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Christian Schwarz a2d170b6d0 NeonEnv.from_repo_dir: use storage_controller_db instead of attachments.json (#8382)
When `NeonEnv.from_repo_dir` was introduced, storage controller stored
its
state exclusively `attachments.json`.
Since then, it has moved to using Postgres, which stores its state in
`storage_controller_db`.

But `NeonEnv.from_repo_dir` wasn't adjusted to do this.
This PR rectifies the situation.

Context for this is failures in
`test_pageserver_characterize_throughput_with_n_tenants`
CF:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1721035799502239?thread_ts=1720901332.293769&cid=C033RQ5SPDH

Notably, `from_repo_dir` is also used by the backwards- and
forwards-compatibility.
Thus, the changes in this PR affect those tests as well.
However, it turns out that the compatibility snapshot already contains
the `storage_controller_db`.
Thus, it should just work and in fact we can remove hacks like
`fixup_storage_controller`.

Follow-ups created as part of this work:
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8399
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8400
2024-07-18 10:56:07 +02:00
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How to reproduce benchmark results / run these benchmarks interactively.

  1. Get an EC2 instance with Instance Store. Use the same instance type as used for the benchmark run.
  2. Mount the Instance Store => neon.git/scripts/ps_ec2_setup_instance_store
  3. Use a pytest command line (see other READMEs further up in the pytest hierarchy).

For tests that take a long time to set up / consume a lot of storage space, we use the test suite's repo_dir snapshotting functionality (from_repo_dir). It supports mounting snapshots using overlayfs, which improves iteration time.

Here's a full command line.

RUST_BACKTRACE=1 NEON_ENV_BUILDER_USE_OVERLAYFS_FOR_SNAPSHOTS=1 DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=15 BUILD_TYPE=release \
    ./scripts/pytest test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py