What
Allows shard selection by the client to come in via comments like /* shard_id: 1 */ select * from foo;
Why
We're using a setup in Ruby that makes it tough or impossible to inject commands on the connection to set the shard before it gets to the "real" SQL being run. Instead we have an updated PG adapter that allows injection of comments before each executed SQL statement. We need this support in pgcat in order to keep some complex shard picking logic in Ruby code while using pgcat for connection management.
Local Testing
Run postgres and pgcat with the default options. Run psql < tests/sharding/query_routing_setup.sql to setup the database for the tests and run ./tests/pgbench/external_shard_test.sh as often as needed to exercise the shard setting comment test.
We have encountered a case where PgCat pools were stuck following a database incident. Our best understanding at this point is that the PgCat -> Postgres connections died silently and because Tokio defaults to disabling keepalives, connections in the pool were marked as busy forever. Only when we deployed PgCat did we see recovery.
This PR introduces tcp_keepalives to PgCat. This sets the defaults to be
keepalives_idle: 5 # seconds
keepalives_interval: 5 # seconds
keepalives_count: 5 # a count
These settings can detect the death of an idle connection within 30 seconds of its death. Please note that the connection can remain idle forever (from an application perspective) as long as the keepalive packets are flowing so disconnection will only occur if the other end is not acknowledging keepalive packets (keepalive packet acks are handled by the OS, the application does not need to do anything). I plan to add tcp_user_timeout in a follow-up PR.
This change:
- Adds server metrics to prometheus endpoint.
- Adds database metrics to prometheus endpoint.
- Adds pools metrics to prometheus endpoint.
- Change metrics name to have a prefix of (stats|pools|databases|servers).
Least outstanding connections load balancing can improve the load distribution between instances but for Pgcat it may also improve handling slow replicas that don't go completely down. With LoC, traffic will quickly move away from the slow replica without waiting for the replica to be banned.
If all replicas slow down equally (due to a bad query that is hitting all replicas), the algorithm will degenerate to Random Load Balancing (which is what we had in Pgcat until today).
This may also allow Pgcat to accommodate pools with differently-sized replicas.
This change adds a new configuration parameter called `worker_threads` that
allows setting the number of workers the Tokio Runtime will use. It defaults to
4 to maintain backward compatibility.
Given that the config file parse is done asynchronously, first, a transient runtime
is created for reading config, and once it has been parsed, the actual runtime
that will be used for PgCat execution is created.
In postgres, you can specify an `idle_session_timeout` which will close
sessions idling for that amount of time. If a session is closed because
of a timeout, PgCat will erroneously mark the server as unhealthy as the next
health check will return an error because the connection was drop, if no
health check is to be executed, it will simply fail trying to send the query
to the server for the same reason, the conn was drop.
Given that bb8 allows configuring an idle_timeout for pools, it would be
nice to allow setting this parameter in the config file, this way you can
set it to something shorter than the server one. Also, server pool will be kept
smaller in moments of less traffic. Actually, currently this value is set as its
default in bb8, which is 10 minutes.
This changes allows setting the parameter using the config file. It can be set both
globally and per pool. When creating the pool, if the pool don't have it defined, global
value is used.
* Adds configuration for logging connections and removes get_config from entrypoint
* typo
* rename connection config var and add to toml files
* update config log
* fmt
* Don't send discard all when state is changed in transaction
* Remove unnecessary clone
* spelling
* Move transaction check to SET command
* Add test for set command in transaction
* type
* Update comments
* Update comments
* use moves instead of clones for initial message
* don't make message mutable
* Update unwrap
* but i'm not a wrapper
* Add set local test
* change continue
Moves config validation to own functions to enable tools to use them
Moves sharding config to enum
Makes defaults public
Make connect_timeout on pool and option which is overwritten by general connect_timeout
* Changes shard struct to use vector of ServerConfig
* Adds to query router
* Change client disconnect with error message to warn instead of debug
* Add warning logs for clean up actions
