This PR fixes an issue where parsing long `_msg` values caused errors,
resulting in some log records not being displayed.
The error occurred due to partial processing of strings. In some cases,
a long record could be split into multiple chunks, causing only part of
the record to be processed instead of the entire entry.
#6281
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
- Consistently return the first `limit` log entries if the total size of found log entries doesn't exceed 1Mb.
See app/vlselect/logsql/sort_writer.go . Previously random log entries could be returned with each request.
- Document the change at docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md
- Document the `limit` query arg at docs/VictoriaLogs/querying/README.md
- Make the change less intrusive.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5674
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5778
This reverts commit 3d7a77bf82.
Reason for revert: relative links do not work properly at GitHub code
and at GitHub wiki. For example, the following page contains broken links
before reverting this commit:
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md
It is always better to use absolute links thank relative links, since the page contents
can be copy-n-pasted to other pages, which are located in vastly different directories,
and all the links will remain working.
- Move uniqueFields from rows to blockStreamMerger struct.
This allows localizing all the references to uniqueFields inside blockStreamMerger.mustWriteBlock(),
which should improve readability and maintainability of the code.
- Remove logging of the event when blocks cannot be merged because they contain more than maxColumnsPerBlock,
since the provided logging didn't provide the solution for the issue with too many columns.
I couldn't figure out the proper solution, which could be helpful for end user,
so decided to remove the logging until we find the solution.
This commit also contains the following additional changes:
- It truncates field names longer than 128 chars during logs ingestion.
This should prevent from ingesting bogus field names.
This also should prevent from too big columnsHeader blocks,
which could negatively affect search query performance,
since columnsHeader is read on every scan of the corresponding data block.
- It limits the maximum length of const column value to 256.
Longer values are stored in an ordinary columns.
This helps limiting the size of columnsHeader blocks
and improving search query performance by avoiding
reading too long const columns on every scan of the corresponding data block.
- It deduplicates columns with identical names during data ingestion
and background merging. Previously it was possible to pass columns with duplicate names
to block.mustInitFromRows(), and they were stored as is in the block.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4762
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4969
