The postings list index may point to series that no longer
exist during garbage collection. This clarifies that this is valid
behavior.
It would be possible, though more complex, to always keep them in sync.
However, series existance means nothing in itself as the queried time
range defines whether there's actual data. Thus our definition is sane
overall as long as drift is kept small.
Instead, just make the anchoring part of the internal regex. This helps because
some users will want to read back the `Value` field and expect it to be the
same as the input value (e.g. some tests in Cortex), or use the value in
another context which is already expected to add its own anchoring, leading to
superfluous double anchoring (such as when we translate matchers into remote
read request matchers).
This commit introduces error returns in various places and is explicit
about closing persisted blocks.
{Index,Chunk,Tombstone}Readers are more consistent about their Close()
method. Whenever a reader is retrieved, the corresponding close method
must eventually be called. We use this to track pending readers against
persisted blocks.
Querier's against the DB no longer hold a read lock for their entire
lifecycle. This avoids long running queriers to starve new ones when we
have to acquire a write lock when reloading blocks.
Instead or only printing the help message, which is not always helpful.
For example, when upgrading from prometheus v1, the retention time value
format has changed and now only accepts one unit (e.g. "15d") where it
previously allowed more complex strings (e.g. "360h0m0s").
This commit provides the error message as an explanation for the parsing
failure.
This change fixes the variable names holding the tsdb_head_max_time and
tsdb_head_min_time metrics. It is a cosmetic change to improve the
code readability as the metric values are taken from the correct
variables.
The timer semantics is really hard. The simple pattern as given in the
godoc for the time package assumes we are not elsewhere consuming from
the timer's channel. However, exactly that can happen here with the
right sequence of events. Thus, we have to drain the channel only if
it has something to drain.
This allows to insert IDs to postings out of order until
a trigger function is called. This avoids the insertion sort we usually
do which can be very costly since WAL entries are more out of order than
regular adds.
