Avoid excessive Azure blob listings during container existence checks #1156
+4
−3
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Summary
Apply a result limit to Azure list_blobs calls used for container (bucket) existence checks.
Details
Barman checks whether an Azure Blob Storage container exists by calling list_blobs.
This check only needs to validate container accessibility, but on large containers an unrestricted listing can return an excessive number of objects, inflating response payload size and network traffic.
This change adds a listing limit only for the list_blobs usage in the container existence check path, ensuring that the check returns a minimal number of objects while preserving correct behavior.
Experiment
In our production environment, we operate 58 databases using CNPG, all sharing a single Azure Blob Storage container as WAL object storage.
Before this change, the container existence check generated approximately 135 GiB of network traffic per hour.
After applying the limit, traffic dropped to around 12 MiB per hour, resulting in roughly a 10,000× reduction in network usage.