                compaction_threshold: settings
+                    .remove("compaction_threshold")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<usize>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'compaction_threshold' as an integer")?,
+                gc_horizon: settings
+                    .remove("gc_horizon")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'gc_horizon' as an integer")?,
+                gc_period: settings.remove("gc_period").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                image_creation_threshold: settings
+                    .remove("image_creation_threshold")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<usize>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'image_creation_threshold' as non zero integer")?,
+                pitr_interval: settings.remove("pitr_interval").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                walreceiver_connect_timeout: settings
+                    .remove("walreceiver_connect_timeout")
+                    .map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                lagging_wal_timeout: settings
+                    .remove("lagging_wal_timeout")
+                    .map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                max_lsn_wal_lag: settings
+                    .remove("max_lsn_wal_lag")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<NonZeroU64>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'max_lsn_wal_lag' as non zero integer")?,
+                trace_read_requests: settings
+                    .remove("trace_read_requests")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<bool>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'trace_read_requests' as bool")?,
+                eviction_policy: settings
+                    .remove("eviction_policy")
+                    .map(serde_json::from_str)
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'eviction_policy' json")?,
+                min_resident_size_override: settings
+                    .remove("min_resident_size_override")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<u64>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'min_resident_size_override' as an integer")?,
+                evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold: settings
+                    .remove("evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold")
+                    .map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                gc_feedback: settings
+                    .remove("gc_feedback")
+                    .map(|x| x.parse::<bool>())
+                    .transpose()
+                    .context("Failed to parse 'gc_feedback' as bool")?,
+            }
+        };
+
+        if !settings.is_empty() {
+            bail!("Unrecognized tenant settings: {settings:?}")
+        }
+
        self.http_request(Method::PUT, format!("{}/tenant/config", self.http_base_url))?
            .json(&models::TenantConfigRequest { tenant_id, config })
            .send()?
--- a/control_plane/src/safekeeper.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/safekeeper.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+//! Code to manage safekeepers
+//!
+//! In the local test environment, the data for each safekeeper is stored in
+//!
+//! ```text
+//!   .neon/safekeepers/<safekeeper id>
+//! ```
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::process::Child;
@@ -94,7 +101,7 @@ impl SafekeeperNode {
        self.datadir_path().join("safekeeper.pid")
    }

-    pub fn start(&self) -> anyhow::Result<Child> {
+    pub fn start(&self, extra_opts: Vec<String>) -> anyhow::Result<Child> {
        print!(
            "Starting safekeeper at '{}' in '{}'",
            self.pg_connection_config.raw_address(),
@@ -113,48 +120,69 @@ impl SafekeeperNode {
        let availability_zone = format!("sk-{}", id_string);

        let mut args = vec![
-            "-D",
-            datadir.to_str().with_context(|| {
-                format!("Datadir path {datadir:?} cannot be represented as a unicode string")
-            })?,
-            "--id",
-            &id_string,
-            "--listen-pg",
-            &listen_pg,
-            "--listen-http",
-            &listen_http,
-            "--availability-zone",
-            &availability_zone,
+            "-D".to_owned(),
+            datadir
+                .to_str()
+                .with_context(|| {
+                    format!("Datadir path {datadir:?} cannot be represented as a unicode string")
+                })?
+                .to_owned(),
+            "--id".to_owned(),
+            id_string,
+            "--listen-pg".to_owned(),
+            listen_pg,
+            "--listen-http".to_owned(),
+            listen_http,
+            "--availability-zone".to_owned(),
+            availability_zone,
        ];
+        if let Some(pg_tenant_only_port) = self.conf.pg_tenant_only_port {
+            let listen_pg_tenant_only = format!("127.0.0.1:{}", pg_tenant_only_port);
+            args.extend(["--listen-pg-tenant-only".to_owned(), listen_pg_tenant_only]);
+        }
        if !self.conf.sync {
-            args.push("--no-sync");
+            args.push("--no-sync".to_owned());
        }

        let broker_endpoint = format!("{}", self.env.broker.client_url());
-        args.extend(["--broker-endpoint", &broker_endpoint]);
+        args.extend(["--broker-endpoint".to_owned(), broker_endpoint]);

        let mut backup_threads = String::new();
        if let Some(threads) = self.conf.backup_threads {
            backup_threads = threads.to_string();
-            args.extend(["--backup-threads", &backup_threads]);
+            args.extend(["--backup-threads".to_owned(), backup_threads]);
        } else {
            drop(backup_threads);
        }

        if let Some(ref remote_storage) = self.conf.remote_storage {
-            args.extend(["--remote-storage", remote_storage]);
+            args.extend(["--remote-storage".to_owned(), remote_storage.clone()]);
        }

        let key_path = self.env.base_data_dir.join("auth_public_key.pem");
        if self.conf.auth_enabled {
-            args.extend([
-                "--auth-validation-public-key-path",
-                key_path.to_str().with_context(|| {
+            let key_path_string = key_path
+                .to_str()
+                .with_context(|| {
                    format!("Key path {key_path:?} cannot be represented as a unicode string")
-                })?,
+                })?
+                .to_owned();
+            args.extend([
+                "--pg-auth-public-key-path".to_owned(),
+                key_path_string.clone(),
+            ]);
+            args.extend([
+                "--pg-tenant-only-auth-public-key-path".to_owned(),
+                key_path_string.clone(),
+            ]);
+            args.extend([
+                "--http-auth-public-key-path".to_owned(),
+                key_path_string.clone(),
            ]);
        }

+        args.extend(extra_opts);
+
        background_process::start_process(
            &format!("safekeeper-{id}"),
            &datadir,
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@
 # to your expectations and requirements.

 # Root options
-targets = []
+targets = [
+    { triple = "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" },
+    { triple = "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu" },
+    { triple = "aarch64-apple-darwin" },
+    { triple = "x86_64-apple-darwin" },
+]
 all-features = false
 no-default-features = false
 feature-depth = 1
@@ -18,7 +23,7 @@ vulnerability = "deny"
 unmaintained = "warn"
 yanked = "warn"
 notice = "warn"
-ignore = []
+ignore = ["RUSTSEC-2023-0052"]

 # This section is considered when running `cargo deny check licenses`
 # More documentation for the licenses section can be found here:
--- a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ services:
      - "/bin/bash"
      - "-c"
    command:
-      - "until pg_isready -h compute -p 55433 ; do
+      - "until pg_isready -h compute -p 55433 -U cloud_admin ; do
            echo 'Waiting to start compute...' && sleep 1;
         done"
    depends_on:
--- a/docs/docker.md
+++ b/docs/docker.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Creating docker-compose_storage_broker_1       ... done
 2. connect compute node
 ```
 $ echo "localhost:55433:postgres:cloud_admin:cloud_admin" >> ~/.pgpass
+$ chmod 600 ~/.pgpass
 $ psql -h localhost -p 55433 -U cloud_admin
 postgres=# CREATE TABLE t(key int primary key, value text);
 CREATE TABLE
--- a/docs/pageserver-thread-mgmt.md
+++ b/docs/pageserver-thread-mgmt.md
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ or similar, to wake up on shutdown.

 In async Rust, futures can be "cancelled" at any await point, by
 dropping the Future. For example, `tokio::select!` returns as soon as
-one of the Futures returns, and drops the others. `tokio::timeout!` is
-another example. In the Rust ecosystem, some functions are
+one of the Futures returns, and drops the others. `tokio::time::timeout`
+is another example. In the Rust ecosystem, some functions are
 cancellation-safe, meaning they can be safely dropped without
 side-effects, while others are not. See documentation of
 `tokio::select!` for examples.
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ function that you call cannot be assumed to be async
 cancellation-safe, and must be polled to completion.

 The downside of non-cancellation safe code is that you have to be very
-careful when using `tokio::select!`, `tokio::timeout!`, and other such
-functions that can cause a Future to be dropped. They can only be used
-with functions that are explicitly documented to be cancellation-safe,
+careful when using `tokio::select!`, `tokio::time::timeout`, and other
+such functions that can cause a Future to be dropped. They can only be
+used with functions that are explicitly documented to be cancellation-safe,
 or you need to spawn a separate task to shield from the cancellation.

 At the entry points to the code, we also take care to poll futures to
@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ completion, or shield the rest of the code from surprise cancellations
 by spawning a separate task. The code that handles incoming HTTP
 requests, for example, spawns a separate task for each request,
 because Hyper will drop the request-handling Future if the HTTP
-connection is lost.  (FIXME: our HTTP handlers do not do that
-currently, but we should fix that. See [issue
-3478](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3478)).
+connection is lost.


 #### How to cancel, then?
--- a/docs/rfcs/024-extension-loading.md
+++ b/docs/rfcs/024-extension-loading.md
@@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
+# Supporting custom user Extensions (Dynamic Extension Loading)
+Created 2023-05-03
+
+## Motivation
+
+There are many extensions in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, and not all extensions
+are of a quality that we can confidently support them. Additionally, our
+current extension inclusion mechanism has several problems because we build all
+extensions into the primary Compute image: We build the extensions every time
+we build the compute image regardless of whether we actually need to rebuild
+the image, and the inclusion of these extensions in the image adds a hard
+dependency on all supported extensions - thus increasing the image size, and
+with it the time it takes to download that image - increasing first start
+latency.
+
+This RFC proposes a dynamic loading mechanism that solves most of these
+problems.
+
+## Summary
+
+`compute_ctl` is made responsible for loading extensions on-demand into
+the container's file system for dynamically loaded extensions, and will also
+make sure that the extensions in `shared_preload_libraries` are downloaded
+before the compute node starts.
+
+## Components
+
+compute_ctl, PostgreSQL, neon (extension), Compute Host Node, Extension Store
+
+## Requirements
+
+Compute nodes with no extra extensions should not be negatively impacted by
+the existence of support for many extensions.
+
+Installing an extension into PostgreSQL should be easy.
+
+Non-preloaded extensions shouldn't impact startup latency.
+
+Uninstalled extensions shouldn't impact query latency.
+
+A small latency penalty for dynamically loaded extensions is acceptable in
+the first seconds of compute startup, but not in steady-state operations.
+
+## Proposed implementation
+
+### On-demand, JIT-loading of extensions
+
+Before postgres starts we download 
+- control files for all extensions available to that compute node;
+- all `shared_preload_libraries`;
+
+After postgres is running, `compute_ctl` listens for requests to load files.
+When PostgreSQL requests a file, `compute_ctl` downloads it.
+
+PostgreSQL requests files in the following cases:
+- When loading a preload library set in `local_preload_libraries`
+- When explicitly loading a library with `LOAD`
+- Wnen creating extension with `CREATE EXTENSION` (download sql scripts, (optional) extension data files and (optional) library files)))
+
+
+#### Summary
+
+Pros:
+ - Startup is only as slow as it takes to load all (shared_)preload_libraries
+ - Supports BYO Extension
+
+Cons:
+ - O(sizeof(extensions)) IO requirement for loading all extensions.
+
+### Alternative solutions
+
+1. Allow users to add their extensions to the base image
+   
+   Pros:
+    - Easy to deploy
+
+   Cons:
+    - Doesn't scale - first start size is dependent on image size;
+    - All extensions are shared across all users: It doesn't allow users to
+      bring their own restrictive-licensed extensions
+
+2. Bring Your Own compute image
+   
+   Pros:
+    - Still easy to deploy
+    - User can bring own patched version of PostgreSQL
+
+   Cons:
+    - First start latency is O(sizeof(extensions image))
+    - Warm instance pool for skipping pod schedule latency is not feasible with
+      O(n) custom images
+    - Support channels are difficult to manage
+
+3. Download all user extensions in bulk on compute start
+   
+   Pros:
+    - Easy to deploy
+    - No startup latency issues for "clean" users.
+    - Warm instance pool for skipping pod schedule latency is possible
+
+   Cons:
+    - Downloading all extensions in advance takes a lot of time, thus startup
+      latency issues
+
+4. Store user's extensions in persistent storage
+   
+   Pros:
+    - Easy to deploy
+    - No startup latency issues
+    - Warm instance pool for skipping pod schedule latency is possible
+
+   Cons:
+    - EC2 instances have only limited number of attachments shared between EBS
+      volumes, direct-attached NVMe drives, and ENIs.
+    - Compute instance migration isn't trivially solved for EBS mounts (e.g.
+      the device is unavailable whilst moving the mount between instances).
+    - EBS can only mount on one instance at a time (except the expensive IO2
+      device type).
+
+5. Store user's extensions in network drive
+   
+   Pros:
+    - Easy to deploy
+    - Few startup latency issues
+    - Warm instance pool for skipping pod schedule latency is possible
+
+   Cons:
+    - We'd need networked drives, and a lot of them, which would store many
+      duplicate extensions.
+    - **UNCHECKED:** Compute instance migration may not work nicely with
+      networked IOs
+
+
+### Idea extensions
+
+The extension store does not have to be S3 directly, but could be a Node-local
+caching service on top of S3. This would reduce the load on the network for
+popular extensions.
+
+## Extension Storage implementation
+
+The layout of the S3 bucket is as follows:
+```
+5615610098 // this is an extension build number
+├── v14
+│   ├── extensions
+│   │   ├── anon.tar.zst
+│   │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+│   └── ext_index.json
+└── v15
+    ├── extensions
+    │   ├── anon.tar.zst
+    │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+    └── ext_index.json
+5615261079
+├── v14
+│   ├── extensions
+│   │   └── anon.tar.zst
+│   └── ext_index.json
+└── v15
+    ├── extensions
+    │   └── anon.tar.zst
+    └── ext_index.json
+5623261088
+├── v14
+│   ├── extensions
+│   │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+│   └── ext_index.json
+└── v15
+    ├── extensions
+    │   └── embedding.tar.zst
+    └── ext_index.json
+```
+
+Note that build number cannot be part of prefix because we might need extensions
+from other build numbers.
+
+`ext_index.json` stores the control files and location of extension archives. 
+It also stores a list of public extensions and a library_index
+
+We don't need to duplicate `extension.tar.zst`` files.
+We only need to upload a new one if it is updated.
+(Although currently we just upload every time anyways, hopefully will change
+this sometime)
+
+*access* is controlled by spec
+
+More specifically, here is an example ext_index.json
+```
+{
+    "public_extensions": [
+        "anon",
+        "pg_buffercache"
+    ],
+    "library_index": {
+        "anon": "anon",
+        "pg_buffercache": "pg_buffercache"
+        // for more complex extensions like postgis
+        // we might have something like:
+        // address_standardizer: postgis
+        // postgis_tiger: postgis
+    },
+    "extension_data": {
+        "pg_buffercache": {
+            "control_data": {
+                "pg_buffercache.control": "# pg_buffercache extension \ncomment = 'examine the shared buffer cache' \ndefault_version = '1.3' \nmodule_pathname = '$libdir/pg_buffercache' \nrelocatable = true \ntrusted=true"
+            },
+            "archive_path": "5670669815/v14/extensions/pg_buffercache.tar.zst"
+        },
+        "anon": {
+            "control_data": {
+                "anon.control": "# PostgreSQL Anonymizer (anon) extension \ncomment = 'Data anonymization tools' \ndefault_version = '1.1.0' \ndirectory='extension/anon' \nrelocatable = false \nrequires = 'pgcrypto' \nsuperuser = false \nmodule_pathname = '$libdir/anon' \ntrusted = true \n"
+            },
+            "archive_path": "5670669815/v14/extensions/anon.tar.zst"
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+### How to add new extension to the Extension Storage?
+
+Simply upload build artifacts to the S3 bucket.
+Implement a CI step for that. Splitting it from compute-node-image build.
+
+### How do we deal with extension versions and updates?
+
+Currently, we rebuild extensions on every compute-node-image build and store them in the <build-version> prefix.
+This is needed to ensure that `/share` and `/lib` files are in sync.
+
+For extension updates, we rely on the PostgreSQL extension versioning mechanism (sql update scripts) and extension authors to not break backwards compatibility within one major version of PostgreSQL.
+
+### Alternatives
+
+For extensions written on trusted languages we can also adopt
+`dbdev` PostgreSQL Package Manager based on `pg_tle` by Supabase.
+This will increase the amount supported extensions and decrease the amount of work required to support them.
--- a/docs/rfcs/024-user-mgmt.md
+++ b/docs/rfcs/024-user-mgmt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Postgres user and database management
+
+(This supersedes the previous proposal that looked too complicated and desynchronization-prone)
+
+We've accumulated a bunch of problems with our approach to role and database management, namely:
+
+1. we don't allow role and database creation from Postgres, and users are complaining about that
+2. fine-grained role management is not possible both from Postgres and console
+
+Right now, we do store users and databases both in console and Postgres, and there are two main reasons for
+that:
+
+* we want to be able to authenticate users in proxy against the console without Postgres' involvement. Otherwise,
+malicious brute force attempts will wake up Postgres (expensive) and may exhaust the Postgres connections limit (deny of service).
+* it is handy when we can render console UI without waking up compute (e.g., show database list)
+
+This RFC doesn't talk about giving root access to the database, which is blocked by a secure runtime setup.
+
+## Overview
+
+* Add Postgres extension that sends an HTTP request each time transaction that modifies users/databases is about to commit.
+* Add user management API to internal console API. Also, the console should put a JWT token into the compute so that it can access management API.
+
+## Postgres behavior
+
+The default user role (@username) should have `CREATE ROLE`, `CREATE DB`, and `BYPASSRLS` privileges. We expose the Postgres port
+to the open internet, so we need to check password strength. Now console generates strong passwords, so there is no risk of having dumb passwords. With user-provided passwords, such risks exist.
+
+Since we store passwords in the console we should also send unencrypted password when role is created/changed. Hence communication with the console must be encrypted. Postgres also supports creating roles using hashes, in that case, we will not be able to get a raw password. So I can see the following options here:
+  * roles created via SQL will *not* have raw passwords in the console
+  * roles created via SQL will have raw passwords in the console, except ones that were created using hashes
+
+I'm leaning towards the second option here as it is a bit more consistent one -- if raw password storage is enabled then we store passwords in all cases where we can store them.
+
+To send data about roles and databases from Postgres to the console we can create the following Postgres extension:
+
+  * Intercept role/database changes in `ProcessUtility_hook`. Here we have access to the query statement with the raw password. The hook handler itself should not dial the console immediately and rather stash info in some hashmap for later use.
+  * When the transaction is about to commit we execute collected role modifications (all as one -- console should either accept all or reject all, and hence API shouldn't be REST-like). If the console request fails we can roll back the transaction. This way if the transaction is committed we know for sure that console has this information. We can use `XACT_EVENT_PRE_COMMIT` and `XACT_EVENT_PARALLEL_PRE_COMMIT` for that.
+  * Extension should be mindful of the fact that it is possible to create and delete roles within the transaction.
+  * We also need to track who is database owner, some coding around may be needed to get the current user when the database is created.
+
+## Console user management API
+
+The current public API has REST API for role management. We need to have some analog for the internal API (called mgmt API in the console code). But unlike public API here we want to have an atomic way to create several roles/databases (in cases when several roles were created in the same transaction). So something like that may work:
+
+```
+curl -X PATCH /api/v1/roles_and_databases -d '
+[
+    {"op":"create", "type":"role", "name": "kurt", "password":"lYgT3BlbkFJ2vBZrqv"},
+    {"op":"drop", "type":"role", "name": "trout"},
+    {"op":"alter", "type":"role", "name": "kilgore", "password":"3BlbkFJ2vB"},
+    {"op":"create", "type":"database", "name": "db2", "owner": "eliot"},
+]
+'
+```
+
+Makes sense not to error out on duplicated create/delete operations (see failure modes)
+
+## Managing users from the console
+
+Now console puts a spec file with the list of databases/roles and delta operations in all the compute pods. `compute_ctl` then picks up that file and stubbornly executes deltas and checks data in the spec file is the same as in the Postgres. This way if the user creates a role in the UI we restart compute with a new spec file and during the start databases/roles are created. So if Postgres send an HTTP call each time role is created we need to break recursion in that case. We can do that based on application_name or some GUC or user (local == no HTTP hook).
+
+Generally, we have several options when we are creating users via console:
+
+1. restart compute with a new spec file, execute local SQL command; cut recursion in the extension
+2. "push" spec files into running compute, execute local SQL command; cut recursion in the extension
+3. "push" spec files into running compute, execute local SQL command; let extension create those roles in the console
+4. avoid managing roles via spec files, send SQL commands to compute; let extension create those roles in the console
+
+The last option is the most straightforward one, but with the raw password storage opt-out, we will not have the password to establish an SQL connection. Also, we need a spec for provisioning purposes and to address potential desync (but that is quite unlikely). So I think the easiest approach would be:
+
+1. keep role management like it is now and cut the recursion in the extension when SQL is executed by compute_ctl
+2. add "push" endpoint to the compute_ctl to avoid compute restart during the `apply_config` operation -- that can be done as a follow up to avoid increasing scope too much
+
+## Failure modes
+
+* during role creation via SQL role was created in the console but the connection was dropped before Postgres got acknowledgment or some error happened after acknowledgment (out of disk space, deadlock, etc):
+
+  in that case, Postgres won't have a role that exists in the console. Compute restart will heal it (due to the spec file). Also if the console allows repeated creation/deletion user can repeat the transaction.
+
+
+# Scalability
+
+On my laptop, I can create 4200 roles per second. That corresponds to 363 million roles per day. Since each role creation ends up in the console database we can add some limit to the number of roles (could be reasonably big to not run into it often -- like 1k or 10k).
--- a/docs/rfcs/025-generation-numbers.md
+++ b/docs/rfcs/025-generation-numbers.md
@@ -0,0 +1,957 @@
+# Pageserver: split-brain safety for remote storage through generation numbers
+
+## Summary
+
+A scheme of logical "generation numbers" for tenant attachment to pageservers is proposed, along with
+changes to the remote storage format to include these generation numbers in S3 keys.
+
+Using the control plane as the issuer of these generation numbers enables strong anti-split-brain
+properties in the pageserver cluster without implementing a consensus mechanism directly
+in the pageservers.
+
+## Motivation
+
+Currently, the pageserver's remote storage format does not provide a mechanism for addressing
+split brain conditions that may happen when replacing a node or when migrating
+a tenant from one pageserver to another.
+
+From a remote storage perspective, a split brain condition occurs whenever two nodes both think
+they have the same tenant attached, and both can write to S3. This can happen in the case of a
+network partition, pathologically long delays (e.g. suspended VM), or software bugs.
+
+In the current deployment model, control plane guarantees that a tenant is attached to one
+pageserver at a time, thereby ruling out split-brain conditions resulting from dual
+attachment (however, there is always the risk of a control plane bug). This control
+plane guarantee prevents robust response to failures, as if a pageserver is unresponsive
+we may not detach from it. The mechanism in this RFC fixes this, by making it safe to
+attach to a new, different pageserver even if an unresponsive pageserver may be running.
+
+Futher, lack of safety during split-brain conditions blocks two important features where occasional
+split-brain conditions are part of the design assumptions:
+
+- seamless tenant migration ([RFC PR](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/5029))
+- automatic pageserver instance failure handling (aka "failover") (RFC TBD)
+
+### Prior art
+
+- 020-pageserver-s3-coordination.md
+- 023-the-state-of-pageserver-tenant-relocation.md
+- 026-pageserver-s3-mvcc.md
+
+This RFC has broad similarities to the proposal to implement a MVCC scheme in
+S3 object names, but this RFC avoids a general purpose transaction scheme in
+favour of more specialized "generations" that work like a transaction ID that
+always has the same lifetime as a pageserver process or tenant attachment, whichever
+is shorter.
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Accommodate storage backends with no atomic or fencing capability (i.e. work within
+  S3's limitation that there are no atomics and clients can't be fenced)
+- Don't depend on any STONITH or node fencing in the compute layer (i.e. we will not
+  assume that we can reliably kill and EC2 instance and have it die)
+- Scoped per-tenant, not per-pageserver; for _seamless tenant migration_, we need
+  per-tenant granularity, and for _failover_, we likely want to spread the workload
+  of the failed pageserver instance to a number of peers, rather than monolithically
+  moving the entire workload to another machine.
+  We do not rule out the latter case, but should not constrain ourselves to it.
+
+## Design Tenets
+
+These are not requirements, but are ideas that guide the following design:
+
+- Avoid implementing another consensus system: we already have a strongly consistent
+  database in the control plane that can do atomic operations where needed, and we also
+  have a Paxos implementation in the safekeeper.
+- Avoiding locking in to specific models of how failover will work (e.g. do not assume that
+  all the tenants on a pageserver will fail over as a unit).
+- Be strictly correct when it comes to data integrity. Occasional failures of availability
+  are tolerable, occasional data loss is not.
+
+## Non Goals
+
+The changes in this RFC intentionally isolate the design decision of how to define
+logical generations numbers and object storage format in a way that is somewhat flexible with
+respect to how actual orchestration of failover works.
+
+This RFC intentionally does not cover:
+
+- Failure detection
+- Orchestration of failover
+- Standby modes to keep data ready for fast migration
+- Intentional multi-writer operation on tenants (multi-writer scenarios are assumed to be transient split-brain situations).
+- Sharding.
+
+The interaction between this RFC and those features is discussed in [Appendix B](#appendix-b-interoperability-with-other-features)
+
+## Impacted Components
+
+pageserver, control plane, safekeeper (optional)
+
+## Implementation Part 1: Correctness
+
+### Summary
+
+- A per-tenant **generation number** is introduced to uniquely identifying tenant attachments to pageserver processes.
+
+  - This generation number increments each time the control plane modifies a tenant (`Project`)'s assigned pageserver, or when the assigned pageserver restarts.
+  - the control plane is the authority for generation numbers: only it may
+    increment a generation number.
+
+- **Object keys are suffixed** with the generation number
+- **Safety for multiply-attached tenants** is provided by the
+  generation number in the object key: the competing pageservers will not
+  try to write to the same keys.
+- **Safety in split brain for multiple nodes running with
+  the same node ID** is provided by the pageserver calling out to the control plane
+  on startup, to re-attach and thereby increment the generations of any attached tenants
+- **Safety for deletions** is achieved by deferring the DELETE from S3 to a point in time where the deleting node has validated with control plane that no attachment with a higher generation has a reference to the to-be-DELETEd key.
+- **The control plane is used to issue generation numbers** to avoid the need for
+  a built-in consensus system in the pageserver, although this could in principle
+  be changed without changing the storage format.
+
+### Generation numbers
+
+A generation number is associated with each tenant in the control plane,
+and each time the attachment status of the tenant changes, this is incremented.
+Changes in attachment status include:
+
+- Attaching the tenant to a different pageserver
+- A pageserver restarting, and "re-attaching" its tenants on startup
+
+These increments of attachment generation provide invariants we need to avoid
+split-brain issues in storage:
+
+- If two pageservers have the same tenant attached, the attachments are guaranteed to have different generation numbers, because the generation would increment
+  while attaching the second one.
+- If there are multiple pageservers running with the same node ID, all the attachments on all pageservers are guaranteed to have different generation numbers, because the generation would increment
+  when the second node started and re-attached its tenants.
+
+As long as the infrastructure does not transparently replace an underlying
+physical machine, we are totally safe. See the later [unsafe case](#unsafe-case-on-badly-behaved-infrastructure) section for details.
+
+### Object Key Changes
+
+#### Generation suffix
+
+All object keys (layer objects and index objects) will contain the attachment
+generation as a [suffix](#why-a-generation-suffix-rather-than-prefix).
+This suffix is the primary mechanism for protecting against split-brain situations, and
+enabling safe multi-attachment of tenants:
+
+- Two pageservers running with the same node ID (e.g. after a failure, where there is
+  some rogue pageserver still running) will not try to write to the same objects, because at startup they will have re-attached tenants and thereby incremented
+  generation numbers.
+- Multiple attachments (to different pageservers) of the same tenant will not try to write to the same objects, as each attachment would have a distinct generation.
+
+The generation is appended in hex format (8 byte string representing
+u32), to all our existing key names. A u32's range limit would permit
+27 restarts _per second_ over a 5 year system lifetime: orders of magnitude more than
+is realistic.
+
+The exact meaning of the generation suffix can evolve over time if necessary, for
+example if we chose to implement a failover mechanism internally to the pageservers
+rather than going via the control plane. The storage format just sees it as a number,
+with the only semantic property being that the highest numbered index is the latest.
+
+#### Index changes
+
+Since object keys now include a generation suffix, the index of these keys must also be updated. IndexPart currently stores keys and LSNs sufficient to reconstruct key names: this would be extended to store the generation as well.
+
+This will increase the size of the file, but only modestly: layers are already encoded as
+their string-ized form, so the overhead is about 10 bytes per layer. This will be less if/when
+the index storage format is migrated to a binary format from JSON.
+
+#### Visibility
+
+_This section doesn't describe code changes, but extends on the consequences of the
+object key changes given above_
+
+##### Visibility of objects to pageservers
+
+Pageservers can of course list objects in S3 at any time, but in practice their
+visible set is based on the contents of their LayerMap, which is initialized
+from the `index_part.json.???` that they load.
+
+Starting with the `index_part` from the most recent previous generation
+(see [loading index_part](#finding-the-remote-indices-for-timelines)), a pageserver
+initially has visibility of all the objects that were referenced in the loaded index.
+These objects are guaranteed to remain visible until the current generation is
+superseded, via pageservers in older generations avoiding deletions (see [deletion](#deletion)).
+
+The "most recent previous generation" is _not_ necessarily the most recent
+in terms of walltime, it is the one that is readable at the time a new generation
+starts. Consider the following sequence of a tenant being re-attached to different
+pageserver nodes:
+
+- Create + attach on PS1 in generation 1
+- PS1 Do some work, write out index_part.json-0001
+- Attach to PS2 in generation 2
+- Read index_part.json-0001
+- PS2 starts doing some work...
+- Attach to PS3 in generation 3
+- Read index_part.json-0001
+- **...PS2 finishes its work: now it writes index_part.json-0002**
+- PS3 writes out index_part.json-0003
+
+In the above sequence, the ancestry of indices is:
+
+```
+0001 -> 0002
+     |
+     -> 0003
+```
+
+This is not an issue for safety: if the 0002 references some object that is
+not in 0001, then 0003 simply does not see it, and will re-do whatever
+work was required (e.g. ingesting WAL or doing compaction). Objects referenced
+by only the 0002 index will never be read by future attachment generations, and
+will eventually be cleaned up by a scrub (see [scrubbing](#cleaning-up-orphan-objects-scrubbing)).
+
+##### Visibility of LSNs to clients
+
+Because index_part.json is now written with a generation suffix, which data
+is visible depends on which generation the reader is operating in:
+
+- If one was passively reading from S3 from outside of a pageserver, the
+  visibility of data would depend on which index_part.json-<generation> file
+  one had chosen to read from.
+- If two pageservers have the same tenant attached, they may have different
+  data visible as they're independently replaying the WAL, and maintaining
+  independent LayerMaps that are written to independent index_part.json files.
+  Data does not have to be remotely committed to be visible.
+- For a pageserver writing with a stale generation, historic LSNs
+  remain readable until another pageserver (with a higher generation suffix)
+  decides to execute GC deletions. At this point, we may think of the stale
+  attachment's generation as having logically ended: during its existence
+  the generation had a consistent view of the world.
+- For a newly attached pageserver, its highest visible LSN may appears to
+  go backwards with respect to an earlier attachment, if that earlier
+  attachment had not uploaded all data to S3 before the new attachment.
+
+### Deletion
+
+#### Generation number validation
+
+While writes are de-conflicted by writers always using their own generation number in the key,
+deletions are slightly more challenging: if a pageserver A is isolated, and the true active node is
+pageserver B, then it is dangerous for A to do any object deletions, even of objects that it wrote
+itself, because pageserver's B metadata might reference those objects.
+
+We solve this by inserting a "generation validation" step between the write of a remote index
+that un-links a particular object from the index, and the actual deletion of the object, such
+that deletions strictly obey the following ordering:
+
+1. Write out index_part.json: this guarantees that any subsequent reader of the metadata will
+   not try and read the object we unlinked.
+2. Call out to control plane to validate that the generation which we use for our attachment is still the latest.
+3. If step 2 passes, it is safe to delete the object. Why? The check-in with control plane
+   together with our visibility rules guarantees that any later generation
+   will use either the exact `index_part.json` that we uploaded in step 1, or a successor
+   of it; not an earlier one. In both cases, the `index_part.json` doesn't reference the
+   key we are deleting anymore, so, the key is invisible to any later attachment generation.
+   Hence it's safe to delete it.
+
+Note that at step 2 we are only confirming that deletions of objects _no longer referenced
+by the specific `index_part.json` written in step 1_ are safe. If we were attempting other deletions concurrently,
+these would need their own generation validation step.
+
+If step 2 fails, we may leak the object. This is safe, but has a cost: see [scrubbing](#cleaning-up-orphan-objects-scrubbing). We may avoid this entirely outside of node
+failures, if we do proper flushing of deletions on clean shutdown and clean migration.
+
+To avoid doing a huge number of control plane requests to perform generation validation,
+validation of many tenants will be done in a single request, and deletions will be queued up
+prior to validation: see [Persistent deletion queue](#persistent-deletion-queue) for more.
+
+#### `remote_consistent_lsn` updates
+
+Remote objects are not the only kind of deletion the pageserver does: it also indirectly deletes
+WAL data, by feeding back remote_consistent_lsn to safekeepers, as a signal to the safekeepers that
+they may drop data below this LSN.
+
+For the same reasons that deletion of objects must be guarded by an attachment generation number
+validation step, updates to `remote_consistent_lsn` are subject to the same rules, using
+an ordering as follows:
+
+1. upload the index_part that covers data up to LSN `L0` to S3
+2. Call out to control plane to validate that the generation which we use for our attachment is still the latest.
+3. advance the `remote_consistent_lsn` that we advertise to the safekeepers to `L0`
+
+If step 2 fails, then the `remote_consistent_lsn` advertised
+to safekeepers will not advance again until a pageserver
+with the latest generation is ready to do so.
+
+**Note:** at step 3 we are not advertising the _latest_ remote_consistent_lsn, we are
+advertising the value in the index_part that we uploaded in step 1. This provides
+a strong ordering guarantee.
+
+Internally to the pageserver, each timeline will have two remote_consistent_lsn values: the one that
+reflects its latest write to remote storage, and the one that reflects the most
+recent validation of generation number. It is only the latter value that may
+be advertised to the outside world (i.e. to the safekeeper).
+
+The control plane remains unaware of `remote_consistent_lsn`: it only has to validate
+the freshness of generation numbers, thereby granting the pageserver permission to
+share the information with the safekeeper.
+
+For convenience, in subsequent sections and RFCs we will use "deletion" to mean both deletion
+of objects in S3, and updates to the `remote_consistent_lsn`, as updates to the remote consistent
+LSN are de-facto deletions done via the safekeeper, and both kinds of deletion are subject to
+the same generation validation requirement.
+
+### Pageserver attach/startup changes
+
+#### Attachment
+
+Calls to `/v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/attach` are augmented with an additional
+`generation` field in the body.
+
+The pageserver does not persist this: a generation is only good for the lifetime
+of a process.
+
+#### Finding the remote indices for timelines
+
+Because index files are now suffixed with generation numbers, the pageserver
+cannot always GET the remote index in one request, because it can't always
+know a-priori what the latest remote index is.
+
+Typically, the most recent generation to write an index would be our own
+generation minus 1. However, this might not be the case: the previous
+node might have started and acquired a generation number, and then crashed
+before writing out a remote index.
+
+In the general case and as a fallback, the pageserver may list all the `index_part.json`
+files for a timeline, sort them by generation, and pick the highest that is `<=`
+its current generation for this attachment. The tenant should never load an index
+with an attachment generation _newer_ than its own.
+These two rules combined ensure that objects written by later generations are never visible to earlier generations.
+
+Note that if a given attachment picks an index part from an earlier generation (say n-2), but crashes & restarts before it writes its own generation's index part, next time it tries to pick an index part there may be an index part from generation n-1.
+It would pick the n-1 index part in that case, because it's sorted higher than the previous one from generation n-2.
+So, above rules guarantee no determinism in selecting the index part.
+are allowed to be attached with stale attachment generations during a multiply-attached
+phase in a migration, and in this instance if the old location's pageserver restarts,
+it should not try and load the newer generation's index.
+
+To summarize, on starting a timeline, the pageserver will:
+
+1. Issue a GET for index_part.json-<my generation - 1>
+2. If 1 failed, issue a ListObjectsv2 request for index_part.json\* and
+   pick the newest.
+
+One could optimize this further by using the control plane to record specifically
+which generation most recently wrote an index_part.json, if necessary, to increase
+the probability of finding the index_part.json in one GET. One could also improve
+the chances by having pageservers proactively write out index_part.json after they
+get a new generation ID.
+
+#### Re-attachment on startup
+
+On startup, the pageserver will call out to an new control plane `/re-attach`
+API (see [Generation API](#generation-api)). This returns a list of
+tenants that should be attached to the pageserver, and their generation numbers, which
+the control plane will increment before returning.
+
+The pageserver should still scan its local disk on startup, but should _delete_
+any local content for tenants not indicated in the `/re-attach` response: their
+absence is an implicit detach operation.
+
+**Note** if a tenant is omitted from the re-attach response, its local disk content
+will be deleted. This will change in subsequent work, when the control plane gains
+the concept of a secondary/standby location: a node with local content may revert
+to this status and retain some local content.
+
+#### Cleaning up previous generations' remote indices
+
+Deletion of old indices is not necessary for correctness, although it is necessary
+to avoid the ListObjects fallback in the previous section becoming ever more expensive.
+
+Once the new attachment has written out its index_part.json, it may asynchronously clean up historic index_part.json
+objects that were found.
+
+We may choose to implement this deletion either as an explicit step after we
+write out index_part for the first time in a pageserver's lifetime, or for
+simplicity just do it periodically as part of the background scrub (see [scrubbing](#cleaning-up-orphan-objects-scrubbing));
+
+### Control Plane Changes
+
+#### Store generations for attaching tenants
+
+- The `Project` table must store the generation number for use when
+  attaching the tenant to a new pageserver.
+- The `/v1/tenant/:tenant_id/attach` pageserver API will require the generation number,
+  which the control plane can supply by simply incrementing the `Project`'s
+  generation number each time the tenant is attached to a different server: the same database
+  transaction that changes the assigned pageserver should also change the generation number.
+
+#### Generation API
+
+This section describes an API that could be provided directly by the control plane,
+or built as a separate microservice. In earlier parts of the RFC, when we
+discuss the control plane providing generation numbers, we are referring to this API.
+
+The API endpoints used by the pageserver to acquire and validate generation
+numbers are quite simple, and only require access to some persistent and
+linerizable storage (such as a database).
+
+Building this into the control plane is proposed as a least-effort option to exploit existing infrastructure and implement generation number issuance in the same transaction that mandates it (i.e., the transaction that updates the `Project` assignment to another pageserver).
+However, this is not mandatory: this "Generation Number Issuer" could
+be built as a microservice. In practice, we will write such a miniature service
+anyway, to enable E2E pageserver/compute testing without control plane.
+
+The endpoints required by pageservers are:
+
+##### `/re-attach`
+
+- Request: `{node_id: <u32>}`
+- Response:
+  - 200 `{tenants: [{id: <TenantId>, gen: <u32>}]}`
+  - 404: unknown node_id
+  - (Future: 429: flapping detected, perhaps nodes are fighting for the same node ID,
+    or perhaps this node was in a retry loop)
+  - (On unknown tenants, omit tenant from `tenants` array)
+- Server behavior: query database for which tenants should be attached to this pageserver.
+  - for each tenant that should be attached, increment the attachment generation and
+    include the new generation in the response
+- Client behavior:
+  - for all tenants in the response, activate with the new generation number
+  - for any local disk content _not_ referenced in the response, act as if we
+    had been asked to detach it (i.e. delete local files)
+
+**Note** the `node_id` in this request will change in future if we move to ephemeral
+node IDs, to be replaced with some correlation ID that helps the control plane realize
+if a process is running with the same storage as a previous pageserver process (e.g.
+we might use EC instance ID, or we might just write some UUID to the disk the first
+time we use it)
+
+##### `/validate`
+
+- Request: `{'tenants': [{tenant: <tenant id>, attach_gen: <gen>}, ...]}'`
+- Response:
+  - 200 `{'tenants': [{tenant: <tenant id>, status: <bool>}...]}`
+  - (On unknown tenants, omit tenant from `tenants` array)
+- Purpose: enable the pageserver to discover for the given attachments whether they are still the latest.
+- Server behavior: this is a read-only operation: simply compare the generations in the request with
+  the generations known to the server, and set status to `true` if they match.
+- Client behavior: clients must not do deletions within a tenant's remote data until they have
+  received a response indicating the generation they hold for the attachment is current.
+
+#### Use of `/load` and `/ignore` APIs
+
+Because the pageserver will be changed to only attach tenants on startup
+based on the control plane's response to a `/re-attach` request, the load/ignore
+APIs no longer make sense in their current form.
+
+The `/load` API becomes functionally equivalent to attach, and will be removed:
+any location that used `/load` before should just attach instead.
+
+The `/ignore` API is equivalent to detaching, but without deleting local files.
+
+### Timeline/Branch creation & deletion
+
+All of the previous arguments for safety have described operations within
+a timeline, where we may describe a sequence that includes updates to
+index_part.json, and where reads and writes are coming from a postgres
+endpoint (writes via the safekeeper).
+
+Creating or destroying timeline is a bit different, because writes
+are coming from the control plane.
+
+We must be safe against scenarios such as:
+
+- A tenant is attached to pageserver B while pageserver A is
+  in the middle of servicing an RPC from the control plane to
+  create or delete a tenant.
+- A pageserver A has been sent a timeline creation request
+  but becomes unresponsive. The tenant is attached to a
+  different pageserver B, and the timeline creation request
+  is sent there too.
+
+#### Timeline Creation
+
+If some very slow node tries to do a timeline creation _after_
+a more recent generation node has already created the timeline
+and written some data into it, that must not cause harm. This
+is provided in timeline creations by the way all the objects
+within the timeline's remote path include a generation suffix:
+a slow node in an old generation that attempts to "create" a timeline
+that already exists will just emit an index_part.json with
+an old generation suffix.
+
+Timeline IDs are never reused, so we don't have
+to worry about the case of create/delete/create cycles. If they
+were re-used during a disaster recovery "un-delete" of a timeline,
+that special case can be handled by calling out to all available pageservers
+to check that they return 404 for the timeline, and to flush their
+deletion queues in case they had any deletions pending from the
+timeline.
+
+The above makes it safe for control plane to change the assignment of
+tenant to pageserver in control plane while a timeline creation is ongoing.
+The reason is that the creation request against the new assigned pageserver
+uses a new generation number. However, care must be taken by control plane
+to ensure that a "timeline creation successul" response from some pageserver
+is checked for the pageserver's generation for that timeline's tenant still being the latest.
+If it is not the latest, the response does not constitute a successful timeline creation.
+It is acceptable to discard such responses, the scrubber will clean up the S3 state.
+It is better to issue a timelien deletion request to the stale attachment.
+
+#### Timeline Deletion
+
+Tenant/timeline deletion operations are exempt from generation validation
+on deletes, and therefore don't have to go through the same deletion
+queue as GC/compaction layer deletions. This is because once a
+delete is issued by the control plane, it is a promise that the
+control plane will keep trying until the deletion is done, so even stale
+pageservers are permitted to go ahead and delete the objects.
+
+The implications of this for control plane are:
+
+- During timeline/tenant deletion, the control plane must wait for the deletion to
+  be truly complete (status 404) and also handle the case where the pageserver
+  becomes unavailable, either by waiting for a replacement with the same node_id,
+  or by *re-attaching the tenant elsewhere.
+
+- The control plane must persist its intent to delete
+  a timeline/tenant before issuing any RPCs, and then once it starts, it must
+  keep retrying until the tenant/timeline is gone. This is already handled
+  by using a persistent `Operation` record that is retried indefinitely.
+
+Timeline deletion may result in a special kind of object leak, where
+the latest generation attachment completes a deletion (including erasing
+all objects in the timeline path), but some slow/partitioned node is
+writing into the timeline path with a stale generation number. This would
+not be caught by any per-timeline scrubbing (see [scrubbing](#cleaning-up-orphan-objects-scrubbing)), since scrubbing happens on the
+attached pageserver, and once the timeline is deleted it isn't attached anywhere.
+This scenario should be pretty rare, and the control plane can make it even
+rarer by ensuring that if a tenant is in a multi-attached state (e.g. during
+migration), we wait for that to complete before processing the deletion. Beyond
+that, we may implement some other top-level scrub of timelines in
+an external tool, to identify any tenant/timeline paths that are not found
+in the control plane database.
+
+#### Examples
+
+- Deletion, node restarts partway through:
+  - By the time we returned 202, we have written a remote delete marker
+  - Any subsequent incarnation of the same node_id will see the remote
+    delete marker and continue to process the deletion
+  - If the original pageserver is lost permanently and no replacement
+    with the same node_id is available, then the control plane must recover
+    by re-attaching the tenant to a different node.
+- Creation, node becomes unresponsive partway through.
+  - Control plane will see HTTP request timeout, keep re-issuing
+    request to whoever is the latest attachment point for the tenant
+    until it succeeds.
+  - Stale nodes may be trying to execute timeline creation: they will
+    write out index_part.json files with
+    stale attachment generation: these will be eventually cleaned up
+    by the same mechanism as other old indices.
+
+### Unsafe case on badly behaved infrastructure
+
+This section is only relevant if running on a different environment
+than EC2 machines with ephemeral disks.
+
+If we ever run pageservers on infrastructure that might transparently restart
+a pageserver while leaving an old process running (e.g. a VM gets rescheduled
+without the old one being fenced), then there is a risk of corruption, when
+the control plane attaches the tenant, as follows:
+
+- If the control plane sends an `/attach` request to node A, then node A dies
+  and is replaced, and the control plane's retries the request without
+  incrementing that attachment ID, then it could end up with two physical nodes
+  both using the same generation number.
+- This is not an issue when using EC2 instances with ephemeral storage, as long
+  as the control plane never re-uses a node ID, but it would need re-examining
+  if running on different infrastructure.
+- To robustly protect against this class of issue, we would either:
+  - add a "node generation" to distinguish between different processes holding the
+    same node_id.
+  - or, dispense with static node_id entirely and issue an ephemeral ID to each
+    pageserver process when it starts.
+
+## Implementation Part 2: Optimizations
+
+### Persistent deletion queue
+
+Between writing our a new index_part.json that doesn't reference an object,
+and executing the deletion, an object passes through a window where it is
+only referenced in memory, and could be leaked if the pageserver is stopped
+uncleanly. That introduces conflicting incentives: on the one hand, we would
+like to delay and batch deletions to
+1. minimize the cost of the mandatory validations calls to control plane, and
+2. minimize cost for DeleteObjects requests.
+On the other hand we would also like to minimize leakage by executing
+deletions promptly.
+
+To resolve this, we may make the deletion queue persistent
+and then executing these in the background at a later time.
+
+_Note: The deletion queue's reason for existence is optimization rather than correctness,
+so there is a lot of flexibility in exactly how the it should work,
+as long as it obeys the rule to validate generations before executing deletions,
+so the following details are not essential to the overall RFC._
+
+#### Scope
+
+The deletion queue will be global per pageserver, not per-tenant. There
+are several reasons for this choice:
+
+- Use the queue as a central point to coalesce validation requests to the
+  control plane: this avoids individual `Timeline` objects ever touching
+  the control plane API, and avoids them having to know the rules about
+  validating deletions. This separation of concerns will avoid burdening
+  the already many-LoC `Timeline` type with even more responsibility.
+- Decouple the deletion queue from Tenant attachment lifetime: we may
+  "hibernate" an inactive tenant by tearing down its `Tenant`/`Timeline`
+  objects in the pageserver, without having to wait for deletions to be done.
+- Amortize the cost of I/O for the persistent queue, instead of having many
+  tiny queues.
+- Coalesce deletions into a smaller number of larger DeleteObjects calls
+
+Because of the cost of doing I/O for persistence, and the desire to coalesce
+generation validation requests across tenants, and coalesce deletions into
+larger DeleteObjects requests, there will be one deletion queue per pageserver
+rather than one per tenant. This has the added benefit that when deactivating
+a tenant, we do not have to drain their deletion queue: deletions can proceed
+for a tenant whose main `Tenant` object has been torn down.
+
+#### Flow of deletion
+
+The flow of a deletion is becomes:
+
+1. Need for deletion of an object (=> layer file) is identified.
+2. Unlink the object from all the places that reference it (=> `index_part.json`).
+3. Enqueue the deletion to a persistent queue.
+   Each entry is `tenant_id, attachment_generation, S3 key`.
+4. Validate & execute in batches:
+  4.1 For a batch of entries, call into control plane.
+  4.2 For the subset of entries that passed validation, execute a `DeleteObjects` S3 DELETE request for their S3 keys.
+
+As outlined in the Part 1 on correctness, it is critical that deletions are only
+executed once the key is not referenced anywhere in S3.
+This property is obviously upheld by the scheme above.
+
+#### We Accept Object Leakage In Acceptable Circumcstances
+
+If we crash in the flow above between (2) and (3), we lose track of unreferenced object.
+Further, enqueuing a single to the persistent queue may not be durable immediately to amortize cost of flush to disk.
+This is acceptable for now, it can be caught by [the scrubber](#cleaning-up-orphan-objects-scrubbing).
+
+There are various measures we can take to improve this in the future.
+1. Cap amount of time until enqueued entry becomes durable (timeout for flush-to-tisk)
+2. Proactively flush:
+    - On graceful shutdown, as we anticipate that some or
+      all of our attachments may be re-assigned while we are offline.
+    - On tenant detach.
+3. For each entry, keep track of whether it has passed (2).
+   Only admit entries to (4) one they have passed (2).
+   This requires re-writing / two queue entries (intent, commit) per deletion.
+
+The important take-away with any of the above is that it's not
+disastrous to leak objects in exceptional circumstances.
+
+#### Operations that may skip the queue
+
+Deletions of an entire timeline are [exempt](#Timeline-Deletion) from generation number validation. Once the
+control plane sends the deletion request, there is no requirement to retain the readability
+of any data within the timeline, and all objects within the timeline path may be deleted
+at any time from the control plane's deletion request onwards.
+
+Since deletions of smaller timelines won't have enough objects to compose a full sized
+DeleteObjects request, it is still useful to send these through the last part of the
+deletion pipeline to coalesce with other executing deletions: to enable this, the
+deletion queue should expose two input channels: one for deletions that must be
+processed in a generation-aware way, and a fast path for timeline deletions, where
+that fast path may skip validation and the persistent queue.
+
+### Cleaning up orphan objects (scrubbing)
+
+An orphan object is any object which is no longer referenced by a running node or by metadata.
+
+Examples of how orphan objects arise:
+
+- A node PUTs a layer object, then crashes before it writes the
+  index_part.json that references that layer.
+- A stale node carries on running for some time, and writes out an unbounded number of
+  objects while it believes itself to be the rightful writer for a tenant.
+- A pageserver crashes between un-linking an object from the index, and persisting
+  the object to its deletion queue.
+
+Orphan objects are functionally harmless, but have a small cost due to S3 capacity consumed. We
+may clean them up at some time in the future, but doing a ListObjectsv2 operation and cross
+referencing with the latest metadata to identify objects which are not referenced.
+
+Scrubbing will be done only by an attached pageserver (not some third party process), and deletions requested during scrub will go through the same
+validation as all other deletions: the attachment generation must be
+fresh. This avoids the possibility of a stale pageserver incorrectly
+thinking than an object written by a newer generation is stale, and deleting
+it.
+
+It is not strictly necessary that scrubbing be done by an attached
+pageserver: it could also be done externally. However, an external
+scrubber would still require the same validation procedure that
+a pageserver's deletion queue performs, before actually erasing
+objects.
+
+## Operational impact
+
+### Availability
+
+Coordination of generation numbers via the control plane introduce a dependency for certain
+operations:
+
+1. Starting new pageservers (or activating pageservers after a restart)
+2. Executing enqueued deletions
+3. Advertising updated `remote_consistent_lsn` to enable WAL trimming
+
+Item 1. would mean that some in-place restarts that previously would have resumed service even if the control plane were
+unavailable, will now not resume service to users until the control plane is available. We could
+avoid this by having a timeout on communication with the control plane, and after some timeout,
+resume service with the previous generation numbers (assuming this was persisted to disk). However,
+this is unlikely to be needed as the control plane is already an essential & highly available component. Also, having a node re-use an old generation number would complicate
+reasoning about the system, as it would break the invariant that a generation number uniquely identifies
+a tenant's attachment to a given pageserver _process_: it would merely identify the tenant's attachment
+to the pageserver _machine_ or its _on-disk-state_.
+
+Item 2. is a non-issue operationally: it's harmless to delay deletions, the only impact of objects pending deletion is
+the S3 capacity cost.
+
+Item 3. could be an issue if safekeepers are low on disk space and the control plane is unavailable for a long time. If this became an issue,
+we could adjust the safekeeper to delete segments from local disk sooner, as soon as they're uploaded to S3, rather than waiting for
+remote_consistent_lsn to advance.
+
+For a managed service, the general approach should be to make sure we are monitoring & respond fast enough
+that control plane outages are bounded in time.
+
+There is also the fact that control plane runs in a single region.
+The latency for distant regions is not a big concern for us because all request types added by this RFC are either infrequent or not in the way of the data path.
+However, we lose region isolation for the operations listed above.
+The ongoing work to split console and control will give us per-region control plane, and all operations in this RFC can be handled by these per-region control planes.
+With that in mind, we accept the trade-offs outlined in this paragraph.
+
+We will also implement an "escape hatch" config generation numbers, where in a major disaster outage,
+we may manually run pageservers with a hand-selected generation number, so that we can bring them online
+independently of a control plane.
+
+### Rollout
+
+Although there is coupling between components, we may deploy most of the new data plane components
+independently of the control plane: initially they can just use a static generation number.
+
+#### Phase 1
+
+The pageserver is deployed with some special config to:
+
+- Always act like everything is generation 1 and do not wait for a control plane issued generation on attach
+- Skip the places in deletion and remote_consistent_lsn updates where we would call into control plane
+
+#### Phase 2
+
+The control plane changes are deployed: control plane will now track and increment generation numbers.
+
+#### Phase 3
+
+The pageserver is deployed with its control-plane-dependent changes enabled: it will now require
+the control plane to service re-attach requests on startup, and handle generation
+validation requests.
+
+### On-disk backward compatibility
+
+Backward compatibility with existing data is straightforward:
+
+- When reading the index, we may assume that any layer whose metadata doesn't include
+  generations will have a path without generation suffix.
+- When locating the index file on attachment, we may use the "fallback" listing path
+  and if there is only an index without generation suffix, that is the one we load.
+
+It is not necessary to re-write existing layers: even new index files will be able
+to represent generation-less layers.
+
+### On-disk forward compatibility
+
+We will do a two phase rollout, probably over multiple releases because we will naturally
+have some of the read-side code ready before the overall functionality is ready:
+
+1. Deploy pageservers which understand the new index format and generation suffixes
+   in keys, but do not write objects with generation numbers in the keys.
+2. Deploy pageservers that write objects with generation numbers in the keys.
+
+Old pageservers will be oblivious to generation numbers. That means that they can't
+read objects with generation numbers in the name. This is why we must
+first step must deploy the ability to read, before the second step
+starts writing them.
+
+# Frequently Asked Questions
+
+## Why a generation _suffix_ rather than _prefix_?
+
+The choice is motivated by object listing, since one can list by prefix but not
+suffix.
+
+In [finding remote indices](#finding-the-remote-indices-for-timelines), we rely
+on being able to do a prefix listing for `<tenant>/<timeline>/index_part.json*`.
+That relies on the prefix listing.
+
+The converse case of using a generation prefix and listing by generation is
+not needed: one could imagine listing by generation while scrubbing (so that
+a particular generation's layers could be scrubbed), but this is not part
+of normal operations, and the [scrubber](#cleaning-up-orphan-objects-scrubbing) probably won't work that way anyway.
+
+## Wouldn't it be simpler to have a separate deletion queue per timeline?
+
+Functionally speaking, we could. That's how RemoteTimelineClient currently works,
+but this approach does not map well to a long-lived persistent queue with
+generation validation.
+
+Anything we do per-timeline generates tiny random I/O, on a pageserver with
+tens of thousands of timelines operating: to be ready for high scale, we should:
+
+- A) Amortize costs where we can (e.g. a shared deletion queue)
+- B) Expect to put tenants into a quiescent state while they're not
+  busy: i.e. we shouldn't keep a tenant alive to service its deletion queue.
+
+This was discussed in the [scope](#scope) part of the deletion queue section.
+
+# Appendix A: Examples of use in high availability/failover
+
+The generation numbers proposed in this RFC are adaptable to a variety of different
+failover scenarios and models. The sections below sketch how they would work in practice.
+
+### In-place restart of a pageserver
+
+"In-place" here means that the restart is done before any other element in the system
+has taken action in response to the node being down.
+
+- After restart, the node issues a re-attach request to the control plane, and
+  receives new generation numbers for all its attached tenants.
+- Tenants may be activated with the generation number in the re-attach response.
+- If any of its attachments were in fact stale (i.e. had be reassigned to another
+  node while this node was offline), then
+  - the re-attach response will inform the tenant about this by not including
+    the tenant of this by _not_ incrementing the generation for that attachment.
+  - This will implicitly block deletions in the tenant, but as an optimization
+    the pageserver should also proactively stop doing S3 uploads when it notices this stale-generation state.
+  - The control plane is expected to eventually detach this tenant from the
+    pageserver.
+
+If the control plane does not include a tenant in the re-attach response,
+but there is still local state for the tenant in the filesystem, the pageserver
+deletes the local state in response and does not load/active the tenant.
+See the [earlier section on pageserver startup](#pageserver-attachstartup-changes) for details.
+Control plane can use this mechanism to clean up a pageserver that has been
+down for so long that all its tenants were migrated away before it came back
+up again and asked for re-attach.
+
+### Failure of a pageserver
+
+In this context, read "failure" as the most ambiguous possible case, where
+a pageserver is unavailable to clients and control plane, but may still be executing and talking
+to S3.
+
+#### Case A: re-attachment to other nodes
+
+1. Let's say node 0 becomes unresponsive in a cluster of three nodes 0, 1, 2.
+2. Some external mechanism notices that the node is unavailable and initiates
+   movement of all tenants attached to that node to a different node according
+   to some distribution rule.
+   In this example, it would mean incrementing the generation
+   of all tenants that were attached to node 0, as each tenant's assigned pageserver changes.
+3. A tenant which is now attached to node 1 will _also_ still be attached to node
+   0, from the perspective of node 0. Node 0 will still be using its old generation,
+   node 1 will be using a newer generation.
+4. S3 writes will continue from nodes 0 and 1: there will be an index_part.json-00000001
+   \_and\* an index_part.json-00000002. Objects written under the old suffix
+   after the new attachment was created do not matter from the rest of the system's
+   perspective: the endpoints are reading from the new attachment location. Objects
+   written by node 0 are just garbage that can be cleaned up at leisure. Node 0 will
+   not do any deletions because it can't synchronize with control plane, or if it could,
+   its deletion queue processing would get errors for the validation requests.
+
+#### Case B: direct node replacement with same node_id and drive
+
+This is the scenario we would experience if running pageservers in some dynamic
+VM/container environment that would auto-replace a given node_id when it became
+unresponsive, with the node's storage supplied by some network block device
+that is attached to the replacement VM/container.
+
+1. Let's say node 0 fails, and there may be some other peers but they aren't relevant.
+2. Some external mechanism notices that the node is unavailable, and creates
+   a "new node 0" (Node 0b) which is a physically separate server. The original node 0
+   (Node 0a) may still be running, because we do not assume the environment fences nodes.
+3. On startup, node 0b re-attaches and gets higher generation numbers for
+   all tenants.
+4. S3 writes continue from nodes 0a and 0b, but the writes do not collide due to different
+   generation in the suffix, and the writes from node 0a are not visible to the rest
+   of the system because endpoints are reading only from node 0b.
+
+# Appendix B: interoperability with other features
+
+## Sharded Keyspace
+
+The design in this RFC maps neatly to a sharded keyspace design where subsets of the key space
+for a tenant are assigned to different pageservers:
+
+- the "unit of work" for attachments becomes something like a TenantShard rather than a Tenant
+- TenantShards get generation numbers just as Tenants do.
+- Write workload (ingest, compaction) for a tenant is spread out across pageservers via
+  TenantShards, but each TenantShard still has exactly one valid writer at a time.
+
+## Read replicas
+
+_This section is about a passive reader of S3 pageserver state, not a postgres
+read replica_
+
+For historical reads to LSNs below the remote persistent LSN, any node may act as a reader at any
+time: remote data is logically immutable data, and the use of deferred deletion in this RFC helps
+mitigate the fact that remote data is not _physically_ immutable (i.e. the actual data for a given
+page moves around as compaction happens).
+
+A read replica needs to be aware of generations in remote data in order to read the latest
+metadata (find the index_part.json with the latest suffix). It may either query this
+from the control plane, or find it with ListObjectsv2 request
+
+## Seamless migration
+
+To make tenant migration totally seamless, we will probably want to intentionally double-attach
+a tenant briefly, serving reads from the old node while waiting for the new node to be ready.
+
+This RFC enables that double-attachment: two nodes may be attached at the same time, with the migration destination
+having a higher generation number. The old node will be able to ingest and serve reads, but not
+do any deletes. The new node's attachment must also avoid deleting layers that the old node may
+still use. A new piece of state
+will be needed for this in the control plane's definition of an attachment.
+
+## Warm secondary locations
+
+To enable faster tenant movement after a pageserver is lost, we will probably want to spend some
+disk capacity on keeping standby locations populated with local disk data.
+
+There's no conflict between this RFC and that: implementing warm secondary locations on a per-tenant basis
+would be a separate change to the control plane to store standby location(s) for a tenant. Because
+the standbys do not write to S3, they do not need to be assigned generation numbers. When a tenant is
+re-attached to a standby location, that would increment the tenant attachment generation and this
+would work the same as any other attachment change, but with a warm cache.
+
+## Ephemeral node IDs
+
+This RFC intentionally avoids changing anything fundamental about how pageservers are identified
+and registered with the control plane, to avoid coupling the implementation of pageserver split
+brain protection with more fundamental changes in the management of the pageservers.
+
+Moving to ephemeral node IDs would provide an extra layer of
+resilience in the system, as it would prevent the control plane
+accidentally attaching to two physical nodes with the same
+generation, if somehow there were two physical nodes with
+the same node IDs (currently we rely on EC2 guarantees to
+eliminate this scenario). With ephemeral node IDs, there would be
+no possibility of that happening, no matter the behavior of
+underlying infrastructure.
+
+Nothing fundamental in the pageserver's handling of generations needs to change to handle ephemeral node IDs, since we hardly use the
+`node_id` anywhere. The `/re-attach` API would be extended
+to enable the pageserver to obtain its ephemeral ID, and provide
+some correlation identifier (e.g. EC instance ID), to help the
+control plane re-attach tenants to the same physical server that
+previously had them attached.
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+This is a copy from the [original Notion page](https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/Proposal-Pageserver-MVCC-S3-Storage-8a424c0c7ec5459e89d3e3f00e87657c?pvs=4), taken on 2023-08-16.
+
+This is for archival mostly.
+The RFC that we're likely to go with is https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/4919.
+
+---
+
+# Proposal: Pageserver MVCC S3 Storage
+
+tl;dr: this proposal enables Control Plane to attach a tenant to a new pageserver without being 100% certain that it has been detached from the old pageserver. This enables us to automate failover if a pageserver dies (no human in the loop).
+
+# Problem Statement
+
+The current Neon architecture requires the Control Plane to guarantee that a tenant is only attached to one pageserver at a time. If a tenant is attached to multiple pageservers simultaneously, the pageservers will overwrite each other’s changes in S3 for that tenant, resulting in data loss for that tenant.
+
+The above imposes limitations on tenant relocation and future designs for high availability. For instance, Control Plane cannot relocate a tenant to another pageserver before it is 100% certain that the tenant is detached from the source pageserver. If the source pageserver is unresponsive, the tenant detach procedure cannot proceed, and Control Plane has no choice but to wait for either the source to become responsive again, or rely on a node failure detection mechanism to detect that the source pageserver is dead, and give permission to skip the detachment step. Either way, the tenant is unavailable for an extended period, and we have no means to improve it in the current architecture.
+
+Note that there is no 100% correct node failure detection mechanism, and even techniques to accelerate failure detection, such as ********************************shoot-the-other-node-in-the-head,******************************** have their limits. So, we currently rely on humans as node failure detectors: they get alerted via PagerDuty, assess the situation under high stress, and make the decision. If they make the wrong call, or the apparent dead pageserver somehow resurrects later, we’ll have data loss.
+
+Also, by relying on humans, we’re [incurring needless unscalable toil](https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/): as Neon grows, pageserver failures will become more and more frequent because our fleet grows. Each instance will need quick response time to minimize downtime for the affected tenants, which implies higher toil, higher resulting attrition, and/or higher personnel cost.
+
+Lastly, there are foreseeable needs by operation and product such as zero-downtime relocation and automatic failover/HA. For such features, the ability to have a tenant purposefully or accidentally attached to more than one pageserver will greatly reduce risk of data loss, and improve availability.
+
+# High-Level Idea
+
+The core idea is to evolve the per-Tenant S3 state to an MVCC-like scheme, allowing multiple pageservers to operate on the same tenant S3 state without interference. To make changes to S3, pageservers acquire long-running transactions from Control Plane. After opening a transaction, Pageservers make PUTs directly against S3, but they keys include the transaction ID,  so overwrites never happen. Periodically, pageservers talk back to Control Plane to commit their transaction. This is where Control Plane enforces strict linearizability, favoring availability over work-conservation: commit is only granted if no transaction started after the one that’s requesting commit. Garbage collection is done through deadlists, and it’s simplified tremendously by above commit grant/reject policy.
+
+Minimal changes are required for safekeepers to allow WAL for a single timeline be consumed by more than one pageserver without premature truncation.
+
+**Above scheme makes it safe to attach tenants without a 100% correct node failure detection mechanism. Further, it makes it safe to interleave tenant-attachment to pageservers, unlocking new capabilities for (internal) product features:**
+
+- **Fast, Zero-Toil Failover on Network Partitions or Instance Failure**: if a pageserver is not reachable (network partition, hardware failure, overload) we want to spread its attached tenants to new pageservers to restore availability, within the range of *seconds*. We cannot afford gracious timeouts to maximize the probability that the unreachable pageserver has ceased writing to S3. This proposal enables us to attach the tenants to the replacement pageservers,  and redirect their computes, without having to wait for confirmation that the unreachable pageserver has ceased writing to S3.
+- **************************************Zero-Downtime Relocation:************************************** we want to be able to relocate tenants to different pageservers with minimized availability or a latency impact. This proposal enables us to attach the relocating Tenant to the destination Pageserver before detaching it from the source Pageserver. This can help minimize downtime because we can wait for the destination to catch up on WAL processing before redirecting Computes.
+
+# Design
+
+The core idea is to evolve the per-Tenant S3 state to a per-tenant MVCC-like scheme.
+
+To make S3 changes for a given tenant, Pageserver requests a transaction ID from control plane for that tenant. Without a transaction ID, Pageserver does not write to S3.
+
+Once Pageserver received a transaction ID it is allowed to produce new objects and overwrite objects created in this transaction. Pageserver is not allowed to delete any objects; instead, it marks the object as deleted by appending the key to the transaction’s deadlist for later deletion. Commits of transactions are serialized through Control Plane: when Pageserver wants to commit a transaction, it sends an RPC to Control Plane. Control Plane responds with a commit grant or commit reject message. Commit grant means that the transaction’s changes are now visible to subsequent transactions. Commit reject means that the transaction’s changes are not and never will be visible to another Pageserver instance, and the rejected Pageserver is to cease further activity on that tenant.
+
+## ****************************************************Commit grant/reject policy****************************************************
+
+For the purposes of Pageserver, we want **linearizability** of a tenant’s S3 state. Since our transactions are scoped per tenant, it is sufficient for linearizability to grant commit if and only if no other transaction has been started since the commit-requesting transaction started.
+
+For example, consider the case of a single tenant, attached to Pageserver A. Pageserver A has an open transaction but becomes unresponsive. Control Plane decides to relocate the tenant to another Pageserver B. It need *not* wait for A to be 100%-certainly down before B can start uploading to S3 for that tenant. Instead, B can start a new transaction right away, make progress, and get commit grants;  What about A? The transaction is RejectPending in Control Plane until A eventually becomes responsive again, tries to commit, gets a rejection, acknowledges it, and thus its transaction becomes RejectAcknowledge. If A is definitively dead, operator can also force-transition from state RejectPending to RejectAcknowledged. But critically, Control Plane doesn’t have for A’s transaction to become RejectAcknowledge before attaching the tenant to B.
+
+```mermaid
+sequenceDiagram
+
+   participant CP
+   participant A
+   participant S3
+   participant B
+
+	 CP -->> A: attach tenant
+   activate A
+	 A -->> CP: start txn
+	 CP -->> A: txn=23, last_committed_txn=22
+
+
+	 Note over CP,A: network partition
+	 CP --x A: heartbeat
+	 CP --x A: heartbeat
+
+	 Note over CP: relocate tenant to avoid downtime
+	 CP -->> B: attach tenant
+   activate B
+	 B -->> CP: start txn
+   Note over CP: mark A's txn 23 as RejectPending
+	 CP -->> B: txn=24, last-committed txn is 22
+	 B -->> S3: PUT X.layer.24<br>PUT index_part.json.24 referencing X.layer.24
+	 B -->> CP: request commit
+	 CP -->> B: granted
+   B -->> CP: start txn
+  CP -->> B: txn=25, last_committed_txn=22
+
+   A -->> S3: PUT Y.layer.23 <br> PUT index_part.json.23 referencing Y.layer.23
+  A --x CP: request commit
+	 A --x CP: request commit
+
+   Note over CP,A: partition is over
+
+   A -->> CP: request commit
+
+   Note over CP: most recently started txn is 25, not 23, reject
+
+   CP -->> A: reject
+   A -->> CP: acknowledge reject
+
+   Note over CP: mark A's txn 23 as RejectAcknowledged
+
+  deactivate A
+
+  B -->> S3: PUT 000-FFF_X-Y.layer.**************25**************<br>...
+
+  deactivate B
+
+
+```
+
+If a Pageserver gets a rejection to a commit request, it acknowledges rejection and cedes further S3 uploads for the tenant, until it receives a `/detach` request for the tenant (control plane has most likely attached the tenant to another pageserver in the meantime).
+
+In practice, Control Plane will probably extend the commit grant/reject schema above, taking into account the pageserver to which it last attached the tenant. In the above example, Control Plane could remember that the pageserver that is supposed to host the tenant is pageserver B, and reject start-txn and commit requests from pageserver A. It would also use such requests from A as a signal that A is reachable again, and retry the `/detach` .
+
+<aside>
+💡 A commit failure causes the tenant to become effectively `Broken`. Pageserver should persist this locally so it doesn’t bother ControlPlane for a new txn when Pageserver is restarted.
+
+</aside>
+
+## ********************Visibility********************
+
+We mentioned earlier that once a transaction commits, its changes are visible to subsequent transactions. But how does a given transaction know where to look for the data? There is no longer a single `index_part.json` per timeline, or a single `timelines/:timeline_id` prefix to look for; they’re all multi-versioned, suffixed by the txn number.
+The solution is: at transaction start, Pageserver receives the last-committed transaction ID from Control Plane (`last_committed_txn` in the diagram). last_commited_txn is the upper bound for what is visible for the current transaction. Control Plane keeps track of each open transaction’s last_committed_txn for purposes of garbage collection (see later paragraph).
+Equipped with last_committed_txn, Pageserver then discovers
+
+- the current index part of a timeline at `tenants/:tenant_id/timelines/:timeline_id/index_part.json.$last_committed_txn`. The `index_part.json.$last_committed_txn` has the exact same contents as the current architecture’s index_part.json, i.e. full list of layers.
+- the list of existent timelines as part of the `attach` RPC from CP;
+
+There is no other S3 state per tenant, so, that’s all the visibility required.
+An alternative to receiving the list of existent timelines from CP is to introduce a proper **********SetOfTimelines********** object in S3, and multi-version it just like above. For example, we could have a `tenants/:tenant_id/timelines.json.$txn` file that references `index_part.json.$last_committed_txn` . It can be added later if more separation between CP and PS is desired.
+
+So, the only MVCC’ed object types in this proposal are LayerFile and IndexPart (=individual timeline), but not the SetOfTimelines in a given tenant. Is this a problem? For example, the Pageserver’s garbage collection code needs to know the full set of timelines of a tenant. Otherwise it’ll make incorrect decisions. What if Pageserver A knows about timelines {R,S}, but another Pageserver B created an additional branch T, so, its set of timelines is {R,S,T}. Both pageservers will run GC code, and so, PS A may decide to delete a layer that’s still needed for branch T. Not a problem with this propsoal, because the effect of GC (i.e., layer deletion) is properly MVCC’ed.
+
+## Longevity Of Transactions & Availability
+
+Pageserver depends on Control Plane to start a new transaction. If ControlPlane is down, no new transactions can be started.
+
+Pageservers commit transactions based on a maximum amount of uncommitted changes that have accumulated in S3. A lower maximum increases dependence and load on ControlPlane which decreases availability. A higher maximum risks losing more work in the event of failover; the work will have to be re-done in a new transaction on the new node.
+
+Pageservers are persist the open txn id in local storage, so that they can resume the transaction after restart, without dependence on Control Plane.
+
+## **Operations**
+
+********PUTs:********
+
+- **layer files**
+    - current architecture: layer files are supposed to be write-once, but actually, there are edge-cases where we PUT the same layer file name twice; namely if we PUT the file to S3 but crash before uploading the index part that references it; then detach + attach, and re-run compaction, which is non-deterministic.
+    - this proposal: with transactions, we can now upload layers and index_part.json concurrently, just need to make sure layer file upload is done before we request txn commit.
+- **index part** upload: `index_part.json.$txn` may be created and subsequently overwritten multiple times in a transaction; it is an availability/work-loss trade-off how often to request a commit from CP.
+
+**************DELETEs**************: for deletion, we maintain a deadlist per transaction. It is located at `tenants/:tenant_id/deadlist/deadlist.json.$txn`. It is PUT once before the pageserver requests requests commit, and not changed after sending request to commit. An object created in the current txn need not (but can) be on the deadlist — it can be DELETEd immediately because it’s not visible to other transactions. An example use case would be an L0 layer that gets compacted within one transaction; or, if we ever start MVCC’ing the set of timelines of a tenant, a short-lived branch that is created & destroyed within one transaction.
+
+<aside>
+☝ **Deadlist Invariant:** if a an object is on a deadlist of transaction T, it is not referenced from anywhere else in the full state visible to T or any later started transaction > T.
+
+</aside>
+
+### Rationale For Deadlist.json
+
+Given that this proposal only MVCC’s layers and indexparts, one may ask why the deadlist isn’t part of indexpart. The reason is to not lose generality: the deadlist is just a list of keys; it is not necessary to understand the data format of the versioned object to process the deadlist. This is important for garbage collection / vacuuming, which we’ll come to in the next section.
+
+## Garbage Collection / Vacuuming
+
+After a transaction has reached reject-acknowledged state,  Control Plane initiates a garbage collection procedure for the aborted transaction.
+
+Control Plane is in the unique position about transaction states. Here is a sketch of the exact transaction states and what Control Plane keeps track of.
+
+```
+struct Tenant {
+  ...
+
+  txns: HashMap<TxnId, Transaction>,
+  // the most recently started txn's id; only most recently sarted can win
+  next_winner_txn: Option<TxnId>,
+}
+struct Transaction {
+  id: TxnId, // immutable
+  last_committed_txn: TxnId, // immutable; the most recent txn in state `Committed`
+                             // when self was started
+  pageserver_id: PageserverId,
+  state: enum {
+    Open,
+    Committed,
+    RejectPending,
+    RejectAcknowledged, // invariant: we know all S3 activity has ceded
+    GarbageCollected,
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Object creations & deletions by a rejected transaction have never been visible to other transactions. That is true for both RejectPending and RejectAcknowledged states. The difference is that, in RejectPending, the pageserver may still be uploading to S3, whereas in RejectAcknowledged, Control Plane can be certain that all S3 activity in the name of that transaction has ceded. So, once a transaction reaches state RejectAcknowledged state, it is safe to DELETE all objects created by that transaction, and discard the transaction’s deadlists.
+
+A transaction T in state Committed has subsequent transactions that may or may not reference the objects it created. None of the subsequent transaction can reference the objects on T’s deadlist, though, as per the Deadlist Invariant (see previous section).
+
+So, for garbage collection, we need to assess transactions in state Committed and RejectAcknowledged:
+
+- Commited: delete objects on the deadlist.
+    - We don’t need a LIST request here, the deadlist is sufficient. So, it’s really cheap.
+    - This is **not true MVCC garbage collection**; by deleting the objects on Committed transaction T ’s deadlist, we might delete data referenced by other transactions that were concurrent with T, i.e., they started while T was still open. However, the fact that T is committed means that the other transactions are RejectPending or RejectAcknowledged, so, they don’t matter. Pageservers executing these doomed RejectPending transactions must handle 404 for GETs gracefully, e.g., by trying to commit txn so they observe the rejection they’re destined to get anyways. 404’s for RejectAcknowledged is handled below.
+- RejectAcknowledged: delete all objects created in that txn, and discard deadlists.
+    - 404s / object-already-deleted type messages must be expected because of Committed garbage collection (see above)
+    - How to get this list of objects created in a txn? Open but solvable design question; Ideas:
+        - **Brute force**: within tenant prefix, search for all keys ending in `.$txn` and delete them.
+        - **WAL for PUTs**: before a txn PUTs an object, it logs to S3, or some other equivalently durable storage, that it’s going to do it. If we log to S3, this means we have to do an additional WAL PUT per “readl” PUT.
+        - ******************************LIST with reorg’ed S3 layout (preferred one right now):****************************** layout S3 key space such that `$txn` comes first, i.e., `tenants/:tenant_id/$txn/timelines/:timeline_id/*.json.$txn` . That way, when we need to GC a RejectAcknowledged txn, we just LIST the entire `tenants/:tenant_id/$txn` prefix and delete it. The cost of GC for RejectAcknowledged transactions is thus proportional to the number of objects created in that transaction.
+
+## Branches
+
+This proposal only MVCC’s layer files and and index_part.json, but leaves the tenant object not-MVCCed. We argued earlier that it’s fine to ignore this for now, because
+
+1. Control Plane can act as source-of-truth for the set of timelines, and
+2. The only operation that makes decision based on “set of timelines” is GC, which in turn only does layer deletions, and layer deletions ***are*** properly MVCC’ed.
+
+Now that we’ve introduced garbage collection, let’s elaborate a little more on (2). Recall our example from earlier: Pageserver A knows about timelines {R,S}, but another Pageserver B created an additional branch T, so, its set of timelines is {R,S,T}. Both pageservers will run GC code, and so, PS A may decide to delete a layer that’s still needed for branch T.
+
+How does the MVCC’ing of layer files protect us here? If A decides to delete that layer, it’s just on A’s transaction’s deadlist, but still present in S3 and usable by B. If A commits first, B won’t be able to commit and the layers in timeline T will be vacuumed. If B commits first, A’s deadlist is discarded and the layer continues to exist.
+
+## Safekeeper Changes
+
+We need to teach the safekeepers that there can be multiple pageservers requesting WAL for the same timeline, in order to prevent premature WAL truncation.
+
+In the current architecture, the Safekeeper service currently assumes only one Pageserver and is allowed to prune WAL older than that Pageserver’s `remote_consistent_lsn`. Safekeeper currently learns the `remote_consistent_lsn` through the walreceiver protocol.
+
+So, if we have a tenant attached to two pageservers at the same time, they will both try to stream WAL and the Safekeeper will get confused about which connection’s `remote_consistent_lsn` to use as a basis for WAL pruning.
+
+What do we need to change to make it work? We need to make sure that the Safekeepers only prune WAL up to the `remote_consistent_lsn` of the last-committed transaction.
+
+The straight-forward way to get it is to re-design WAL pruning as follows:
+
+1. Pageserver reports remote_consistent_lsn as part of transaction commit to Control Plane.
+2. Control Plane makes sure transaction state update is persisted.
+3. Control Plane (asynchronous to transaction commit) reconciles with Safekeepers to ensure WAL pruning happens.
+
+The above requires non-trivial changes, but, in the light of other planned projects such as restore-tenant-from-safekeeper-wal-backups, I think Control Plane will need to get involved in WAL pruning anyways.
+
+# How This Proposal Unlocks Future Features
+
+Let us revisit the example from the introduction where we were thinking about handling network partitions. Network partitions need to be solved first, because they’re unavoidable in distributed systems. We did that. Now let’s see how we can solve actual product problems:
+
+## **Fast, Zero-Toil Failover on Network Partitions or Instance Failure**
+
+The “Problem Statement” section outlined the current architecture’s problems with regards to network partitions or instance failure: it requires a 100% correct node-dead detector to make decisions, which doesn’t exist in reality. We rely instead on human toil: an oncall engineer has to inspect the situation and make a decision, which may be incorrect and in any case take time in the order of minutes, which means equivalent downtime for users.
+
+With this proposal, automatic failover for pageservers is trivial:
+
+If a pageserver is unresponsive from Control Plane’s / Compute’s perspective, Control Plane does the following:
+
+- attach all tenants of the unresponsive pageserver to new pageservers
+- switch over these tenants’ computes immediately;
+
+At this point, availability is restored and user pain relieved.
+
+What’s left is to somehow close the doomed transaction of the unresponsive pageserver, so that it beomes RejectAcknowledged, and GC can make progress. Since S3 is cheap, we can afford to wait a really long time here, especially if we put a soft bound on the amount of data a transaction may produce before it must commit. Procedure:
+
+1. Ensure the unresponsive pageserver is taken out of rotation for new attachments. That probably should happen as part of the routine above.
+2. Make a human operator investigate decide what to do (next morning, NO ONCALL ALERT):
+    1. Inspect the instance, investigate logs, understand root cause.
+    2. Try to re-establish connectivity between pageserver and Control Plane so that pageserver can retry commits, get rejected, ack rejection ⇒ enable GC.
+    3. Use below procedure to decomission pageserver.
+
+### Decomissioning A Pageserver (Dead or Alive-but-Unrespsonive)
+
+The solution, enabled by this proposal:
+
+1. Ensure that pageserver’s S3 credentials are revoked so that it cannot make new uploads, which wouldn’t be tracked anywhere.
+2. Let enough time pass for the S3 credential revocation to propagate. Amazon doesn’t give a guarantee here. As stated earlier, we can easily afford to wait here.
+3. Mark all Open and RejectPending transactions of that pageserver as RejectAcknowledge.
+
+Revocation of the S3 credentials is required so that, once we transition all the transactions of that pageserver to RejectAcknowledge, once garbage-collection pass is guaranteed to delete all objects that will ever exist for that pageserver. That way, we need not check *****GarbageCollected***** transactions every again.
+
+## Workflow: Zero-Downtime Relocation
+
+With zero-downtime relocation, the goal is to have the target pageserver warmed up, i.e., at the same `last_record_lsn` as the source pageserver, before switching over Computes from source to target pageserver.
+
+With this proposal, it works like so:
+
+1. Grant source pageserver its last open transaction. This one is doomed to be rejected later, unless the relocation fails.
+2. Grant target pageserver its first open transaction.
+3. Have target pageserver catch up on WAL, streaming from last-committed-txn’s remote_consistent_lsn onwards.
+4. Once target pageserver reports `last_record_lsn` close enough to source pageserver, target pageserver requests commit.
+5. Drain compute traffic from source to target pageserver. (Source can still answer requests until it tries to commit and gets reject, so, this will be quite smooth).
+
+Note that as soon as we complete step (4), the source pageserver’s transaction is doomed to be rejected later. Conversely, if the target can’t catch up fast enough, the source will make a transaction commit earlier. This will generally happen if there is a lot of write traffic coming in. The design space to make thing smooth here is large, but well explored in other areas of computing, e.g., VM live migration. We have all the important policy levers at hand, e.g.,
+
+- delaying source commits if we see target making progress
+- slowing down source consumption (need some signalling mechanism for it)
+- slowing down compute wal generation
+- …
+
+It doesn’t really matter, what’s important is that two pageservers can overlap.
+
+# Additional Trade-Offs / Remarks Brought Up During Peer Review
+
+This proposal was read by and discussed @Stas and @Dmitry Rodionov prior to publishing it with the broader team. (This does not mean they endorse this proposal!).
+
+Issues that we discussed:
+
+1. **Frequency of transactions:** If even idle tenants commit every 10min or so, that’s quite a lot of load on Control Plane. Can we minimize it by Equating Transaction Commit Period to Attachment Period? I.e. start txn on attach, commit on detach?
+    1. Would be nice, but, if a tenant is attached for 1 month, then PS dies, we lose 1 month of work.
+    2. ⇒ my solution to this problem: Adjusted this proposal to make transaction commit frequency proportional to amount of uncommitted data.
+        1. It’s ok to spend resources on active users, they pay us money to do it!
+        2. The amount of work per transaction is minimal.
+            1. In current Control Plane, it’s a small database transaction that is super unlikely to conflict with other transactions.
+            2. I have very little concerns about scalability of the commit workload on CP side because it's trivially horizontally scalable by sharding by tenant.
+        3. There's no super stringent availability requirement on control plane; if a txn can't commit because it can't reach the CP, PS can continue & retry in the background, speculating that it's CP downtime and not PS-partitioned-off scenario.
+        4. Without stringent availability requirement, there's flexibility for future changes to CP-side-implementation.
+2. ************************************************Does this proposal address mirroring / no-performance-degradation failover ?************************************************
+    1. No it doesn’t. It only provides the building block for attaching a tenant to a new pageserver without having to worry that the tenant is detached on the old pageserver.
+    2. A simple scheme to build no-performance-degradation failover on top of this proposal is to have an asynchronous read-only replica of a tenant on another pageserver in the same region.
+    3. Another more ambitious scheme to get no-performance-degradation would be [One-Pager: Layer File Spreading (Christian)](https://www.notion.so/One-Pager-Layer-File-Spreading-Christian-eb6b64182a214e11b3fceceee688d843?pvs=21); this proposal would be used in layer file spreading for risk-free automation of TenantLeader failover, which hasn’t been addressed Ithere.
+    4. In any way, failover would restart from an older S3 state, and need to re-ingest WAL before being able to server recently written pages.
+        1. Is that a show-stopper? I think not.
+        2. Is it suboptimal? Absolutely: if a pageserver instance fails, all its tenants will be distributed among the remaining pageservers (OK), and all these tenants will ask the safekeepers for WAL at the same time (BAD). So, pageserver instance failure will cause a load spike in safekeepers.
+            1. Personally I think that’s an OK trade-off to make.
+            2. There are countless options to avoid / mitigate the load spike. E.g., pro-actively streaming WAL to the standby read-only replica.
+
+3. ********************************************Does this proposal allow multiple writers for a tenant?********************************************
+    1. In abstract terms, this proposal provides a linearized history for a given S3 prefix.
+    2. In concrete terms, this proposal provides a linearized history per tenant.
+    3. There can be multiple writers at a given time, but only one of them will win to become part of the linearized history.
+4. ************************************************************************************Alternative ideas mentioned during meetings that should be turned into a written prospoal like this one:************************************************************************************
+    1. @Dmitry Rodionov : having linearized storage of index_part.json in some database that allows serializable transactions / atomic compare-and-swap PUT
+    2. @Dmitry Rodionov :
+    3. @Stas : something like this scheme, but somehow find a way to equate attachment duration with transaction duration, without losing work if pageserver dies months after attachment.
--- a/docs/tools.md
+++ b/docs/tools.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Useful development tools
+
+This readme contains some hints on how to set up some optional development tools.
+
+## ccls
+
+[ccls](https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls) is a c/c++ language server. It requires some setup
+to work well. There are different ways to do it but here's what works for me:
+1. Make a common parent directory for all your common neon projects. (for example, `~/src/neondatabase/`)
+2. Go to `vendor/postgres-v15`
+3. Run `make clean && ./configure`
+4. Install [bear](https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear), and run `bear -- make -j4`
+5. Copy the generated `compile_commands.json` to `~/src/neondatabase` (or equivalent)
+6. Run `touch ~/src/neondatabase/.ccls-root` this will make the `compile_commands.json` file discoverable in all subdirectories
+
+With this setup you will get decent lsp mileage inside the postgres repo, and also any postgres extensions that you put in `~/src/neondatabase/`, like `pg_embedding`, or inside `~/src/neondatabase/neon/pgxn` as well.
+
+Some additional tips for various IDEs:
+
+### Emacs
+
+To improve performance: `(setq lsp-lens-enable nil)`
--- a/libs/compute_api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/compute_api/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ chrono.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_with.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
+regex.workspace = true

 utils = { path = "../utils" }
+remote_storage = { version = "0.1", path = "../remote_storage/" }
+
 workspace_hack.workspace = true
--- a/libs/compute_api/src/responses.rs
+++ b/libs/compute_api/src/responses.rs
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize, Serializer};

 use crate::spec::ComputeSpec;

-#[derive(Serialize, Debug)]
+#[derive(Serialize, Debug, Deserialize)]
 pub struct GenericAPIError {
    pub error: String,
 }

 /// Response of the /status API
-#[derive(Serialize, Debug)]
+#[derive(Serialize, Debug, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
 pub struct ComputeStatusResponse {
    pub start_time: DateTime<Utc>,
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub struct ComputeStatusResponse {
    pub error: Option<String>,
 }

-#[derive(Serialize)]
+#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
 pub struct ComputeState {
    pub status: ComputeStatus,
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ pub struct ComputeState {
    pub error: Option<String>,
 }

-#[derive(Serialize, Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Serialize, Clone, Copy, Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
 pub enum ComputeStatus {
    // Spec wasn't provided at start, waiting for it to be
@@ -68,11 +68,45 @@ where
 /// Response of the /metrics.json API
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Serialize)]
 pub struct ComputeMetrics {
+    /// Time spent waiting in pool
    pub wait_for_spec_ms: u64,
+
+    /// Time spent checking if safekeepers are synced
+    pub sync_sk_check_ms: u64,
+
+    /// Time spent syncing safekeepers (walproposer.c).
+    /// In most cases this should be zero.
    pub sync_safekeepers_ms: u64,
+
+    /// Time it took to establish a pg connection to the pageserver.
+    /// This is two roundtrips, so it's a good proxy for compute-pageserver
+    /// latency. The latency is usually 0.2ms, but it's not safe to assume
+    /// that.
+    pub pageserver_connect_micros: u64,
+
+    /// Time to get basebackup from pageserver and write it to disk.
    pub basebackup_ms: u64,
+
+    /// Compressed size of basebackup received.
+    pub basebackup_bytes: u64,
+
+    /// Time spent starting potgres. This includes initialization of shared
+    /// buffers, preloading extensions, and other pg operations.
+    pub start_postgres_ms: u64,
+
+    /// Time spent applying pg catalog updates that were made in the console
+    /// UI. This should be 0 when startup time matters, since cplane tries
+    /// to do these updates eagerly, and passes the skip_pg_catalog_updates
+    /// when it's safe to skip this step.
    pub config_ms: u64,
+
+    /// Total time, from when we receive the spec to when we're ready to take
+    /// pg connections.
    pub total_startup_ms: u64,
+    pub load_ext_ms: u64,
+    pub num_ext_downloaded: u64,
+    pub largest_ext_size: u64, // these are measured in bytes
+    pub total_ext_download_size: u64,
 }

 /// Response of the `/computes/{compute_id}/spec` control-plane API.
--- a/libs/compute_api/src/spec.rs
+++ b/libs/compute_api/src/spec.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,16 @@
 //! The spec.json file is used to pass information to 'compute_ctl'. It contains
 //! all the information needed to start up the right version of PostgreSQL,
 //! and connect it to the storage nodes.
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use serde_with::{serde_as, DisplayFromStr};
+use utils::id::{TenantId, TimelineId};
 use utils::lsn::Lsn;

+use regex::Regex;
+use remote_storage::RemotePath;
+
 /// String type alias representing Postgres identifier and
 /// intended to be used for DB / role names.
 pub type PgIdent = String;
@@ -14,7 +20,7 @@ pub type PgIdent = String;
 /// Cluster spec or configuration represented as an optional number of
 /// delta operations + final cluster state description.
 #[serde_as]
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct ComputeSpec {
    pub format_version: f32,

@@ -26,10 +32,112 @@ pub struct ComputeSpec {
    pub cluster: Cluster,
    pub delta_operations: Option<Vec<DeltaOp>>,

+    /// An optinal hint that can be passed to speed up startup time if we know
+    /// that no pg catalog mutations (like role creation, database creation,
+    /// extension creation) need to be done on the actual database to start.
+    #[serde(default)] // Default false
+    pub skip_pg_catalog_updates: bool,
+
+    // Information needed to connect to the storage layer.
+    //
+    // `tenant_id`, `timeline_id` and `pageserver_connstring` are always needed.
+    //
+    // Depending on `mode`, this can be a primary read-write node, a read-only
+    // replica, or a read-only node pinned at an older LSN.
+    // `safekeeper_connstrings` must be set for a primary.
+    //
+    // For backwards compatibility, the control plane may leave out all of
+    // these, and instead set the "neon.tenant_id", "neon.timeline_id",
+    // etc. GUCs in cluster.settings. TODO: Once the control plane has been
+    // updated to fill these fields, we can make these non optional.
+    #[serde_as(as = "Option<DisplayFromStr>")]
+    pub tenant_id: Option<TenantId>,
+    #[serde_as(as = "Option<DisplayFromStr>")]
+    pub timeline_id: Option<TimelineId>,
+    #[serde_as(as = "Option<DisplayFromStr>")]
+    pub pageserver_connstring: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub safekeeper_connstrings: Vec<String>,
+
    #[serde(default)]
    pub mode: ComputeMode,

+    /// If set, 'storage_auth_token' is used as the password to authenticate to
+    /// the pageserver and safekeepers.
    pub storage_auth_token: Option<String>,
+
+    // information about available remote extensions
+    pub remote_extensions: Option<RemoteExtSpec>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct RemoteExtSpec {
+    pub public_extensions: Option<Vec<String>>,
+    pub custom_extensions: Option<Vec<String>>,
+    pub library_index: HashMap<String, String>,
+    pub extension_data: HashMap<String, ExtensionData>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct ExtensionData {
+    pub control_data: HashMap<String, String>,
+    pub archive_path: String,
+}
+
+impl RemoteExtSpec {
+    pub fn get_ext(
+        &self,
+        ext_name: &str,
+        is_library: bool,
+        build_tag: &str,
+        pg_major_version: &str,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<(String, RemotePath)> {
+        let mut real_ext_name = ext_name;
+        if is_library {
+            // sometimes library names might have a suffix like
+            // library.so or library.so.3. We strip this off
+            // because library_index is based on the name without the file extension
+            let strip_lib_suffix = Regex::new(r"\.so.*").unwrap();
+            let lib_raw_name = strip_lib_suffix.replace(real_ext_name, "").to_string();
+
+            real_ext_name = self
+                .library_index
+                .get(&lib_raw_name)
+                .ok_or(anyhow::anyhow!("library {} is not found", lib_raw_name))?;
+        }
+
+        // Check if extension is present in public or custom.
+        // If not, then it is not allowed to be used by this compute.
+        if let Some(public_extensions) = &self.public_extensions {
+            if !public_extensions.contains(&real_ext_name.to_string()) {
+                if let Some(custom_extensions) = &self.custom_extensions {
+                    if !custom_extensions.contains(&real_ext_name.to_string()) {
+                        return Err(anyhow::anyhow!("extension {} is not found", real_ext_name));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        match self.extension_data.get(real_ext_name) {
+            Some(_ext_data) => {
+                // Construct the path to the extension archive
+                // BUILD_TAG/PG_MAJOR_VERSION/extensions/EXTENSION_NAME.tar.zst
+                //
+                // Keep it in sync with path generation in
+                // https://github.com/neondatabase/build-custom-extensions/tree/main
+                let archive_path_str =
+                    format!("{build_tag}/{pg_major_version}/extensions/{real_ext_name}.tar.zst");
+                Ok((
+                    real_ext_name.to_string(),
+                    RemotePath::from_string(&archive_path_str)?,
+                ))
+            }
+            None => Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
+                "real_ext_name {} is not found",
+                real_ext_name
+            )),
+        }
+    }
 }

 #[serde_as]
@@ -47,13 +155,19 @@ pub enum ComputeMode {
    Replica,
 }

-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct Cluster {
-    pub cluster_id: String,
-    pub name: String,
+    pub cluster_id: Option<String>,
+    pub name: Option<String>,
    pub state: Option<String>,
    pub roles: Vec<Role>,
    pub databases: Vec<Database>,
+
+    /// Desired contents of 'postgresql.conf' file. (The 'compute_ctl'
+    /// tool may add additional settings to the final file.)
+    pub postgresql_conf: Option<String>,
+
+    /// Additional settings that will be appended to the 'postgresql.conf' file.
    pub settings: GenericOptions,
 }

@@ -63,7 +177,7 @@ pub struct Cluster {
 /// - DROP ROLE
 /// - ALTER ROLE name RENAME TO new_name
 /// - ALTER DATABASE name RENAME TO new_name
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct DeltaOp {
    pub action: String,
    pub name: PgIdent,
@@ -72,7 +186,7 @@ pub struct DeltaOp {

 /// Rust representation of Postgres role info with only those fields
 /// that matter for us.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct Role {
    pub name: PgIdent,
    pub encrypted_password: Option<String>,
@@ -81,7 +195,7 @@ pub struct Role {

 /// Rust representation of Postgres database info with only those fields
 /// that matter for us.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct Database {
    pub name: PgIdent,
    pub owner: PgIdent,
@@ -91,7 +205,7 @@ pub struct Database {
 /// Common type representing both SQL statement params with or without value,
 /// like `LOGIN` or `OWNER username` in the `CREATE/ALTER ROLE`, and config
 /// options like `wal_level = logical`.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct GenericOption {
    pub name: String,
    pub value: Option<String>,
@@ -112,4 +226,14 @@ mod tests {
        let file = File::open("tests/cluster_spec.json").unwrap();
        let _spec: ComputeSpec = serde_json::from_reader(file).unwrap();
    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_unknown_fields() {
+        // Forward compatibility test
+        let file = File::open("tests/cluster_spec.json").unwrap();
+        let mut json: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_reader(file).unwrap();
+        let ob = json.as_object_mut().unwrap();
+        ob.insert("unknown_field_123123123".into(), "hello".into());
+        let _spec: ComputeSpec = serde_json::from_value(json).unwrap();
+    }
 }
--- a/libs/compute_api/tests/cluster_spec.json
+++ b/libs/compute_api/tests/cluster_spec.json
@@ -205,5 +205,43 @@
            "name": "zenith new",
            "new_name": "zenith \"new\""
        }
-    ]
+    ],
+    "remote_extensions": {
+        "library_index": {
+          "anon": "anon",
+          "postgis-3": "postgis",
+          "libpgrouting-3.4": "postgis",
+          "postgis_raster-3": "postgis",
+          "postgis_sfcgal-3": "postgis",
+          "postgis_topology-3": "postgis",
+          "address_standardizer-3": "postgis"
+        },
+        "extension_data": {
+          "anon": {
+            "archive_path": "5834329303/v15/extensions/anon.tar.zst",
+            "control_data": {
+              "anon.control": "# PostgreSQL Anonymizer (anon) extension\ncomment = ''Data anonymization tools''\ndefault_version = ''1.1.0''\ndirectory=''extension/anon''\nrelocatable = false\nrequires = ''pgcrypto''\nsuperuser = false\nmodule_pathname = ''$libdir/anon''\ntrusted = true\n"
+            }
+          },
+          "postgis": {
+            "archive_path": "5834329303/v15/extensions/postgis.tar.zst",
+            "control_data": {
+              "postgis.control": "# postgis extension\ncomment = ''PostGIS geometry and geography spatial types and functions''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nmodule_pathname = ''$libdir/postgis-3''\nrelocatable = false\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "pgrouting.control": "# pgRouting Extension\ncomment = ''pgRouting Extension''\ndefault_version = ''3.4.2''\nmodule_pathname = ''$libdir/libpgrouting-3.4''\nrelocatable = true\nrequires = ''plpgsql''\nrequires = ''postgis''\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "postgis_raster.control": "# postgis_raster extension\ncomment = ''PostGIS raster types and functions''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nmodule_pathname = ''$libdir/postgis_raster-3''\nrelocatable = false\nrequires = postgis\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "postgis_sfcgal.control": "# postgis topology extension\ncomment = ''PostGIS SFCGAL functions''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nrelocatable = true\nrequires = postgis\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "postgis_topology.control": "# postgis topology extension\ncomment = ''PostGIS topology spatial types and functions''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nrelocatable = false\nschema = topology\nrequires = postgis\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "address_standardizer.control": "# address_standardizer extension\ncomment = ''Used to parse an address into constituent elements. Generally used to support geocoding address normalization step.''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nrelocatable = true\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "postgis_tiger_geocoder.control": "# postgis tiger geocoder extension\ncomment = ''PostGIS tiger geocoder and reverse geocoder''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nrelocatable = false\nschema = tiger\nrequires = ''postgis,fuzzystrmatch''\nsuperuser= false\ntrusted = true\n",
+              "address_standardizer_data_us.control": "# address standardizer us dataset\ncomment = ''Address Standardizer US dataset example''\ndefault_version = ''3.3.2''\nrelocatable = true\ntrusted = true\n"
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "custom_extensions": [
+          "anon"
+        ],
+        "public_extensions": [
+          "postgis"
+        ]
+      }
 }
--- a/libs/consumption_metrics/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/consumption_metrics/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
 use rand::Rng;
 use serde::Serialize;

-#[derive(Serialize, Debug, Clone, Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd)]
+#[derive(Serialize, Debug, Clone, Copy, Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd)]
 #[serde(tag = "type")]
 pub enum EventType {
    #[serde(rename = "absolute")]
@@ -17,6 +17,32 @@ pub enum EventType {
    },
 }

+impl EventType {
+    pub fn absolute_time(&self) -> Option<&DateTime<Utc>> {
+        use EventType::*;
+        match self {
+            Absolute { time } => Some(time),
+            _ => None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn incremental_timerange(&self) -> Option<std::ops::Range<&DateTime<Utc>>> {
+        // these can most likely be thought of as Range or RangeFull
+        use EventType::*;
+        match self {
+            Incremental {
+                start_time,
+                stop_time,
+            } => Some(start_time..stop_time),
+            _ => None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_incremental(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, EventType::Incremental { .. })
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Serialize, Debug, Clone, Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd)]
 pub struct Event<Extra> {
    #[serde(flatten)]
@@ -31,7 +57,7 @@ pub struct Event<Extra> {
    pub extra: Extra,
 }

-pub fn idempotency_key(node_id: String) -> String {
+pub fn idempotency_key(node_id: &str) -> String {
    format!(
        "{}-{}-{:04}",
        Utc::now(),
@@ -45,6 +71,6 @@ pub const CHUNK_SIZE: usize = 1000;
 // Just a wrapper around a slice of events
 // to serialize it as `{"events" : [ ] }
 #[derive(serde::Serialize)]
-pub struct EventChunk<'a, T> {
-    pub events: &'a [T],
+pub struct EventChunk<'a, T: Clone> {
+    pub events: std::borrow::Cow<'a, [T]>,
 }
--- a/libs/metrics/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/metrics/src/lib.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use prometheus::core::{AtomicU64, Collector, GenericGauge, GenericGaugeVec};
 pub use prometheus::opts;
 pub use prometheus::register;
+pub use prometheus::Error;
 pub use prometheus::{core, default_registry, proto};
 pub use prometheus::{exponential_buckets, linear_buckets};
 pub use prometheus::{register_counter_vec, Counter, CounterVec};
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ use prometheus::{Registry, Result};
 pub mod launch_timestamp;
 mod wrappers;
 pub use wrappers::{CountedReader, CountedWriter};
+pub mod metric_vec_duration;

 pub type UIntGauge = GenericGauge<AtomicU64>;
 pub type UIntGaugeVec = GenericGaugeVec<AtomicU64>;
--- a/libs/metrics/src/metric_vec_duration.rs
+++ b/libs/metrics/src/metric_vec_duration.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+//! Helpers for observing duration on `HistogramVec` / `CounterVec` / `GaugeVec` / `MetricVec<T>`.
+
+use std::{future::Future, time::Instant};
+
+pub trait DurationResultObserver {
+    fn observe_result<T, E>(&self, res: &Result<T, E>, duration: std::time::Duration);
+}
+
+pub async fn observe_async_block_duration_by_result<
+    T,
+    E,
+    F: Future<Output = Result<T, E>>,
+    O: DurationResultObserver,
+>(
+    observer: &O,
+    block: F,
+) -> Result<T, E> {
+    let start = Instant::now();
+    let result = block.await;
+    let duration = start.elapsed();
+    observer.observe_result(&result, duration);
+    result
+}
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true

 [dependencies]
-clap.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_with.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/models.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/models.rs
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ use std::{
 };

 use byteorder::{BigEndian, ReadBytesExt};
-use clap::Parser;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use serde_with::{serde_as, DisplayFromStr};
 use strum_macros;
 use utils::{
+    completion,
    history_buffer::HistoryBufferWithDropCounter,
    id::{NodeId, TenantId, TimelineId},
    lsn::Lsn,
@@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ pub enum TenantState {
    /// system is being shut down.
    ///
    /// Transitions out of this state are possible through `set_broken()`.
-    Stopping,
+    Stopping {
+        // Because of https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2105 this has to be a named field,
+        // otherwise it will not be skipped during deserialization
+        #[serde(skip)]
+        progress: completion::Barrier,
+    },
    /// The tenant is recognized by the pageserver, but can no longer be used for
    /// any operations.
    ///
@@ -111,16 +116,15 @@ impl TenantState {
            Self::Active => Attached,
            // If the (initial or resumed) attach procedure fails, the tenant becomes Broken.
            // However, it also becomes Broken if the regular load fails.
-            // We would need a separate TenantState variant to distinguish these cases.
-            // However, there's no practical difference from Console's perspective.
-            // It will run a Postgres-level health check as soon as it observes Attached.
-            // That will fail on Broken tenants.
-            // Console can then rollback the attach, or, wait for operator to fix the Broken tenant.
-            Self::Broken { .. } => Attached,
+            // From Console's perspective there's no practical difference
+            // because attachment_status is polled by console only during attach operation execution.
+            Self::Broken { reason, .. } => Failed {
+                reason: reason.to_owned(),
+            },
            // Why is Stopping a Maybe case? Because, during pageserver shutdown,
            // we set the Stopping state irrespective of whether the tenant
            // has finished attaching or not.
-            Self::Stopping => Maybe,
+            Self::Stopping { .. } => Maybe,
        }
    }

@@ -154,7 +158,7 @@ pub enum ActivatingFrom {
 }

 /// A state of a timeline in pageserver's memory.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
 pub enum TimelineState {
    /// The timeline is recognized by the pageserver but is not yet operational.
    /// In particular, the walreceiver connection loop is not running for this timeline.
@@ -167,7 +171,7 @@ pub enum TimelineState {
    /// It cannot transition back into any other state.
    Stopping,
    /// The timeline is broken and not operational (previous states: Loading or Active).
-    Broken,
+    Broken { reason: String, backtrace: String },
 }

 #[serde_as]
@@ -202,74 +206,31 @@ impl std::ops::Deref for TenantCreateRequest {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Default, clap::Parser)]
-#[clap(rename_all = "snake_case")]
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Default)]
 pub struct TenantConfig {
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub checkpoint_distance: Option<u64>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub checkpoint_timeout: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub compaction_target_size: Option<u64>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub compaction_period: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub compaction_threshold: Option<usize>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub gc_horizon: Option<u64>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub gc_period: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub image_creation_threshold: Option<usize>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub pitr_interval: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub walreceiver_connect_timeout: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub lagging_wal_timeout: Option<String>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub max_lsn_wal_lag: Option<NonZeroU64>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub trace_read_requests: Option<bool>,
    // We defer the parsing of the eviction_policy field to the request handler.
    // Otherwise we'd have to move the types for eviction policy into this package.
    // We might do that once the eviction feature has stabilizied.
    // For now, this field is not even documented in the openapi_spec.yml.
-    #[clap(long, value_parser = parse_json)]
    pub eviction_policy: Option<serde_json::Value>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub min_resident_size_override: Option<u64>,
-    #[clap(long)]
    pub evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold: Option<String>,
    pub gc_feedback: Option<bool>,
 }

-fn parse_json(s: &str) -> Result<serde_json::Value, serde_json::Error> {
-    serde_json::from_str(s)
-}
-
-impl TenantConfig {
-    pub fn deserialize_from_settings(settings: HashMap<&str, &str>) -> Result<Self, anyhow::Error> {
-        // Here we are using `clap` to parse the settings. This is not ideal, but it's the easiest
-        // way to simplify th code. To convert settings into a list of command line arguments, we
-        // need the program name argv0, each key into a long-form option, and each value proceeding it.
-        let config = TenantConfig::try_parse_from(
-            std::iter::once("argv0".to_string()).chain(
-                settings
-                    .iter()
-                    .flat_map(|(k, v)| [format!("--{k}"), v.to_string()]),
-            ),
-        )
-        .map_err(|e| {
-            anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "failed to parse: {}",
-                e.to_string().split('\n').next().unwrap_or_default()
-            ) // only get the first line as other lines in clap errors are not useful
-        })?;
-        Ok(config)
-    }
-}
-
 #[serde_as]
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(transparent)]
@@ -356,10 +317,11 @@ impl std::ops::Deref for TenantAttachConfig {

 /// See [`TenantState::attachment_status`] and the OpenAPI docs for context.
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
-#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
+#[serde(tag = "slug", content = "data", rename_all = "snake_case")]
 pub enum TenantAttachmentStatus {
    Maybe,
    Attached,
+    Failed { reason: String },
 }

 #[serde_as]
@@ -455,12 +417,16 @@ pub struct LayerResidenceEvent {
    pub reason: LayerResidenceEventReason,
 }

-/// The reason for recording a given [`ResidenceEvent`].
+/// The reason for recording a given [`LayerResidenceEvent`].
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub enum LayerResidenceEventReason {
    /// The layer map is being populated, e.g. during timeline load or attach.
    /// This includes [`RemoteLayer`] objects created in [`reconcile_with_remote`].
    /// We need to record such events because there is no persistent storage for the events.
+    ///
+    // https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74481
+    /// [`RemoteLayer`]: ../../tenant/storage_layer/struct.RemoteLayer.html
+    /// [`reconcile_with_remote`]: ../../tenant/struct.Timeline.html#method.reconcile_with_remote
    LayerLoad,
    /// We just created the layer (e.g., freeze_and_flush or compaction).
    /// Such layers are always [`LayerResidenceStatus::Resident`].
@@ -853,7 +819,9 @@ mod tests {
                "slug": "Active",
            },
            "current_physical_size": 42,
-            "attachment_status": "attached",
+            "attachment_status": {
+                "slug":"attached",
+            }
        });

        let original_broken = TenantInfo {
@@ -875,7 +843,9 @@ mod tests {
                }
            },
            "current_physical_size": 42,
-            "attachment_status": "attached",
+            "attachment_status": {
+                "slug":"attached",
+            }
        });

        assert_eq!(
@@ -917,28 +887,17 @@ mod tests {
            err
        );

-        let config = HashMap::from_iter(std::iter::once(("unknown_field", "unknown_value")));
-        let err = TenantConfig::deserialize_from_settings(config).unwrap_err();
+        let attach_request = json!({
+            "config": {
+                "unknown_field": "unknown_value".to_string(),
+            },
+        });
+        let err = serde_json::from_value::<TenantAttachRequest>(attach_request).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
-            err.to_string()
-                .contains("unexpected argument '--unknown_field' found"),
+            err.to_string().contains("unknown field `unknown_field`"),
            "expect unknown field `unknown_field` error, got: {}",
            err
        );
-
-        let config = HashMap::from_iter(std::iter::once(("checkpoint_distance", "not_a_number")));
-        let err = TenantConfig::deserialize_from_settings(config).unwrap_err();
-        assert!(
-            err.to_string().contains("invalid digit found in string") && err.to_string().contains("checkpoint_distance"),
-            "expect error to contain both 'invalid digit found in string' and the field 'checkpoint_distance', got: {}",
-            err
-        );
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_parse_json_field() {
-        let config = vec![("eviction_policy", "{\"kind\": \"NoEviction\"}")];
-        TenantConfig::deserialize_from_settings(config.into_iter().collect()).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
@@ -975,7 +934,13 @@ mod tests {
                "Activating",
            ),
            (line!(), TenantState::Active, "Active"),
-            (line!(), TenantState::Stopping, "Stopping"),
+            (
+                line!(),
+                TenantState::Stopping {
+                    progress: utils::completion::Barrier::default(),
+                },
+                "Stopping",
+            ),
            (
                line!(),
                TenantState::Broken {
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/reltag.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/reltag.rs
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ impl Ord for RelTag {

 /// Display RelTag in the same format that's used in most PostgreSQL debug messages:
 ///
+/// ```text
 /// <spcnode>/<dbnode>/<relnode>[_fsm|_vm|_init]
-///
+/// ```
 impl fmt::Display for RelTag {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        if let Some(forkname) = forknumber_to_name(self.forknum) {
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ workspace_hack.workspace = true
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger.workspace = true
 postgres.workspace = true
-wal_craft = { path = "wal_craft" }

 [build-dependencies]
 anyhow.workspace = true
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/lib.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ macro_rules! postgres_ffi {
            }
            pub mod controlfile_utils;
            pub mod nonrelfile_utils;
+            pub mod wal_craft_test_export;
            pub mod waldecoder_handler;
            pub mod xlog_utils;

@@ -45,8 +46,15 @@ macro_rules! postgres_ffi {
    };
 }

-postgres_ffi!(v14);
-postgres_ffi!(v15);
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! for_all_postgres_versions {
+    ($macro:tt) => {
+        $macro!(v14);
+        $macro!(v15);
+    };
+}
+
+for_all_postgres_versions! { postgres_ffi }

 pub mod pg_constants;
 pub mod relfile_utils;
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/nonrelfile_utils.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/nonrelfile_utils.rs
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ pub fn slru_may_delete_clogsegment(segpage: u32, cutoff_page: u32) -> bool {
 // Multixact utils

 pub fn mx_offset_to_flags_offset(xid: MultiXactId) -> usize {
-    ((xid / pg_constants::MULTIXACT_MEMBERS_PER_MEMBERGROUP as u32) as u16
-        % pg_constants::MULTIXACT_MEMBERGROUPS_PER_PAGE
-        * pg_constants::MULTIXACT_MEMBERGROUP_SIZE) as usize
+    ((xid / pg_constants::MULTIXACT_MEMBERS_PER_MEMBERGROUP as u32)
+        % pg_constants::MULTIXACT_MEMBERGROUPS_PER_PAGE as u32
+        * pg_constants::MULTIXACT_MEMBERGROUP_SIZE as u32) as usize
 }

 pub fn mx_offset_to_flags_bitshift(xid: MultiXactId) -> u16 {
@@ -81,3 +81,41 @@ fn mx_offset_to_member_page(xid: u32) -> u32 {
 pub fn mx_offset_to_member_segment(xid: u32) -> i32 {
    (mx_offset_to_member_page(xid) / pg_constants::SLRU_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT) as i32
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_multixid_calc() {
+        // Check that the mx_offset_* functions produce the same values as the
+        // corresponding PostgreSQL C macros (MXOffsetTo*). These test values
+        // were generated by calling the PostgreSQL macros with a little C
+        // program.
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_segment(0), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_page(0), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_offset(0), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_bitshift(0), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_offset(0), 4);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_segment(1), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_page(1), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_offset(1), 0);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_bitshift(1), 8);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_offset(1), 8);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_segment(123456789), 2358);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_page(123456789), 75462);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_offset(123456789), 4780);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_bitshift(123456789), 8);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_offset(123456789), 4788);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_segment(u32::MAX - 1), 82040);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_page(u32::MAX - 1), 2625285);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_offset(u32::MAX - 1), 5160);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_bitshift(u32::MAX - 1), 16);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_offset(u32::MAX - 1), 5172);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_segment(u32::MAX), 82040);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_page(u32::MAX), 2625285);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_offset(u32::MAX), 5160);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_flags_bitshift(u32::MAX), 24);
+        assert_eq!(mx_offset_to_member_offset(u32::MAX), 5176);
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/relfile_utils.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/relfile_utils.rs
@@ -49,14 +49,16 @@ pub fn forknumber_to_name(forknum: u8) -> Option<&'static str> {
    }
 }

-///
 /// Parse a filename of a relation file. Returns (relfilenode, forknum, segno) tuple.
 ///
 /// Formats:
+///
+/// ```text
 /// <oid>
 /// <oid>_<fork name>
 /// <oid>.<segment number>
 /// <oid>_<fork name>.<segment number>
+/// ```
 ///
 /// See functions relpath() and _mdfd_segpath() in PostgreSQL sources.
 ///
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/wal_craft_test_export.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/wal_craft_test_export.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+//! This module is for WAL craft to test with postgres_ffi. Should not import any thing in normal usage.
+
+pub use super::PG_MAJORVERSION;
+pub use super::xlog_utils::*;
+pub use super::bindings::*;
+pub use crate::WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE;
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/xlog_utils.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/xlog_utils.rs
@@ -481,220 +481,4 @@ pub fn encode_logical_message(prefix: &str, message: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
    wal
 }

-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use super::super::PG_MAJORVERSION;
-    use super::*;
-    use regex::Regex;
-    use std::cmp::min;
-    use std::fs;
-    use std::{env, str::FromStr};
-    use utils::const_assert;
-
-    fn init_logging() {
-        let _ = env_logger::Builder::from_env(env_logger::Env::default().default_filter_or(
-            format!("wal_craft=info,postgres_ffi::{PG_MAJORVERSION}::xlog_utils=trace"),
-        ))
-        .is_test(true)
-        .try_init();
-    }
-
-    fn test_end_of_wal<C: wal_craft::Crafter>(test_name: &str) {
-        use wal_craft::*;
-
-        let pg_version = PG_MAJORVERSION[1..3].parse::<u32>().unwrap();
-
-        // Craft some WAL
-        let top_path = PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("..")
-            .join("..");
-        let cfg = Conf {
-            pg_version,
-            pg_distrib_dir: top_path.join("pg_install"),
-            datadir: top_path.join(format!("test_output/{}-{PG_MAJORVERSION}", test_name)),
-        };
-        if cfg.datadir.exists() {
-            fs::remove_dir_all(&cfg.datadir).unwrap();
-        }
-        cfg.initdb().unwrap();
-        let srv = cfg.start_server().unwrap();
-        let (intermediate_lsns, expected_end_of_wal_partial) =
-            C::craft(&mut srv.connect_with_timeout().unwrap()).unwrap();
-        let intermediate_lsns: Vec<Lsn> = intermediate_lsns
-            .iter()
-            .map(|&lsn| u64::from(lsn).into())
-            .collect();
-        let expected_end_of_wal: Lsn = u64::from(expected_end_of_wal_partial).into();
-        srv.kill();
-
-        // Check find_end_of_wal on the initial WAL
-        let last_segment = cfg
-            .wal_dir()
-            .read_dir()
-            .unwrap()
-            .map(|f| f.unwrap().file_name().into_string().unwrap())
-            .filter(|fname| IsXLogFileName(fname))
-            .max()
-            .unwrap();
-        check_pg_waldump_end_of_wal(&cfg, &last_segment, expected_end_of_wal);
-        for start_lsn in intermediate_lsns
-            .iter()
-            .chain(std::iter::once(&expected_end_of_wal))
-        {
-            // Erase all WAL before `start_lsn` to ensure it's not used by `find_end_of_wal`.
-            // We assume that `start_lsn` is non-decreasing.
-            info!(
-                "Checking with start_lsn={}, erasing WAL before it",
-                start_lsn
-            );
-            for file in fs::read_dir(cfg.wal_dir()).unwrap().flatten() {
-                let fname = file.file_name().into_string().unwrap();
-                if !IsXLogFileName(&fname) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                let (segno, _) = XLogFromFileName(&fname, WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE);
-                let seg_start_lsn = XLogSegNoOffsetToRecPtr(segno, 0, WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE);
-                if seg_start_lsn > u64::from(*start_lsn) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                let mut f = File::options().write(true).open(file.path()).unwrap();
-                const ZEROS: [u8; WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE] = [0u8; WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE];
-                f.write_all(
-                    &ZEROS[0..min(
-                        WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE,
-                        (u64::from(*start_lsn) - seg_start_lsn) as usize,
-                    )],
-                )
-                .unwrap();
-            }
-            check_end_of_wal(&cfg, &last_segment, *start_lsn, expected_end_of_wal);
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn check_pg_waldump_end_of_wal(
-        cfg: &wal_craft::Conf,
-        last_segment: &str,
-        expected_end_of_wal: Lsn,
-    ) {
-        // Get the actual end of WAL by pg_waldump
-        let waldump_output = cfg
-            .pg_waldump("000000010000000000000001", last_segment)
-            .unwrap()
-            .stderr;
-        let waldump_output = std::str::from_utf8(&waldump_output).unwrap();
-        let caps = match Regex::new(r"invalid record length at (.+):")
-            .unwrap()
-            .captures(waldump_output)
-        {
-            Some(caps) => caps,
-            None => {
-                error!("Unable to parse pg_waldump's stderr:\n{}", waldump_output);
-                panic!();
-            }
-        };
-        let waldump_wal_end = Lsn::from_str(caps.get(1).unwrap().as_str()).unwrap();
-        info!(
-            "waldump erred on {}, expected wal end at {}",
-            waldump_wal_end, expected_end_of_wal
-        );
-        assert_eq!(waldump_wal_end, expected_end_of_wal);
-    }
-
-    fn check_end_of_wal(
-        cfg: &wal_craft::Conf,
-        last_segment: &str,
-        start_lsn: Lsn,
-        expected_end_of_wal: Lsn,
-    ) {
-        // Check end_of_wal on non-partial WAL segment (we treat it as fully populated)
-        // let wal_end = find_end_of_wal(&cfg.wal_dir(), WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE, start_lsn).unwrap();
-        // info!(
-        //     "find_end_of_wal returned wal_end={} with non-partial WAL segment",
-        //     wal_end
-        // );
-        // assert_eq!(wal_end, expected_end_of_wal_non_partial);
-
-        // Rename file to partial to actually find last valid lsn, then rename it back.
-        fs::rename(
-            cfg.wal_dir().join(last_segment),
-            cfg.wal_dir().join(format!("{}.partial", last_segment)),
-        )
-        .unwrap();
-        let wal_end = find_end_of_wal(&cfg.wal_dir(), WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE, start_lsn).unwrap();
-        info!(
-            "find_end_of_wal returned wal_end={} with partial WAL segment",
-            wal_end
-        );
-        assert_eq!(wal_end, expected_end_of_wal);
-        fs::rename(
-            cfg.wal_dir().join(format!("{}.partial", last_segment)),
-            cfg.wal_dir().join(last_segment),
-        )
-        .unwrap();
-    }
-
-    const_assert!(WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE == 16 * 1024 * 1024);
-
-    #[test]
-    pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_simple() {
-        init_logging();
-        test_end_of_wal::<wal_craft::Simple>("test_find_end_of_wal_simple");
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_crossing_segment_followed_by_small_one() {
-        init_logging();
-        test_end_of_wal::<wal_craft::WalRecordCrossingSegmentFollowedBySmallOne>(
-            "test_find_end_of_wal_crossing_segment_followed_by_small_one",
-        );
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_last_crossing_segment() {
-        init_logging();
-        test_end_of_wal::<wal_craft::LastWalRecordCrossingSegment>(
-            "test_find_end_of_wal_last_crossing_segment",
-        );
-    }
-
-    /// Check the math in update_next_xid
-    ///
-    /// NOTE: These checks are sensitive to the value of XID_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL,
-    /// currently 1024.
-    #[test]
-    pub fn test_update_next_xid() {
-        let checkpoint_buf = [0u8; std::mem::size_of::<CheckPoint>()];
-        let mut checkpoint = CheckPoint::decode(&checkpoint_buf).unwrap();
-
-        checkpoint.nextXid = FullTransactionId { value: 10 };
-        assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 10);
-
-        // The input XID gets rounded up to the next XID_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL
-        // boundary
-        checkpoint.update_next_xid(100);
-        assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 1024);
-
-        // No change
-        checkpoint.update_next_xid(500);
-        assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 1024);
-        checkpoint.update_next_xid(1023);
-        assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 1024);
-
-        // The function returns the *next* XID, given the highest XID seen so
-        // far. So when we pass 1024, the nextXid gets bumped up to the next
-        // XID_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL boundary.
-        checkpoint.update_next_xid(1024);
-        assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 2048);
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    pub fn test_encode_logical_message() {
-        let expected = [
-            64, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 21, 0, 0, 170, 34, 166, 227, 255,
-            38, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 112, 114,
-            101, 102, 105, 120, 0, 109, 101, 115, 115, 97, 103, 101,
-        ];
-        let actual = encode_logical_message("prefix", "message");
-        assert_eq!(expected, actual[..]);
-    }
-}
+// If you need to craft WAL and write tests for this module, put it at wal_craft crate.
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ postgres_ffi.workspace = true
 tempfile.workspace = true

 workspace_hack.workspace = true
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+regex.workspace = true
+utils.workspace = true
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,20 @@ use std::process::Command;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 use tempfile::{tempdir, TempDir};

+macro_rules! xlog_utils_test {
+    ($version:ident) => {
+        #[path = "."]
+        mod $version {
+            pub use postgres_ffi::$version::wal_craft_test_export::*;
+            #[allow(clippy::duplicate_mod)]
+            #[cfg(test)]
+            mod xlog_utils_test;
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+postgres_ffi::for_all_postgres_versions! { xlog_utils_test }
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct Conf {
    pub pg_version: u32,
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/xlog_utils_test.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/xlog_utils_test.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
+//! Tests for postgres_ffi xlog_utils module. Put it here to break cyclic dependency.
+
+use super::*;
+use crate::{error, info};
+use regex::Regex;
+use std::cmp::min;
+use std::fs::{self, File};
+use std::io::Write;
+use std::{env, str::FromStr};
+use utils::const_assert;
+use utils::lsn::Lsn;
+
+fn init_logging() {
+    let _ = env_logger::Builder::from_env(env_logger::Env::default().default_filter_or(
+        format!("crate=info,postgres_ffi::{PG_MAJORVERSION}::xlog_utils=trace"),
+    ))
+    .is_test(true)
+    .try_init();
+}
+
+fn test_end_of_wal<C: crate::Crafter>(test_name: &str) {
+    use crate::*;
+
+    let pg_version = PG_MAJORVERSION[1..3].parse::<u32>().unwrap();
+
+    // Craft some WAL
+    let top_path = PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
+        .join("..")
+        .join("..")
+        .join("..");
+    let cfg = Conf {
+        pg_version,
+        pg_distrib_dir: top_path.join("pg_install"),
+        datadir: top_path.join(format!("test_output/{}-{PG_MAJORVERSION}", test_name)),
+    };
+    if cfg.datadir.exists() {
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&cfg.datadir).unwrap();
+    }
+    cfg.initdb().unwrap();
+    let srv = cfg.start_server().unwrap();
+    let (intermediate_lsns, expected_end_of_wal_partial) =
+        C::craft(&mut srv.connect_with_timeout().unwrap()).unwrap();
+    let intermediate_lsns: Vec<Lsn> = intermediate_lsns
+        .iter()
+        .map(|&lsn| u64::from(lsn).into())
+        .collect();
+    let expected_end_of_wal: Lsn = u64::from(expected_end_of_wal_partial).into();
+    srv.kill();
+
+    // Check find_end_of_wal on the initial WAL
+    let last_segment = cfg
+        .wal_dir()
+        .read_dir()
+        .unwrap()
+        .map(|f| f.unwrap().file_name().into_string().unwrap())
+        .filter(|fname| IsXLogFileName(fname))
+        .max()
+        .unwrap();
+    check_pg_waldump_end_of_wal(&cfg, &last_segment, expected_end_of_wal);
+    for start_lsn in intermediate_lsns
+        .iter()
+        .chain(std::iter::once(&expected_end_of_wal))
+    {
+        // Erase all WAL before `start_lsn` to ensure it's not used by `find_end_of_wal`.
+        // We assume that `start_lsn` is non-decreasing.
+        info!(
+            "Checking with start_lsn={}, erasing WAL before it",
+            start_lsn
+        );
+        for file in fs::read_dir(cfg.wal_dir()).unwrap().flatten() {
+            let fname = file.file_name().into_string().unwrap();
+            if !IsXLogFileName(&fname) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let (segno, _) = XLogFromFileName(&fname, WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE);
+            let seg_start_lsn = XLogSegNoOffsetToRecPtr(segno, 0, WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE);
+            if seg_start_lsn > u64::from(*start_lsn) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let mut f = File::options().write(true).open(file.path()).unwrap();
+            const ZEROS: [u8; WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE] = [0u8; WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE];
+            f.write_all(
+                &ZEROS[0..min(
+                    WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE,
+                    (u64::from(*start_lsn) - seg_start_lsn) as usize,
+                )],
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        }
+        check_end_of_wal(&cfg, &last_segment, *start_lsn, expected_end_of_wal);
+    }
+}
+
+fn check_pg_waldump_end_of_wal(
+    cfg: &crate::Conf,
+    last_segment: &str,
+    expected_end_of_wal: Lsn,
+) {
+    // Get the actual end of WAL by pg_waldump
+    let waldump_output = cfg
+        .pg_waldump("000000010000000000000001", last_segment)
+        .unwrap()
+        .stderr;
+    let waldump_output = std::str::from_utf8(&waldump_output).unwrap();
+    let caps = match Regex::new(r"invalid record length at (.+):")
+        .unwrap()
+        .captures(waldump_output)
+    {
+        Some(caps) => caps,
+        None => {
+            error!("Unable to parse pg_waldump's stderr:\n{}", waldump_output);
+            panic!();
+        }
+    };
+    let waldump_wal_end = Lsn::from_str(caps.get(1).unwrap().as_str()).unwrap();
+    info!(
+        "waldump erred on {}, expected wal end at {}",
+        waldump_wal_end, expected_end_of_wal
+    );
+    assert_eq!(waldump_wal_end, expected_end_of_wal);
+}
+
+fn check_end_of_wal(
+    cfg: &crate::Conf,
+    last_segment: &str,
+    start_lsn: Lsn,
+    expected_end_of_wal: Lsn,
+) {
+    // Check end_of_wal on non-partial WAL segment (we treat it as fully populated)
+    // let wal_end = find_end_of_wal(&cfg.wal_dir(), WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE, start_lsn).unwrap();
+    // info!(
+    //     "find_end_of_wal returned wal_end={} with non-partial WAL segment",
+    //     wal_end
+    // );
+    // assert_eq!(wal_end, expected_end_of_wal_non_partial);
+
+    // Rename file to partial to actually find last valid lsn, then rename it back.
+    fs::rename(
+        cfg.wal_dir().join(last_segment),
+        cfg.wal_dir().join(format!("{}.partial", last_segment)),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    let wal_end = find_end_of_wal(&cfg.wal_dir(), WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE, start_lsn).unwrap();
+    info!(
+        "find_end_of_wal returned wal_end={} with partial WAL segment",
+        wal_end
+    );
+    assert_eq!(wal_end, expected_end_of_wal);
+    fs::rename(
+        cfg.wal_dir().join(format!("{}.partial", last_segment)),
+        cfg.wal_dir().join(last_segment),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+const_assert!(WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE == 16 * 1024 * 1024);
+
+#[test]
+pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_simple() {
+    init_logging();
+    test_end_of_wal::<crate::Simple>("test_find_end_of_wal_simple");
+}
+
+#[test]
+pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_crossing_segment_followed_by_small_one() {
+    init_logging();
+    test_end_of_wal::<crate::WalRecordCrossingSegmentFollowedBySmallOne>(
+        "test_find_end_of_wal_crossing_segment_followed_by_small_one",
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_last_crossing_segment() {
+    init_logging();
+    test_end_of_wal::<crate::LastWalRecordCrossingSegment>(
+        "test_find_end_of_wal_last_crossing_segment",
+    );
+}
+
+/// Check the math in update_next_xid
+///
+/// NOTE: These checks are sensitive to the value of XID_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL,
+/// currently 1024.
+#[test]
+pub fn test_update_next_xid() {
+    let checkpoint_buf = [0u8; std::mem::size_of::<CheckPoint>()];
+    let mut checkpoint = CheckPoint::decode(&checkpoint_buf).unwrap();
+
+    checkpoint.nextXid = FullTransactionId { value: 10 };
+    assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 10);
+
+    // The input XID gets rounded up to the next XID_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL
+    // boundary
+    checkpoint.update_next_xid(100);
+    assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 1024);
+
+    // No change
+    checkpoint.update_next_xid(500);
+    assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 1024);
+    checkpoint.update_next_xid(1023);
+    assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 1024);
+
+    // The function returns the *next* XID, given the highest XID seen so
+    // far. So when we pass 1024, the nextXid gets bumped up to the next
+    // XID_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL boundary.
+    checkpoint.update_next_xid(1024);
+    assert_eq!(checkpoint.nextXid.value, 2048);
+}
+
+#[test]
+pub fn test_encode_logical_message() {
+    let expected = [
+        64, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 21, 0, 0, 170, 34, 166, 227, 255,
+        38, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 112, 114,
+        101, 102, 105, 120, 0, 109, 101, 115, 115, 97, 103, 101,
+    ];
+    let actual = encode_logical_message("prefix", "message");
+    assert_eq!(expected, actual[..]);
+}
--- a/libs/pq_proto/src/framed.rs
+++ b/libs/pq_proto/src/framed.rs
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 //! It is similar to what tokio_util::codec::Framed with appropriate codec
 //! provides, but `FramedReader` and `FramedWriter` read/write parts can be used
 //! separately without using split from futures::stream::StreamExt (which
-//! allocates box[1] in polling internally). tokio::io::split is used for splitting
+//! allocates a [Box] in polling internally). tokio::io::split is used for splitting
 //! instead. Plus we customize error messages more than a single type for all io
 //! calls.
 //!
-//! [1] https://docs.rs/futures-util/0.3.26/src/futures_util/lock/bilock.rs.html#107
+//! [Box]: https://docs.rs/futures-util/0.3.26/src/futures_util/lock/bilock.rs.html#107
 use bytes::{Buf, BytesMut};
 use std::{
    future::Future,
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ impl<S: AsyncWrite + Unpin> Framed<S> {
 impl<S: AsyncRead + AsyncWrite + Unpin> Framed<S> {
    /// Split into owned read and write parts. Beware of potential issues with
    /// using halves in different tasks on TLS stream:
-    /// https://github.com/tokio-rs/tls/issues/40
+    /// <https://github.com/tokio-rs/tls/issues/40>
    pub fn split(self) -> (FramedReader<S>, FramedWriter<S>) {
        let (read_half, write_half) = tokio::io::split(self.stream);
        let reader = FramedReader {
--- a/libs/pq_proto/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/pq_proto/src/lib.rs
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ pub struct FeExecuteMessage {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct FeCloseMessage;

-/// An error occured while parsing or serializing raw stream into Postgres
+/// An error occurred while parsing or serializing raw stream into Postgres
 /// messages.
 #[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
 pub enum ProtocolError {
@@ -934,6 +934,15 @@ impl<'a> BeMessage<'a> {
    }
 }

+fn terminate_code(code: &[u8; 5]) -> [u8; 6] {
+    let mut terminated = [0; 6];
+    for (i, &elem) in code.iter().enumerate() {
+        terminated[i] = elem;
+    }
+
+    terminated
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
@@ -965,12 +974,3 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(split_options(&params), ["foo bar", " \\", "baz ", "lol"]);
    }
 }
-
-fn terminate_code(code: &[u8; 5]) -> [u8; 6] {
-    let mut terminated = [0; 6];
-    for (i, &elem) in code.iter().enumerate() {
-        terminated[i] = elem;
-    }
-
-    terminated
-}
--- a/libs/remote_storage/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["sync", "fs", "io-util"] }
 tokio-util.workspace = true
 toml_edit.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
+scopeguard.workspace = true
 metrics.workspace = true
 utils.workspace = true
 pin-project-lite.workspace = true
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/lib.rs
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ pub const DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_MAX_CONCURRENT_SYNCS: usize = 50;
 pub const DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_MAX_SYNC_ERRORS: u32 = 10;
 /// Currently, sync happens with AWS S3, that has two limits on requests per second:
 /// ~200 RPS for IAM services
-/// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.html
+/// <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.html>
 /// ~3500 PUT/COPY/POST/DELETE or 5500 GET/HEAD S3 requests
-/// https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-request-limit-avoid-throttling/
+/// <https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-request-limit-avoid-throttling/>
 pub const DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT: usize = 100;
 /// No limits on the client side, which currenltly means 1000 for AWS S3.
-/// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html#API_ListObjectsV2_RequestSyntax
+/// <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html#API_ListObjectsV2_RequestSyntax>
 pub const DEFAULT_MAX_KEYS_PER_LIST_RESPONSE: Option<i32> = None;

 const REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR: char = '/';
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ const REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR: char = '/';
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
 pub struct RemotePath(PathBuf);

+impl std::fmt::Display for RemotePath {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}", self.0.display())
+    }
+}
+
 impl RemotePath {
    pub fn new(relative_path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
        anyhow::ensure!(
@@ -59,6 +65,10 @@ impl RemotePath {
        Ok(Self(relative_path.to_path_buf()))
    }

+    pub fn from_string(relative_path: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
+        Self::new(Path::new(relative_path))
+    }
+
    pub fn with_base(&self, base_path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
        base_path.join(&self.0)
    }
@@ -70,6 +80,14 @@ impl RemotePath {
    pub fn join(&self, segment: &Path) -> Self {
        Self(self.0.join(segment))
    }
+
+    pub fn get_path(&self) -> &PathBuf {
+        &self.0
+    }
+
+    pub fn extension(&self) -> Option<&str> {
+        self.0.extension()?.to_str()
+    }
 }

 /// Storage (potentially remote) API to manage its state.
@@ -86,6 +104,19 @@ pub trait RemoteStorage: Send + Sync + 'static {
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
    ) -> Result<Vec<RemotePath>, DownloadError>;

+    /// Lists all files in directory "recursively"
+    /// (not really recursively, because AWS has a flat namespace)
+    /// Note: This is subtely different than list_prefixes,
+    /// because it is for listing files instead of listing
+    /// names sharing common prefixes.
+    /// For example,
+    /// list_files("foo/bar") = ["foo/bar/cat123.txt",
+    /// "foo/bar/cat567.txt", "foo/bar/dog123.txt", "foo/bar/dog456.txt"]
+    /// whereas,
+    /// list_prefixes("foo/bar/") = ["cat", "dog"]
+    /// See `test_real_s3.rs` for more details.
+    async fn list_files(&self, folder: Option<&RemotePath>) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<RemotePath>>;
+
    /// Streams the local file contents into remote into the remote storage entry.
    async fn upload(
        &self,
@@ -111,6 +142,8 @@ pub trait RemoteStorage: Send + Sync + 'static {
    ) -> Result<Download, DownloadError>;

    async fn delete(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> anyhow::Result<()>;
+
+    async fn delete_objects<'a>(&self, paths: &'a [RemotePath]) -> anyhow::Result<()>;
 }

 pub struct Download {
@@ -161,6 +194,20 @@ pub enum GenericRemoteStorage {
 }

 impl GenericRemoteStorage {
+    // A function for listing all the files in a "directory"
+    // Example:
+    // list_files("foo/bar") = ["foo/bar/a.txt", "foo/bar/b.txt"]
+    pub async fn list_files(&self, folder: Option<&RemotePath>) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<RemotePath>> {
+        match self {
+            Self::LocalFs(s) => s.list_files(folder).await,
+            Self::AwsS3(s) => s.list_files(folder).await,
+            Self::Unreliable(s) => s.list_files(folder).await,
+        }
+    }
+
+    // lists common *prefixes*, if any of files
+    // Example:
+    // list_prefixes("foo123","foo567","bar123","bar432") = ["foo", "bar"]
    pub async fn list_prefixes(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
@@ -223,6 +270,14 @@ impl GenericRemoteStorage {
            Self::Unreliable(s) => s.delete(path).await,
        }
    }
+
+    pub async fn delete_objects<'a>(&self, paths: &'a [RemotePath]) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        match self {
+            Self::LocalFs(s) => s.delete_objects(paths).await,
+            Self::AwsS3(s) => s.delete_objects(paths).await,
+            Self::Unreliable(s) => s.delete_objects(paths).await,
+        }
+    }
 }

 impl GenericRemoteStorage {
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/local_fs.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/local_fs.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 use std::{
    borrow::Cow,
    future::Future,
+    io::ErrorKind,
    path::{Path, PathBuf},
    pin::Pin,
 };
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ use tokio::{
    io::{self, AsyncReadExt, AsyncSeekExt, AsyncWriteExt},
 };
 use tracing::*;
-use utils::crashsafe::path_with_suffix_extension;
+use utils::{crashsafe::path_with_suffix_extension, fs_ext::is_directory_empty};

 use crate::{Download, DownloadError, RemotePath};

@@ -48,6 +49,14 @@ impl LocalFs {
        Ok(Self { storage_root })
    }

+    // mirrors S3Bucket::s3_object_to_relative_path
+    fn local_file_to_relative_path(&self, key: PathBuf) -> RemotePath {
+        let relative_path = key
+            .strip_prefix(&self.storage_root)
+            .expect("relative path must contain storage_root as prefix");
+        RemotePath(relative_path.into())
+    }
+
    async fn read_storage_metadata(
        &self,
        file_path: &Path,
@@ -101,19 +110,60 @@ impl RemoteStorage for LocalFs {
            Some(prefix) => Cow::Owned(prefix.with_base(&self.storage_root)),
            None => Cow::Borrowed(&self.storage_root),
        };
-        Ok(get_all_files(path.as_ref(), false)
+
+        let prefixes_to_filter = get_all_files(path.as_ref(), false)
            .await
-            .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|path| {
-                path.strip_prefix(&self.storage_root)
-                    .context("Failed to strip preifix")
+            .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?;
+
+        let mut prefixes = Vec::with_capacity(prefixes_to_filter.len());
+
+        // filter out empty directories to mirror s3 behavior.
+        for prefix in prefixes_to_filter {
+            if prefix.is_dir()
+                && is_directory_empty(&prefix)
+                    .await
+                    .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            prefixes.push(
+                prefix
+                    .strip_prefix(&self.storage_root)
+                    .context("Failed to strip prefix")
                    .and_then(RemotePath::new)
                    .expect(
                        "We list files for storage root, hence should be able to remote the prefix",
-                    )
-            })
-            .collect())
+                    ),
+            )
+        }
+
+        Ok(prefixes)
+    }
+
+    // recursively lists all files in a directory,
+    // mirroring the `list_files` for `s3_bucket`
+    async fn list_files(&self, folder: Option<&RemotePath>) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<RemotePath>> {
+        let full_path = match folder {
+            Some(folder) => folder.with_base(&self.storage_root),
+            None => self.storage_root.clone(),
+        };
+        let mut files = vec![];
+        let mut directory_queue = vec![full_path.clone()];
+
+        while let Some(cur_folder) = directory_queue.pop() {
+            let mut entries = fs::read_dir(cur_folder.clone()).await?;
+            while let Some(entry) = entries.next_entry().await? {
+                let file_name: PathBuf = entry.file_name().into();
+                let full_file_name = cur_folder.clone().join(&file_name);
+                let file_remote_path = self.local_file_to_relative_path(full_file_name.clone());
+                files.push(file_remote_path.clone());
+                if full_file_name.is_dir() {
+                    directory_queue.push(full_file_name);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(files)
    }

    async fn upload(
@@ -291,12 +341,22 @@ impl RemoteStorage for LocalFs {

    async fn delete(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        let file_path = path.with_base(&self.storage_root);
-        if file_path.exists() && file_path.is_file() {
-            Ok(fs::remove_file(file_path).await?)
-        } else {
-            bail!("File {file_path:?} either does not exist or is not a file")
+        match fs::remove_file(&file_path).await {
+            Ok(()) => Ok(()),
+            // The file doesn't exist. This shouldn't yield an error to mirror S3's behaviour.
+            // See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_DeleteObject.html
+            // > If there isn't a null version, Amazon S3 does not remove any objects but will still respond that the command was successful.
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::NotFound => Ok(()),
+            Err(e) => Err(anyhow::anyhow!(e)),
        }
    }
+
+    async fn delete_objects<'a>(&self, paths: &'a [RemotePath]) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        for path in paths {
+            self.delete(path).await?
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }

 fn storage_metadata_path(original_path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
@@ -320,7 +380,7 @@ where
                    let file_type = dir_entry.file_type().await?;
                    let entry_path = dir_entry.path();
                    if file_type.is_symlink() {
-                        debug!("{entry_path:?} us a symlink, skipping")
+                        debug!("{entry_path:?} is a symlink, skipping")
                    } else if file_type.is_dir() {
                        if recursive {
                            paths.extend(get_all_files(&entry_path, true).await?.into_iter())
@@ -595,15 +655,11 @@ mod fs_tests {
        storage.delete(&upload_target).await?;
        assert!(storage.list().await?.is_empty());

-        match storage.delete(&upload_target).await {
-            Ok(()) => panic!("Should not allow deleting non-existing storage files"),
-            Err(e) => {
-                let error_string = e.to_string();
-                assert!(error_string.contains("does not exist"));
-                let expected_path = upload_target.with_base(&storage.storage_root);
-                assert!(error_string.contains(expected_path.to_str().unwrap()));
-            }
-        }
+        storage
+            .delete(&upload_target)
+            .await
+            .expect("Should allow deleting non-existing storage files");
+
        Ok(())
    }

--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use anyhow::Context;
 use aws_config::{
    environment::credentials::EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider,
    imds::credentials::ImdsCredentialsProvider, meta::credentials::CredentialsProviderChain,
+    provider_config::ProviderConfig, web_identity_token::WebIdentityTokenCredentialsProvider,
 };
 use aws_credential_types::cache::CredentialsCache;
 use aws_sdk_s3::{
@@ -17,10 +18,12 @@ use aws_sdk_s3::{
    error::SdkError,
    operation::get_object::GetObjectError,
    primitives::ByteStream,
+    types::{Delete, ObjectIdentifier},
    Client,
 };
 use aws_smithy_http::body::SdkBody;
 use hyper::Body;
+use scopeguard::ScopeGuard;
 use tokio::{
    io::{self, AsyncRead},
    sync::Semaphore,
@@ -33,70 +36,11 @@ use crate::{
    Download, DownloadError, RemotePath, RemoteStorage, S3Config, REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
 };

-pub(super) mod metrics {
-    use metrics::{register_int_counter_vec, IntCounterVec};
-    use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+const MAX_DELETE_OBJECTS_REQUEST_SIZE: usize = 1000;

-    static S3_REQUESTS_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
-        register_int_counter_vec!(
-            "remote_storage_s3_requests_count",
-            "Number of s3 requests of particular type",
-            &["request_type"],
-        )
-        .expect("failed to define a metric")
-    });
+pub(super) mod metrics;

-    static S3_REQUESTS_FAIL_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
-        register_int_counter_vec!(
-            "remote_storage_s3_failures_count",
-            "Number of failed s3 requests of particular type",
-            &["request_type"],
-        )
-        .expect("failed to define a metric")
-    });
-
-    pub fn inc_get_object() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_COUNT.with_label_values(&["get_object"]).inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_get_object_fail() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_FAIL_COUNT
-            .with_label_values(&["get_object"])
-            .inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_put_object() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_COUNT.with_label_values(&["put_object"]).inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_put_object_fail() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_FAIL_COUNT
-            .with_label_values(&["put_object"])
-            .inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_delete_object() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_COUNT
-            .with_label_values(&["delete_object"])
-            .inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_delete_object_fail() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_FAIL_COUNT
-            .with_label_values(&["delete_object"])
-            .inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_list_objects() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_COUNT.with_label_values(&["list_objects"]).inc();
-    }
-
-    pub fn inc_list_objects_fail() {
-        S3_REQUESTS_FAIL_COUNT
-            .with_label_values(&["list_objects"])
-            .inc();
-    }
-}
+use self::metrics::{AttemptOutcome, RequestKind};

 /// AWS S3 storage.
 pub struct S3Bucket {
@@ -124,18 +68,29 @@ impl S3Bucket {
            aws_config.bucket_name
        );

+        let region = Some(Region::new(aws_config.bucket_region.clone()));
+
        let credentials_provider = {
            // uses "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID", "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"
            CredentialsProviderChain::first_try(
                "env",
                EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider::new(),
            )
+            // uses "AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE", "AWS_ROLE_ARN", "AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME"
+            // needed to access remote extensions bucket
+            .or_else("token", {
+                let provider_conf = ProviderConfig::without_region().with_region(region.clone());
+
+                WebIdentityTokenCredentialsProvider::builder()
+                    .configure(&provider_conf)
+                    .build()
+            })
            // uses imds v2
            .or_else("imds", ImdsCredentialsProvider::builder().build())
        };

        let mut config_builder = Config::builder()
-            .region(Region::new(aws_config.bucket_region.clone()))
+            .region(region)
            .credentials_cache(CredentialsCache::lazy())
            .credentials_provider(credentials_provider);

@@ -185,25 +140,56 @@ impl S3Bucket {
        )
    }

-    fn relative_path_to_s3_object(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> String {
-        let mut full_path = self.prefix_in_bucket.clone().unwrap_or_default();
-        for segment in path.0.iter() {
-            full_path.push(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR);
-            full_path.push_str(segment.to_str().unwrap_or_default());
+    pub fn relative_path_to_s3_object(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> String {
+        assert_eq!(std::path::MAIN_SEPARATOR, REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR);
+        let path_string = path
+            .get_path()
+            .to_string_lossy()
+            .trim_end_matches(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR)
+            .to_string();
+        match &self.prefix_in_bucket {
+            Some(prefix) => prefix.clone() + "/" + &path_string,
+            None => path_string,
        }
-        full_path
    }

-    async fn download_object(&self, request: GetObjectRequest) -> Result<Download, DownloadError> {
+    async fn permit(&self, kind: RequestKind) -> tokio::sync::SemaphorePermit<'_> {
+        let started_at = start_counting_cancelled_wait(kind);
+        let permit = self
+            .concurrency_limiter
+            .acquire()
+            .await
+            .expect("semaphore is never closed");
+
+        let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+        metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+            .wait_seconds
+            .observe_elapsed(kind, started_at);
+
+        permit
+    }
+
+    async fn owned_permit(&self, kind: RequestKind) -> tokio::sync::OwnedSemaphorePermit {
+        let started_at = start_counting_cancelled_wait(kind);
        let permit = self
            .concurrency_limiter
            .clone()
            .acquire_owned()
            .await
-            .context("Concurrency limiter semaphore got closed during S3 download")
-            .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?;
+            .expect("semaphore is never closed");

-        metrics::inc_get_object();
+        let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+        metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+            .wait_seconds
+            .observe_elapsed(kind, started_at);
+        permit
+    }
+
+    async fn download_object(&self, request: GetObjectRequest) -> Result<Download, DownloadError> {
+        let kind = RequestKind::Get;
+        let permit = self.owned_permit(kind).await;
+
+        let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);

        let get_object = self
            .client
@@ -214,26 +200,33 @@ impl S3Bucket {
            .send()
            .await;

+        let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+
+        if get_object.is_err() {
+            metrics::BUCKET_METRICS.req_seconds.observe_elapsed(
+                kind,
+                AttemptOutcome::Err,
+                started_at,
+            );
+        }
+
        match get_object {
            Ok(object_output) => {
                let metadata = object_output.metadata().cloned().map(StorageMetadata);
                Ok(Download {
                    metadata,
-                    download_stream: Box::pin(io::BufReader::new(RatelimitedAsyncRead::new(
-                        permit,
-                        object_output.body.into_async_read(),
+                    download_stream: Box::pin(io::BufReader::new(TimedDownload::new(
+                        started_at,
+                        RatelimitedAsyncRead::new(permit, object_output.body.into_async_read()),
                    ))),
                })
            }
            Err(SdkError::ServiceError(e)) if matches!(e.err(), GetObjectError::NoSuchKey(_)) => {
                Err(DownloadError::NotFound)
            }
-            Err(e) => {
-                metrics::inc_get_object_fail();
-                Err(DownloadError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                    "Failed to download S3 object: {e}"
-                )))
-            }
+            Err(e) => Err(DownloadError::Other(
+                anyhow::Error::new(e).context("download s3 object"),
+            )),
        }
    }
 }
@@ -264,6 +257,54 @@ impl<S: AsyncRead> AsyncRead for RatelimitedAsyncRead<S> {
    }
 }

+pin_project_lite::pin_project! {
+    /// Times and tracks the outcome of the request.
+    struct TimedDownload<S> {
+        started_at: std::time::Instant,
+        outcome: metrics::AttemptOutcome,
+        #[pin]
+        inner: S
+    }
+
+    impl<S> PinnedDrop for TimedDownload<S> {
+        fn drop(mut this: Pin<&mut Self>) {
+            metrics::BUCKET_METRICS.req_seconds.observe_elapsed(RequestKind::Get, this.outcome, this.started_at);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<S: AsyncRead> TimedDownload<S> {
+    fn new(started_at: std::time::Instant, inner: S) -> Self {
+        TimedDownload {
+            started_at,
+            outcome: metrics::AttemptOutcome::Cancelled,
+            inner,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<S: AsyncRead> AsyncRead for TimedDownload<S> {
+    fn poll_read(
+        self: std::pin::Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+        buf: &mut io::ReadBuf<'_>,
+    ) -> std::task::Poll<std::io::Result<()>> {
+        let this = self.project();
+        let before = buf.filled().len();
+        let read = std::task::ready!(this.inner.poll_read(cx, buf));
+
+        let read_eof = buf.filled().len() == before;
+
+        match read {
+            Ok(()) if read_eof => *this.outcome = AttemptOutcome::Ok,
+            Ok(()) => { /* still in progress */ }
+            Err(_) => *this.outcome = AttemptOutcome::Err,
+        }
+
+        std::task::Poll::Ready(read)
+    }
+}
+
 #[async_trait::async_trait]
 impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
    /// See the doc for `RemoteStorage::list_prefixes`
@@ -272,6 +313,8 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
    ) -> Result<Vec<RemotePath>, DownloadError> {
+        let kind = RequestKind::List;
+
        // get the passed prefix or if it is not set use prefix_in_bucket value
        let list_prefix = prefix
            .map(|p| self.relative_path_to_s3_object(p))
@@ -288,15 +331,10 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
        let mut document_keys = Vec::new();

        let mut continuation_token = None;
-        loop {
-            let _guard = self
-                .concurrency_limiter
-                .acquire()
-                .await
-                .context("Concurrency limiter semaphore got closed during S3 list")
-                .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?;

-            metrics::inc_list_objects();
+        loop {
+            let _guard = self.permit(kind).await;
+            let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);

            let fetch_response = self
                .client
@@ -308,12 +346,16 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
                .set_max_keys(self.max_keys_per_list_response)
                .send()
                .await
-                .map_err(|e| {
-                    metrics::inc_list_objects_fail();
-                    e
-                })
                .context("Failed to list S3 prefixes")
-                .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?;
+                .map_err(DownloadError::Other);
+
+            let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+
+            metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+                .req_seconds
+                .observe_elapsed(kind, &fetch_response, started_at);
+
+            let fetch_response = fetch_response?;

            document_keys.extend(
                fetch_response
@@ -323,13 +365,59 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
                    .filter_map(|o| Some(self.s3_object_to_relative_path(o.prefix()?))),
            );

-            match fetch_response.next_continuation_token {
+            continuation_token = match fetch_response.next_continuation_token {
+                Some(new_token) => Some(new_token),
+                None => break,
+            };
+        }
+
+        Ok(document_keys)
+    }
+
+    /// See the doc for `RemoteStorage::list_files`
+    async fn list_files(&self, folder: Option<&RemotePath>) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<RemotePath>> {
+        let kind = RequestKind::List;
+
+        let folder_name = folder
+            .map(|p| self.relative_path_to_s3_object(p))
+            .or_else(|| self.prefix_in_bucket.clone());
+
+        // AWS may need to break the response into several parts
+        let mut continuation_token = None;
+        let mut all_files = vec![];
+        loop {
+            let _guard = self.permit(kind).await;
+            let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);
+
+            let response = self
+                .client
+                .list_objects_v2()
+                .bucket(self.bucket_name.clone())
+                .set_prefix(folder_name.clone())
+                .set_continuation_token(continuation_token)
+                .set_max_keys(self.max_keys_per_list_response)
+                .send()
+                .await
+                .context("Failed to list files in S3 bucket");
+
+            let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+            metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+                .req_seconds
+                .observe_elapsed(kind, &response, started_at);
+
+            let response = response?;
+
+            for object in response.contents().unwrap_or_default() {
+                let object_path = object.key().expect("response does not contain a key");
+                let remote_path = self.s3_object_to_relative_path(object_path);
+                all_files.push(remote_path);
+            }
+            match response.next_continuation_token {
                Some(new_token) => continuation_token = Some(new_token),
                None => break,
            }
        }
-
-        Ok(document_keys)
+        Ok(all_files)
    }

    async fn upload(
@@ -339,18 +427,16 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
        to: &RemotePath,
        metadata: Option<StorageMetadata>,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        let _guard = self
-            .concurrency_limiter
-            .acquire()
-            .await
-            .context("Concurrency limiter semaphore got closed during S3 upload")?;
+        let kind = RequestKind::Put;
+        let _guard = self.permit(kind).await;

-        metrics::inc_put_object();
+        let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);

        let body = Body::wrap_stream(ReaderStream::new(from));
        let bytes_stream = ByteStream::new(SdkBody::from(body));

-        self.client
+        let res = self
+            .client
            .put_object()
            .bucket(self.bucket_name.clone())
            .key(self.relative_path_to_s3_object(to))
@@ -358,19 +444,25 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
            .content_length(from_size_bytes.try_into()?)
            .body(bytes_stream)
            .send()
-            .await
-            .map_err(|e| {
-                metrics::inc_put_object_fail();
-                e
-            })?;
+            .await;
+
+        let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+        metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+            .req_seconds
+            .observe_elapsed(kind, &res, started_at);
+
+        res?;
+
        Ok(())
    }

    async fn download(&self, from: &RemotePath) -> Result<Download, DownloadError> {
+        // if prefix is not none then download file `prefix/from`
+        // if prefix is none then download file `from`
        self.download_object(GetObjectRequest {
            bucket: self.bucket_name.clone(),
            key: self.relative_path_to_s3_object(from),
-            ..GetObjectRequest::default()
+            range: None,
        })
        .await
    }
@@ -396,26 +488,138 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
        })
        .await
    }
+    async fn delete_objects<'a>(&self, paths: &'a [RemotePath]) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        let kind = RequestKind::Delete;
+        let _guard = self.permit(kind).await;

-    async fn delete(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        let _guard = self
-            .concurrency_limiter
-            .acquire()
-            .await
-            .context("Concurrency limiter semaphore got closed during S3 delete")?;
+        let mut delete_objects = Vec::with_capacity(paths.len());
+        for path in paths {
+            let obj_id = ObjectIdentifier::builder()
+                .set_key(Some(self.relative_path_to_s3_object(path)))
+                .build();
+            delete_objects.push(obj_id);
+        }

-        metrics::inc_delete_object();
+        for chunk in delete_objects.chunks(MAX_DELETE_OBJECTS_REQUEST_SIZE) {
+            let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);

-        self.client
-            .delete_object()
-            .bucket(self.bucket_name.clone())
-            .key(self.relative_path_to_s3_object(path))
-            .send()
-            .await
-            .map_err(|e| {
-                metrics::inc_delete_object_fail();
-                e
-            })?;
+            let resp = self
+                .client
+                .delete_objects()
+                .bucket(self.bucket_name.clone())
+                .delete(Delete::builder().set_objects(Some(chunk.to_vec())).build())
+                .send()
+                .await;
+
+            let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+            metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+                .req_seconds
+                .observe_elapsed(kind, &resp, started_at);
+
+            match resp {
+                Ok(resp) => {
+                    metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+                        .deleted_objects_total
+                        .inc_by(chunk.len() as u64);
+                    if let Some(errors) = resp.errors {
+                        return Err(anyhow::format_err!(
+                            "Failed to delete {} objects",
+                            errors.len()
+                        ));
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    return Err(e.into());
+                }
+            }
+        }
        Ok(())
    }
+
+    async fn delete(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        let paths = std::array::from_ref(path);
+        self.delete_objects(paths).await
+    }
+}
+
+/// On drop (cancellation) count towards [`metrics::BucketMetrics::cancelled_waits`].
+fn start_counting_cancelled_wait(
+    kind: RequestKind,
+) -> ScopeGuard<std::time::Instant, impl FnOnce(std::time::Instant), scopeguard::OnSuccess> {
+    scopeguard::guard_on_success(std::time::Instant::now(), move |_| {
+        metrics::BUCKET_METRICS.cancelled_waits.get(kind).inc()
+    })
+}
+
+/// On drop (cancellation) add time to [`metrics::BucketMetrics::req_seconds`].
+fn start_measuring_requests(
+    kind: RequestKind,
+) -> ScopeGuard<std::time::Instant, impl FnOnce(std::time::Instant), scopeguard::OnSuccess> {
+    scopeguard::guard_on_success(std::time::Instant::now(), move |started_at| {
+        metrics::BUCKET_METRICS.req_seconds.observe_elapsed(
+            kind,
+            AttemptOutcome::Cancelled,
+            started_at,
+        )
+    })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
+    use std::path::Path;
+
+    use crate::{RemotePath, S3Bucket, S3Config};
+
+    #[test]
+    fn relative_path() {
+        let all_paths = vec!["", "some/path", "some/path/"];
+        let all_paths: Vec<RemotePath> = all_paths
+            .iter()
+            .map(|x| RemotePath::new(Path::new(x)).expect("bad path"))
+            .collect();
+        let prefixes = [
+            None,
+            Some(""),
+            Some("test/prefix"),
+            Some("test/prefix/"),
+            Some("/test/prefix/"),
+        ];
+        let expected_outputs = vec![
+            vec!["", "some/path", "some/path"],
+            vec!["/", "/some/path", "/some/path"],
+            vec![
+                "test/prefix/",
+                "test/prefix/some/path",
+                "test/prefix/some/path",
+            ],
+            vec![
+                "test/prefix/",
+                "test/prefix/some/path",
+                "test/prefix/some/path",
+            ],
+            vec![
+                "test/prefix/",
+                "test/prefix/some/path",
+                "test/prefix/some/path",
+            ],
+        ];
+
+        for (prefix_idx, prefix) in prefixes.iter().enumerate() {
+            let config = S3Config {
+                bucket_name: "bucket".to_owned(),
+                bucket_region: "region".to_owned(),
+                prefix_in_bucket: prefix.map(str::to_string),
+                endpoint: None,
+                concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize::new(100).unwrap(),
+                max_keys_per_list_response: Some(5),
+            };
+            let storage = S3Bucket::new(&config).expect("remote storage init");
+            for (test_path_idx, test_path) in all_paths.iter().enumerate() {
+                let result = storage.relative_path_to_s3_object(test_path);
+                let expected = expected_outputs[prefix_idx][test_path_idx];
+                assert_eq!(result, expected);
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket/metrics.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket/metrics.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+use metrics::{
+    register_histogram_vec, register_int_counter, register_int_counter_vec, Histogram, IntCounter,
+};
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+
+pub(super) static BUCKET_METRICS: Lazy<BucketMetrics> = Lazy::new(Default::default);
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
+pub(super) enum RequestKind {
+    Get = 0,
+    Put = 1,
+    Delete = 2,
+    List = 3,
+}
+
+use RequestKind::*;
+
+impl RequestKind {
+    const fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            Get => "get_object",
+            Put => "put_object",
+            Delete => "delete_object",
+            List => "list_objects",
+        }
+    }
+    const fn as_index(&self) -> usize {
+        *self as usize
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) struct RequestTyped<C>([C; 4]);
+
+impl<C> RequestTyped<C> {
+    pub(super) fn get(&self, kind: RequestKind) -> &C {
+        &self.0[kind.as_index()]
+    }
+
+    fn build_with(mut f: impl FnMut(RequestKind) -> C) -> Self {
+        use RequestKind::*;
+        let mut it = [Get, Put, Delete, List].into_iter();
+        let arr = std::array::from_fn::<C, 4, _>(|index| {
+            let next = it.next().unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(index, next.as_index());
+            f(next)
+        });
+
+        if let Some(next) = it.next() {
+            panic!("unexpected {next:?}");
+        }
+
+        RequestTyped(arr)
+    }
+}
+
+impl RequestTyped<Histogram> {
+    pub(super) fn observe_elapsed(&self, kind: RequestKind, started_at: std::time::Instant) {
+        self.get(kind).observe(started_at.elapsed().as_secs_f64())
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) struct PassFailCancelledRequestTyped<C> {
+    success: RequestTyped<C>,
+    fail: RequestTyped<C>,
+    cancelled: RequestTyped<C>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+pub(super) enum AttemptOutcome {
+    Ok,
+    Err,
+    Cancelled,
+}
+
+impl<T, E> From<&Result<T, E>> for AttemptOutcome {
+    fn from(value: &Result<T, E>) -> Self {
+        match value {
+            Ok(_) => AttemptOutcome::Ok,
+            Err(_) => AttemptOutcome::Err,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl AttemptOutcome {
+    pub(super) fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            AttemptOutcome::Ok => "ok",
+            AttemptOutcome::Err => "err",
+            AttemptOutcome::Cancelled => "cancelled",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<C> PassFailCancelledRequestTyped<C> {
+    pub(super) fn get(&self, kind: RequestKind, outcome: AttemptOutcome) -> &C {
+        let target = match outcome {
+            AttemptOutcome::Ok => &self.success,
+            AttemptOutcome::Err => &self.fail,
+            AttemptOutcome::Cancelled => &self.cancelled,
+        };
+        target.get(kind)
+    }
+
+    fn build_with(mut f: impl FnMut(RequestKind, AttemptOutcome) -> C) -> Self {
+        let success = RequestTyped::build_with(|kind| f(kind, AttemptOutcome::Ok));
+        let fail = RequestTyped::build_with(|kind| f(kind, AttemptOutcome::Err));
+        let cancelled = RequestTyped::build_with(|kind| f(kind, AttemptOutcome::Cancelled));
+
+        PassFailCancelledRequestTyped {
+            success,
+            fail,
+            cancelled,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl PassFailCancelledRequestTyped<Histogram> {
+    pub(super) fn observe_elapsed(
+        &self,
+        kind: RequestKind,
+        outcome: impl Into<AttemptOutcome>,
+        started_at: std::time::Instant,
+    ) {
+        self.get(kind, outcome.into())
+            .observe(started_at.elapsed().as_secs_f64())
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) struct BucketMetrics {
+    /// Full request duration until successful completion, error or cancellation.
+    pub(super) req_seconds: PassFailCancelledRequestTyped<Histogram>,
+    /// Total amount of seconds waited on queue.
+    pub(super) wait_seconds: RequestTyped<Histogram>,
+
+    /// Track how many semaphore awaits were cancelled per request type.
+    ///
+    /// This is in case cancellations are happening more than expected.
+    pub(super) cancelled_waits: RequestTyped<IntCounter>,
+
+    /// Total amount of deleted objects in batches or single requests.
+    pub(super) deleted_objects_total: IntCounter,
+}
+
+impl Default for BucketMetrics {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        let buckets = [0.01, 0.10, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0, 10.0, 50.0, 100.0];
+
+        let req_seconds = register_histogram_vec!(
+            "remote_storage_s3_request_seconds",
+            "Seconds to complete a request",
+            &["request_type", "result"],
+            buckets.to_vec(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let req_seconds = PassFailCancelledRequestTyped::build_with(|kind, outcome| {
+            req_seconds.with_label_values(&[kind.as_str(), outcome.as_str()])
+        });
+
+        let wait_seconds = register_histogram_vec!(
+            "remote_storage_s3_wait_seconds",
+            "Seconds rate limited",
+            &["request_type"],
+            buckets.to_vec(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let wait_seconds =
+            RequestTyped::build_with(|kind| wait_seconds.with_label_values(&[kind.as_str()]));
+
+        let cancelled_waits = register_int_counter_vec!(
+            "remote_storage_s3_cancelled_waits_total",
+            "Times a semaphore wait has been cancelled per request type",
+            &["request_type"],
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let cancelled_waits =
+            RequestTyped::build_with(|kind| cancelled_waits.with_label_values(&[kind.as_str()]));
+
+        let deleted_objects_total = register_int_counter!(
+            "remote_storage_s3_deleted_objects_total",
+            "Amount of deleted objects in total",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        Self {
+            req_seconds,
+            wait_seconds,
+            cancelled_waits,
+            deleted_objects_total,
+        }
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/simulate_failures.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/simulate_failures.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ enum RemoteOp {
    Upload(RemotePath),
    Download(RemotePath),
    Delete(RemotePath),
+    DeleteObjects(Vec<RemotePath>),
 }

 impl UnreliableWrapper {
@@ -70,6 +71,13 @@ impl UnreliableWrapper {
            }
        }
    }
+
+    async fn delete_inner(&self, path: &RemotePath, attempt: bool) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        if attempt {
+            self.attempt(RemoteOp::Delete(path.clone()))?;
+        }
+        self.inner.delete(path).await
+    }
 }

 #[async_trait::async_trait]
@@ -82,6 +90,11 @@ impl RemoteStorage for UnreliableWrapper {
        self.inner.list_prefixes(prefix).await
    }

+    async fn list_files(&self, folder: Option<&RemotePath>) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<RemotePath>> {
+        self.attempt(RemoteOp::ListPrefixes(folder.cloned()))?;
+        self.inner.list_files(folder).await
+    }
+
    async fn upload(
        &self,
        data: impl tokio::io::AsyncRead + Unpin + Send + Sync + 'static,
@@ -116,7 +129,24 @@ impl RemoteStorage for UnreliableWrapper {
    }

    async fn delete(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        self.attempt(RemoteOp::Delete(path.clone()))?;
-        self.inner.delete(path).await
+        self.delete_inner(path, true).await
+    }
+
+    async fn delete_objects<'a>(&self, paths: &'a [RemotePath]) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        self.attempt(RemoteOp::DeleteObjects(paths.to_vec()))?;
+        let mut error_counter = 0;
+        for path in paths {
+            // Dont record attempt because it was already recorded above
+            if (self.delete_inner(path, false).await).is_err() {
+                error_counter += 1;
+            }
+        }
+        if error_counter > 0 {
+            return Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
+                "failed to delete {} objects",
+                error_counter
+            ));
+        }
+        Ok(())
    }
 }
--- a/libs/remote_storage/tests/pagination_tests.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/tests/pagination_tests.rs
@@ -1,274 +0,0 @@
-use std::collections::HashSet;
-use std::env;
-use std::num::{NonZeroU32, NonZeroUsize};
-use std::ops::ControlFlow;
-use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::time::UNIX_EPOCH;
-
-use anyhow::Context;
-use remote_storage::{
-    GenericRemoteStorage, RemotePath, RemoteStorageConfig, RemoteStorageKind, S3Config,
-};
-use test_context::{test_context, AsyncTestContext};
-use tokio::task::JoinSet;
-use tracing::{debug, error, info};
-
-const ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME: &str = "ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE";
-
-/// Tests that S3 client can list all prefixes, even if the response come paginated and requires multiple S3 queries.
-/// Uses real S3 and requires [`ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME`] and related S3 cred env vars specified.
-/// See the client creation in [`create_s3_client`] for details on the required env vars.
-/// If real S3 tests are disabled, the test passes, skipping any real test run: currently, there's no way to mark the test ignored in runtime with the
-/// deafult test framework, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/68007 for details.
-///
-/// First, the test creates a set of S3 objects with keys `/${random_prefix_part}/${base_prefix_str}/sub_prefix_${i}/blob_${i}` in [`upload_s3_data`]
-/// where
-/// * `random_prefix_part` is set for the entire S3 client during the S3 client creation in [`create_s3_client`], to avoid multiple test runs interference
-/// * `base_prefix_str` is a common prefix to use in the client requests: we would want to ensure that the client is able to list nested prefixes inside the bucket
-///
-/// Then, verifies that the client does return correct prefixes when queried:
-/// * with no prefix, it lists everything after its `${random_prefix_part}/` — that should be `${base_prefix_str}` value only
-/// * with `${base_prefix_str}/` prefix, it lists every `sub_prefix_${i}`
-///
-/// With the real S3 enabled and `#[cfg(test)]` Rust configuration used, the S3 client test adds a `max-keys` param to limit the response keys.
-/// This way, we are able to test the pagination implicitly, by ensuring all results are returned from the remote storage and avoid uploading too many blobs to S3,
-/// since current default AWS S3 pagination limit is 1000.
-/// (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html#API_ListObjectsV2_RequestSyntax)
-///
-/// Lastly, the test attempts to clean up and remove all uploaded S3 files.
-/// If any errors appear during the clean up, they get logged, but the test is not failed or stopped until clean up is finished.
-#[test_context(MaybeEnabledS3)]
-#[tokio::test]
-async fn s3_pagination_should_work(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledS3) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    let ctx = match ctx {
-        MaybeEnabledS3::Enabled(ctx) => ctx,
-        MaybeEnabledS3::Disabled => return Ok(()),
-        MaybeEnabledS3::UploadsFailed(e, _) => anyhow::bail!("S3 init failed: {e:?}"),
-    };
-
-    let test_client = Arc::clone(&ctx.client_with_excessive_pagination);
-    let expected_remote_prefixes = ctx.remote_prefixes.clone();
-
-    let base_prefix =
-        RemotePath::new(Path::new(ctx.base_prefix_str)).context("common_prefix construction")?;
-    let root_remote_prefixes = test_client
-        .list_prefixes(None)
-        .await
-        .context("client list root prefixes failure")?
-        .into_iter()
-        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
-    assert_eq!(
-        root_remote_prefixes, HashSet::from([base_prefix.clone()]),
-        "remote storage root prefixes list mismatches with the uploads. Returned prefixes: {root_remote_prefixes:?}"
-    );
-
-    let nested_remote_prefixes = test_client
-        .list_prefixes(Some(&base_prefix))
-        .await
-        .context("client list nested prefixes failure")?
-        .into_iter()
-        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
-    let remote_only_prefixes = nested_remote_prefixes
-        .difference(&expected_remote_prefixes)
-        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
-    let missing_uploaded_prefixes = expected_remote_prefixes
-        .difference(&nested_remote_prefixes)
-        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
-    assert_eq!(
-        remote_only_prefixes.len() + missing_uploaded_prefixes.len(), 0,
-        "remote storage nested prefixes list mismatches with the uploads. Remote only prefixes: {remote_only_prefixes:?}, missing uploaded prefixes: {missing_uploaded_prefixes:?}",
-    );
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-enum MaybeEnabledS3 {
-    Enabled(S3WithTestBlobs),
-    Disabled,
-    UploadsFailed(anyhow::Error, S3WithTestBlobs),
-}
-
-struct S3WithTestBlobs {
-    client_with_excessive_pagination: Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>,
-    base_prefix_str: &'static str,
-    remote_prefixes: HashSet<RemotePath>,
-    remote_blobs: HashSet<RemotePath>,
-}
-
-#[async_trait::async_trait]
-impl AsyncTestContext for MaybeEnabledS3 {
-    async fn setup() -> Self {
-        utils::logging::init(
-            utils::logging::LogFormat::Test,
-            utils::logging::TracingErrorLayerEnablement::Disabled,
-        )
-        .expect("logging init failed");
-        if env::var(ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME).is_err() {
-            info!(
-                "`{}` env variable is not set, skipping the test",
-                ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME
-            );
-            return Self::Disabled;
-        }
-
-        let max_keys_in_list_response = 10;
-        let upload_tasks_count = 1 + (2 * usize::try_from(max_keys_in_list_response).unwrap());
-
-        let client_with_excessive_pagination = create_s3_client(max_keys_in_list_response)
-            .context("S3 client creation")
-            .expect("S3 client creation failed");
-
-        let base_prefix_str = "test/";
-        match upload_s3_data(
-            &client_with_excessive_pagination,
-            base_prefix_str,
-            upload_tasks_count,
-        )
-        .await
-        {
-            ControlFlow::Continue(uploads) => {
-                info!("Remote objects created successfully");
-                Self::Enabled(S3WithTestBlobs {
-                    client_with_excessive_pagination,
-                    base_prefix_str,
-                    remote_prefixes: uploads.prefixes,
-                    remote_blobs: uploads.blobs,
-                })
-            }
-            ControlFlow::Break(uploads) => Self::UploadsFailed(
-                anyhow::anyhow!("One or multiple blobs failed to upload to S3"),
-                S3WithTestBlobs {
-                    client_with_excessive_pagination,
-                    base_prefix_str,
-                    remote_prefixes: uploads.prefixes,
-                    remote_blobs: uploads.blobs,
-                },
-            ),
-        }
-    }
-
-    async fn teardown(self) {
-        match self {
-            Self::Disabled => {}
-            Self::Enabled(ctx) | Self::UploadsFailed(_, ctx) => {
-                cleanup(&ctx.client_with_excessive_pagination, ctx.remote_blobs).await;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-fn create_s3_client(max_keys_per_list_response: i32) -> anyhow::Result<Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>> {
-    let remote_storage_s3_bucket = env::var("REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET")
-        .context("`REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET` env var is not set, but real S3 tests are enabled")?;
-    let remote_storage_s3_region = env::var("REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION")
-        .context("`REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION` env var is not set, but real S3 tests are enabled")?;
-    let random_prefix_part = std::time::SystemTime::now()
-        .duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)
-        .context("random s3 test prefix part calculation")?
-        .as_millis();
-    let remote_storage_config = RemoteStorageConfig {
-        max_concurrent_syncs: NonZeroUsize::new(100).unwrap(),
-        max_sync_errors: NonZeroU32::new(5).unwrap(),
-        storage: RemoteStorageKind::AwsS3(S3Config {
-            bucket_name: remote_storage_s3_bucket,
-            bucket_region: remote_storage_s3_region,
-            prefix_in_bucket: Some(format!("pagination_should_work_test_{random_prefix_part}/")),
-            endpoint: None,
-            concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize::new(100).unwrap(),
-            max_keys_per_list_response: Some(max_keys_per_list_response),
-        }),
-    };
-    Ok(Arc::new(
-        GenericRemoteStorage::from_config(&remote_storage_config).context("remote storage init")?,
-    ))
-}
-
-struct Uploads {
-    prefixes: HashSet<RemotePath>,
-    blobs: HashSet<RemotePath>,
-}
-
-async fn upload_s3_data(
-    client: &Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>,
-    base_prefix_str: &'static str,
-    upload_tasks_count: usize,
-) -> ControlFlow<Uploads, Uploads> {
-    info!("Creating {upload_tasks_count} S3 files");
-    let mut upload_tasks = JoinSet::new();
-    for i in 1..upload_tasks_count + 1 {
-        let task_client = Arc::clone(client);
-        upload_tasks.spawn(async move {
-            let prefix = PathBuf::from(format!("{base_prefix_str}/sub_prefix_{i}/"));
-            let blob_prefix = RemotePath::new(&prefix)
-                .with_context(|| format!("{prefix:?} to RemotePath conversion"))?;
-            let blob_path = blob_prefix.join(Path::new(&format!("blob_{i}")));
-            debug!("Creating remote item {i} at path {blob_path:?}");
-
-            let data = format!("remote blob data {i}").into_bytes();
-            let data_len = data.len();
-            task_client
-                .upload(std::io::Cursor::new(data), data_len, &blob_path, None)
-                .await?;
-
-            Ok::<_, anyhow::Error>((blob_prefix, blob_path))
-        });
-    }
-
-    let mut upload_tasks_failed = false;
-    let mut uploaded_prefixes = HashSet::with_capacity(upload_tasks_count);
-    let mut uploaded_blobs = HashSet::with_capacity(upload_tasks_count);
-    while let Some(task_run_result) = upload_tasks.join_next().await {
-        match task_run_result
-            .context("task join failed")
-            .and_then(|task_result| task_result.context("upload task failed"))
-        {
-            Ok((upload_prefix, upload_path)) => {
-                uploaded_prefixes.insert(upload_prefix);
-                uploaded_blobs.insert(upload_path);
-            }
-            Err(e) => {
-                error!("Upload task failed: {e:?}");
-                upload_tasks_failed = true;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    let uploads = Uploads {
-        prefixes: uploaded_prefixes,
-        blobs: uploaded_blobs,
-    };
-    if upload_tasks_failed {
-        ControlFlow::Break(uploads)
-    } else {
-        ControlFlow::Continue(uploads)
-    }
-}
-
-async fn cleanup(client: &Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>, objects_to_delete: HashSet<RemotePath>) {
-    info!(
-        "Removing {} objects from the remote storage during cleanup",
-        objects_to_delete.len()
-    );
-    let mut delete_tasks = JoinSet::new();
-    for object_to_delete in objects_to_delete {
-        let task_client = Arc::clone(client);
-        delete_tasks.spawn(async move {
-            debug!("Deleting remote item at path {object_to_delete:?}");
-            task_client
-                .delete(&object_to_delete)
-                .await
-                .with_context(|| format!("{object_to_delete:?} removal"))
-        });
-    }
-
-    while let Some(task_run_result) = delete_tasks.join_next().await {
-        match task_run_result {
-            Ok(task_result) => match task_result {
-                Ok(()) => {}
-                Err(e) => error!("Delete task failed: {e:?}"),
-            },
-            Err(join_err) => error!("Delete task did not finish correctly: {join_err}"),
-        }
-    }
-}
--- a/libs/remote_storage/tests/test_real_s3.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/tests/test_real_s3.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,542 @@
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::env;
+use std::num::{NonZeroU32, NonZeroUsize};
+use std::ops::ControlFlow;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time::UNIX_EPOCH;
+
+use anyhow::Context;
+use once_cell::sync::OnceCell;
+use remote_storage::{
+    GenericRemoteStorage, RemotePath, RemoteStorageConfig, RemoteStorageKind, S3Config,
+};
+use test_context::{test_context, AsyncTestContext};
+use tokio::task::JoinSet;
+use tracing::{debug, error, info};
+
+static LOGGING_DONE: OnceCell<()> = OnceCell::new();
+
+const ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME: &str = "ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE";
+
+const BASE_PREFIX: &str = "test";
+
+/// Tests that S3 client can list all prefixes, even if the response come paginated and requires multiple S3 queries.
+/// Uses real S3 and requires [`ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME`] and related S3 cred env vars specified.
+/// See the client creation in [`create_s3_client`] for details on the required env vars.
+/// If real S3 tests are disabled, the test passes, skipping any real test run: currently, there's no way to mark the test ignored in runtime with the
+/// deafult test framework, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/68007 for details.
+///
+/// First, the test creates a set of S3 objects with keys `/${random_prefix_part}/${base_prefix_str}/sub_prefix_${i}/blob_${i}` in [`upload_s3_data`]
+/// where
+/// * `random_prefix_part` is set for the entire S3 client during the S3 client creation in [`create_s3_client`], to avoid multiple test runs interference
+/// * `base_prefix_str` is a common prefix to use in the client requests: we would want to ensure that the client is able to list nested prefixes inside the bucket
+///
+/// Then, verifies that the client does return correct prefixes when queried:
+/// * with no prefix, it lists everything after its `${random_prefix_part}/` — that should be `${base_prefix_str}` value only
+/// * with `${base_prefix_str}/` prefix, it lists every `sub_prefix_${i}`
+///
+/// With the real S3 enabled and `#[cfg(test)]` Rust configuration used, the S3 client test adds a `max-keys` param to limit the response keys.
+/// This way, we are able to test the pagination implicitly, by ensuring all results are returned from the remote storage and avoid uploading too many blobs to S3,
+/// since current default AWS S3 pagination limit is 1000.
+/// (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html#API_ListObjectsV2_RequestSyntax)
+///
+/// Lastly, the test attempts to clean up and remove all uploaded S3 files.
+/// If any errors appear during the clean up, they get logged, but the test is not failed or stopped until clean up is finished.
+#[test_context(MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs)]
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn s3_pagination_should_work(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let ctx = match ctx {
+        MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs::Enabled(ctx) => ctx,
+        MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs::Disabled => return Ok(()),
+        MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs::UploadsFailed(e, _) => anyhow::bail!("S3 init failed: {e:?}"),
+    };
+
+    let test_client = Arc::clone(&ctx.enabled.client);
+    let expected_remote_prefixes = ctx.remote_prefixes.clone();
+
+    let base_prefix = RemotePath::new(Path::new(ctx.enabled.base_prefix))
+        .context("common_prefix construction")?;
+    let root_remote_prefixes = test_client
+        .list_prefixes(None)
+        .await
+        .context("client list root prefixes failure")?
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+    assert_eq!(
+        root_remote_prefixes, HashSet::from([base_prefix.clone()]),
+        "remote storage root prefixes list mismatches with the uploads. Returned prefixes: {root_remote_prefixes:?}"
+    );
+
+    let nested_remote_prefixes = test_client
+        .list_prefixes(Some(&base_prefix))
+        .await
+        .context("client list nested prefixes failure")?
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+    let remote_only_prefixes = nested_remote_prefixes
+        .difference(&expected_remote_prefixes)
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+    let missing_uploaded_prefixes = expected_remote_prefixes
+        .difference(&nested_remote_prefixes)
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+    assert_eq!(
+        remote_only_prefixes.len() + missing_uploaded_prefixes.len(), 0,
+        "remote storage nested prefixes list mismatches with the uploads. Remote only prefixes: {remote_only_prefixes:?}, missing uploaded prefixes: {missing_uploaded_prefixes:?}",
+    );
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// Tests that S3 client can list all files in a folder, even if the response comes paginated and requirees multiple S3 queries.
+/// Uses real S3 and requires [`ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME`] and related S3 cred env vars specified. Test will skip real code and pass if env vars not set.
+/// See `s3_pagination_should_work` for more information.
+///
+/// First, create a set of S3 objects with keys `random_prefix/folder{j}/blob_{i}.txt` in [`upload_s3_data`]
+/// Then performs the following queries:
+///    1. `list_files(None)`. This should return all files `random_prefix/folder{j}/blob_{i}.txt`
+///    2. `list_files("folder1")`.  This  should return all files `random_prefix/folder1/blob_{i}.txt`
+#[test_context(MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs)]
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn s3_list_files_works(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let ctx = match ctx {
+        MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs::Enabled(ctx) => ctx,
+        MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs::Disabled => return Ok(()),
+        MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs::UploadsFailed(e, _) => {
+            anyhow::bail!("S3 init failed: {e:?}")
+        }
+    };
+    let test_client = Arc::clone(&ctx.enabled.client);
+    let base_prefix =
+        RemotePath::new(Path::new("folder1")).context("common_prefix construction")?;
+    let root_files = test_client
+        .list_files(None)
+        .await
+        .context("client list root files failure")?
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+    assert_eq!(
+        root_files,
+        ctx.remote_blobs.clone(),
+        "remote storage list_files on root mismatches with the uploads."
+    );
+    let nested_remote_files = test_client
+        .list_files(Some(&base_prefix))
+        .await
+        .context("client list nested files failure")?
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
+    let trim_remote_blobs: HashSet<_> = ctx
+        .remote_blobs
+        .iter()
+        .map(|x| x.get_path().to_str().expect("must be valid name"))
+        .filter(|x| x.starts_with("folder1"))
+        .map(|x| RemotePath::new(Path::new(x)).expect("must be valid name"))
+        .collect();
+    assert_eq!(
+        nested_remote_files, trim_remote_blobs,
+        "remote storage list_files on subdirrectory mismatches with the uploads."
+    );
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[test_context(MaybeEnabledS3)]
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn s3_delete_non_exising_works(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledS3) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let ctx = match ctx {
+        MaybeEnabledS3::Enabled(ctx) => ctx,
+        MaybeEnabledS3::Disabled => return Ok(()),
+    };
+
+    let path = RemotePath::new(&PathBuf::from(format!(
+        "{}/for_sure_there_is_nothing_there_really",
+        ctx.base_prefix,
+    )))
+    .with_context(|| "RemotePath conversion")?;
+
+    ctx.client.delete(&path).await.expect("should succeed");
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[test_context(MaybeEnabledS3)]
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn s3_delete_objects_works(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledS3) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let ctx = match ctx {
+        MaybeEnabledS3::Enabled(ctx) => ctx,
+        MaybeEnabledS3::Disabled => return Ok(()),
+    };
+
+    let path1 = RemotePath::new(&PathBuf::from(format!("{}/path1", ctx.base_prefix,)))
+        .with_context(|| "RemotePath conversion")?;
+
+    let path2 = RemotePath::new(&PathBuf::from(format!("{}/path2", ctx.base_prefix,)))
+        .with_context(|| "RemotePath conversion")?;
+
+    let path3 = RemotePath::new(&PathBuf::from(format!("{}/path3", ctx.base_prefix,)))
+        .with_context(|| "RemotePath conversion")?;
+
+    let data1 = "remote blob data1".as_bytes();
+    let data1_len = data1.len();
+    let data2 = "remote blob data2".as_bytes();
+    let data2_len = data2.len();
+    let data3 = "remote blob data3".as_bytes();
+    let data3_len = data3.len();
+    ctx.client
+        .upload(std::io::Cursor::new(data1), data1_len, &path1, None)
+        .await?;
+
+    ctx.client
+        .upload(std::io::Cursor::new(data2), data2_len, &path2, None)
+        .await?;
+
+    ctx.client
+        .upload(std::io::Cursor::new(data3), data3_len, &path3, None)
+        .await?;
+
+    ctx.client.delete_objects(&[path1, path2]).await?;
+
+    let prefixes = ctx.client.list_prefixes(None).await?;
+
+    assert_eq!(prefixes.len(), 1);
+
+    ctx.client.delete_objects(&[path3]).await?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn ensure_logging_ready() {
+    LOGGING_DONE.get_or_init(|| {
+        utils::logging::init(
+            utils::logging::LogFormat::Test,
+            utils::logging::TracingErrorLayerEnablement::Disabled,
+        )
+        .expect("logging init failed");
+    });
+}
+
+struct EnabledS3 {
+    client: Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>,
+    base_prefix: &'static str,
+}
+
+impl EnabledS3 {
+    async fn setup(max_keys_in_list_response: Option<i32>) -> Self {
+        let client = create_s3_client(max_keys_in_list_response)
+            .context("S3 client creation")
+            .expect("S3 client creation failed");
+
+        EnabledS3 {
+            client,
+            base_prefix: BASE_PREFIX,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+enum MaybeEnabledS3 {
+    Enabled(EnabledS3),
+    Disabled,
+}
+
+#[async_trait::async_trait]
+impl AsyncTestContext for MaybeEnabledS3 {
+    async fn setup() -> Self {
+        ensure_logging_ready();
+
+        if env::var(ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME).is_err() {
+            info!(
+                "`{}` env variable is not set, skipping the test",
+                ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME
+            );
+            return Self::Disabled;
+        }
+
+        Self::Enabled(EnabledS3::setup(None).await)
+    }
+}
+
+enum MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs {
+    Enabled(S3WithTestBlobs),
+    Disabled,
+    UploadsFailed(anyhow::Error, S3WithTestBlobs),
+}
+
+struct S3WithTestBlobs {
+    enabled: EnabledS3,
+    remote_prefixes: HashSet<RemotePath>,
+    remote_blobs: HashSet<RemotePath>,
+}
+
+#[async_trait::async_trait]
+impl AsyncTestContext for MaybeEnabledS3WithTestBlobs {
+    async fn setup() -> Self {
+        ensure_logging_ready();
+        if env::var(ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME).is_err() {
+            info!(
+                "`{}` env variable is not set, skipping the test",
+                ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME
+            );
+            return Self::Disabled;
+        }
+
+        let max_keys_in_list_response = 10;
+        let upload_tasks_count = 1 + (2 * usize::try_from(max_keys_in_list_response).unwrap());
+
+        let enabled = EnabledS3::setup(Some(max_keys_in_list_response)).await;
+
+        match upload_s3_data(&enabled.client, enabled.base_prefix, upload_tasks_count).await {
+            ControlFlow::Continue(uploads) => {
+                info!("Remote objects created successfully");
+
+                Self::Enabled(S3WithTestBlobs {
+                    enabled,
+                    remote_prefixes: uploads.prefixes,
+                    remote_blobs: uploads.blobs,
+                })
+            }
+            ControlFlow::Break(uploads) => Self::UploadsFailed(
+                anyhow::anyhow!("One or multiple blobs failed to upload to S3"),
+                S3WithTestBlobs {
+                    enabled,
+                    remote_prefixes: uploads.prefixes,
+                    remote_blobs: uploads.blobs,
+                },
+            ),
+        }
+    }
+
+    async fn teardown(self) {
+        match self {
+            Self::Disabled => {}
+            Self::Enabled(ctx) | Self::UploadsFailed(_, ctx) => {
+                cleanup(&ctx.enabled.client, ctx.remote_blobs).await;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// NOTE: the setups for the list_prefixes test and the list_files test are very similar
+// However, they are not idential. The list_prefixes function is concerned with listing prefixes,
+// whereas the list_files function is concerned with listing files.
+// See `RemoteStorage::list_files` documentation for more details
+enum MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs {
+    Enabled(S3WithSimpleTestBlobs),
+    Disabled,
+    UploadsFailed(anyhow::Error, S3WithSimpleTestBlobs),
+}
+struct S3WithSimpleTestBlobs {
+    enabled: EnabledS3,
+    remote_blobs: HashSet<RemotePath>,
+}
+
+#[async_trait::async_trait]
+impl AsyncTestContext for MaybeEnabledS3WithSimpleTestBlobs {
+    async fn setup() -> Self {
+        ensure_logging_ready();
+        if env::var(ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME).is_err() {
+            info!(
+                "`{}` env variable is not set, skipping the test",
+                ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE_ENV_VAR_NAME
+            );
+            return Self::Disabled;
+        }
+
+        let max_keys_in_list_response = 10;
+        let upload_tasks_count = 1 + (2 * usize::try_from(max_keys_in_list_response).unwrap());
+
+        let enabled = EnabledS3::setup(Some(max_keys_in_list_response)).await;
+
+        match upload_simple_s3_data(&enabled.client, upload_tasks_count).await {
+            ControlFlow::Continue(uploads) => {
+                info!("Remote objects created successfully");
+
+                Self::Enabled(S3WithSimpleTestBlobs {
+                    enabled,
+                    remote_blobs: uploads,
+                })
+            }
+            ControlFlow::Break(uploads) => Self::UploadsFailed(
+                anyhow::anyhow!("One or multiple blobs failed to upload to S3"),
+                S3WithSimpleTestBlobs {
+                    enabled,
+                    remote_blobs: uploads,
+                },
+            ),
+        }
+    }
+
+    async fn teardown(self) {
+        match self {
+            Self::Disabled => {}
+            Self::Enabled(ctx) | Self::UploadsFailed(_, ctx) => {
+                cleanup(&ctx.enabled.client, ctx.remote_blobs).await;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn create_s3_client(
+    max_keys_per_list_response: Option<i32>,
+) -> anyhow::Result<Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>> {
+    let remote_storage_s3_bucket = env::var("REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET")
+        .context("`REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET` env var is not set, but real S3 tests are enabled")?;
+    let remote_storage_s3_region = env::var("REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION")
+        .context("`REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION` env var is not set, but real S3 tests are enabled")?;
+    let random_prefix_part = std::time::SystemTime::now()
+        .duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)
+        .context("random s3 test prefix part calculation")?
+        .as_nanos();
+    let remote_storage_config = RemoteStorageConfig {
+        max_concurrent_syncs: NonZeroUsize::new(100).unwrap(),
+        max_sync_errors: NonZeroU32::new(5).unwrap(),
+        storage: RemoteStorageKind::AwsS3(S3Config {
+            bucket_name: remote_storage_s3_bucket,
+            bucket_region: remote_storage_s3_region,
+            prefix_in_bucket: Some(format!("pagination_should_work_test_{random_prefix_part}/")),
+            endpoint: None,
+            concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize::new(100).unwrap(),
+            max_keys_per_list_response,
+        }),
+    };
+    Ok(Arc::new(
+        GenericRemoteStorage::from_config(&remote_storage_config).context("remote storage init")?,
+    ))
+}
+
+struct Uploads {
+    prefixes: HashSet<RemotePath>,
+    blobs: HashSet<RemotePath>,
+}
+
+async fn upload_s3_data(
+    client: &Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>,
+    base_prefix_str: &'static str,
+    upload_tasks_count: usize,
+) -> ControlFlow<Uploads, Uploads> {
+    info!("Creating {upload_tasks_count} S3 files");
+    let mut upload_tasks = JoinSet::new();
+    for i in 1..upload_tasks_count + 1 {
+        let task_client = Arc::clone(client);
+        upload_tasks.spawn(async move {
+            let prefix = PathBuf::from(format!("{base_prefix_str}/sub_prefix_{i}/"));
+            let blob_prefix = RemotePath::new(&prefix)
+                .with_context(|| format!("{prefix:?} to RemotePath conversion"))?;
+            let blob_path = blob_prefix.join(Path::new(&format!("blob_{i}")));
+            debug!("Creating remote item {i} at path {blob_path:?}");
+
+            let data = format!("remote blob data {i}").into_bytes();
+            let data_len = data.len();
+            task_client
+                .upload(std::io::Cursor::new(data), data_len, &blob_path, None)
+                .await?;
+
+            Ok::<_, anyhow::Error>((blob_prefix, blob_path))
+        });
+    }
+
+    let mut upload_tasks_failed = false;
+    let mut uploaded_prefixes = HashSet::with_capacity(upload_tasks_count);
+    let mut uploaded_blobs = HashSet::with_capacity(upload_tasks_count);
+    while let Some(task_run_result) = upload_tasks.join_next().await {
+        match task_run_result
+            .context("task join failed")
+            .and_then(|task_result| task_result.context("upload task failed"))
+        {
+            Ok((upload_prefix, upload_path)) => {
+                uploaded_prefixes.insert(upload_prefix);
+                uploaded_blobs.insert(upload_path);
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Upload task failed: {e:?}");
+                upload_tasks_failed = true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    let uploads = Uploads {
+        prefixes: uploaded_prefixes,
+        blobs: uploaded_blobs,
+    };
+    if upload_tasks_failed {
+        ControlFlow::Break(uploads)
+    } else {
+        ControlFlow::Continue(uploads)
+    }
+}
+
+async fn cleanup(client: &Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>, objects_to_delete: HashSet<RemotePath>) {
+    info!(
+        "Removing {} objects from the remote storage during cleanup",
+        objects_to_delete.len()
+    );
+    let mut delete_tasks = JoinSet::new();
+    for object_to_delete in objects_to_delete {
+        let task_client = Arc::clone(client);
+        delete_tasks.spawn(async move {
+            debug!("Deleting remote item at path {object_to_delete:?}");
+            task_client
+                .delete(&object_to_delete)
+                .await
+                .with_context(|| format!("{object_to_delete:?} removal"))
+        });
+    }
+
+    while let Some(task_run_result) = delete_tasks.join_next().await {
+        match task_run_result {
+            Ok(task_result) => match task_result {
+                Ok(()) => {}
+                Err(e) => error!("Delete task failed: {e:?}"),
+            },
+            Err(join_err) => error!("Delete task did not finish correctly: {join_err}"),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// Uploads files `folder{j}/blob{i}.txt`. See test description for more details.
+async fn upload_simple_s3_data(
+    client: &Arc<GenericRemoteStorage>,
+    upload_tasks_count: usize,
+) -> ControlFlow<HashSet<RemotePath>, HashSet<RemotePath>> {
+    info!("Creating {upload_tasks_count} S3 files");
+    let mut upload_tasks = JoinSet::new();
+    for i in 1..upload_tasks_count + 1 {
+        let task_client = Arc::clone(client);
+        upload_tasks.spawn(async move {
+            let blob_path = PathBuf::from(format!("folder{}/blob_{}.txt", i / 7, i));
+            let blob_path = RemotePath::new(&blob_path)
+                .with_context(|| format!("{blob_path:?} to RemotePath conversion"))?;
+            debug!("Creating remote item {i} at path {blob_path:?}");
+
+            let data = format!("remote blob data {i}").into_bytes();
+            let data_len = data.len();
+            task_client
+                .upload(std::io::Cursor::new(data), data_len, &blob_path, None)
+                .await?;
+
+            Ok::<_, anyhow::Error>(blob_path)
+        });
+    }
+
+    let mut upload_tasks_failed = false;
+    let mut uploaded_blobs = HashSet::with_capacity(upload_tasks_count);
+    while let Some(task_run_result) = upload_tasks.join_next().await {
+        match task_run_result
+            .context("task join failed")
+            .and_then(|task_result| task_result.context("upload task failed"))
+        {
+            Ok(upload_path) => {
+                uploaded_blobs.insert(upload_path);
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Upload task failed: {e:?}");
+                upload_tasks_failed = true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    if upload_tasks_failed {
+        ControlFlow::Break(uploaded_blobs)
+    } else {
+        ControlFlow::Continue(uploaded_blobs)
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/safekeeper_api/src/models.rs
+++ b/libs/safekeeper_api/src/models.rs
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ fn lsn_invalid() -> Lsn {
 #[serde_as]
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub struct SkTimelineInfo {
+    /// Term.
+    pub term: Option<u64>,
    /// Term of the last entry.
    pub last_log_term: Option<u64>,
    /// LSN of the last record.
@@ -58,4 +60,6 @@ pub struct SkTimelineInfo {
    /// A connection string to use for WAL receiving.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub safekeeper_connstr: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub http_connstr: Option<String>,
 }
--- a/libs/tenant_size_model/src/calculation.rs
+++ b/libs/tenant_size_model/src/calculation.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ use crate::{SegmentMethod, SegmentSizeResult, SizeResult, StorageModel};
 // 2. D+C+a+b
 // 3. D+A+B

-/// [`Segment`] which has had it's size calculated.
+/// `Segment` which has had its size calculated.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 struct SegmentSize {
    method: SegmentMethod,
--- a/libs/tracing-utils/src/http.rs
+++ b/libs/tracing-utils/src/http.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ pub enum OtelName<'a> {
 /// directly into HTTP servers. However, I couldn't find one for Hyper,
 /// so I had to write our own. OpenTelemetry website has a registry of
 /// instrumentation libraries at:
-/// https://opentelemetry.io/registry/?language=rust&component=instrumentation
+/// <https://opentelemetry.io/registry/?language=rust&component=instrumentation>
 /// If a Hyper crate appears, consider switching to that.
 pub async fn tracing_handler<F, R>(
    req: Request<Body>,
--- a/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true

 [dependencies]
-atty.workspace = true
 sentry.workspace = true
 async-trait.workspace = true
 anyhow.workspace = true
@@ -27,6 +26,7 @@ serde_json.workspace = true
 signal-hook.workspace = true
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tokio.workspace = true
+tokio-util.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-error.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["json", "registry"] }
@@ -38,9 +38,16 @@ url.workspace = true
 uuid.workspace = true

 pq_proto.workspace = true
+postgres_connection.workspace = true
 metrics.workspace = true
 workspace_hack.workspace = true

+const_format.workspace = true
+
+# to use tokio channels as streams, this is faster to compile than async_stream
+# why is it only here? no other crate should use it, streams are rarely needed.
+tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.14" }
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 byteorder.workspace = true
 bytes.workspace = true
--- a/libs/utils/src/auth.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/auth.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use crate::id::TenantId;
 /// Algorithm to use. We require EdDSA.
 const STORAGE_TOKEN_ALGORITHM: Algorithm = Algorithm::EdDSA;

-#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 pub enum Scope {
    // Provides access to all data for a specific tenant (specified in `struct Claims` below)
--- a/libs/utils/src/backoff.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/backoff.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+use std::fmt::{Debug, Display};
+
+use futures::Future;
+use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
+
+pub const DEFAULT_BASE_BACKOFF_SECONDS: f64 = 0.1;
+pub const DEFAULT_MAX_BACKOFF_SECONDS: f64 = 3.0;
+
+pub async fn exponential_backoff(
+    n: u32,
+    base_increment: f64,
+    max_seconds: f64,
+    cancel: &CancellationToken,
+) {
+    let backoff_duration_seconds =
+        exponential_backoff_duration_seconds(n, base_increment, max_seconds);
+    if backoff_duration_seconds > 0.0 {
+        tracing::info!(
+            "Backoff: waiting {backoff_duration_seconds} seconds before processing with the task",
+        );
+
+        drop(
+            tokio::time::timeout(
+                std::time::Duration::from_secs_f64(backoff_duration_seconds),
+                cancel.cancelled(),
+            )
+            .await,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn exponential_backoff_duration_seconds(n: u32, base_increment: f64, max_seconds: f64) -> f64 {
+    if n == 0 {
+        0.0
+    } else {
+        (1.0 + base_increment).powf(f64::from(n)).min(max_seconds)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Configure cancellation for a retried operation: when to cancel (the token), and
+/// what kind of error to return on cancellation
+pub struct Cancel<E, CF>
+where
+    E: Display + Debug + 'static,
+    CF: Fn() -> E,
+{
+    token: CancellationToken,
+    on_cancel: CF,
+}
+
+impl<E, CF> Cancel<E, CF>
+where
+    E: Display + Debug + 'static,
+    CF: Fn() -> E,
+{
+    pub fn new(token: CancellationToken, on_cancel: CF) -> Self {
+        Self { token, on_cancel }
+    }
+}
+
+/// retries passed operation until one of the following conditions are met:
+/// Encountered error is considered as permanent (non-retryable)
+/// Retries have been exhausted.
+/// `is_permanent` closure should be used to provide distinction between permanent/non-permanent errors
+/// When attempts cross `warn_threshold` function starts to emit log warnings.
+/// `description` argument is added to log messages. Its value should identify the `op` is doing
+/// `cancel` argument is required: any time we are looping on retry, we should be using a CancellationToken
+/// to drop out promptly on shutdown.
+pub async fn retry<T, O, F, E, CF>(
+    mut op: O,
+    is_permanent: impl Fn(&E) -> bool,
+    warn_threshold: u32,
+    max_retries: u32,
+    description: &str,
+    cancel: Cancel<E, CF>,
+) -> Result<T, E>
+where
+    // Not std::error::Error because anyhow::Error doesnt implement it.
+    // For context see https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow/issues/63
+    E: Display + Debug + 'static,
+    O: FnMut() -> F,
+    F: Future<Output = Result<T, E>>,
+    CF: Fn() -> E,
+{
+    let mut attempts = 0;
+    loop {
+        if cancel.token.is_cancelled() {
+            return Err((cancel.on_cancel)());
+        }
+
+        let result = op().await;
+        match result {
+            Ok(_) => {
+                if attempts > 0 {
+                    tracing::info!("{description} succeeded after {attempts} retries");
+                }
+                return result;
+            }
+
+            // These are "permanent" errors that should not be retried.
+            Err(ref e) if is_permanent(e) => {
+                return result;
+            }
+            // Assume that any other failure might be transient, and the operation might
+            // succeed if we just keep trying.
+            Err(err) if attempts < warn_threshold => {
+                tracing::info!("{description} failed, will retry (attempt {attempts}): {err:#}");
+            }
+            Err(err) if attempts < max_retries => {
+                tracing::warn!("{description} failed, will retry (attempt {attempts}): {err:#}");
+            }
+            Err(ref err) => {
+                // Operation failed `max_attempts` times. Time to give up.
+                tracing::warn!(
+                    "{description} still failed after {attempts} retries, giving up: {err:?}"
+                );
+                return result;
+            }
+        }
+        // sleep and retry
+        exponential_backoff(
+            attempts,
+            DEFAULT_BASE_BACKOFF_SECONDS,
+            DEFAULT_MAX_BACKOFF_SECONDS,
+            &cancel.token,
+        )
+        .await;
+        attempts += 1;
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::io;
+
+    use tokio::sync::Mutex;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn backoff_defaults_produce_growing_backoff_sequence() {
+        let mut current_backoff_value = None;
+
+        for i in 0..10_000 {
+            let new_backoff_value = exponential_backoff_duration_seconds(
+                i,
+                DEFAULT_BASE_BACKOFF_SECONDS,
+                DEFAULT_MAX_BACKOFF_SECONDS,
+            );
+
+            if let Some(old_backoff_value) = current_backoff_value.replace(new_backoff_value) {
+                assert!(
+                    old_backoff_value <= new_backoff_value,
+                    "{i}th backoff value {new_backoff_value} is smaller than the previous one {old_backoff_value}"
+                )
+            }
+        }
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            current_backoff_value.expect("Should have produced backoff values to compare"),
+            DEFAULT_MAX_BACKOFF_SECONDS,
+            "Given big enough of retries, backoff should reach its allowed max value"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
+    async fn retry_always_error() {
+        let count = Mutex::new(0);
+        let err_result = retry(
+            || async {
+                *count.lock().await += 1;
+                Result::<(), io::Error>::Err(io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::Other))
+            },
+            |_e| false,
+            1,
+            1,
+            "work",
+            Cancel::new(CancellationToken::new(), || -> io::Error { unreachable!() }),
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        assert!(err_result.is_err());
+
+        assert_eq!(*count.lock().await, 2);
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
+    async fn retry_ok_after_err() {
+        let count = Mutex::new(0);
+        retry(
+            || async {
+                let mut locked = count.lock().await;
+                if *locked > 1 {
+                    Ok(())
+                } else {
+                    *locked += 1;
+                    Err(io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::Other))
+                }
+            },
+            |_e| false,
+            2,
+            2,
+            "work",
+            Cancel::new(CancellationToken::new(), || -> io::Error { unreachable!() }),
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
+    async fn dont_retry_permanent_errors() {
+        let count = Mutex::new(0);
+        let _ = retry(
+            || async {
+                let mut locked = count.lock().await;
+                if *locked > 1 {
+                    Ok(())
+                } else {
+                    *locked += 1;
+                    Err(io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::Other))
+                }
+            },
+            |_e| true,
+            2,
+            2,
+            "work",
+            Cancel::new(CancellationToken::new(), || -> io::Error { unreachable!() }),
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap_err();
+
+        assert_eq!(*count.lock().await, 1);
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/utils/src/completion.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/completion.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ pub struct Completion(mpsc::Sender<()>);
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Barrier(Arc<Mutex<mpsc::Receiver<()>>>);

+impl Default for Barrier {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        let (_, rx) = channel();
+        rx
+    }
+}
+
 impl Barrier {
    pub async fn wait(self) {
        self.0.lock().await.recv().await;
@@ -24,6 +31,15 @@ impl Barrier {
    }
 }

+impl PartialEq for Barrier {
+    fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
+        // we don't use dyn so this is good
+        Arc::ptr_eq(&self.0, &other.0)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Eq for Barrier {}
+
 /// Create new Guard and Barrier pair.
 pub fn channel() -> (Completion, Barrier) {
    let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel::<()>(1);
--- a/libs/utils/src/crashsafe.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/crashsafe.rs
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ pub fn fsync(path: &Path) -> io::Result<()> {
        .map_err(|e| io::Error::new(e.kind(), format!("Failed to fsync file {path:?}: {e}")))
 }

+pub async fn fsync_async(path: impl AsRef<std::path::Path>) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
+    tokio::fs::File::open(path).await?.sync_all().await
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use tempfile::tempdir;
--- a/libs/utils/src/error.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/// Create a reporter for an error that outputs similar to [`anyhow::Error`] with Display with alternative setting.
+///
+/// It can be used with `anyhow::Error` as well.
+///
+/// Why would one use this instead of converting to `anyhow::Error` on the spot? Because
+/// anyhow::Error would also capture a stacktrace on the spot, which you would later discard after
+/// formatting.
+///
+/// ## Usage
+///
+/// ```rust
+/// #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+/// enum MyCoolError {
+///   #[error("should never happen")]
+///   Bad(#[source] std::io::Error),
+/// }
+///
+/// # fn failing_call() -> Result<(), MyCoolError> { Err(MyCoolError::Bad(std::io::ErrorKind::PermissionDenied.into())) }
+///
+/// # fn main() {
+/// use utils::error::report_compact_sources;
+///
+/// if let Err(e) = failing_call() {
+///     let e = report_compact_sources(&e);
+///     assert_eq!(format!("{e}"), "should never happen: permission denied");
+/// }
+/// # }
+/// ```
+///
+/// ## TODO
+///
+/// When we are able to describe return position impl trait in traits, this should of course be an
+/// extension trait. Until then avoid boxing with this more ackward interface.
+pub fn report_compact_sources<E: std::error::Error>(e: &E) -> impl std::fmt::Display + '_ {
+    struct AnyhowDisplayAlternateAlike<'a, E>(&'a E);
+
+    impl<E: std::error::Error> std::fmt::Display for AnyhowDisplayAlternateAlike<'_, E> {
+        fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+            write!(f, "{}", self.0)?;
+
+            // why is E a generic parameter here? hope that rustc will see through a default
+            // Error::source implementation and leave the following out if there cannot be any
+            // sources:
+            Sources(self.0.source()).try_for_each(|src| write!(f, ": {}", src))
+        }
+    }
+
+    struct Sources<'a>(Option<&'a (dyn std::error::Error + 'static)>);
+
+    impl<'a> Iterator for Sources<'a> {
+        type Item = &'a (dyn std::error::Error + 'static);
+
+        fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
+            let rem = self.0;
+
+            let next = self.0.and_then(|x| x.source());
+            self.0 = next;
+            rem
+        }
+    }
+
+    AnyhowDisplayAlternateAlike(e)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::report_compact_sources;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn report_compact_sources_examples() {
+        use std::fmt::Write;
+
+        #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+        enum EvictionError {
+            #[error("cannot evict a remote layer")]
+            CannotEvictRemoteLayer,
+            #[error("stat failed")]
+            StatFailed(#[source] std::io::Error),
+            #[error("layer was no longer part of LayerMap")]
+            LayerNotFound(#[source] anyhow::Error),
+        }
+
+        let examples = [
+            (
+                line!(),
+                EvictionError::CannotEvictRemoteLayer,
+                "cannot evict a remote layer",
+            ),
+            (
+                line!(),
+                EvictionError::StatFailed(std::io::ErrorKind::PermissionDenied.into()),
+                "stat failed: permission denied",
+            ),
+            (
+                line!(),
+                EvictionError::LayerNotFound(anyhow::anyhow!("foobar")),
+                "layer was no longer part of LayerMap: foobar",
+            ),
+        ];
+
+        let mut s = String::new();
+
+        for (line, example, expected) in examples {
+            s.clear();
+
+            write!(s, "{}", report_compact_sources(&example)).expect("string grows");
+
+            assert_eq!(s, expected, "example on line {line}");
+        }
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/utils/src/fs_ext.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/fs_ext.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /// Extensions to `std::fs` types.
 use std::{fs, io, path::Path};

+use anyhow::Context;
+
 pub trait PathExt {
    /// Returns an error if `self` is not a directory.
    fn is_empty_dir(&self) -> io::Result<bool>;
@@ -15,10 +17,50 @@ where
    }
 }

+pub async fn is_directory_empty(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> anyhow::Result<bool> {
+    let mut dir = tokio::fs::read_dir(&path)
+        .await
+        .context(format!("read_dir({})", path.as_ref().display()))?;
+    Ok(dir.next_entry().await?.is_none())
+}
+
+pub async fn list_dir(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<String>> {
+    let mut dir = tokio::fs::read_dir(&path)
+        .await
+        .context(format!("read_dir({})", path.as_ref().display()))?;
+
+    let mut content = vec![];
+    while let Some(next) = dir.next_entry().await? {
+        let file_name = next.file_name();
+        content.push(file_name.to_string_lossy().to_string());
+    }
+
+    Ok(content)
+}
+
+pub fn ignore_not_found(e: io::Error) -> io::Result<()> {
+    if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
+        Ok(())
+    } else {
+        Err(e)
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn ignore_absent_files<F>(fs_operation: F) -> io::Result<()>
+where
+    F: Fn() -> io::Result<()>,
+{
+    fs_operation().or_else(ignore_not_found)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
    use std::path::PathBuf;

+    use crate::fs_ext::{is_directory_empty, list_dir};
+
+    use super::ignore_absent_files;
+
    #[test]
    fn is_empty_dir() {
        use super::PathExt;
@@ -42,4 +84,64 @@ mod test {
        std::fs::remove_file(&file_path).unwrap();
        assert!(file_path.is_empty_dir().is_err());
    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn is_empty_dir_async() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let dir_path = dir.path();
+
+        // test positive case
+        assert!(
+            is_directory_empty(dir_path).await.expect("test failure"),
+            "new tempdir should be empty"
+        );
+
+        // invoke on a file to ensure it returns an error
+        let file_path: PathBuf = dir_path.join("testfile");
+        let f = std::fs::File::create(&file_path).unwrap();
+        drop(f);
+        assert!(is_directory_empty(&file_path).await.is_err());
+
+        // do it again on a path, we know to be nonexistent
+        std::fs::remove_file(&file_path).unwrap();
+        assert!(is_directory_empty(file_path).await.is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn ignore_absent_files_works() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let dir_path = dir.path();
+
+        let file_path: PathBuf = dir_path.join("testfile");
+
+        ignore_absent_files(|| std::fs::remove_file(&file_path)).expect("should execute normally");
+
+        let f = std::fs::File::create(&file_path).unwrap();
+        drop(f);
+
+        ignore_absent_files(|| std::fs::remove_file(&file_path)).expect("should execute normally");
+
+        assert!(!file_path.exists());
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn list_dir_works() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let dir_path = dir.path();
+
+        assert!(list_dir(dir_path).await.unwrap().is_empty());
+
+        let file_path: PathBuf = dir_path.join("testfile");
+        let _ = std::fs::File::create(&file_path).unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(&list_dir(dir_path).await.unwrap(), &["testfile"]);
+
+        let another_dir_path: PathBuf = dir_path.join("testdir");
+        std::fs::create_dir(another_dir_path).unwrap();
+
+        let expected = &["testdir", "testfile"];
+        let mut actual = list_dir(dir_path).await.unwrap();
+        actual.sort();
+        assert_eq!(actual, expected);
+    }
 }
--- a/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+/// Tenant generations are used to provide split-brain safety and allow
+/// multiple pageservers to attach the same tenant concurrently.
+///
+/// See docs/rfcs/025-generation-numbers.md for detail on how generation
+/// numbers are used.
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Eq, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Ord)]
+pub enum Generation {
+    // Generations with this magic value will not add a suffix to S3 keys, and will not
+    // be included in persisted index_part.json.  This value is only to be used
+    // during migration from pre-generation metadata to generation-aware metadata,
+    // and should eventually go away.
+    //
+    // A special Generation is used rather than always wrapping Generation in an Option,
+    // so that code handling generations doesn't have to be aware of the legacy
+    // case everywhere it touches a generation.
+    None,
+    // Generations with this magic value may never be used to construct S3 keys:
+    // we will panic if someone tries to.  This is for Tenants in the "Broken" state,
+    // so that we can satisfy their constructor with a Generation without risking
+    // a code bug using it in an S3 write (broken tenants should never write)
+    Broken,
+    Valid(u32),
+}
+
+/// The Generation type represents a number associated with a Tenant, which
+/// increments every time the tenant is attached to a new pageserver, or
+/// an attached pageserver restarts.
+///
+/// It is included as a suffix in S3 keys, as a protection against split-brain
+/// scenarios where pageservers might otherwise issue conflicting writes to
+/// remote storage
+impl Generation {
+    /// Create a new Generation that represents a legacy key format with
+    /// no generation suffix
+    pub fn none() -> Self {
+        Self::None
+    }
+
+    // Create a new generation that will panic if you try to use get_suffix
+    pub fn broken() -> Self {
+        Self::Broken
+    }
+
+    pub fn new(v: u32) -> Self {
+        Self::Valid(v)
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_none(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Self::None)
+    }
+
+    pub fn get_suffix(&self) -> String {
+        match self {
+            Self::Valid(v) => {
+                format!("-{:08x}", v)
+            }
+            Self::None => "".into(),
+            Self::Broken => {
+                panic!("Tried to use a broken generation");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Serialize for Generation {
+    fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
+    where
+        S: serde::Serializer,
+    {
+        if let Self::Valid(v) = self {
+            v.serialize(serializer)
+        } else {
+            // We should never be asked to serialize a None or Broken.  Structures
+            // that include an optional generation should convert None to an
+            // Option<Generation>::None
+            Err(serde::ser::Error::custom(
+                "Tried to serialize invalid generation ({self})",
+            ))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Generation {
+    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
+    where
+        D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
+    {
+        Ok(Self::Valid(u32::deserialize(deserializer)?))
+    }
+}
+
+// We intentionally do not implement Display for Generation, to reduce the
+// risk of a bug where the generation is used in a format!() string directly
+// instead of using get_suffix().
+impl Debug for Generation {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            Self::Valid(v) => {
+                write!(f, "{:08x}", v)
+            }
+            Self::None => {
+                write!(f, "<none>")
+            }
+            Self::Broken => {
+                write!(f, "<broken>")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/utils/src/http/endpoint.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/http/endpoint.rs
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 use crate::auth::{Claims, JwtAuth};
 use crate::http::error::{api_error_handler, route_error_handler, ApiError};
-use anyhow::{anyhow, Context};
+use anyhow::Context;
 use hyper::header::{HeaderName, AUTHORIZATION};
 use hyper::http::HeaderValue;
 use hyper::Method;
-use hyper::{header::CONTENT_TYPE, Body, Request, Response, Server};
+use hyper::{header::CONTENT_TYPE, Body, Request, Response};
 use metrics::{register_int_counter, Encoder, IntCounter, TextEncoder};
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use routerify::ext::RequestExt;
-use routerify::{Middleware, RequestInfo, Router, RouterBuilder, RouterService};
-use tokio::task::JoinError;
+use routerify::{Middleware, RequestInfo, Router, RouterBuilder};
 use tracing::{self, debug, info, info_span, warn, Instrument};

 use std::future::Future;
-use std::net::TcpListener;
 use std::str::FromStr;

 static SERVE_METRICS_COUNT: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
@@ -40,6 +38,12 @@ struct RequestId(String);
 ///
 /// This also handles errors, logging them and converting them to an HTTP error response.
 ///
+/// NB: If the client disconnects, Hyper will drop the Future, without polling it to
+/// completion. In other words, the handler must be async cancellation safe! request_span
+/// prints a warning to the log when that happens, so that you have some trace of it in
+/// the log.
+///
+///
 /// There could be other ways to implement similar functionality:
 ///
 /// * procmacros placed on top of all handler methods
@@ -143,26 +147,140 @@ impl Drop for RequestCancelled {
 }

 async fn prometheus_metrics_handler(_req: Request<Body>) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
+    use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
+    use std::io::Write as _;
+    use tokio::sync::mpsc;
+    use tokio_stream::wrappers::ReceiverStream;
+
    SERVE_METRICS_COUNT.inc();

-    let mut buffer = vec![];
-    let encoder = TextEncoder::new();
+    /// An [`std::io::Write`] implementation on top of a channel sending [`bytes::Bytes`] chunks.
+    struct ChannelWriter {
+        buffer: BytesMut,
+        tx: mpsc::Sender<std::io::Result<Bytes>>,
+        written: usize,
+    }

-    let metrics = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
-        // Currently we take a lot of mutexes while collecting metrics, so it's
-        // better to spawn a blocking task to avoid blocking the event loop.
-        metrics::gather()
-    })
-    .await
-    .map_err(|e: JoinError| ApiError::InternalServerError(e.into()))?;
-    encoder.encode(&metrics, &mut buffer).unwrap();
+    impl ChannelWriter {
+        fn new(buf_len: usize, tx: mpsc::Sender<std::io::Result<Bytes>>) -> Self {
+            assert_ne!(buf_len, 0);
+            ChannelWriter {
+                // split about half off the buffer from the start, because we flush depending on
+                // capacity. first flush will come sooner than without this, but now resizes will
+                // have better chance of picking up the "other" half. not guaranteed of course.
+                buffer: BytesMut::with_capacity(buf_len).split_off(buf_len / 2),
+                tx,
+                written: 0,
+            }
+        }
+
+        fn flush0(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+            let n = self.buffer.len();
+            if n == 0 {
+                return Ok(0);
+            }
+
+            tracing::trace!(n, "flushing");
+            let ready = self.buffer.split().freeze();
+
+            // not ideal to call from blocking code to block_on, but we are sure that this
+            // operation does not spawn_blocking other tasks
+            let res: Result<(), ()> = tokio::runtime::Handle::current().block_on(async {
+                self.tx.send(Ok(ready)).await.map_err(|_| ())?;
+
+                // throttle sending to allow reuse of our buffer in `write`.
+                self.tx.reserve().await.map_err(|_| ())?;
+
+                // now the response task has picked up the buffer and hopefully started
+                // sending it to the client.
+                Ok(())
+            });
+            if res.is_err() {
+                return Err(std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe.into());
+            }
+            self.written += n;
+            Ok(n)
+        }
+
+        fn flushed_bytes(&self) -> usize {
+            self.written
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl std::io::Write for ChannelWriter {
+        fn write(&mut self, mut buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+            let remaining = self.buffer.capacity() - self.buffer.len();
+
+            let out_of_space = remaining < buf.len();
+
+            let original_len = buf.len();
+
+            if out_of_space {
+                let can_still_fit = buf.len() - remaining;
+                self.buffer.extend_from_slice(&buf[..can_still_fit]);
+                buf = &buf[can_still_fit..];
+                self.flush0()?;
+            }
+
+            // assume that this will often under normal operation just move the pointer back to the
+            // beginning of allocation, because previous split off parts are already sent and
+            // dropped.
+            self.buffer.extend_from_slice(buf);
+            Ok(original_len)
+        }
+
+        fn flush(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+            self.flush0().map(|_| ())
+        }
+    }
+
+    let started_at = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+    let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel(1);
+
+    let body = Body::wrap_stream(ReceiverStream::new(rx));
+
+    let mut writer = ChannelWriter::new(128 * 1024, tx);
+
+    let encoder = TextEncoder::new();

    let response = Response::builder()
        .status(200)
        .header(CONTENT_TYPE, encoder.format_type())
-        .body(Body::from(buffer))
+        .body(body)
        .unwrap();

+    let span = info_span!("blocking");
+    tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
+        let _span = span.entered();
+        let metrics = metrics::gather();
+        let res = encoder
+            .encode(&metrics, &mut writer)
+            .and_then(|_| writer.flush().map_err(|e| e.into()));
+
+        match res {
+            Ok(()) => {
+                tracing::info!(
+                    bytes = writer.flushed_bytes(),
+                    elapsed_ms = started_at.elapsed().as_millis(),
+                    "responded /metrics"
+                );
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                tracing::warn!("failed to write out /metrics response: {e:#}");
+                // semantics of this error are quite... unclear. we want to error the stream out to
+                // abort the response to somehow notify the client that we failed.
+                //
+                // though, most likely the reason for failure is that the receiver is already gone.
+                drop(
+                    writer
+                        .tx
+                        .blocking_send(Err(std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe.into())),
+                );
+            }
+        }
+    });
+
    Ok(response)
 }

@@ -342,40 +460,6 @@ pub fn check_permission_with(
    }
 }

-///
-/// Start listening for HTTP requests on given socket.
-///
-/// 'shutdown_future' can be used to stop. If the Future becomes
-/// ready, we stop listening for new requests, and the function returns.
-///
-pub fn serve_thread_main<S>(
-    router_builder: RouterBuilder<hyper::Body, ApiError>,
-    listener: TcpListener,
-    shutdown_future: S,
-) -> anyhow::Result<()>
-where
-    S: Future<Output = ()> + Send + Sync,
-{
-    info!("Starting an HTTP endpoint at {}", listener.local_addr()?);
-
-    // Create a Service from the router above to handle incoming requests.
-    let service = RouterService::new(router_builder.build().map_err(|err| anyhow!(err))?).unwrap();
-
-    // Enter a single-threaded tokio runtime bound to the current thread
-    let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
-        .enable_all()
-        .build()?;
-
-    let _guard = runtime.enter();
-
-    let server = Server::from_tcp(listener)?
-        .serve(service)
-        .with_graceful_shutdown(shutdown_future);
-
-    runtime.block_on(server)?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
--- a/libs/utils/src/http/error.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/http/error.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use hyper::{header, Body, Response, StatusCode};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::error::Error as StdError;
 use thiserror::Error;
 use tracing::error;

@@ -15,13 +16,13 @@ pub enum ApiError {
    Unauthorized(String),

    #[error("NotFound: {0}")]
-    NotFound(anyhow::Error),
+    NotFound(Box<dyn StdError + Send + Sync + 'static>),

    #[error("Conflict: {0}")]
    Conflict(String),

    #[error("Precondition failed: {0}")]
-    PreconditionFailed(&'static str),
+    PreconditionFailed(Box<str>),

    #[error(transparent)]
    InternalServerError(anyhow::Error),
--- a/libs/utils/src/http/json.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/http/json.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pub async fn json_request<T: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>>(
        .map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)
 }

-/// Will be removed as part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4282
+/// Will be removed as part of <https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4282>
 pub async fn json_request_or_empty_body<T: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>>(
    request: &mut Request<Body>,
 ) -> Result<Option<T>, ApiError> {
--- a/libs/utils/src/id.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/id.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+use std::ffi::OsStr;
 use std::{fmt, str::FromStr};

+use anyhow::Context;
 use hex::FromHex;
 use rand::Rng;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -213,6 +215,18 @@ pub struct TimelineId(Id);

 id_newtype!(TimelineId);

+impl TryFrom<Option<&OsStr>> for TimelineId {
+    type Error = anyhow::Error;
+
+    fn try_from(value: Option<&OsStr>) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
+        value
+            .and_then(OsStr::to_str)
+            .unwrap_or_default()
+            .parse::<TimelineId>()
+            .with_context(|| format!("Could not parse timeline id from {:?}", value))
+    }
+}
+
 /// Neon Tenant Id represents identifiar of a particular tenant.
 /// Is used for distinguishing requests and data belonging to different users.
 ///
--- a/libs/utils/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 //! `utils` is intended to be a place to put code that is shared
 //! between other crates in this repository.

+pub mod backoff;
+
 /// `Lsn` type implements common tasks on Log Sequence Numbers
 pub mod lsn;
 /// SeqWait allows waiting for a future sequence number to arrive
@@ -25,6 +27,9 @@ pub mod id;
 // http endpoint utils
 pub mod http;

+// definition of the Generation type for pageserver attachment APIs
+pub mod generation;
+
 // common log initialisation routine
 pub mod logging;

@@ -56,6 +61,8 @@ pub mod serde_regex;

 pub mod pageserver_feedback;

+pub mod postgres_client;
+
 pub mod tracing_span_assert;

 pub mod rate_limit;
@@ -63,43 +70,8 @@ pub mod rate_limit;
 /// Simple once-barrier and a guard which keeps barrier awaiting.
 pub mod completion;

-mod failpoint_macro_helpers {
-
-    /// use with fail::cfg("$name", "return(2000)")
-    ///
-    /// The effect is similar to a "sleep(2000)" action, i.e. we sleep for the
-    /// specified time (in milliseconds). The main difference is that we use async
-    /// tokio sleep function. Another difference is that we print lines to the log,
-    /// which can be useful in tests to check that the failpoint was hit.
-    #[macro_export]
-    macro_rules! failpoint_sleep_millis_async {
-        ($name:literal) => {{
-            // If the failpoint is used with a "return" action, set should_sleep to the
-            // returned value (as string). Otherwise it's set to None.
-            let should_sleep = (|| {
-                ::fail::fail_point!($name, |x| x);
-                ::std::option::Option::None
-            })();
-
-            // Sleep if the action was a returned value
-            if let ::std::option::Option::Some(duration_str) = should_sleep {
-                $crate::failpoint_sleep_helper($name, duration_str).await
-            }
-        }};
-    }
-
-    // Helper function used by the macro. (A function has nicer scoping so we
-    // don't need to decorate everything with "::")
-    pub async fn failpoint_sleep_helper(name: &'static str, duration_str: String) {
-        let millis = duration_str.parse::<u64>().unwrap();
-        let d = std::time::Duration::from_millis(millis);
-
-        tracing::info!("failpoint {:?}: sleeping for {:?}", name, d);
-        tokio::time::sleep(d).await;
-        tracing::info!("failpoint {:?}: sleep done", name);
-    }
-}
-pub use failpoint_macro_helpers::failpoint_sleep_helper;
+/// Reporting utilities
+pub mod error;

 /// This is a shortcut to embed git sha into binaries and avoid copying the same build script to all packages
 ///
@@ -109,10 +81,16 @@ pub use failpoint_macro_helpers::failpoint_sleep_helper;
 /// * building in docker (either in CI or locally)
 ///
 /// One thing to note is that .git is not available in docker (and it is bad to include it there).
-/// So everything becides docker build is covered by git_version crate, and docker uses a `GIT_VERSION` argument to get the value required.
-/// It takes variable from build process env and puts it to the rustc env. And then we can retrieve it here by using env! macro.
-/// Git version received from environment variable used as a fallback in git_version invocation.
-/// And to avoid running buildscript every recompilation, we use rerun-if-env-changed option.
+/// When building locally, the `git_version` is used to query .git. When building on CI and docker,
+/// we don't build the actual PR branch commits, but always a "phantom" would be merge commit to
+/// the target branch -- the actual PR commit from which we build from is supplied as GIT_VERSION
+/// environment variable.
+///
+/// We ended up with this compromise between phantom would be merge commits vs. pull request branch
+/// heads due to old logs becoming more reliable (github could gc the phantom merge commit
+/// anytime) in #4641.
+///
+/// To avoid running buildscript every recompilation, we use rerun-if-env-changed option.
 /// So the build script will be run only when GIT_VERSION envvar has changed.
 ///
 /// Why not to use buildscript to get git commit sha directly without procmacro from different crate?
@@ -124,25 +102,36 @@ pub use failpoint_macro_helpers::failpoint_sleep_helper;
 /// Note that with git_version prefix is `git:` and in case of git version from env its `git-env:`.
 ///
 /// #############################################################################################
-/// TODO this macro is not the way the library is intended to be used, see https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/1565 for details.
-/// We use `cachepot` to reduce our current CI build times: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/1033#issuecomment-1100935036
+/// TODO this macro is not the way the library is intended to be used, see <https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/1565> for details.
+/// We use `cachepot` to reduce our current CI build times: <https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/1033#issuecomment-1100935036>
 /// Yet, it seems to ignore the GIT_VERSION env variable, passed to Docker build, even with build.rs that contains
 /// `println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=GIT_VERSION");` code for cachepot cache invalidation.
 /// The problem needs further investigation and regular `const` declaration instead of a macro.
 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! project_git_version {
    ($const_identifier:ident) => {
-        const $const_identifier: &str = git_version::git_version!(
-            prefix = "git:",
-            fallback = concat!(
-                "git-env:",
-                env!("GIT_VERSION", "Missing GIT_VERSION envvar")
-            ),
-            args = ["--abbrev=40", "--always", "--dirty=-modified"] // always use full sha
-        );
+        // this should try GIT_VERSION first only then git_version::git_version!
+        const $const_identifier: &::core::primitive::str = {
+            const __COMMIT_FROM_GIT: &::core::primitive::str = git_version::git_version! {
+                prefix = "",
+                fallback = "unknown",
+                args = ["--abbrev=40", "--always", "--dirty=-modified"] // always use full sha
+            };
+
+            const __ARG: &[&::core::primitive::str; 2] = &match ::core::option_env!("GIT_VERSION") {
+                ::core::option::Option::Some(x) => ["git-env:", x],
+                ::core::option::Option::None => ["git:", __COMMIT_FROM_GIT],
+            };
+
+            $crate::__const_format::concatcp!(__ARG[0], __ARG[1])
+        };
    };
 }

+/// Re-export for `project_git_version` macro
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub use const_format as __const_format;
+
 /// Same as `assert!`, but evaluated during compilation and gets optimized out in runtime.
 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! const_assert {
--- a/libs/utils/src/lock_file.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/lock_file.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 //! A module to create and read lock files.
 //!
 //! File locking is done using [`fcntl::flock`] exclusive locks.
-//! The only consumer of this module is currently [`pid_file`].
-//! See the module-level comment there for potential pitfalls
-//! with lock files that are used to store PIDs (pidfiles).
+//! The only consumer of this module is currently
+//! [`pid_file`](crate::pid_file). See the module-level comment
+//! there for potential pitfalls with lock files that are used
+//! to store PIDs (pidfiles).

 use std::{
    fs,
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ pub fn create_exclusive(lock_file_path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<UnwrittenLockFi
 }

 /// Returned by [`read_and_hold_lock_file`].
-/// Check out the [`pid_file`] module for what the variants mean
+/// Check out the [`pid_file`](crate::pid_file) module for what the variants mean
 /// and potential caveats if the lock files that are used to store PIDs.
 pub enum LockFileRead {
    /// No file exists at the given path.
--- a/libs/utils/src/logging.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/logging.rs
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ pub fn init(
    let r = r.with({
        let log_layer = tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
            .with_target(false)
-            .with_ansi(atty::is(atty::Stream::Stdout))
+            .with_ansi(false)
            .with_writer(std::io::stdout);
        let log_layer = match log_format {
            LogFormat::Json => log_layer.json().boxed(),
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ pub fn init(
 ///
 /// When the return value is dropped, the hook is reverted to std default hook (prints to stderr).
 /// If the assumptions about the initialization order are not held, use
-/// [`TracingPanicHookGuard::disarm`] but keep in mind, if tracing is stopped, then panics will be
+/// [`TracingPanicHookGuard::forget`] but keep in mind, if tracing is stopped, then panics will be
 /// lost.
 #[must_use]
 pub fn replace_panic_hook_with_tracing_panic_hook() -> TracingPanicHookGuard {
--- a/libs/utils/src/measured_stream.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/measured_stream.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use pin_project_lite::pin_project;
+use std::io::Read;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::{io, task};
 use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, ReadBuf};
@@ -75,3 +76,34 @@ impl<S: AsyncWrite + Unpin, R, W: FnMut(usize)> AsyncWrite for MeasuredStream<S,
        self.project().stream.poll_shutdown(context)
    }
 }
+
+/// Wrapper for a reader that counts bytes read.
+///
+/// Similar to MeasuredStream but it's one way and it's sync
+pub struct MeasuredReader<R: Read> {
+    inner: R,
+    byte_count: usize,
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> MeasuredReader<R> {
+    pub fn new(reader: R) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            inner: reader,
+            byte_count: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn get_byte_count(&self) -> usize {
+        self.byte_count
+    }
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> Read for MeasuredReader<R> {
+    fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+        let result = self.inner.read(buf);
+        if let Ok(n_bytes) = result {
+            self.byte_count += n_bytes
+        }
+        result
+    }
+}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More