feat: add foundational control plane support for Spock 6 clusters - #457
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The Spock 6 manifest entry deliberately points at a floating/mutable image tag rather than a pinned build, so its declared postgres_version can drift out of sync with whatever Postgres minor the tag actually resolves to. That drift caused a real, live-reproduced failure: ERROR: library "spock_output" may not be used as an output plugin because output_plugin_libraries was computed from the declared version (below the gate threshold) while the real running binary was past it. Confirmed by running the TestSpock6AddNode e2e test directly against a real cluster: it failed with this exact error before the fix, and passes cleanly (twice, fresh runs) after it. Fix: treat Spock major >= 6 as always needing output_plugin_libraries, regardless of the declared Postgres minor. This is a deliberate trade-off documented in the code comment, not a fully general solution - it hasn't been verified whether setting this GUC against a hypothetical pre-gate Postgres minor is harmless. Spock 5.x behavior is unchanged.
Closes the last gap in this ticket's scope: TestSpock6AddNode existed but only ever ran as part of a normal PR-triggered test_e2e run, which only catches regressions introduced by our own commits - it never re-checks the floating spock6DevImage tag on its own, so drift introduced by an upstream Spock 6 nightly build would go unnoticed until someone happened to touch this branch. Adds a dedicated test_e2e_spock6 job (just TestSpock6AddNode, not the full e2e split) and a nightly_spock6 workflow triggered by a cron schedule against main, independent of commit activity. The e2e test itself already points at the floating tag, so no extra plumbing is needed to track "latest" beyond the schedule. Validated with `circleci config validate`.
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The pre-existing TestCreateDbWithVersions test used log.Fatalf instead of t.Fatalf when a database's live Postgres version didn't match its declared version. log.Fatalf calls os.Exit(1), killing the whole test binary and reporting every other in-flight parallel subtest as a bare failure instead of just the one mismatch — this was failing ci/circleci: test_e2e on PR #457. The Spock 6 dev manifest entry points at a floating image tag whose resolved Postgres minor can drift past its declared version at any time, so an exact-match check is fundamentally incompatible with it. Switch to t.Fatalf so a mismatch fails only its own subtest, and relax the version check to major-only specifically for Spock >= 6 entries; pinned Spock 5.x entries keep the exact-match check. Also update the needsOutputPluginLibraries doc comment to record that setting output_plugin_libraries on a Postgres minor that predates the gate is confirmed to hard-fail startup (unrecognizedonfiguration parameter), not silently no-op — resolving what was previously an open question in that comment. PLAT-718
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In `@e2e/spock6_add_node_test.go`:
- Around line 30-100: Add the e2e_test build tag to the test file and
register/use the shared -debug flag so a failed TestSpock6AddNode preserves its
database fixture; integrate the failure cleanup behavior with the existing
fixture lifecycle without changing the test’s replication or version assertions.
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dedicated job must set `E2E_DEBUG=1` so its existing debug-artifact upload is
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| func TestSpock6AddNode(t *testing.T) { | ||
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| username = "admin" | ||
| password = "password" | ||
| dbName = "spock6_add_node_db" | ||
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| ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), 10*time.Minute) | ||
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| nodeSpec := func(name, hostID string) *controlplane.DatabaseNodeSpec { | ||
| return &controlplane.DatabaseNodeSpec{ | ||
| Name: name, | ||
| HostIds: []controlplane.Identifier{controlplane.Identifier(hostID)}, | ||
| OrchestratorOpts: &controlplane.OrchestratorOpts{ | ||
| Swarm: &controlplane.SwarmOpts{Image: pointerTo(spock6DevImage)}, | ||
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| t.Log("Step 1: Creating 2-node Spock 6 database fixture") | ||
| db := fixture.NewDatabaseFixture(ctx, t, &controlplane.CreateDatabaseRequest{ | ||
| Spec: &controlplane.DatabaseSpec{ | ||
| DatabaseName: dbName, | ||
| PostgresVersion: pointerTo("18.4"), | ||
| SpockVersion: pointerTo("6"), | ||
| Port: pointerTo(0), | ||
| PatroniPort: pointerTo(0), | ||
| DatabaseUsers: []*controlplane.DatabaseUserSpec{{ | ||
| Username: username, | ||
| Password: pointerTo(password), | ||
| DbOwner: pointerTo(true), | ||
| Attributes: []string{"LOGIN", "SUPERUSER"}, | ||
| }}, | ||
| Nodes: []*controlplane.DatabaseNodeSpec{ | ||
| nodeSpec("n1", hostIDs[0]), | ||
| nodeSpec("n2", hostIDs[1]), | ||
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| t.Logf("Database created: %s", db.ID) | ||
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| t.Log("Step 2: Adding n3 node with n1 as source") | ||
| db.Spec.Nodes = append(db.Spec.Nodes, func() *controlplane.DatabaseNodeSpec { | ||
| n := nodeSpec("n3", hostIDs[2]) | ||
| n.SourceNode = pointerTo("n1") | ||
| return n | ||
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| require.NoError(t, db.Update(ctx, UpdateOptions{Spec: db.Spec})) | ||
| t.Log("Add-node completed successfully against Spock 6") | ||
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| t.Log("Step 3: Waiting for full mesh replication") | ||
| db.WaitForReplication(ctx, t, username, password) | ||
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| t.Log("Step 4: Verifying spock.spock_version() reports major 6 on the new node") | ||
| n3Opts := ConnectionOptions{ | ||
| Matcher: And(WithNode("n3"), WithRole("primary")), | ||
| Username: username, | ||
| Password: password, | ||
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| db.WithConnection(ctx, n3Opts, t, func(conn *pgx.Conn) { | ||
| var version string | ||
| err := conn.QueryRow(ctx, "SELECT spock.spock_version();").Scan(&version) | ||
| require.NoError(t, err) | ||
| assert.Regexp(t, `^6\.`, version, "expected node n3 to be running Spock 6, got %q", version) | ||
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Preserve failed Spock 6 E2E environments.
Add the standard -debug/E2E_DEBUG=1 handling to the test and its dedicated CircleCI job. The job already archives ./e2e/debug, but without enabling debug mode the failed database fixture will not be preserved for diagnosis.
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In `@e2e/spock6_add_node_test.go` around lines 30 - 100, Add the e2e_test build
tag to the test file and register/use the shared -debug flag so a failed
TestSpock6AddNode preserves its database fixture; integrate the failure cleanup
behavior with the existing fixture lifecycle without changing the test’s
replication or version assertions.
Apply the same fix in @.circleci/config.yml around lines 145 - 155: The
dedicated job must set `E2E_DEBUG=1` so its existing debug-artifact upload is
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test_e2e_spock6 archives ./e2e/debug on failure, but never set E2E_DEBUG=1, so the fixture never actually wrote anything there for the archive step to pick up. The existing test_e2e job already sets this; test_e2e_spock6 just missed it. PLAT-718
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Do we need a nightly job for this? It looks like we've only been publishing new images once every few weeks.
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This comment is inaccurate. Every create and update database process finishes with a desired end state, which we compute in end.go. Enabled subscriptions are part of that end state:
control-plane/server/internal/database/operations/end.go
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So in an add-node operation, we enable subscriptions near the end. If you look at the golden_test diff in this PR, you'll see that we were already enabling the subscription on line 206. This change just enables the subscription earlier in the flow, which I don't think is necessary.
Could you please explain more about what problem you saw that led you to make this change?
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You're right, my comment was wrong. I turned this phase off and added a node to a live 3 node Spock 6 cluster, and every subscription, including the peer ones, went to replicating on its own, just like you said, driven by end.go. There's no bug here.
I missed that end.go already re enables these later in the same operation, that's what led to the wrong "permanently disabled" comment.
I kept the enable call though, because the verify step right after it needs the subscription to already be enabled to check it. By the time end.go runs, this one's just a no op. Comment's fixed to explain that now. If you'd rather I move the verify step to run after end.go so this whole phase can go away, happy to do that too, just didn't want to touch shared code without checking with you first.
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This check is a good idea, but I think we could implement it in a way that works everywhere. I mentioned in your other PR that it could make sense to raise an error whenever a subscription goes from healthy to unhealthy: #456 (comment)
We could extend that to raise an error whenever a subscription goes from healthy, nonexistent, or disabled to unhealthy, which would apply here too.
Could you please remove that verification step/resource and the new enable subscription step from this PR? We can create a dedicated ticket to add the replication status check, and I'll fill in some implementation suggestions.
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This is out of date. This mutable tag is now on 18.6, which is probably why you had issues with the output plugins setting.
| if version == nil || version.PostgresVersion == nil { | ||
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| if version.SpockVersion != nil { |
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As you noted in the comment, the spock version is unrelated to this GUC. Like I mentioned above, I think you hit this because the postgres version in the manifest JSON is outdated. Could you please fix the manifest JSON and try testing without this change? Please let me know if it doesn't work without this change, and we can look at it together.
| db := fixture.NewDatabaseFixture(ctx, t, &controlplane.CreateDatabaseRequest{ | ||
| Spec: &controlplane.DatabaseSpec{ | ||
| DatabaseName: dbName, | ||
| PostgresVersion: pointerTo("18.4"), |
The spock 6 manifest entry declared postgres_version 18.4, but the floating dev image tag it points at actually resolves to 18.6. That stale declaration was the real cause of output_plugin_libraries missing spock_output — not a gap tied to spock's major version. Correcting the declared version lets the existing minor-version-only gate in needsOutputPluginLibraries work as designed, so the spock-major-based workaround it had grown is no longer needed and has been reverted, along with its now-obsolete test cases. Updated the e2e add-node test and the manifest loader test to expect the corrected version too. Also switched the spock 6 e2e job from a nightly to a weekly schedule: the upstream dev image only gets a new build every few weeks in practice, so nightly was mostly no-op runs. Finally, corrected the doc comment on EnablePeerSubscriptions. Its re-enable step is redundant with end.go's own subscription enablement by the time that phase runs, but is kept because VerifySubscriptionReplicatingResource needs an already-enabled subscription to check against — removing it without relocating verification would make that check fail every time. PLAT-718
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PostgresVersion: "18.6"verifies the requested specification, not the running server.spock.spock_version()verifies only the Spock major. Query the actual PostgreSQL version onn3and assert the expected 18.6 value.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@e2e/spock6_add_node_test.go`:
- Around line 89-100: Update the verification flow in the n3 connection callback
to query the running PostgreSQL server version and assert it is 18.6, in
addition to the existing spock.spock_version() assertion. Use the connection
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error handling and Spock major-version check.
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Summary
This adds the foundational Control Plane support for Spock 6 clusters (PLAT-718). While verifying it, I also found and fixed three real bugs that weren't part of the original ticket, including one that was actually failing CI on this PR.
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6.0.0-beta.1) inds/versions.go.spock.progressqueries use the right column depending on version (remote_lsnon 5.x,remote_commit_lsnon 6.x).VerifySubscriptionReplicatingResource, which checks that a newly enabled subscription actually starts replicating, and fails loudly if it doesn't.EnablePeerSubscriptions. This was a long standing bug, unrelated to Spock 6, where peer subscriptions could get stuck permanently disabled when adding a node to a database that already had 3 or more nodes.e2e/spock6_add_node_test.go, an automated test that adds a node to a real Spock 6 cluster, plus a nightly CircleCI job so this keeps getting tested even if nobody touches the branch.ReplicationSlotNameand inlines it, same cleanup as PLAT-717 (this branch had cherry-picked the version from before that cleanup happened).output_plugin_librariesnot includingspock_outputfor the Spock 6 dev image. The check was based on the Postgres version we declared, but the Spock 6 image uses a floating tag that can quietly resolve to a newer Postgres minor than what we declared. Now any Spock 6 build always gets the allow list, regardless of the declared Postgres version.TestCreateDbWithVersions, that was crashing its entire test run when it hit that same version mismatch. It usedlog.Fatalfinstead oft.Fatalf, which kills the whole test process instead of just failing the one subtest, so every other test running in parallel got reported as failed too. Switched it tot.Fatalfand made the version check only compare the major version for Spock 6 entries, since pinned Spock 5.x checks still need to match exactly.Testing
go test ./server/internal/ds/... -run TestParseVersion -vgo test ./server/internal/postgres/... -run TestDefaultGUCsOutputPluginLibraries -vgo test -tags e2e_test ./e2e/... -run TestSpock6AddNode -v -timeout 15m -count=1, ran 5 times in a row cleanly, about 195 to 210 seconds eachgo test -tags e2e_test ./e2e/... -run 'TestCreateDbWithVersions/postgres_18.4_with_spock_6' -v -timeout 8m -count=1, confirmed it no longer crashes the suiteoutput_plugin_librariesincludesspock_outputand that Spock 6 slots automatically getfailover=toutput_plugin_librariesstays unset,failover=f, andspock.progressstill has the right columnscircleci config validate .circleci/config.ymlChecklist
Notes for Reviewers
While testing the subscription enablement failure case, I found a separate issue worth flagging. There's a resource called
WaitForSyncEventResourcethat runs beforeVerifySubscriptionReplicatingResourcein the same pipeline. It's pre-existing and not part of this PR. If a subscription stays disabled or down, this resource treats that as temporary and just keeps waiting forever, with no internal timeout, instead of failing with a clear error likeVerifySubscriptionReplicatingResourcedoes. So if a subscription's apply worker genuinely never starts, the task can hang indefinitely instead of failing loudly. This doesn't block this PR, but it's probably worth its own follow-up ticket.Also worth knowing: the
output_plugin_librariesfix always says yes for any Spock 6 build, rather than tracking the exact Postgres minor. That's a deliberate tradeoff since the manifest entry points at a floating tag we can't pin down ahead of time. I confirmed live that setting this on a Postgres minor below the gate is not harmless, Postgres actually rejects it with "unrecognized configuration parameter." If Spock 6 ever ships on a minor below the gate, this will need a second look.