The Point is intended to be immutable after being parsed since it
is shared by several goroutines. When dropping a field (e.g. time),
corrupted data can result if one goroutine is delete the field
while another is marshaling the underlying byte slices.
To avoid this, the shard will just skip invalid fields and series
instead of trying to mutate them by deleting them.
If a bad query is run, kill query and limits would not kick in until
after it started executing. Some bad queries that involve high
cardinality can cause the server to OOM just from planning which
defeats the purpose of the max-select-series limit.
This change primarily fixes max-select-series limit so that the query
is killed earlier and has the side effect that kill query now can kill
a query while it's being planned.
Calling DiskSize can be expensive with many shards. Since the stats
collection runs this every 10s by default, it can be expensive and
wasteful to calculate the stats when nothing has changed. This avoids
re-calculating the shard size unless something has chagned.
A measurement name that begins with an underscore and does not conflict
with one of the reserved measurement names will now be passed untouched
to the underlying shards rather than being intercepted as an empty
measurement.
A user still shouldn't rely on measurements that begin with underscores
to always be accessible, but this will prevent the most common use case
from causing unexpected behavior since we will very rarely, if ever, add
additional system sources.
Previously, tags had a `shouldCopy` flag to indicate if those tags
referenced an underlying buffer and should be copied to allow GC.
Unfortunately, this prevented tags from being copied that were
created and referenced the mmap which caused segfaults.
This change removes the `shouldCopy` flag and replaces it with a
`forceCopy` argument in `CreateSeriesIfNotExists()`. This allows
the write path to indicate that tags must be cloned on insert.
They rebased a revision we were previously relying upon that allowed us
to use the vanity name so we are reverting back to an older version with
the old import path.
This adds query syntax support for subqueries and adds support to the
query engine to execute queries on subqueries.
Subqueries act as a source for another query. It is the equivalent of
writing the results of a query to a temporary database, executing
a query on that temporary database, and then deleting the database
(except this is all performed in-memory).
The syntax is like this:
SELECT sum(derivative) FROM (SELECT derivative(mean(value)) FROM cpu GROUP BY *)
This will execute derivative and then sum the result of those derivatives.
Another example:
SELECT max(min) FROM (SELECT min(value) FROM cpu GROUP BY host)
This would let you find the maximum minimum value of each host.
There is complete freedom to mix subqueries with auxiliary fields. The only
caveat is that the following two queries:
SELECT mean(value) FROM cpu
SELECT mean(value) FROM (SELECT value FROM cpu)
Have different performance characteristics. The first will calculate
`mean(value)` at the shard level and will be faster, especially when it comes to
clustered setups. The second will process the mean at the top level and will not
include that optimization.
Jason Wilder
Edd Robinson
Ben Johnson
Jonathan A. Sternberg
Cory LaNou
Mark Rushakoff