Before commit 6112853cda in MySQL 4.1.1
introduced the parameter innodb_file_per_table, all InnoDB data was
written to the InnoDB system tablespace (often named ibdata1).
A serious design problem is that once the system tablespace has grown to
some size, it cannot shrink even if the data inside it has been deleted.
There are also other design problems, such as the server hang MDEV-29930
that should only be possible when using innodb_file_per_table=0 and
innodb_undo_tablespaces=0 (storing both tables and undo logs in the
InnoDB system tablespace).
The parameter innodb_change_buffering was deprecated
in commit b5852ffbee.
Starting with commit baf276e6d4
(MDEV-19229) the number of innodb_undo_tablespaces can be increased,
so that the undo logs can be moved out of the system tablespace
of an existing installation.
If all these things (tables, undo logs, and the change buffer) are
removed from the InnoDB system tablespace, the only variable-size
data structure inside it is the InnoDB data dictionary.
DDL operations on .ibd files was optimized in
commit 86dc7b4d4c (MDEV-24626).
That should have removed any thinkable performance advantage of
using innodb_file_per_table=0.
Since there should be no benefit of setting innodb_file_per_table=0,
the parameter should be deprecated. Starting with MySQL 5.6 and
MariaDB Server 10.0, the default value is innodb_file_per_table=1.
The test mariabackup.mdev-14447 is inserting relatively much
data while concurrently backing up the data. The test often fails
on CI systems, possibly due to an inherent race condition between
the producer (server) and consumer (backup) that would be solved
if the backup was being produced by the server (MDEV-14992).
The written data volume was increased somewhat by
commit 4179f93d28 (MDEV-18976).
Let us trim the log volume by not writing PAGE_CHECKSUM records
or row-level undo log records, and make the test cover what was
intended to cover by creating the table in the system tablespace.
During data file creation, InnoDB holds dict_sys mutex, tries to
write page 0 of the file and flushes the file. This not only causing
unnecessary contention but also a deviation from the write-ahead
logging protocol.
The clean sequence of operations is that we first start a dictionary
transaction and write SYS_TABLES and SYS_INDEXES records that identify
the tablespace. Then, we durably write a FILE_CREATE record to the
write-ahead log and create the file.
Recovery should not unnecessarily insist that the first page of each
data file that is referred to by the redo log is valid. It must be
enough that page 0 of the tablespace can be initialized based on the
redo log contents.
We introduce a new data structure deferred_spaces that keeps track
of corrupted-looking files during recovery. The data structure holds
the last LSN of a FILE_ record referring to the data file, the
tablespace identifier, and the last known file name.
There are two scenarios can happen during recovery:
i) Sufficient memory: InnoDB can reconstruct the
tablespace after parsing all redo log records.
ii) Insufficient memory(multiple apply phase): InnoDB should
store the deferred tablespace redo logs even though
tablespace is not present. InnoDB should start constructing
the tablespace when it first encounters deferred tablespace
id.
Mariabackup copies the zero filled ibd file in backup_fix_ddl() as
the extension of .new file. Mariabackup test case does page flushing
when it deals with DDL operation during backup operation.
fil_ibd_create(): Remove the write of page0 and flushing of file
fil_ibd_load(): Return FIL_LOAD_DEFER if the tablespace has
zero filled page0
Datafile: Clean up the error handling, and do not report errors
if we are in the middle of recovery. The caller will check
Datafile::m_defer.
fil_node_t::deferred: Indicates whether the tablespace loading was
deferred during recovery
FIL_LOAD_DEFER: Returned by fil_ibd_load() to indicate that tablespace
file was cannot be loaded.
recv_sys_t::recover_deferred(): Invoke deferred_spaces.create() to
initialize fil_space_t based on buffered metadata and records to
initialize page 0. Ignore the flags in fil_name_t, because they are
intentionally invalid.
fil_name_process(): Update deferred_spaces.
recv_sys_t::parse(): Store the redo log if the tablespace id
is present in deferred spaces
recv_sys_t::recover_low(): Should recover the first page of
the tablespace even though the tablespace instance is not
present
recv_sys_t::apply(): Initialize the deferred tablespace
before applying the deferred tablespace records
recv_validate_tablespace(): Skip the validation for deferred_spaces.
recv_rename_files(): Moved and revised from recv_sys_t::apply().
For deferred-recovery tablespaces, do not attempt to rename the
file if a deferred-recovery tablespace is associated with the name.
recv_recovery_from_checkpoint_start(): Invoke recv_rename_files()
and initialize all deferred tablespaces before applying redo log.
fil_node_t::read_page0(): Skip page0 validation if the tablespace
is deferred
buf_page_create_deferred(): A variant of buf_page_create() when
the fil_space_t is not available yet
This is joint work with Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani,
who implemented an initial prototype.
for multi-file innodb_data_file_path.
Use fil_extend_space_to_desired_size() to correctly extend system
tablespace. Make sure to get tablespace size from the first tablespace
part.
