mirror of
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon.git
synced 2026-05-18 21:50:37 +00:00
## Problem See https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C04DGM6SMTM/p1711003752072899 ## Summary of changes Move keeping of cluster size to neon extension --------- Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
neon extension consists of several parts:
shared preload library neon.so
-
implements storage manager API and network communications with remote page server.
-
walproposer: implements broadcast protocol between postgres and WAL safekeepers.
-
control plane connector: Captures updates to roles/databases using ProcessUtility_hook and sends them to the control ProcessUtility_hook.
-
remote extension server: Request compute_ctl to download extension files.
-
file_cache: Local file cache is used to temporary store relations pages in local file system for better performance.
-
relsize_cache: Relation size cache for better neon performance.
SQL functions in neon--*.sql
Utility functions to expose neon specific information to user and metrics collection. This extension is created in all databases in the cluster by default.