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We tend to access the system database a lot and we never cache it in the
lease manager. Before this patch, we'd always copy and re-allocate a pair
of them. There's no need to do that.

name                                           old time/op    new time/op    delta
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=true-16       141µs ± 3%     132µs ± 4%  -6.35%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=false-16      138µs ± 4%     129µs ± 3%  -6.80%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=true-16      134µs ± 2%     124µs ± 4%  -7.55%  (p=0.000 n=20+17)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=false-16     129µs ± 3%     120µs ± 3%  -6.98%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)

name                                           old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=true-16      38.1kB ± 2%    36.8kB ± 3%  -3.53%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=false-16     36.2kB ± 0%    34.8kB ± 0%  -3.93%  (p=0.000 n=17+17)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=true-16     42.6kB ± 0%    41.2kB ± 0%  -3.30%  (p=0.000 n=18+16)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=false-16    41.0kB ± 0%    39.6kB ± 0%  -3.44%  (p=0.000 n=16+18)

name                                           old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=true-16         368 ± 0%       345 ± 0%  -6.25%  (p=0.000 n=16+16)
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=false-16        354 ± 0%       331 ± 0%  -6.50%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=true-16        337 ± 0%       315 ± 1%  -6.69%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=false-16       325 ± 0%       302 ± 0%  -7.08%  (p=0.000 n=17+18)

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This one doesn't quite work. I really want to change catalogkv to hand back a builder instead of a descriptor.

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Okay, I have a new approach here that I'm happy with.

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This is The Way, at least for the time being.

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Is there any value in adding checks to ensure that a mutable system database is never returned? Although unlikely, previously it was no big deal if that happened, because the object was transient, but now it's a global var...

We tend to access the system database a lot and we never cache it in the
lease manager. Before this patch, we'd always copy and re-allocate a pair
of them. There's no need to do that.

```
name                                           old time/op    new time/op    delta
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=true-16       141µs ± 3%     132µs ± 4%  -6.35%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=false-16      138µs ± 4%     129µs ± 3%  -6.80%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=true-16      134µs ± 2%     124µs ± 4%  -7.55%  (p=0.000 n=20+17)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=false-16     129µs ± 3%     120µs ± 3%  -6.98%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)

name                                           old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=true-16      38.1kB ± 2%    36.8kB ± 3%  -3.53%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=false-16     36.2kB ± 0%    34.8kB ± 0%  -3.93%  (p=0.000 n=17+17)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=true-16     42.6kB ± 0%    41.2kB ± 0%  -3.30%  (p=0.000 n=18+16)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=false-16    41.0kB ± 0%    39.6kB ± 0%  -3.44%  (p=0.000 n=16+18)

name                                           old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=true-16         368 ± 0%       345 ± 0%  -6.25%  (p=0.000 n=16+16)
FlowSetup/vectorize=true/distribute=false-16        354 ± 0%       331 ± 0%  -6.50%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=true-16        337 ± 0%       315 ± 1%  -6.69%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
FlowSetup/vectorize=false/distribute=false-16       325 ± 0%       302 ± 0%  -7.08%  (p=0.000 n=17+18)
```

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@ajwerner ajwerner force-pushed the ajwerner/cheaper-system-db-access branch from 1a06e43 to bba05aa Compare October 26, 2021 22:04
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@postamar I revamped this to generate a mutable descriptor on the fly if one is needed. This side-steps any concerns about the singleton being modified.

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bors r+

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@craig craig bot merged commit b5aedea into cockroachdb:master Oct 27, 2021
craig bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 15, 2021
72669: bazel: properly generate `.eg.go` code in `pkg/sql/colconv` via bazel r=rail a=rickystewart

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72714: sql/catalog/lease: permit gaps in descriptor history r=ajwerner a=ajwerner

In #71239, we added a new mechanism to look up historical descriptors. I
erroneously informed @jameswsj10 that we would never have gaps in the
descriptor history, and, thus, when looking up historical descriptors, we
could always use the earliest descriptor's modification time as the bounds
for the relevant query.

This turns out to not be true. Consider the case where version 3 is a
historical version and then version 4 pops up and gets leased. Version 3 will
get removed if it is not referenced. In the meantime, version 3 existed when we
went to go find version 2. At that point, we'll inject version 2 and have
version 4 leased.  We need to make sure we can handle the case where we need to
go fetch version 3.

In the meantime, this change also removes some logic added to support the
eventual resurrection of #59606 whereby we'll use the export request to fetch
descriptor history to power historical queries even in the face of descriptors
having been deleted.

Fixes #72706.

Release note: None

72740: sql/catalog/descs: fix perf regression  r=ajwerner a=ajwerner

This commit in #71936 had the unfortunate side-effect of allocating and forcing reads on the `uncommittedDescriptors` set even when we aren't looking for the system database. This has an outsized impact on the performance of the single-node, high-core-count KV runs. Instead of always initializing the system database, just do it when we access it. 

```
name             old ops/s   new ops/s   delta
KV95-throughput  88.6k ± 0%  94.8k ± 1%   +7.00%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name             old ms/s    new ms/s    delta
KV95-P50          1.60 ± 0%   1.40 ± 0%  -12.50%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
KV95-Avg          0.60 ± 0%   0.50 ± 0%  -16.67%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
```

The second commit is more speculative and came from looking at a profile where 1.6% of the allocated garbage was due to that `NameInfo` even though we'll never, ever hit it.

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 Fixes #72499

Co-authored-by: Ricky Stewart <ricky@cockroachlabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Werner <awerner32@gmail.com>
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