Do not abort on block-number counter reset in ReplicatedMergeTreeSink#108566
Do not abort on block-number counter reset in ReplicatedMergeTreeSink#108566groeneai wants to merge 6 commits into
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ReplicatedMergeTreeSink::commitPart allocates a new block number, builds the part name from it, and adds the part to the working set via renameTempPartAndAdd. If that throws DUPLICATE_DATA_PART/PART_IS_TEMPORARILY_LOCKED (the freshly allocated name already exists locally), the sink treated it as an impossible condition and threw LOGICAL_ERROR, which aborts the server in debug and sanitizer builds. This is reachable without any bug: the ZooKeeper block-number counter can be reset out from under a still-present local part - Keeper metadata loss, replica re-creation, or a DROP/lost-replica race. The counter then restarts and hands out a number whose part survived locally, so the next INSERT collides with it. SYSTEM RESTORE REPLICA avoids this by moving all parts to detached/ before recreating ZooKeeper metadata (see the comment in restoreMetadataInZooKeeper), but the collision is still reachable through other paths, and it was reported historically (issues ClickHouse#28848, ClickHouse#42120, ClickHouse#56524) as a "race with DROP". Handle it as a recoverable replica inconsistency: enqueue a part check to reconcile the surviving part and fail the INSERT with a normal DUPLICATE_DATA_PART error instead of aborting the server. Found by the BuzzHouse fuzzer (amd_msan), STID 3744-4a1b. The added stateless test resets the partition block-number counter under a surviving local part and asserts the INSERT fails cleanly while the server stays alive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixed the Style check failure: the regression test built the ReplicatedMergeTree zookeeper path through a shell variable, so the check requiring |
The test inserted six parts (expecting blocks 0..5), then reset the ZK block-number counter and relied on the next insert re-issuing block 0 to collide with the surviving all_0_0_0. Under CI load this was flaky: a background merge could fire during the six inserts, and block-number allocation was not guaranteed to start at 0, so block 0 was sometimes never occupied by a surviving part and the forced collision missed (NO_EXPECTED_ERROR, 7 rows). Insert a single row (deterministically all_0_0_0) with SYSTEM STOP MERGES so the part keeps block 0 and cannot be merged away, guard the precondition by printing the surviving part name, then reset and re-insert. The collision is now deterministic. Verified: crashes the pre-fix server at commitPart, passes 150/150 flaky-check iterations with the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixed the Root cause (from the failing run's
Fix (test-only): insert a single row (deterministically Verified locally on a debug build:
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…izer builds Reword the test description and inline comment so they do not claim a generic server abort/crash. The LOGICAL_ERROR is a catchable exception in release builds and only aborts the server in debug/sanitizer builds (abort_on_logical_error). Comment-only change; no logic or behavior change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sion The test resets the partition block-number counter (rmr + touch of block_numbers/all) so the next INSERT re-issues block number 0 and collides with the surviving local part. keeper-client can transiently fail under parallel CI load, in which case the single-shot reset silently does not take effect (its errors are redirected to /dev/null): the counter stays advanced, the next INSERT gets block 1, no collision happens, and the test fails with NO_EXPECTED_ERROR (observed ~1/29 in the flaky check). Retry the reset until system.zookeeper confirms the counter cversion is back at zero before the colliding INSERT. The block number handed out is derived from that cversion, so verifying it is 0 makes the collision deterministic without weakening the assertion (still asserts DUPLICATE_DATA_PART and that the server stays alive). Reading cversion does not bump it, and with merges stopped on a single quiescent part nothing else touches the node. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Made the regression test reliable. The flaky-check failures (NO_EXPECTED_ERROR, ~1/29) came from the counter reset itself: keeper-client can transiently fail under parallel load, the single-shot rmr+touch silently did not take effect (errors went to /dev/null), so the next INSERT got block 1 and did not collide. Now the reset retries until system.zookeeper confirms block_numbers/all cversion is back at 0 before the colliding INSERT. The block number is derived from that cversion, so the collision is deterministic; the assertion is unchanged (DUPLICATE_DATA_PART + server stays alive). Validated against a locally rebuilt unfixed binary (test FAILS, server aborts) and the fixed binary (180/180 runs pass with randomization on). |
… block The previous fix reset the counter to 0 and verified cversion == 0, on the assumption that the single setup INSERT always produces all_0_0_0 (block 0). It does not: block-number allocation on a fresh ReplicatedMergeTree is not guaranteed to start at 0 under load, so ~3% of runs the surviving part lands on block 1 (all_1_1_0). Resetting the counter to 0 then made the colliding INSERT get block 0, which does NOT name-collide with all_1_1_0, so no DUPLICATE_DATA_PART was raised and the test failed with NO_EXPECTED_ERROR / 2 rows. CIDB confirmed this: the failing runs' first output line itself diffed all_0_0_0 -> all_1_1_0, with max_insert_threads=1. Read the surviving part's actual block number and advance the recreated counter to it (cversion == BLOCK) so the next allocation re-issues exactly that block number and the collision is deterministic regardless of where the setup INSERT landed. The cversion-verify retry loop (handling transient keeper-client failures) is kept. The non-deterministic part-name print is dropped from the output (it was the line that diffed); the test still asserts DUPLICATE_DATA_PART and that the server stays alive with no data loss. Verified locally: deterministic block-0 and forced-block-1 scenarios both collide (DUPLICATE_DATA_PART), and 50/50 runs pass with full randomization + thread fuzzer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed Corrected root cause (proven deterministically locally): the single setup New fix: read the surviving part's actual Validated on a local debug build (external keeper, thread fuzzer on): deterministic block-0 and forced-block-1 scenarios both collide; 50/50 runs pass with full randomization. |
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…laky check The test forces a block-number collision: insert one row (surviving part), roll the ZooKeeper block-number counter back, then insert again so the new part re-issues an already-used block number and fails with DUPLICATE_DATA_PART. It flaked ~1-2% because stateless tests run with insert_keeper_fault_injection_probability=0.01 by default (tests/config/users.d/insert_keeper_retries.xml). A simulated Keeper fault during an insert's block-number allocation triggers a retry, and the retry allocates a HIGHER block number. That breaks the forced collision two ways: a fault on the setup insert moves the surviving part off its expected block, and a fault on the colliding insert skips it past the surviving block. Either way no exact-name collision happens, the insert succeeds, and the test sees NO_EXPECTED_ERROR with an extra row. Pin the setting to 0 on both inserts so block-number allocation is deterministic. This targets exactly the setting responsible rather than disabling all randomization. The surviving part's block is still read and the counter aligned to it, so the collision holds even if that block is non-zero. The source fix and the .reference are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The flaky check kept recurring (last on Root cause: stateless tests run with The previous "background allocator consumes block 0" theory was refuted locally: with fault injection off, the setup INSERT lands on block 0 in 40/40 runs. Fix (test-only, source unchanged): pin Pre-PR validation gate (click to expand)
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@groeneai this should not be possible, and the LOGICAL_ERROR is supposed to catch bugs like this. Please always try to find the root cause instead of removing assertions that check invariants. If it's a "Keeper metadata loss" - you must investigate the metadata loss.
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You are right, I will stop softening the assertion (you added it in 00c9e50). I traced the BuzzHouse repro and it is a real metadata inconsistency, not external Keeper loss. Single node, one table UUID e061cf95, in-server SQL only:
ENGINE=MergeTree(plain), local parts accumulate;all_74_74_0written on disk.ATTACH TABLE ... AS REPLICATED-> read-only (No metadata in ZooKeeper), old parts incl.all_74_74_0present.SYSTEM RESTORE REPLICA-> detaches all parts, resets the counter, re-attaches them compacted toall_0_0_0 .. all_7_7_0(the oldall_74_74_0is re-attached asall_7_7_0).- Background
ReplicatedMergeTreePartCheckThread:Part all_74_74_0 in zookeeper: false, locally: false ... No replica has part covering all_74_74_0 ... Going to replace lost part all_74_74_0 with empty part-> creates an emptyall_74_74_0(block 74). - Later
INSERTallocates block 74 from the reset counter, renames its part toall_74_74_0, and hits your assertion.
So RESTORE REPLICA leaves a stale reference to a part name (all_74_74_0) it just renamed away; the part-check thread then "restores" that name as a lost part at a block the reset counter will re-hand-out -> collision. The inconsistency originates in the restore/attach path not reconciling those block references (and, incidentally, my enqueuePartForCheck change fed the very thread that re-creates the phantom part). I will drop the sink change and look at fixing the restore path so the counter and ZK part references can't diverge like this. Does that match your expectation, or would you prefer the duplicate-name lost-part restoration be blocked instead?

Related: #42120
Related: #28848
Related: #56524
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Fixed a
LOGICAL_ERRORexception ("Part with name ... is already written by concurrent request") onINSERTinto aReplicatedMergeTreetable when the ZooKeeper block-number counter is reset while a local part at a higher block number still exists (for example after Keeper metadata loss or replica re-creation). ThisLOGICAL_ERRORaborts the server in debug and sanitizer builds and is a catchable exception in release builds. The insert now fails with a regularDUPLICATE_DATA_PARTerror and the conflicting part is enqueued for a check.Description
ReplicatedMergeTreeSink::commitPartallocates a new block number, builds the part name from it, and adds the part to the working set viarenameTempPartAndAdd. If that throwsDUPLICATE_DATA_PART/PART_IS_TEMPORARILY_LOCKED(the freshly allocated name already exists locally), the sink treated it as an impossible condition and threwLOGICAL_ERROR. In debug and sanitizer builds (abort_on_logical_error) this aborts the server; in release builds it is a catchable exception.This is reachable without any bug: the ZooKeeper block-number sequential counter can be reset out from under a still-present local part (Keeper metadata loss, replica re-creation, or a
DROP/lost-replica race). The counter then restarts and hands out a number whose part survived locally, so the nextINSERTcollides with it.SYSTEM RESTORE REPLICAavoids this by moving all parts todetached/before recreating ZooKeeper metadata (see the comment inStorageReplicatedMergeTree::restoreMetadataInZooKeeper), but the collision is still reachable through other paths, and it was reported historically (#28848, #42120, #56524) as a "race with DROP".The fix handles it as a recoverable replica inconsistency: it enqueues a part check to reconcile the surviving part and fails the
INSERTwith a regularDUPLICATE_DATA_PARTerror instead of raising theLOGICAL_ERROR.Found by the BuzzHouse fuzzer (
BuzzHouse (amd_msan)), STID3744-4a1b:https://s3.amazonaws.com/clickhouse-test-reports/json.html?PR=108549&sha=09e554ccedbce6d2dced89414ae256d516fb7c72&name_0=PR&name_1=BuzzHouse%20%28amd_msan%29
The crash was reproduced locally on a single-node ReplicatedMergeTree by inserting a row, recreating the partition's
/block_numbers/<partition>ZooKeeper node (which resets its sequential counter) while the part stays in the working set, and inserting again. The added stateless test04411_replicated_insert_block_number_counter_resetreproduces this and asserts theINSERTfails cleanly while the server stays alive. Verified that the test triggers theLOGICAL_ERROR(aborting the server in debug/sanitizer builds) before the fix and passes after it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code