redict/tests
Itamar Haber c81c7f51c3
Add stream consumer group lag tracking and reporting (#9127)
Adds the ability to track the lag of a consumer group (CG), that is, the number
of entries yet-to-be-delivered from the stream.

The proposed constant-time solution is in the spirit of "best-effort."

Partially addresses #8737.

## Description of approach

We add a new "entries_added" property to the stream. This starts at 0 for a new
stream and is incremented by 1 with every `XADD`.  It is essentially an all-time
counter of the entries added to the stream.

Given the stream's length and this counter value, we can trivially find the logical
"entries_added" counter of the first ID if and only if the stream is contiguous.
A fragmented stream contains one or more tombstones generated by `XDEL`s.
The new "xdel_max_id" stream property tracks the latest tombstone.

The CG also tracks its last delivered ID's as an "entries_read" counter and
increments it independently when delivering new messages, unless the this
read counter is invalid (-1 means invalid offset). When the CG's counter is
available, the reported lag is the difference between added and read counters.

Lastly, this also adds a "first_id" field to the stream structure in order to make
looking it up cheaper in most cases.

## Limitations

There are two cases in which the mechanism isn't able to track the lag.
In these cases, `XINFO` replies with `null` in the "lag" field.

The first case is when a CG is created with an arbitrary last delivered ID,
that isn't "0-0", nor the first or the last entries of the stream. In this case,
it is impossible to obtain a valid read counter (short of an O(N) operation).
The second case is when there are one or more tombstones fragmenting
the stream's entries range.

In both cases, given enough time and assuming that the consumers are
active (reading and lacking) and advancing, the CG should be able to
catch up with the tip of the stream and report zero lag.
Once that's achieved, lag tracking would resume as normal (until the
next tombstone is set).

## API changes

* `XGROUP CREATE` added with the optional named argument `[ENTRIESREAD entries-read]`
  for explicitly specifying the new CG's counter.
* `XGROUP SETID` added with an optional positional argument `[ENTRIESREAD entries-read]`
  for specifying the CG's counter.
* `XINFO` reports the maximal tombstone ID, the recorded first entry ID, and total
  number of entries added to the stream.
* `XINFO` reports the current lag and logical read counter of CGs.
* `XSETID` is an internal command that's used in replication/aof. It has been added with
  the optional positional arguments `[ENTRIESADDED entries-added] [MAXDELETEDID max-deleted-entry-id]`
  for propagating the CG's offset and maximal tombstone ID of the stream.

## The generic unsolved problem

The current stream implementation doesn't provide an efficient way to obtain the
approximate/exact size of a range of entries. While it could've been nice to have
that ability (#5813) in general, let alone specifically in the context of CGs, the risk
and complexities involved in such implementation are in all likelihood prohibitive.

## A refactoring note

The `streamGetEdgeID` has been refactored to accommodate both the existing seek
of any entry as well as seeking non-deleted entries (the addition of the `skip_tombstones`
argument). Furthermore, this refactoring also migrated the seek logic to use the
`streamIterator` (rather than `raxIterator`) that was, in turn, extended with the
`skip_tombstones` Boolean struct field to control the emission of these.

Co-authored-by: Guy Benoish <guy.benoish@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
2022-02-23 22:34:58 +02:00
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assets Set default channel permission to resetchannels for 7.0 (#10181) 2022-01-30 12:02:55 +02:00
cluster Check target node is a primary during cluster setslot. (#10277) 2022-02-10 23:14:27 -08:00
helpers When redis-cli received ASK, it didn't handle it (#8930) 2021-08-02 14:59:08 +03:00
integration Add stream consumer group lag tracking and reporting (#9127) 2022-02-23 22:34:58 +02:00
modules Implemented module getchannels api and renamed channel keyspec (#10299) 2022-02-22 11:00:03 +02:00
sentinel Fix INFO SENTINEL memory leak (#10268) 2022-02-09 07:33:24 +02:00
support Regression test for sync psync crash (#10288) 2022-02-13 09:52:38 +02:00
tmp minor fixes to the new test suite, html doc updated 2010-05-14 18:48:33 +02:00
unit Add stream consumer group lag tracking and reporting (#9127) 2022-02-23 22:34:58 +02:00
instances.tcl Revent the attempt to fix cluster rebalance test (#10207) (#10212) 2022-01-31 01:47:58 +02:00
README.md Add support for list type to store elements larger than 4GB (#9357) 2021-11-03 20:47:18 +02:00
test_helper.tcl introduce dynamic client reply buffer size - save memory on idle clients (#9822) 2022-02-22 11:19:38 +02:00

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The test suite also supports execution against an external server, which is enabled using the --host and --port parameters. When executing against an external server, tests tagged external:skip are skipped.

There are additional runtime options that can further adjust the test suite to match different external server configurations:

Option Impact
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--ignore-encoding Skip all checks for specific encoding.
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needs:config-resetstat Uses CONFIG RESETSTAT to reset statistics.
needs:reset Uses RESET to reset client connections.
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When using an external server (--host and --port), filtering using the external:skip tags is done automatically.

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When not using --large-memory, filtering using the largemem:skip tag is done automatically.

In addition, it is possible to specify additional configuration. For example, to run tests on a server that does not permit SYNC use:

./runtest --host <host> --port <port> --tags -needs:repl