Right now metrics observation handler does not track database connections but updates a single Gauge based on HasqlPoolObs events. This is problematic because Hasql pool reports various connection events in multiple phases. The connection state machine is not simple and to precisely report the number of connections in various states, it is necessary to track their lifecycles.
This change adds a ConnTrack data structure and logic to track database connections lifecycles. At the moment it supports "connected" and "inUse" connection counts precisely. The "pgrst_db_pool_available" metric is implemented on top of ConnTrack instead of a simple Gauge.
retryingSchemaCacheLoad flushes the pool upon every retry before it starts reloading the schema. This is too early as schema reloading might take some time during which new connections might be acquired. The consequence is that:
* upon successful schema cache reload we might have some connections created with the old schema cache
* we close connections upon each retry and under load we will keep closing and re-opening connections until schema cache load succeeds
This change is to make sure we flush the pool only after successful schema cache querying but before loading (so that connections acquired during loading wait for it and do not interfere with timing the loading process).
Some helpers are provided for introspecting metrics already (used in JWT cache tests). This change provides facilities to additionally validate emited Observation events.
A new Spec module is also implemented, adding basic tests of schema cache reloading - their main goal is to excercise the new infrastructure.
- Create separate test suite for observability tests
- Create wrapper script `postgrest-test-observability`
- Add to CI and `postgrest-check`
- Move JWT cache tests under observability tests
Signed-off-by: Taimoor Zaeem <taimoorzaeem@gmail.com>
