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Piotr Dulikowski 5f55787e50 Merge 'CDC with tablets' from Michael Litvak
initial implementation to support CDC in tablets-enabled keyspaces.

The design is described in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qO5f2q5QoN5z1-rYOQFu6tqVLD3Ha6pphXKEqbtSNiU/edit?usp=sharing
It is followed closely for the most part except "Deciding when to change streams" - instead, streams are changed synchronously with tablet split / merge.
Instead of the stream switching algorithm with the double writes, we use a scheme similar to the previous method for vnodes - we add the new streams with timestamp that is sufficiently far into the future.

In this PR we:
* add new group0-based internal system tables for tablet stream metadata and loading it into in-memory CDC metadata
* add virtual tables for CDC consumers
* the write coordinator chooses a stream by looking up the appropriate stream in the CDC metadata
* enable creating tables with CDC enabled in tablets-enabled keyspaces. tablets are allocated for the CDC table, and a stream is created per each tablet.
* on tablet resize (split / merge), the topology coordinator creates a new stream set with a new stream for each new tablet.
* the cdc tablets are co-located with the base tablets

Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/22576

backport not needed - new feature

update dtests: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-dtest/pull/5897
update java cdc library: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cdc-java/pull/102
update rust cdc library: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cdc-rust/pull/136

Closes scylladb/scylladb#23795

* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
  docs/dev: update CDC dev docs for tablets
  doc: update CDC docs for tablets
  test: cluster_events: enable add_cdc and drop_cdc
  test/cql: enable cql cdc tests to run with tablets
  test: test_cdc_with_alter: adjust for cdc with tablets
  test/cqlpy: adjust cdc tests for tablets
  test/cluster/test_cdc_with_tablets: introduce cdc with tablets tests
  cdc: enable cdc with tablets
  topology coordinator: change streams on tablet split/merge
  cdc: virtual tables for cdc with tablets
  cdc: generate_stream_diff helper function
  cdc: choose stream in tablets enabled keyspaces
  cdc: rename get_stream to get_vnode_stream
  cdc: load tablet streams metadata from tables
  cdc: helper functions for reading metadata from tables
  cdc: colocate cdc table with base
  cdc: remove streams when dropping CDC table
  cdc: create streams when allocating tablets
  migration_listener: add on_before_allocate_tablet_map notification
  cdc: notify when creating or dropping cdc table
  cdc: move cdc table creation to pre_create
  cdc: add internal tables for cdc with tablets
  cdc: add cdc_with_tablets feature flag
  cdc: add is_log_schema helper
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Scylla unit tests using C++ and the Boost test framework

The source files in this directory are Scylla unit tests written in C++ using the Boost.Test framework. These unit tests come in three flavors:

  1. Some simple tests that check stand-alone C++ functions or classes use Boost's BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE.

  2. Some tests require Seastar features, and need to be declared with Seastar's extensions to Boost.Test, namely SEASTAR_TEST_CASE.

  3. Even more elaborate tests require not just a functioning Seastar environment but also a complete (or partial) Scylla environment. Those tests use the do_with_cql_env() or do_with_cql_env_thread() function to set up a mostly-functioning environment behaving like a single-node Scylla, in which the test can run.

While we have many tests of the third flavor, writing new tests of this type should be reserved to white box tests - tests where it is necessary to inspect or control Scylla internals that do not have user-facing APIs such as CQL. In contrast, black-box tests - tests that can be written only using user-facing APIs, should be written in one of newer test frameworks that we offer - such as test/cqlpy or test/alternator (in Python, using the CQL or DynamoDB APIs respectively) or test/cql (using textual CQL commands), or - if more than one Scylla node is needed for a test - using the test/topology* framework.

Running tests

Because these are C++ tests, they need to be compiled before running. To compile a single test executable row_cache_test, use a command like

ninja build/dev/test/boost/row_cache_test

You can also use ninja dev-test to build all C++ tests, or use ninja deb-build to build the C++ tests and also the full Scylla executable (however, note that full Scylla executable isn't needed to run Boost tests).

Replace "dev" by "debug" or "release" in the examples above and below to use the "debug" build mode (which, importantly, compiles the test with ASAN and UBSAN enabling on and helps catch difficult-to-catch use-after-free bugs) or the "release" build mode (optimized for run speed).

To run an entire test file row_cache_test, including all its test functions, use a command like:

build/dev/test/boost/row_cache_test -- -c1 -m1G 

to run a single test function test_reproduce_18045() from the longer test file, use a command like:

build/dev/test/boost/row_cache_test -t test_reproduce_18045 -- -c1 -m1G 

In these command lines, the parameters before the -- are passed to Boost.Test, while the parameters after the -- are passed to the test code, and in particular to Seastar. In this example Seastar is asked to run on one CPU (-c1) and use 1G of memory (-m1G) instead of hogging the entire machine. The Boost.Test option -t test_reproduce_18045 asks it to run just this one test function instead of all the test functions in the executable.

Unfortunately, interrupting a running test with control-C while doesn't work. This is a known bug (#5696). Kill a test with SIGKILL (-9) if you need to kill it while it's running.

Boost tests can also be run using test.py - which is a script that provides a uniform way to run all tests in scylladb.git - C++ tests, Python tests, etc.

Execution with pytest

To run all tests with pytest execute

pytest test/boost

To execute all tests in one file, provide the path to the source filename as a parameter

pytest test/boost/aggregate_fcts_test.cc

Since it's a normal path, autocompletion works in the terminal out of the box.

To execute only one test function, provide the path to the source file and function name

pytest --mode dev test/boost/aggregate_fcts_test.cc::test_aggregate_avg

To provide a specific mode, use the next parameter --mode dev, if parameter isn't provided pytest tries to use ninja mode_list to find out the compiled modes.

Parallel execution is controlled by pytest-xdist and the parameter -n auto. This command starts tests with the number of workers equal to CPU cores. The useful command to discover the tests in the file or directory is

pytest --collect-only -q --mode dev test/boost/aggregate_fcts_test.cc

That will return all test functions in the file. To execute only one function from the test, you can invoke the output from the previous command. However, suffix for mode should be skipped. For example, output shows in the terminal something like this test/boost/aggregate_fcts_test.cc::test_aggregate_avg.dev. So to execute this specific test function, please use the next command

pytest --mode dev test/boost/aggregate_fcts_test.cc::test_aggregate_avg

Writing tests

Because of the large build time and build size of each separate test executable, it is recommended to put test functions into relatively large source files. But not too large - to keep compilation time of a single source file (during development) at reasonable levels.

When adding new source files in test/boost, don't forget to list the new source file in configure.py and also in CMakeLists.txt. The former is needed by our CI, but the latter is preferred by some developers.