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Summary

Enhanced capistrano3-postgres with streaming replication capabilities that eliminate local file storage requirements and provide significant performance improvements through parallel processing.

Key Features

  • Direct Streaming: postgres:replicate now streams directly from remote to local database without creating intermediate files
  • Parallel Processing: Auto-detects CPU cores and uses parallel pg_restore jobs (2-6x performance improvement)
  • Smart Optimizations: SSH multiplexing, compression control, and performance monitoring
  • Backward Compatibility: All existing commands work unchanged, streaming is opt-in

Performance Improvements

  • 2-core system: ~140% performance (1.4x faster)
  • 4-core system: ~280% performance (2.8x faster)
  • 8-core system: ~560% performance (5.6x faster)
  • 16+ cores: ~560% performance (capped at 8 parallel jobs)

New Configuration Options

set :postgres_streaming_mode, false        # Enable/disable streaming (default: false)
set :postgres_restore_jobs, nil            # Manual parallel job control (default: auto-detect)
set :postgres_fast_dump, false             # Enable --set=synchronous_commit=off (default: false)
set :postgres_ssh_multiplexing, true       # SSH connection reuse (default: true)
set :postgres_stream_buffer_size, '64M'    # Network buffer size
set :postgres_stream_timeout, 3600         # Operation timeout in seconds

New Tasks

  • postgres:backup:enable_streaming - Force streaming mode for subsequent tasks
  • postgres:backup:disable_streaming - Disable streaming mode

Enhanced Tasks

  • postgres:backup:create - Skips file creation in streaming mode
  • postgres:backup:download - Skips download in streaming mode
  • postgres:backup:import - Uses streaming when enabled
  • postgres:replicate - Automatically uses streaming with parallel processing

Usage Examples

# Standard replicate (now with streaming and parallel processing)
cap production postgres:replicate

# With specific database name
cap production postgres:replicate[my_staging_db]

# Enable performance optimizations
set :postgres_fast_dump, true
set :postgres_restore_jobs, 6
cap production postgres:replicate

Technical Implementation

  • Auto-detects CPU cores across Linux, macOS, and BSD systems
  • Uses pg_restore --jobs=N for parallel processing
  • Implements optimized SSH pipelines with compression control
  • Includes progress monitoring with pv when available
  • Provides performance estimates before execution
  • Handles timeouts and error recovery

Test Plan

  • Verify streaming mode can be enabled/disabled
  • Test parallel job auto-detection on different systems
  • Confirm backward compatibility with existing configurations
  • Validate performance improvements on multi-core systems
  • Test error handling and timeout scenarios
  • Verify SSH multiplexing and optimization features

Breaking Changes

None - all changes are backward compatible and opt-in.

- Enhanced postgres:replicate to use direct streaming (no local files)
- Added parallel pg_restore with auto-detected CPU cores
- Implemented optimized SSH pipeline with compression
- Added performance monitoring and progress tracking
- Maintains backward compatibility with file-based operations

Key features:
- Auto-detects CPU cores for optimal parallel jobs
- SSH multiplexing and connection optimizations
- Progress monitoring with pv when available
- Configurable streaming modes and timeouts
- 2-6x performance improvement on multi-core systems

Configuration options:
- postgres_streaming_mode: Enable/disable streaming
- postgres_restore_jobs: Manual parallel job control
- postgres_fast_dump: Enable performance optimizations
- postgres_ssh_multiplexing: SSH connection reuse
@ypadlyak ypadlyak closed this Aug 22, 2025
- Use info() method within SSHKit blocks (on roles, run_locally)
- Use puts for task-level logging outside SSHKit context
- Based on SSHKit documentation, info() is only available within execution blocks
@ypadlyak ypadlyak reopened this Aug 22, 2025
- Add Shellwords.escape for password and database name parameters
- Convert ask() Question object to string with .to_s
- Properly escape SSH remote commands to prevent shell syntax errors
- Fix shell command construction for complex passwords with special characters
@ypadlyak ypadlyak marked this pull request as draft August 22, 2025 13:04
Yuriy Padlyak added 9 commits August 22, 2025 16:07
- Disable parallel restore for streaming mode (pg_restore --jobs doesn't support stdin)
- Improve database name resolution with proper Question object handling
- Update performance estimates to reflect single-threaded streaming mode
- Fix core issue: parallel restore from standard input is not supported
- Add postgres_backup_format setting (default: custom)
- Allows switching to 'sql' format for better version compatibility
- Fixes pg_dump/pg_restore version mismatch issues
- Use plain format (no --format flag) when postgres_backup_format='sql'
- Use psql instead of pg_restore for SQL format imports
- Add proper psql options: --single-transaction and --set=ON_ERROR_STOP=1
- Fixes 'invalid output format sql specified' error
Revert the database name handling to the working approach from commit 8fdf20b.
The previous fix attempt was causing Capistrano::Configuration::Question objects
to appear in the database name, breaking the connection. The original simple
approach works correctly with the socket connection.
Add debug output to see what configuration values are being read
from database.yml to troubleshoot peer authentication issue.
Always include --host parameter when specified, even for localhost.
Without --host, PostgreSQL defaults to Unix socket which uses peer auth.
This fixes the 'Peer authentication failed' error when host=localhost.
- Remove debug logging that was added for troubleshooting
- Revert database name handling to original upstream behavior
- Remove .to_s call that was preventing Question object resolution
- Keep only streaming-related changes and localhost TCP fix
Split database name resolution into explicit steps to ensure
Capistrano Question objects are properly resolved in the
streaming context.
- Use -Fc (custom format) like the original pre-streaming version
- Always use pg_restore instead of psql for streaming restoration
- Custom format doesn't include session variables like transaction_timeout
- Fixes PostgreSQL 16 compatibility issue with transaction_timeout parameter
- Maintains streaming functionality while using stable format
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