Remove one of the major sources of race condiitons in mariadb-test.
Normally, mariadb_close() sends COM_QUIT to the server and immediately
disconnects. In mariadb-test it means the test can switch to another
connection and sends queries to the server before the server even
started parsing the COM_QUIT packet and these queries can see the
connection as fully active, as it didn't reach dispatch_command yet.
This is a major source of instability in tests and many - but not all,
still less than a half - tests employ workarounds. The correct one
is a pair count_sessions.inc/wait_until_count_sessions.inc.
Also very popular was wait_until_disconnected.inc, which was completely
useless, because it verifies that the connection is closed, and after
disconnect it always is, it didn't verify whether the server processed
COM_QUIT. Sadly the placebo was as widely used as the real thing.
Let's fix this by making mariadb-test `disconnect` command _to wait_ for
the server to confirm. This makes almost all workarounds redundant.
In some cases count_sessions.inc/wait_until_count_sessions.inc is still
needed, though, as only `disconnect` command is changed:
* after external tools, like `exec $MYSQL`
* after failed `connect` command
* replication, after `STOP SLAVE`
* Federated/CONNECT/SPIDER/etc after `DROP TABLE`
and also in some XA tests, because an XA transaction is dissociated from
the THD very late, after the server has closed the client connection.
Collateral cleanups: fix comments, remove some redundant statements:
* DROP IF EXISTS if nothing is known to exist
* DROP table/view before DROP DATABASE
* REVOKE privileges before DROP USER
etc
Updated tests: cases with bugs or which cannot be run
with the cursor-protocol were excluded with
"--disable_cursor_protocol"/"--enable_cursor_protocol"
Fix for v.10.5
In MariaDB, we have a confusing problem where:
* The transaction_isolation option can be set in a configuration file, but it cannot be set dynamically.
* The tx_isolation system variable can be set dynamically, but it cannot be set in a configuration file.
Therefore, we have two different names for the same thing in different contexts. This is needlessly confusing, and it complicates the documentation. The same thing applys for transaction_read_only.
MySQL 5.7 solved this problem by making them into system variables. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-20.html
This commit takes a similar approach by adding new system variables and marking the original ones as deprecated. This commit also resolves some legacy problems related to SET STATEMENT and transaction_isolation.
The purpose of non-exclusive locks in a transaction is to guarantee
that the records covered by those locks must remain in that way until
the transaction is committed. (The purpose of gap locks is to ensure
that a record that was nonexistent will remain that way.)
Once a transaction has reached the XA PREPARE state, the only allowed
further actions are XA ROLLBACK or XA COMMIT. Therefore, it can be
argued that only the exclusive locks that the XA PREPARE transaction
is holding are essential.
Furthermore, InnoDB never preserved explicit locks across server restart.
For XA PREPARE transations, we will only recover implicit exclusive locks
for records that had been modified.
Because of the fact that XA PREPARE followed by a server restart will
cause some locks to be lost, we might as well always release all
non-exclusive locks during the execution of an XA PREPARE statement.
lock_release_on_prepare(): Release non-exclusive locks on XA PREPARE.
trx_prepare(): Invoke lock_release_on_prepare() unless the
isolation level is SERIALIZABLE or this is an internal distributed
transaction with the binlog (not actual XA PREPARE statement).
This has been discussed with Sergei Golubchik and Andrei Elkin.
Reviewed by: Sergei Golubchik
Lifted long standing limitation to the XA of rolling it back at the
transaction's
connection close even if the XA is prepared.
Prepared XA-transaction is made to sustain connection close or server
restart.
The patch consists of
- binary logging extension to write prepared XA part of
transaction signified with
its XID in a new XA_prepare_log_event. The concusion part -
with Commit or Rollback decision - is logged separately as
Query_log_event.
That is in the binlog the XA consists of two separate group of
events.
That makes the whole XA possibly interweaving in binlog with
other XA:s or regular transaction but with no harm to
replication and data consistency.
Gtid_log_event receives two more flags to identify which of the
two XA phases of the transaction it represents. With either flag
set also XID info is added to the event.
When binlog is ON on the server XID::formatID is
constrained to 4 bytes.
- engines are made aware of the server policy to keep up user
prepared XA:s so they (Innodb, rocksdb) don't roll them back
anymore at their disconnect methods.
- slave applier is refined to cope with two phase logged XA:s
including parallel modes of execution.
This patch does not address crash-safe logging of the new events which
is being addressed by MDEV-21469.
CORNER CASES: read-only, pure myisam, binlog-*, @@skip_log_bin, etc
Are addressed along the following policies.
1. The read-only at reconnect marks XID to fail for future
completion with ER_XA_RBROLLBACK.
2. binlog-* filtered XA when it changes engine data is regarded as
loggable even when nothing got cached for binlog. An empty
XA-prepare group is recorded. Consequent Commit-or-Rollback
succeeds in the Engine(s) as well as recorded into binlog.
3. The same applies to the non-transactional engine XA.
4. @@skip_log_bin=OFF does not record anything at XA-prepare
(obviously), but the completion event is recorded into binlog to
admit inconsistency with slave.
The following actions are taken by the patch.
At XA-prepare:
when empty binlog cache - don't do anything to binlog if RO,
otherwise write empty XA_prepare (assert(binlog-filter case)).
At Disconnect:
when Prepared && RO (=> no binlogging was done)
set Xid_cache_element::error := ER_XA_RBROLLBACK
*keep* XID in the cache, and rollback the transaction.
At XA-"complete":
Discover the error, if any don't binlog the "complete",
return the error to the user.
Kudos
-----
Alexey Botchkov took to drive this work initially.
Sergei Golubchik, Sergei Petrunja, Marko Mäkelä provided a number of
good recommendations.
Sergei Voitovich made a magnificent review and improvements to the code.
They all deserve a bunch of thanks for making this work done!
