Part 1:
As part of MCOL-3776 to address synchronization issue while accessing
the fTimeZone member of the Func class, mutex locks were added to the
accessor and mutator methods. However, this slows down processing
of TIMESTAMP columns in PrimProc significantly as all threads across
all concurrently running queries would serialize on the mutex. This
is because PrimProc only has a single global object for the functor
class (class derived from Func in utils/funcexp/functor.h) for a given
function name. To fix this problem:
(1) We remove the fTimeZone as a member of the Func derived classes
(hence removing the mutexes) and instead use the fOperationType
member of the FunctionColumn class to propagate the timezone values
down to the individual functor processing functions such as
FunctionColumn::getStrVal(), FunctionColumn::getIntVal(), etc.
(2) To achieve (1), a timezone member is added to the
execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::ColType class.
Part 2:
Several functors in the Funcexp code call dataconvert::gmtSecToMySQLTime()
and dataconvert::mySQLTimeToGmtSec() functions for conversion between seconds
since unix epoch and broken-down representation. These functions in turn call
the C library function localtime_r() which currently has a known bug of holding
a global lock via a call to __tz_convert. This significantly reduces performance
in multi-threaded applications where multiple threads concurrently call
localtime_r(). More details on the bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16145
This bug in localtime_r() caused processing of the Functors in PrimProc to
slowdown significantly since a query execution causes Functors code to be
processed in a multi-threaded manner.
As a fix, we remove the calls to localtime_r() from gmtSecToMySQLTime()
and mySQLTimeToGmtSec() by performing the timezone-to-offset conversion
(done in dataconvert::timeZoneToOffset()) during the execution plan
creation in the plugin. Note that localtime_r() is only called when the
time_zone system variable is set to "SYSTEM".
This fix also required changing the timezone type from a std::string to
a long across the system.
1. Add a new system variable, columnstore_use_cpimport_for_cache_inserts,
that when set to ON, uses cpimport for the cache flush into ColumnStore.
This variable is set to OFF by default. By default, we perform batch inserts
for the cache flush.
2. Disable DMLProc logging of the SQL statement text for the cache
flush operation in case of batch inserts. Under certain heavy loads
involving INSERT statements, this logging becomes a bottleneck for
the cache flush, causing subsequent inserts into the cache table to hang.
This changes the warning for truncation to the correct MariaDB error
code (1264).
In addition it passes the strict mode up into the DML class to roll back
correctly.
It also sets the abort_on_warning flag for updates as this isn't set on
the rnd_init phase but is needed for strict mode to work.
NULL is now pushed through the MariaDB storage engine plugin down to the
insert processing. A '0000-00-00' date is now a separate value to NULL.
This is more in-line with MariaDB's handling.
