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ACE runs its hash queries from many client-side workers. Postgres could add parallel workers to each of them, so one ACE worker could take several server cores. A hash query on a table without column statistics got a parallel plan for every block, and table-diff ran two times slower. Every ACE connection now sets max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 0. The new postgres.max_parallel_workers_per_gather setting in ace.yaml changes the value; -1 keeps the server setting. The code is the same as in PR #170, so the two changes merge without a conflict.
table-diff and mtree build take block bounds from one query on the anchor node: a TABLESAMPLE of the key split with ntile(rows / block_size). The bounds do not respect block_size. On a large table the sample has fewer rows than buckets, and SYSTEM sampling takes whole pages, so with a key in physical order a block can hold a million rows. On a 50M-row table with block_size 1000 the largest block had 654,281 rows. The new package internal/consistency/slicer works in two steps on the anchor node: - It splits the key space into K parts, the units of work for the cutting workers. K depends on the number of workers, not on the size of the table. The part bounds come from pg_stats.histogram_bounds of the first key column, each turned into a real key of the table. If the column has no histogram, they come from a TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM REPEATABLE sample split with ntile(K). - Each worker walks its part in key order and starts a new block every block_size rows. One recursive query cuts a chunk of blocks: each step is an index descent with OFFSET block_size. A chunk runs in a read-only REPEATABLE READ transaction with enable_seqscan and enable_sort off; without that, a selective filter gives a sequential scan and a sort for every step. Chunks grow from one block to about one million rows, so the first block is ready at once and no query holds a snapshot for long. Blocks go to a channel as soon as they are cut. The first block of the table has no lower bound and the last one has no upper bound. The tests that need a server run when ACE_SLICER_TEST_DSN is set.
table-diff now takes its blocks from the slicer and hashes each block on every node as soon as it is cut, so hashing does not wait for the whole key space. The comparison step walks the blocks in key order, as before. The planner row estimate is used only to choose the anchor node. When the anchor node had no rows, table-diff built no blocks and reported a match without comparing the other nodes. Now the whole key space is one open block in this case. The log shows how the blocks were built and how long the cut took.
mtree build now takes its leaves from the slicer on the reference node, so no leaf holds more than block_size rows there when the tree is built. Leaves are hashed on all nodes while the cut runs; before, the nodes were hashed one after another. Then each node stores its leaves and hashes and builds its parents in its own transaction, as before. The table is now added to the publication on every node before the first leaf is hashed, so a concurrent change is in a leaf hash, in the CDC stream, or in both. The first leaf still starts at the first key of the reference node.
GeneratePkeyOffsetsQuery, GetPkeyOffsets, their template and the PkeyOffset type have no callers after table-diff and mtree build moved to the slicer.
For int, uuid, text with a non-C collation and composite keys, with and without statistics and with a histogram built before most rows were added, the tests check that no block on the anchor node is larger than block_size, that the blocks have no gap, and that table-diff finds rows below and above every key of the anchor node. Other cases: an anchor node with no rows, a table with one row, a table filter, and the leaves of a new Merkle tree.
The table-diff and Merkle tree design notes and the best practices page described the TABLESAMPLE bounds, with thresholds that did not match the code. They now describe the slicer. The changelog has the user-visible changes.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughACE replaces sampled primary-key offsets with histogram- or sample-based block slicing. Table-diff and Merkle-tree builds consume sliced blocks. ACE connections also gain a configurable PostgreSQL parallel-worker setting. ChangesPrimary-Key Block Slicing
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Keep the slicer's open-start block.
The slicer emits (nil, first key) to cover rows that exist on another node below the reference node's first key. Dropping this block makes those rows absent from every leaf, so mtree diff can miss them.
ComputeLeafHashes accepts an all-nil lower bound, and getPkeyBatches already handles open starts. Remove the filter and preserve the existing all-nil RangeStart conversion.
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| // The first block of the table has no lower bound. A Merkle tree | |
| // starts its first leaf at the first key of the reference node, so | |
| // that block is not used. | |
| go func() { | |
| defer close(in) | |
| for b := range cut { | |
| if b.Start == nil { | |
| continue | |
| } | |
| in <- b | |
| } | |
| }() | |
| // The first block of the table has no lower bound. A Merkle tree | |
| // starts its first leaf at the first key of the reference node, so | |
| // that block is not used. | |
| go func() { | |
| defer close(in) | |
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| in <- b | |
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Remove the b.Start == nil filter in the cut-block forwarding loop so open-start
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Problem
table-diff and mtree build took block bounds from one query on the anchor node: a TABLESAMPLE of the primary key split with ntile(rows / block_size). The sampling rate depended on the estimated row count.
The SYSTEM method doesn't serve well when the key value correlates with the page number (append-only case). On a 50M-row table with a
bigintkey, the largest block was:A large block can reach the 60-second hash timeout and stop the diff. It also makes the workers uneven, and any mismatch requires more split steps.
Change
A new package,
internal/consistency/slicer, is used by bothtable-diffandmtree build. On the anchor node, it works in two steps:pg_stats.histogram_boundsfor the first key column, each turned into a real table key. If the column has no histogram, they come from a smallTABLESAMPLE SYSTEM ... REPEATABLEsample split withntile(K). The statistics' age isn't checked: an old histogram can make parts uneven but doesn't change the blocks.block_sizerows. One recursive query cuts a chunk of blocks; each step is one index descent withOFFSET block_size LIMIT 1. A chunk runs in a read-onlyREPEATABLE READtransaction withenable_seqscanandenable_sortoff, because with a selective filter the planner chose a sequential scan and a sort for every step. Chunks grow from one block to about one million rows, so the first block is ready at once and no query holds a snapshot for long.Blocks go to the hash workers as soon as they are cut, so hashing does not wait for the whole key space.
table-diffhashes each block on every node as it arrives and compares the blocks in key order, as before. The planner estimate is used only to choose the anchor node.mtree buildhashes the leaves on all nodes while the cut runs; before, the nodes were hashed one after another. Each node then stores its leaves and builds its parents in its own transaction. The table is added to the publication on every node before the first leaf is hashed.The log shows how the blocks were built (part source and reason, parts, workers) and the result of the cut (blocks, time, time to the first block, largest block).