This is a design to let us write test cases for ingest with schema setup
and data in the json formats we want to use, and results as alternating
queries and expected results, so we can just create new test files and
run the tests against them. We also have to report back what we created
when creating things.
In the process of developing this, I noticed that the documentation describes
ingest schema as allowing more than one schema operation, but we didn't support
this, and also it wouldn't do much good because there was no way to do partial
things like "just add a field". Fixed.
Also we implement comparison for ops, so the test output is actually
a test rather than just some data to visually eyeball.
In the process, realize that the handling of timestamps was wrong; we said that we
take them as raw numbers relative to the epoch, not as raw Unix timestamps.
Also a couple of related cleanups caught by doing the testing.
This is a rework of Nia's radix sort. Still using stdlib sort for the
tail ends of things, and should probably replace it at some point
because it's still woefully inefficient, but this gets decent
performance, and lets us do the fancy thing of doing quick partial
sorting by record-key-only to get to shards, then deciding whether
to sort by value-then-record (as for a set field) or just by record
(as for int fields), which lets us reduce the amount of re-sorting
the same data by different criteria we do.
We also use a messy code-duplication basically-bubblesort for the
inner loops because it's much cheaper for small N.
This also lets us use field-aware sorting for shards, sorting them
correctly for a corresponding field type, and add corresponding API
support and fragment support for an option to tell the fragment
code that we already ordered things in the order that's most
efficient there, to avoid a second sort that we don't otherwise
need.
This partially-implemented prototype of the ingest API is based on our
programmatic ingest API reference. It has noticable limitations, most
crucially that it doesn't handle multi-node clusters right now. However,
it basically implements the expected semantics.
There's some noticeable performance issues to do with the high overhead
of sorting bits in order to import them efficiently, but this is fixable.
We also add the hooks to the internal client, and make the finisher logic
a bit smarter.
Much of this code was originally by Nia Weiss, but it's been merged
and restructured a bit to get things broken into logical commits.
This is sort of horrible, but viewsByTime was about 25% of total CPU time in
the ingest path, NOT including increased GC overhead. This overoptimized
approach to letting us recycle a buffer, and use the same buffer for multiple
time views at once, reduces that to about 2.5%. Sorry for the mess.
We also streamline the process of building the per-view data sets a bit,
and streamline it a lot in the non-time-quantum case.
In fact, we have a number of things assuming that values passed to Import
always fit within a single known shard, so, drop all the extra complexity
around this, drop the computation of fancy view/shard keys, and so on.
There's a lot of room left to improve this probably but it's at least
better, I think.
Unfortunately, there's a handful of things, basically all of which are
test cases, which were relying on this, so, we also add functionality
for splitting import requests by shards. But this allows us to stop
duplicating each shard's inputs one at a time... which turns out to
mean that we now care that the import operation can write back to the
import request. This only affects test cases, so we adopt a crufty
hack involving cloning import requests in those rare cases, and also
when reusing the same column IDs to write to the existence field that
we'd be using later to write to another field.
Note that even if we weren't overwriting the column IDs with positions,
we'd be sorting the column/row ID lists by row-then-column, which means
we'd still be corrupting the column ID lists. This may want to change
at some point.
We also reuse a single Tx for all the views, because DB-per-shard
means that should work fine, and reduces the cost of doing these
updates, probably.
staticcheck points out that the break is otherwise an ineffective
break because it just ends the current case clause of the switch
it's in, which is true.
The convention of using a "u" for "micro" is pretty well-established and some
people will have trouble typing the Greek letter, accept that as a synonym.
We're reading timestamps as []int64, instead of allocating a time.Time
for each timestamp, just use the same logic to determine whether to use the
int64 timestamp that we would have used to decide whether to allocate it.
We still have to check the whole run, though, because we're providing a large
list of 0s instead of "no timestamps", for Reasons.
A nil Qcx is a crime against existence and makes baby pandas cry.
Having taken out the hack that tried to accommodate this when tests did it,
we now have to fix the tests. Oh no.
