[pgpool-general: 4369] Re: pgpool-II 3.4.0 and pgpoolAdmin 3.4.0 officially released
Muhammad Usama
m.usama at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 21:17:25 JST 2016
Hi Yugo
I think the subject mentions the wrong pgpool-II version number
Thanks
Best regards
Muhammad Usama
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Yugo Nagata <nagata at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of
> pgpool-II 3.5.0 and pgpoolAdmin 3.5.0.
>
> You can download the source codes and RPMs from:
> http://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads
>
> V3.5 new features are:
>
> - Improved performance in extended query protocol
> - Overcoming the thundering herd problem
> - Watchdog feature enhancements to be more robust and adaptable
> - PCP command enhancements
> - Import PostgreSQL 9.5 parser
> - etc.
>
> Please see the below for details:
>
> http://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=pgpool-II_3.5_features&redirect=no
>
> Release notes are here:
>
> =========================================================================
> 3.5.0 (ekieboshi) 2016/01/29
>
> * Version 3.5.0
>
> This is the first version of pgpool-II 3.5 series.
> That is, a "major version up" from 3.4 series.
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> * Incompatible changes
>
> - Remove parallel query mode codes (Yugo Nagata)
>
> There are very few users and the maintenance efforts are not worth
> it.
> Codes for system db are also removed, since this was used in only
> parallel
> query mode and old query cache on disk.
>
> - Rename parameter name from ifconfig_path to if_cmd_path (Yugo Nagata)
>
> ifconfig_path isn't appropriate for the parameter name because
> ifconfig command is obsolete and now ip command is used as default.
>
> - Change the syntax of pcp commands arguments (Muhammad Usama)
>
> - Change the output and the argument semantics of pcp_watchdog_info
> command
> (Muhammad Usama)
>
> The command is enhanced to show watchdog information about all
> pgpool-II
> nodes in the cluster. According to this, the argument to specify
> node index
> is changed so that 0 means local pgpool-II node instead of the first
> remote
> node.
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> * New features
>
> - Add new parameter "serialize_accept" (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> This parameter defines whether to serialize accept() call for
> incoming
> client connections. Default is off, which means no serializing (same
> behavior as pgpool-II 3.4 or before). If this is off, the kernel
> wakes up all of pgpool-II child process to execute accept() and one
> of
> them actually accepts the incoming connection. Problem here is,
> because so my child process wake up at a same time, heavy context
> switching occurred and the performance is affected. This phenomena
> is
> a classic problem called "the thundering herd problem". By enabling
> serialize_accept, only one of pgpool-II child process is woken up and
> executes accept() and the problem can be avoided.
>
> - Import parser of PostgreSQL 9.5 (Yugo Nagata)
>
> pgpool-II can understand new syntax introduced in PostgreSQL 9.5 now.
> Especially GROUPING SET, CUBE, ROLLUP and TABLESAMPLE can be be load
> balanced and can be used in query cache (except for TABLESAMPLE).
>
> Also INSERT...ON CONFLICT and UPDATE tab SET (col1, col2, ...) =
> (SELECT ...) ... can now be properly handled in query rewriting in
> native replication mode.
>
> - Allow to specify database for health check and streaming replication
> delay check. (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> For this purpose new directive "health_check_database" and
> "sr_check_database" are added.
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> * Enhancements
>
> - Performance improvement in extened query protocol (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> Unnecessary "flush" messages which used to be sent in each step of
> extended protocol messages (parse, bind, describe and execute) and
> brought significant communication overhead are removed. For now it
> only affects to streaming replication mode, that is, the performance
> of other modes remains same.
>
> - watchdog feature enhancements (Muhammad Usama, Yugo Nagata)
>
> The goal of this enhancement is to address the shortcomings and
> problems
> in the pgpool watchdog and make the watchdog system more robust and
> adaptable. Patch created by Usama, and reviewed, tested, and debugged
> by Yugo.
>
> -- The watchdog should consider the quorum and only elect the
> master/leader
> node if the quorum exist in the watchdog cluster.
> -- All the participating pgpool-II nodes in the watchdog cluster
> should have
> similar pgpool-II configurations.
> -- Watchdog nodes should have configurable watchdog node priority,
> to give
> users more control on which node should become a leader node.
> -- More options for the node health-checking, especially watchdog
> should allow
> external/3rd party node health checking system to integrate
> with it.
> -- The watchdog should keep looking for problems like split-brain
> syndrome and
> should automatically recover from it.
> -- Allow user to provide scripts to be executed at time of
> escalation and
> de-escalation to master/leader nodes.
>
> Add these new parameters:
>
> -- wd_ipc_socket_dir:
> This parameter is used to specify the directory where the UNIX
> domain
> socket accepting pgpool-II watchdog IPC connections will be
> created.
>
> -- wd_priority:
> This new parameter can be used to elevate the current watchdog
> node
> priority in leader elections. The node with the higher
> wd_priority
> value will get selected as master/coordinator watchdog node when
> cluster will be electing its master node at cluster startup or
> in the
> event of old master watchdog node failure.
>
> -- wd_de_escalation_command:
> This parameter holds the command that watchdog will execute on
> the
> master pgpool-II watchdog node when that node resigns from the
> master
> node responsibilities.
>
> -- wd_monitoring_interfaces_list:
> This parameter holds a comma separated list of network device
> names to
> be monitored by the watchdog process for the network link state.
>
> - Overhauling pcp commands (Muhammad Usama)
>
> -- Improved handling of command argument:
> Long command line options can be used now.
> -- PCP password is safe:
> Don't pass password via command line, which causes security
> risks.
> -- Mutiple concurrent execution of pcp commands:
> Allow to execute a pcp command while running pcp_recovery_node
> which takes sometime to finish.
>
> - SELECT count statics in "show pool_nodes" command results (Tatsuo
> Ishii)
>
> show pool_nodes results which briefly describes the status of each
> backend
> now shows how many SELECTs are issued to them. So you can quickly
> recognize the effect of load balancing for example;
>
> test=# show pool_nodes;
> node_id | hostname | port | status | lb_weight | role |
> select_cnt
>
> ---------+----------+-------+--------+-----------+---------+------------
> 0 | /tmp | 11002 | 2 | 0.500000 | primary | 338230
> 1 | /tmp | 11003 | 2 | 0.500000 | standby | 163939
> (2 rows)
>
> - Parser enhancements for query rewriting (Yugo Nagata)
>
> INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE with WITH clause, writable CTE, RETURNING clause
> can now be properly handled in query rewriting in native replication
> mode.
>
> - Allow to open pool_passwd file in read only mode by pgpool-II main
> process (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> - Allow to run pgpool in debug mode in regression tests (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> - doc:Add pgpool_adm documents (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> - doc:Update Chinese documents (Bambo Huang)
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> * Bug fixes (since 3.4.3)
>
> - doc: Fix misinformation regarding load balancing in docs (Tatsuo
> Ishii)
>
> In streaming replication mode, DECLARE, FETCH, CLOSE and SHOW are
> sent
> to primary node only. Pointed out in [pgpool-general-jp: 1378].
>
> - Issue fsync() when writing pgpool_status. (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> This ensures that pgpool_status is saved to permanent storage and
> allow to survive after system crash.
>
> - Fix reset query stuck problem (Muhammad Usama)
>
> It is reported that reset query (DISCARD ALL etc.) occasionally does
> not finish and pgpool child remain waiting for reply from the backend
> thus client cannot connect to pgpool (for example bug report #107).
> The cause of problem is not identified yet but if client suddenly
> closes connection to pgpool in the middle of query processing,
> backend
> may not accept the reset queries because they are not ready for
> query.
>
> The fix is to keep track of the status of frontend socket state and
> not
> caching the PostgreSQL connection if the connection to frontend was
> not
> properly terminated.
>
> - test: Fix false alerm of regression tset 062 (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - test: Fix broken regression test for native replication (Yugo Nagata)
>
> Test for insert-lock didn't work.
>
> - test: Fix regress test to sleep after pgpool_reload (Yugo Nagata)
>
> Some regression tests modify configuration file and reloads. However,
> sometimes these were not applied to pgpool just after reloading.
>
> - Fix inconsistency of sequence values in replication mode (Yugo
> Nagata)
>
> When a schema name was provided, the table name was quoted wrongly as
> like "public.mytbl" instead of "public"."mytbl". So, pool_regclass
> and to_regclass couldn't find right talbe oid and insert lock was
> never executed. This caused inconsistency between DB nodes.
>
> - test: Fix complication error and segfault of timestamp rewrite test
> (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - doc: Fix untranslated sentence in Japanese document (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - Fix ancient bug of pool_push() and friends. (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> It allocates buffer using realloc and uses the pointer
> returned. However it does the pointer calculation *before* realloc
> gets called. So the calculation uses the old pointer value, which
> causes various problems including segfault later.
>
> Also there were other problems with it. The buffer pointer and buffer
> size variable is not initialized. The buffer is not freed by
> pool_close. Typo in debugging message (3.4 or later only). They are
> fixed as well.
>
> - doc: Fix wrong description in documents about log_standby_delay
> (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - Fix segfalut that occurs when function is used in FROM clause (Yugo
> Nagata)
>
> PRPARE statements in streaming-reaplication mode and INSERT/UPDATE
> with SELECT in native-replication mode were affected. For example:
>
> - prepare p as select * from generate_series(1,1);
> - insert into tbl select now(), * from generate_series(1,1);
>
> - doc: Add caution about JDBC driver version regarding
> app_name_redirect_preference_list
> (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> - Fix hang problmen reported in bug #145. (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> The problem occurs when all the condition below are met:
>
> 1) pgpool-II 3.4 or later
> 2) streaming replication mode
> 3) primary node is also load balance node
> 4) extended protocol is used
> 5) client_idle_limit reached
>
> - Fix a in-memory query cache bug (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> If extended query protocol is used and a bind/execute message arrives
> which uses a statement created by prior parse message, the temp_cache
> is not initialized by a parse messages. Thus messages are added to
> pre
> existing temp cache buffer which causes the trouble, that is, when
> the
> cached result returns, Data Row message and Command Complete message
> appeared twice.
>
> Per by bug #152.
>
> - test: Fix regression test 065. (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> The path to JDBC driver was explicitly defined. This is wrong. This
> should be inherited from JDBC_DRIVER environment variable.
>
> - test: Fix possible hang-up of regression test 054.postgres_fdw (Yugo
> Nagata)
>
> - test: Add option to regress.sh and pgpool_setup for unix domain
> socket
> directory (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - doc: Add missing descriptions about default values to documents
> (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - test: Fix regression test 055 for rhel7 rpm (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - Fix reset query stuck problem (Muhammad Usama)
>
> The issue is already fixed in older branches and this fix adopts the
> same solution used by 3.3 series, i.e. closing the backend connection
> when client idle limit is reached.
>
> - Fix bug with "SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY" (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> Pgpool-II remembers that non read only queries (including SET) were
> executed in an explicit transaction and adds a "writing transaction"
> mark to the transaction. The mark affects the query routing behavior
> of pgpool-II while running in streaming replication mode. Pgpool-II
> starts sending queries to the primary after the mark is set. Because
> the effect of writing queries may appear on standbys after some delay
> in streaming replication mode, it is safer to route read queries to
> the primary after the mark is set.
>
> However there's oversight here. "SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY" does no
> data modification and should be treated as an exception.
>
> Per bug #157.
>
> - test: Fix to use timeout command to handle time out of regress test
> 062
> (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - Fix to show wrong error (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> connect_with_timeout() does not show proper error info when
> getsockopt(SO_ERROR) reports an error. Pointed out in bug #159.
>
> - test: Add regress.sh missing \n in help messages (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - Fix the logic issue in get_backends_status() function (Muhammad
> Usama)
>
> get_backends_status () function counts the number of current valid
> and down
> backend nodes. The function assumed that the node was also invalid
> when its
> connection status was down. However, that is not always right.
>
> - Fix white/black_memqcache_table_list not to require quotaion (Yugo
> Nagata)
>
> The tables and schemas name specified in *_memqcache_table_list
> were needed to be quoted by double quotation.
>
> Patch contributed by Dang Minh Huong.
> Per [pgpool-hackers: 1323]
>
> - Fix FATAL error with reloading (Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> While reloading pgpool.conf, the number of DB nodes is tentatively
> set
> to 0, then counted up until reaching to the actual number of backends
> by the pgpool main process. Unfortunately the variable was on the
> shared memory and it confused pgpool child process when they were
> using
> the variable and this caused FATAL error.
>
> Per bug #156 report by harukat.
>
> - test: Add some tests for white/black_memqcache_table_list to
> regression
> test 006.memqcache (Yugo Nagata)
>
> - Fix reset query stuck problem (Muhammad Usama, Tatsuo Ishii)
>
> When pool_read fails to read from frontend or pool_flush fails to
> write to the frontend, report FRONTEND_ERROR, rather than ERROR to
> disconnect and terminate pgpool child process, to prevent the query
> stuck problem.
>
> - test: Fix some regression tests that failed in debug mode (Yugo
> Nagata)
>
> - Fix performance degradation while using IPv6 (Muhammad Usama)
>
> Per bug #165.
>
> --
> Yugo Nagata <nagata at sraoss.co.jp>
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