The logic for determining whether a series key was already in the
the set of TSM series was too restrictive. It allowed only the first
field of a series to be added leaving all the remaing fields.
If they were left around, re-enabling them again could cause
future compactions to continuously fail. A restart of the
server would clean them up correctly though.
If there were multiple TSM files and a delete/drop was run,
we would write the delete series to the tombstone file N
times for each file. This occurred because FileStore.WalkKeys walks
every key in every TSM file which can return duplicate keys.
This issue caused TSM files to be much larger than they should be
and also cause large memory usage during the delete.
Normally, compactions do not conflict on the files they are compacting.
If the full cold threshold is set very low, it can cause conflicts where
two compactions compact the same files. The full compaction was the
only place this could happen as it's planning is greedy.
To make this safer for concurrent execution, the compaction tracks which
files are current being compacted and prevents any new compactions from
starting if the file set overlaps.
Fixes#6595
If a delete is issued while a compaction is running, the a newly
deleted series could re-appear after the compaction completed. This
could occur the compaction had already written the blocks for series
that were just deleted. When the compaction completes, the newly
written tombstone files would be deleted, essentially undeleting the
series.
For larger datasets, it's possible for shards to get into a state where
many large, dense TSM files exist. While the shard is still hot for
writes, full compactions will skip these files since they are already
fairly optimized and full compactions are expensive. If the write volume
is large enough, the shard can accumulate lots of these files. When
a file is in this state, it's index can contain every series which
causes startup times to increase since each file must parse the full
set of series keys for every file. If the number of series is high,
the index can be quite large causing large amount of disk IO at startup.
To fix this, a optmize compaction is run when a full compaction planning
step decides there is nothing to do. The optimize compaction combines
and spreads the data and series keys across all files resulting in each
file containing the full series data for that shard and a subset of the
total set of keys in the shard.
This allows a shard to only store a series key once in the shard reducing
storage size as well allows a shard to only load each key once at startup.
Truncate the time interval output of the monitor service to be on even
time intervals rather than on every minute based on the start time. This
normalizes the output from the monitor service.
The tsdb package had a substantial amount of dead code related to the
old query engine still in there. It is no longer used, so it was removed
since it was left unmaintained. There is likely still more code that is
the same, but wasn't found as part of this code cleanup.
influxql has dead code show up because of the code generation so it is
not included in this pruning.
A copy/paste error had nil cursors destined for a condition cursor get
set to the auxiliary cursor instead. When the number of conditions
exceeded the number of auxiliary fields, this would result in a stack
trace in some situations. When the number of conditions was less than or
equal to the number of auxiliary fields, it means that an auxiliary
cursor may have been overwritten with a nil cursor accidentally and a
leak might have happened since it was never closed.
Fixes#6859.
Restore would try to open the shard if there was an error. If there
was an error, the files written are very likely to be partially written
and they can cause the server to panic.
To prevent a shard from trying to open broken files, we now write to
a temp file and rename it to the actual name only after fully writing
and fsyncing the file.
For restoring a shard, we need to be able to have the shard open,
but disabled. It was racy to open it and then disable it separately
since writes/queries could occur in between that time.
This switch the backup shard call to use the shard Snapshot that
internally creates a snapshot by hardlinking all of the TSM and
tombstone files instead. This reduces the time that the FileStore
is locked and will allow for larger shards to be backup more easily.
This fixes a pathalogical query condition cause by and problematic
structuring of TSM files based on how points were written. The
condition can occur when there are multiple TSM files and a large
number of points are written into the past. The earlier existing
TSM files must also have points in the past and close to the present
causing their time range to eclipse the later files.
When this condition occurs, some queries can spend an excessive amount
of time merge all the overlapping blocks.
The fix was to constrain the window of overlapping blocks based on
the first one we ran into. There was also a simple case in the Merge
where we could skip the binary search path and just append the two
inputs.
The limit optimization was put into the wrong place and caused only part
of the shard to be read when a limit was used. The optimization is
possible, but requires a bit of refactoring to the code here so the call
iterator is created per series before handed to the limit iterator.
Fixes#6661.
The optimization to speed up shard loading had the side effect of
skipping adding series to the index that already exist. The skipping
was in the wrong location and also skipped the shards measurementFields
index which is required in order to query that series in the shard.
Casting syntax is done with the PostgreSQL syntax `field1::float` to
specify which type should be used when selecting a field. You can also
do `field1::field` or `tag1::tag` to specify that a field or tag should
be selected.
This makes it possible to select a tag when a field key and a tag key
conflict with each other in a measurement. It also means it's possible
to choose a field with a specific type if multiple shards disagree. If
no types are given, the same ordering for how a type is chosen is used
to determine which type to return.
The FieldDimensions method has been updated to return the data type for
the fields that get returned. The SeriesKeys function has also been
removed since it is no longer needed. SeriesKeys was originally used for
the fill iterator, but then expanded to be used by auxiliary iterators
for determining the channel iterator types. The fill iterator doesn't
need it anymore and the auxiliary types are better served by
FieldDimensions implementing that functionality, so SeriesKeys is no
longer needed.
Fixes#6519.
On data sets with many series and potentially large series keys,
the cost of parsing the key and re-indexing can be high.
Loading the TSM keys into the index was being done repeatedly for
series that were already index by an earlier TSM file. This was
wasted worked and slows down shard loading.
Parsing the key was also innefficient and allocated a new string
slice. This was simplified to remove that allocation.
This commit changes the `tsm1.Engine` to create individual series
iterators in batches so that it can be parallelized. Iterators
are combined at the end so they can be redistributed to the
parallelized merge iterator.
This commit moves the `CallIterator` to wrap the individual series
instead of wrapping a shard. This allows individual points to be
aggregated before being merged.
This will cause a small increase in memory usuage per series but
it shows a 20% decrease in query time when there are a moderate
number of points per series.
If a shard is empty for a specific field and the field type is something
other than a float, a nil iterator would get returned from one of the
empty shards and cause the combined iterators to be cast to the float
type and all other iterator types to be discarded (or for integers, to
be cast).
This is rare since most aggregates don't accept strings or booleans, but
for queries like:
SELECT distinct(string) FROM mydata
It would result in nothing getting returned if one of the shards didn't
have a value for `string`.
This change modifies the query engine to return nil for the shards
instead of a fake iterator and then to only use the fake iterator if the
final aggregate iterator is nil (meaning that no iterators could be
constructed for the field from any shard).
Fixes#6495.
The code for parsing a key our of the WAL or TSM files in the engine
was naive and didn't account for measurements with escape chars. This
uses the correct parsing code to parse and load them correctly.
Fixes#6496
This remove the dropMeta param from the tsdb.Store.DeleteSeries and
lets the shard determine when to remove the meta data from the index
based on what series still have data in the shard.
This uncovered a nasty bug in compactions where a fully deleted series would
prematurely end the compactions and not carry forward the rest of the data
in the TSM file. This is now fixed as well.
This has various benefits:
- Users embedding InfluxDB within other Go programs can specify a different logger / prefix easily.
- More consistent with code used elsewhere in InfluxDB (e.g. services, other `run.Server.*` fields, etc).
- This is also more efficient, because it means `executeQuery` no longer allocates a single `*log.Logger` each time it is called.
The cache max memory size is an approximate size and can prevent a
shard from loading at startup. This change disable the max size
at startup to prevent this problem and sets the limt back after
reloading.
Fixes#6109
When a GROUP BY or multiple sources are used, the top level limit
iterator requires reading the entire iterator stream so it can find all
of the tag groups it needs to return. For large data series, this ends
up with the limit iterator discarding a lot of output.
This change adds a new lower level limit iterator on each series itself
so that there are fewer data points that have to be thrown away by the
top level iterator.
Fixes#5553.
Jason Wilder
Cory LaNou
Edd Robinson
Jonathan A. Sternberg
Ben Johnson
Jason Wilder
Stephen Gutekanst
Jonathan A. Sternberg