Earlier Articles
Subjects
- Subject 1: Determine partial indexes
- Subject 2: Seize the DB Console URL with SQL
- Subject 3: Experimenting with
PgCat - Subject 4: CockroachDB and
pgbenchshopper disconnects - Subject 5: CockroachDB and
PGSERVICEFILE
Subject 1: Determine Partial Indexes
Our engineering group has issued a technical advisory #96924 the place sure schema adjustments like dropping columns referenced in partial indexes will fail. A buyer asks how you can establish databases, tables, and for the related partial indexes referencing columns to be dropped. The next strategies will help find these pesky indexes.
Contemplating a desk with the next information:
productid | rely ----------------------+-------- 124529279008768012 | 10 269379767096311819 | 1 3933583925262417931 | 1 5235926712347525131 | 10 6063452847229632523 | 1
Assume a question like SELECT productid, rely FROM demo_partial WHERE rely >=10 and rely < 100; is executed pretty ceaselessly, a partial index like beneath can velocity up the question.
CREATE INDEX ON demo_partial (rely) STORING (productid) WHERE rely >= 10 and rely < 100;
Wanting on the plan:
EXPLAIN SELECT productid, rely FROM demo_partial WHERE rely >=10 and rely < 100;
information
----------------------------------------------------------------
distribution: native
vectorized: true
• scan
lacking stats
desk: demo_partial@demo_partial_count_idx (partial index)
spans: FULL SCAN
To establish an index within the present database’s context, you’d use a question like beneath:
SELECT schemaname, tablename, indexname FROM pg_index JOIN pg_indexes ON (indexrelid = crdb_oid) WHERE indpred IS NOT NULL;
schemaname | tablename | indexname -------------+--------------+------------------------- public | demo_partial | demo_partial_count_idx
If you would like to establish a particular database outdoors the context of the present database, you’d have to incorporate the <database title>.<pg_catalog> within the JOIN situation.
SELECT schemaname, tablename, indexname FROM system.pg_catalog.pg_index JOIN system.pg_catalog.pg_indexes ON (indexrelid = crdb_oid) WHERE indpred IS NOT NULL;
schemaname | tablename | indexname -------------+-----------+--------------------- public | jobs | jobs_run_stats_idx
The explanation I’m a system desk it is as a result of that is the one different place the place I’ve a partial index. I do know this as a result of the question beneath will be helpful to establish all partial indexes throughout all databases.
SELECT (SELECT title FROM crdb_internal.databases WHERE id = "parentID"),
"parentSchemaID"::REGNAMESPACE::STRING AS schema_name,
title,
index_name
FROM system.namespace JOIN "".crdb_internal.table_indexes ON (id = descriptor_id)
WHERE create_statement LIKE '%WHERE%';
title | schema_name | title | index_name ---------+-------------+--------------+------------------------- demo | public | demo_partial | demo_partial_count_idx system | public | jobs | jobs_run_stats_idx
Lastly, it’s not the case for the cluster I am on as a result of the cluster model just isn’t impacted by the technical advisory. That stated, I can safely difficulty the drop column command and it’ll not fail!
ALTER TABLE demo_partial DROP COLUMN rely;
Subject 2: Seize the DB Console URL With SQL
CockroachDB is designed to scale horizontally and with a multi-node structure come many challenges. On this case, we’re speaking about observability and monitoring. If you handle a fleet of CockroachDB nodes, how do you hone in on the proper metrics and go to the proper place? A fast option to establish the DB Console UI while you run a big fleet with SQL will be finished with the question beneath. It will possibly return a URL of the DB Console per node:
SELECT worth
FROM crdb_internal.node_runtime_info
WHERE node_id = 1
AND part="UI"
AND area = 'URL';
On my native demo occasion, it returns:
On my multi-region cluster, it returns:
http://18.215.34.53:26258
It is price mentioning that it solely works for the node you are related to within the SQL shell. It will not return something if you happen to’re making an attempt to entry the URL of one other node. That stated, node_id predicate just isn’t obligatory.
Subject 3: Experimenting With PgCat
At this time, I might wish to briefly have a look at PgCat, which describes itself as a “PostgreSQL pooler and proxy (like PgBouncer) with assist for sharding, load balancing, failover, and mirroring.” I’ll go away a deep dive of PgCat for an additional time, as I feel there are lots of avenues we will take with this however TL;DR: It is a pooler written in Rust and it’s meant to work equally to PGBouncer. My first impressions are that it is vitally easy to get began with, one thing I can not say about PGBouncer. It will possibly work as a stateless SQL proxy and I’ll contact on that in a separate article however I’ve given it sufficient consideration to verify it really works with CockroachDB, at the least in insecure mode. All in all, I am impressed with its simplicity, I used to be in a position to get it up and working in a matter of an hour. I do have a functioning Docker Compose environment; be happy to provide it a attempt.
The very first thing you discover is it really works out of the field with pgbench. In reality, the README encourages to make use of pgbench for testing. The one hurdle I’ve confronted with pgbench and PgCat mixed is that PgCat expects a password. In my pgbench container, I set an setting variable for a dummy password, although CockroachDB does not even test it.
setting:
- PGHOST=pgcat
- PGUSER=root
- PGPASSWORD=dummy
- PGPORT=6432
- PGDATABASE=instance
- SCALE=10
After the preliminary setup, we will initialize the workload. On the most elementary degree, you want the host pgcat, the port 6432, the database instance and --no-vacuum flag to initialize pgbench with CockroachDB.
pgbench -i -h pgcat -p 6432 --no-vacuum instance
dropping previous tables... creating tables... NOTICE: storage parameter "fillfactor" is ignored NOTICE: storage parameter "fillfactor" is ignored NOTICE: storage parameter "fillfactor" is ignored producing information (client-side)... 100000 of 100000 tuples (100%) finished (elapsed 0.01 s, remaining 0.00 s) creating major keys... finished in 3.50 s (drop tables 0.10 s, create tables 0.03 s, client-side generate 1.90 s, major keys 1.46 s).
Then we will run the workload:
pgbench -t 1000 -p 6432 -h pgcat --no-vacuum --protocol easy
pgbench (15.1 (Debian 15.1-1.pgdg110+1), server 13.0.0) transaction sort: <builtin: TPC-B (type of)> scaling issue: 1 question mode: easy variety of shoppers: 1 variety of threads: 1 most variety of tries: 1 variety of transactions per shopper: 1000 variety of transactions truly processed: 1000/1000 variety of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%) latency common = 10.080 ms preliminary connection time = 0.691 ms tps = 99.208672 (with out preliminary connection time)
pgbench -t 1000 -p 6432 -h pgcat --no-vacuum --protocol prolonged
pgbench (15.1 (Debian 15.1-1.pgdg110+1), server 13.0.0) transaction sort: <builtin: TPC-B (type of)> scaling issue: 1 question mode: prolonged variety of shoppers: 1 variety of threads: 1 most variety of tries: 1 variety of transactions per shopper: 1000 variety of transactions truly processed: 1000/1000 variety of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%) latency common = 12.231 ms preliminary connection time = 1.261 ms tps = 81.758842 (with out preliminary connection time)
The logging is verbose, be happy to disable it within the compose file.
[2023-04-18T14:19:35.748339Z INFO pgcat] Welcome to PgCat! Meow. (Model 1.0.1) [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751893Z INFO pgcat] Operating on 0.0.0.0:6432 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751908Z INFO pgcat::config] Ban time: 60s [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751910Z INFO pgcat::config] Idle shopper in transaction timeout: 0ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751911Z INFO pgcat::config] Employee threads: 4 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751911Z INFO pgcat::config] Healthcheck timeout: 1000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751913Z INFO pgcat::config] Connection timeout: 5000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751913Z INFO pgcat::config] Idle timeout: 60000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751914Z INFO pgcat::config] Log shopper connections: false [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751915Z INFO pgcat::config] Log shopper disconnections: false [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751916Z INFO pgcat::config] Shutdown timeout: 60000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751917Z INFO pgcat::config] Healthcheck delay: 30000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751918Z INFO pgcat::config] TLS assist is disabled [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751919Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Most person connections: 30 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751921Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Default pool mode: session [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751922Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Load Balancing mode: Random [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751923Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Connection timeout: 5000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751923Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Idle timeout: 60000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751925Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Sharding perform: pg_bigint_hash [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751926Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Main reads: true [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751927Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Question router: true [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751928Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Variety of shards: 3 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751929Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc] Variety of customers: 1 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751931Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc][user: root] Pool measurement: 30 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751932Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc][user: root] Assertion timeout: 0 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751933Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: tpcc][user: root] Pool mode: session [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751934Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Most person connections: 30 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751935Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Default pool mode: session [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751936Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Load Balancing mode: Random [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751937Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Connection timeout: 5000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751939Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Idle timeout: 60000ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751940Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Sharding perform: pg_bigint_hash [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751941Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Main reads: true [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751942Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Question router: true [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751943Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Variety of shards: 3 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751944Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example] Variety of customers: 1 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751945Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example][user: root] Pool measurement: 30 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751947Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example][user: root] Assertion timeout: 0 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751948Z INFO pgcat::config] [pool: example][user: root] Pool mode: session [2023-04-18T14:19:35.751984Z INFO pgcat::pool] [pool: tpcc][user: root] creating new pool [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752011Z INFO pgcat::prometheus] Exposing prometheus metrics on http://0.0.0.0:9930/metrics. [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752063Z INFO pgcat::pool] [pool: example][user: root] creating new pool [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752116Z INFO pgcat] Config autoreloader: 15000 ms [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752143Z INFO pgcat] Ready for shoppers [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752931Z INFO pgcat::pool] Creating a brand new server connection Handle id: 3, host: "lb", port: 26000, shard: 0, database: "instance", function: Main, replica_number: 0, address_index: 0, username: "root", pool_name: "instance", mirrors: [], stats: AddressStats total_xact_count: 0, total_query_count: 0, total_received: 0, total_sent: 0, total_xact_time: 0, total_query_time: 0, total_wait_time: 0, total_errors: 0, avg_query_count: 0, avg_query_time: 0, avg_recv: 0, avg_sent: 0, avg_errors: 0, avg_xact_time: 0, avg_xact_count: 0, avg_wait_time: 0 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752952Z INFO pgcat::pool] Creating a brand new server connection Handle id: 4, host: "lb", port: 26000, shard: 1, database: "instance", function: Main, replica_number: 0, address_index: 0, username: "root", pool_name: "instance", mirrors: [], stats: AddressStats total_xact_count: 0, total_query_count: 0, total_received: 0, total_sent: 0, total_xact_time: 0, total_query_time: 0, total_wait_time: 0, total_errors: 0, avg_query_count: 0, avg_query_time: 0, avg_recv: 0, avg_sent: 0, avg_errors: 0, avg_xact_time: 0, avg_xact_count: 0, avg_wait_time: 0 [2023-04-18T14:19:35.752950Z INFO pgcat::pool] Creating a brand new server connection Handle id: 5, host: "lb", port: 26000, shard: 2, database: "instance", function: Main, replica_number: 0, address_index: 0, username: "root", pool_name: "instance", mirrors: [], stats: AddressStats total_xact_count: 0, total_query_count: 0, total_received: 0, total_sent: 0, total_xact_time: 0, total_query_time: 0, total_wait_time: 0, total_errors: 0, avg_query_count: 0, avg_query_time: 0, avg_recv: 0, avg_sent: 0, avg_errors: 0, avg_xact_time: 0, avg_xact_count: 0, avg_wait_time: 0
I’ll proceed my experiments with PgCat. If you would like to see a particular situation utilizing PgCat and CockroachDB, be happy to share your suggestions within the feedback.
Subject 4: CockroachDB and pgbench Shopper Disconnects
I used to be presenting a CockroachDB fault tolerance demo to a prospect and I wanted to show how shopper functions deal with node failures and restarts. On this explicit case, I opted for a pgbench shopper as a substitute of the widespread CockroachDB workload. The aim was to indicate that within the face of node failures, shopper functions can proceed uninterrupted. After all, it’s a must to apply defensible practices however in any other case, shoppers ought to be unimpacted usually. When a node failure happens, the worst-case situation is for an in-flight transaction to retry and the app itself mustn’t exit. On this explicit case, pgbench is definitely unable to deal with a sleek node restart and the app exits.
Beneath, I’m utilizing the commonest options of pgbench for an affordable CockroachDB workload. I’m dealing with retries due to the brand new pgbench capabilities and I am additionally utilizing a CockroachDB by-product of the TPC-B workload that handles retries implicitly.
pgbench
--host=$PGHOST
--no-vacuum
--file=tpcb-cockroach.sql@1
--client=8
--jobs=8
--username=$PGUSER
--port=$PGPORT
--scale=10
--failures-detailed
--verbose-errors
--max-tries=3
--protocol easy
$PGDATABASE
-T 3600
-P 5
I’m utilizing PgCat with session pool mode, by which connections are retained for the whole lot of the session. It implies that as soon as the shopper disconnects, we’ve got to re-establish a session on the given connection. Sadly, CockroachDB doesn’t work with transaction pool mode as there are points with ready statements at the moment.
I can now begin shutting down the nodes to show the issue.
I’m going to close down node n2, because it has the least quantity of connections, though, in the actual world, there’s, sadly, no alternative when a failure hits.
progress: 75.0 s, 388.0 tps, lat 20.693 ms stddev 25.983, 0 failed, 0 retried, 0 retries
progress: 80.0 s, 360.0 tps, lat 22.213 ms stddev 26.625, 0 failed, 0 retried, 0 retries
pgbench: error: shopper 6 script 0 aborted in command 4 question 0: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)")
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This most likely means the server terminated abnormally
earlier than or whereas processing the request.
progress: 85.0 s, 374.2 tps, lat 19.953 ms stddev 22.712, 0 failed, 0 retried, 0 retries
progress: 90.0 s, 415.8 tps, lat 16.842 ms stddev 20.892, 0 failed, 0 retried, 0 retries
On this case, we had been actually fortunate that although we have been impacted, the shopper continues processing the workload.
With node n2 down, the connection graph solely reveals two nodes.
Let’s deliver it again up.
The workload continues to be working however it’s not routing new visitors to n2.
I’m going to cease n3 because it’s the subsequent node with the least connections. And sadly, that was sufficient injury that the shopper software exits.
progress: 325.0 s, 379.4 tps, lat 18.459 ms stddev 18.185, 0 failed, 0 retried, 0 retries
progress: 330.0 s, 379.4 tps, lat 18.395 ms stddev 20.683, 0 failed, 0 retried, 0 retries
pgbench: error: shopper 0 script 0 aborted in command 4 question 0: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)")
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This most likely means the server terminated abnormally
earlier than or whereas processing the request.
pgbench: error: shopper 5 script 0 aborted in command 4 question 0: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)")
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This most likely means the server terminated abnormally
earlier than or whereas processing the request.
pgbench: error: shopper 1 script 0 aborted in command 4 question 0: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)")
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This most likely means the server terminated abnormally
earlier than or whereas processing the request.
Even when I deliver the node again up, the shopper doesn’t return to processing the workload.
The logs for the PgCat present:
[2023-04-18T18:54:38.167965Z WARN pgcat] Shopper disconnected with error SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)")
Sadly, there’s not a lot else we will do than terminate the shopper app.
Now let’s check this conduct with one other workload constructed for CockroachDB, like tpcc.
cockroach workload fixtures import tpcc --warehouses=10 'postgresql://root@pgcat:6432/tpcc?sslmode=disable'
cockroach workload run tpcc --duration=120m --concurrency=3 --max-rate=1000 --tolerate-errors --warehouses=10 --conns 60 --ramp=1m --workers=100 'postgresql://root@pgcat:6432/tpcc?sslmode=disable'
If I shutdown any node, say, n1:
0.0 orderStatus
82.0s 0 2.0 2.1 22.0 26.2 26.2 26.2 cost
82.0s 0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 stockLevel
I230418 19:02:06.905997 486 workload/pgx_helpers.go:79 [-] 4 pgx logger [error]: Exec logParams=map[args:[] err:FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)") (SQLSTATE 58000) pid:3949282881 sql:start time:509.125µs]
E230418 19:02:06.906775 1 workload/cli/run.go:548 [-] 5 error in newOrder: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)") (SQLSTATE 58000)
83.0s 1 1.0 0.2 50.3 50.3 50.3 50.3 supply
83.0s 1 3.0 2.2 22.0 25.2 25.2 25.2 newOrder
The app continues to work.
Let’s deliver it again up and shut down one other node:
5.7 cost
217.0s 1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 stockLevel
I230418 19:04:22.435535 470 workload/pgx_helpers.go:79 [-] 6 pgx logger [error]: Exec logParams=map[args:[] err:FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)") (SQLSTATE 58000) pid:1776716436 sql:start time:2.795459ms]
E230418 19:04:22.436369 1 workload/cli/run.go:548 [-] 7 error in orderStatus: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)") (SQLSTATE 58000)
218.0s 2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 supply
218.0s 2
You’ll be able to see that the workload continues to be working even when one other node is terminated. That is according to what I have been observing. This workload is extra resilient to node failures than pgbench.
For the sake of completeness, let’s cease n3, aka roach-1.
547.0s 3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 orderStatus
547.0s 3 3.0 2.1 32.5 37.7 37.7 37.7 cost
547.0s 3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 stockLevel
I230418 19:09:52.400491 467 workload/pgx_helpers.go:79 [-] 10 pgx logger [error]: Exec logParams=map[args:[] err:FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)") (SQLSTATE 58000) pid:2166109812 sql:start time:5.855833ms]
E230418 19:09:52.402451 1 workload/cli/run.go:548 [-] 11 error in newOrder: FATAL: error receiving information from server: SocketError("Error studying message code from socket - Error Sort(UnexpectedEof)") (SQLSTATE 58000)
548.0s 4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 supply
548.0s 4 1.0 2.1 54.5 54.5 54.5 54.5 newOrder
548.0s 4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 orderStatus
548.0s 4 2.0 2.1 22.0 29.4 29.4 29.4 cost
548.0s 4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 stockLevel
_elapsed___errors__ops/sec(inst)___ops/sec(cum)__p50(ms)__p95(ms)__p99(ms)_pMax(ms)
549.0s 4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 supply
549.0s 4 4.0 2.1 19.9 25.2 25.2 25.2 newOrder
549.0s 4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 orderStatus
549.0s 4 1.0 2.1 11.5 11.5 11.5 11.5 cost
549.0s 4 0.0 0.2 0.
This reveals functions purpose-built for CockroachDB can stand up to failure even when issues go awry. I nonetheless like pgbench as a result of it is so ubiquitous, however I do need to watch out presenting it in resiliency demos.
Subject 5: CockroachDB and PGSERVICEFILE
I’ve written about pgpass on many events (see TIL Volumes 6, 8, 9, and 10 as linked above), so this time I might wish to shortly cowl PGSERVICEFILE, which is a typical connection service file for PostgreSQL connection parameters. I’ve lately come throughout the next issue, so naturally, I could not move up a chance to take a look at the way it works. Be at liberty to take a look at numerous setups however for my functions, I will configure it the way in which it’s described within the difficulty.
Edit the ~/.pg_service.conf file with the connection parameters of your CockroachDB cluster.
# CockroachDB Serverless [serverless] host=artem-serverless-cluster.cockroachlabs.cloud port=26257 person=artem application_name=pgservicefile
You’ll be able to embody any type of connection parameters right here, together with a password, however make certain it is not world readable. Then connect with your cluster.
psql (15.2 (Homebrew), server 13.0.0) SSL connection (protocol: TLSv1.3, cipher: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, compression: off) Sort "assist" for assist. artem=>
We will make additionally verify the parameters are learn from the config file:
artem=> present application_name; application_name ------------------ pgservicefile
Sadly, I have no idea the total scope of the service file assist with the CockroachDB shopper. I’m discovering combined outcomes.
cockroach sql --url "postgresql://[email protected]?sslmode=verify-full&service=serverless"
For instance, the application_name just isn’t being honored. The host can’t be omitted from the connection string however the port and password will be learn from the file. This sadly decreases the usability of the file until you employ the psql shopper.
application_name -------------------- $ cockroach sql
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