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## Source tree layout
Below you will find a brief overview of each subdir in the source tree in alphabetical order.
`/control_plane`:
Local control plane.
Functions to start, configure and stop pageserver and postgres instances running as a local processes.
Intended to be used in integration tests and in CLI tools for local installations.
`/docs`:
Documentaion of the Zenith features and concepts.
Now it is mostly dev documentation.
`/monitoring`:
TODO
`/pageserver`:
Zenith storage service.
The pageserver has a few different duties:
- Store and manage the data.
- Generate a tarball with files needed to bootstrap ComputeNode.
- Respond to GetPage@LSN requests from the Compute Nodes.
- Receive WAL from the WAL service and decode it.
- Replay WAL that's applicable to the chunks that the Page Server maintains
For more detailed info, see `/pageserver/README`
`/postgres_ffi`:
Utility functions for interacting with PostgreSQL file formats.
Misc constants, copied from PostgreSQL headers.
`/proxy`:
Postgres protocol proxy/router.
This service listens psql port, can check auth via external service
and create new databases and accounts (control plane API in our case).
`/test_runner`:
Integration tests, written in Python using the `pytest` framework.
`/vendor/postgres`:
PostgreSQL source tree, with the modifications needed for Zenith.
`/vendor/postgres/contrib/zenith`:
PostgreSQL extension that implements storage manager API and network communications with remote page server.
`/vendor/postgres/contrib/zenith_test_utils`:
PostgreSQL extension that contains functions needed for testing and debugging.
`/walkeeper`:
The zenith WAL service that receives WAL from a primary compute nodes and streams it to the pageserver.
It acts as a holding area and redistribution center for recently generated WAL.
For more detailed info, see `/walkeeper/README`
`/workspace_hack`:
The workspace_hack crate exists only to pin down some dependencies.
`/zenith`
Main entry point for the 'zenith' CLI utility.
TODO: Doesn't it belong to control_plane?
`/zenith_metrics`:
Helpers for exposing Prometheus metrics from the server.
`/zenith_utils`:
Helpers that are shared between other crates in this repository.