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Retry DROP INDEX while its readers are dropped in the same run (DEX-193) - #952
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| // index reads from it. terraform destroy drops those readers in parallel with | ||
| // the index, because the configuration does not link them, so the index drop | ||
| // gets a moment for them to go before it fails. | ||
| var indexDropRetryTimeout = time.Minute |
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consider — Potential finding from Claude: The retry always waits up to a minute, but it only helps if Terraform starts the reader's drop during that minute. With -parallelism=1, or a config where index deletes fill all 10 default slots, the MV drops sit in the queue and every index fails after a full minute. Could the index (and/or materialized view) docs suggest depends_on from the MV to the index as the reliable way to get the ordering? Then the retry covers the common case and users with bigger configs have a fix.
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### Motivation Closes https://linear.app/materializeinc/issue/SQL-715/drop-index-with-dependents-should-not-be-allowed. This corrects a longstanding mis-feature that will become more dire once we have pinned LIR. ### Description Orphaned dataflows are a confusing mis-feature: since indexes aren't first-class SQL objects, they could be freely dropped. That's all well and good for an OLTP database, but not so an operational one. This PR forbids orphaned dataflows. `DROP INDEX` now fails with `DEPENDENT_OBJECTS_STILL_EXIST` (`2BP01`) when a materialized view, index, or metric sink reads from the index, and the error names the readers. When one statement drops several indexes, one error names every blocked index. `DROP INDEX ... CASCADE` keeps its existing meaning, the same as `RESTRICT`: it fails the same way, and there is no way to drop all dependents of an index in one statement. Users drop the readers themselves, or replace them with a blue/green deployment. A newer index on a relation can read from an older one on the same relation, so indexes on one relation now have to be dropped newest first. An `enable_drop_in_use_index` flag defaults to off, but allows the old behavior, with a `WARNING` notice, an error-level log event, and a metric increment. The Terraform provider up to v0.11.10 replaces an index by running `DROP INDEX ... RESTRICT` first, so replacing a `materialize_index` that a materialized view reads fails with the in-use error on every apply, and `terraform destroy` fails intermittently because the provider drops the view and the index in parallel. [terraform-provider-materialize#952](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#952) and [#953](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#953) fix the provider. Until users upgrade, adding `lifecycle { replace_triggered_by = [materialize_index.<name>.id] }` to the materialized view is the workaround. In-flight transient dataflows (`SUBSCRIBE`, `COPY TO`, and `SELECT`) never block a drop and are reported in a notice instead. ### Verification New tests - test/sqllogictest/drop_index_dependents.slt covers: - A plain DROP INDEX or DROP INDEX ... RESTRICT on an index a materialized view reads from fails. The test checks the full error, DETAIL and HINT, and that nothing was dropped. - DROP INDEX ... CASCADE fails the same way while readers exist, and succeeds once they are gone. - An index whose dataflow reads from another index also counts as a dependent (sibling indexes, and v_idx on t_idx). - A dependent that the same statement also drops doesn't block it (DROP INDEX a, b and DROP SCHEMA s CASCADE). - Dropping several blocked indexes at once reports all of them in one error. - With enable_drop_in_use_index on, a plain drop or a CASCADE drop removes only the index and leaves the view running and queryable. - test/testdrive/drop-index-dependents.td checks that no drop leaves an orphaned dataflow in mz_compute_dependencies, including CASCADE drops of the relation, schema, and cluster. With the flag on, it confirms the check detects the orphan. - src/environmentd/tests/sql.rs adds three Rust integration tests: - test_drop_in_use_index_is_refused: checks the SQLSTATE, message and hint, and that a CASCADE drop fails with the same SQLSTATE. - test_drop_in_use_index_flag_warns: turns the flag on at startup, checks the WARNING notice's message, detail and hint, and that the view survives. - test_drop_index_read_by_in_flight_subscribe_notice: an open SUBSCRIBE cursor doesn't block the drop and produces the expected NOTICE. Existing tests changed to match the new behavior. Tests drop the readers explicitly instead of orphaning a dataflow, unless they test orphans themselves. - Drop order swapped so readers go first: cluster.slt, privilege_checks.slt, object_ownership.slt, indexes.td, divergent-dataflow-cancellation.td, metric-sink.td, and the restart (arrangement-sizes-stale-snapshot-after-restart) and cluster (test-replica-metrics, test-compute-controller-metrics) workflows. - Readers dropped and recreated around the drop: hydration-status.td, materializations.td, rename.td, join_index.slt, and the explain slts (default, optimized_plan_as_text, optimized_plan_as_text_redacted). - 0dt basic and ddl drop a dedicated index that nothing reads, so the view the test follows across the handoff keeps reading its original index. - pgtest-mz/notice.pt now checks the refusals and their messages instead of the old NOTICE. - The flag is turned on only in tests that deliberately orphan a dataflow, with a comment saying so: explain/materialized_view.slt, pushdown.slt, index_already_exists.slt, introspection-sources.td, and cluster test-compute-reconciliation-replace. Other test frameworks - Platform check DropIndex drops the view before the indexes, newest first, and recreates the view. - Parallel workload DropIndexAction: ignores the new "still depended upon by" error. - mzcompose: enable_drop_in_use_index is listed as an uninteresting parameter, so CI runs with it off. Gaps - No test covers the flag's error-level log event or its metric increment. - No test covers the NOTICE for in-flight COPY TO or SELECT. Only SUBSCRIBE is tested. - No restart or upgrade test checks that pinned plans survive once orphaning is blocked. That is the problem the change fixes. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Jon Currey <[email protected]>
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…doc (#40475) Follow-up to #39098: the Terraform paragraph it added to the design doc has two errors. I've corrected the same paragraph in #39098's description, since the release notes are generated from it. - **Affected versions:** it said "up to v0.11.10". Every released provider version fails the replacement: v0.11.11 and v0.11.12 fail it the same way, and v0.11.13 has no index changes. - **What fixes it:** it said that [terraform-provider-materialize#952](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#952) and [#953](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#953) fix the provider, and that `replace_triggered_by` is the workaround until users upgrade. With both, replacing an index that a materialized view reads still fails, after a minute of retries. [#952](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#952) only helps when the readers are dropped in the same run, such as in `terraform destroy`. `replace_triggered_by` is the way to replace such an index with any provider version, and [#953](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#953) documents it. Verified against #39098's CI image with provider v0.11.11, v0.11.12 and a build of [terraform-provider-materialize#953](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#953), which includes [#952](MaterializeInc/terraform-provider-materialize#952). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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With MaterializeInc/materialize#39098, Materialize refuses to drop an index that a materialized view or another index still reads from. Terraform drops those readers in parallel with the index, so
terraform destroynow fails with 2BP01. The provider now retries the drop for up to a minute, and keeps the SQLSTATE on exec errors so it can tell this case apart.