Conflicts:
- mysql-test/r/mysqld--help-win.result
- sql/sys_vars.cc
Original revsion (in next-mr-bugfixing):
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revno: 2971 [merge]
revision-id: alfranio.correia@sun.com-20100121210527-rbuheu5rnsmcakh1
committer: Alfranio Correia <alfranio.correia@sun.com>
branch nick: mysql-next-mr-bugfixing
timestamp: Thu 2010-01-21 21:05:27 +0000
message:
BUG#46364 MyISAM transbuffer problems (NTM problem)
It is well-known that due to concurrency issues, a slave can become
inconsistent when a transaction contains updates to both transaction and
non-transactional tables.
In a nutshell, the current code-base tries to preserve causality among the
statements by writing non-transactional statements to the txn-cache which
is flushed upon commit. However, modifications done to non-transactional
tables on behalf of a transaction become immediately visible to other
connections but may not immediately get into the binary log and therefore
consistency may be broken.
In general, it is impossible to automatically detect causality/dependency
among statements by just analyzing the statements sent to the server. This
happen because dependency may be hidden in the application code and it is
necessary to know a priori all the statements processed in the context of
a transaction such as in a procedure. Moreover, even for the few cases that
we could automatically address in the server, the computation effort
required could make the approach infeasible.
So, in this patch we introduce the option
- "--binlog-direct-non-transactional-updates" that can be used to bypass
the current behavior in order to write directly to binary log statements
that change non-transactional tables.
Besides, it is used to enable the WL#2687 which is disabled by default.
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revno: 2970.1.1
revision-id: alfranio.correia@sun.com-20100121131034-183r4qdyld7an5a0
parent: alik@sun.com-20100121083914-r9rz2myto3tkdya0
committer: Alfranio Correia <alfranio.correia@sun.com>
branch nick: mysql-next-mr-bugfixing
timestamp: Thu 2010-01-21 13:10:34 +0000
message:
BUG#46364 MyISAM transbuffer problems (NTM problem)
It is well-known that due to concurrency issues, a slave can become
inconsistent when a transaction contains updates to both transaction and
non-transactional tables.
In a nutshell, the current code-base tries to preserve causality among the
statements by writing non-transactional statements to the txn-cache which
is flushed upon commit. However, modifications done to non-transactional
tables on behalf of a transaction become immediately visible to other
connections but may not immediately get into the binary log and therefore
consistency may be broken.
In general, it is impossible to automatically detect causality/dependency
among statements by just analyzing the statements sent to the server. This
happen because dependency may be hidden in the application code and it is
necessary to know a priori all the statements processed in the context of
a transaction such as in a procedure. Moreover, even for the few cases that
we could automatically address in the server, the computation effort
required could make the approach infeasible.
So, in this patch we introduce the option
- "--binlog-direct-non-transactional-updates" that can be used to bypass
the current behavior in order to write directly to binary log statements
that change non-transactional tables.
Besides, it is used to enable the WL#2687 which is disabled by default.
In auto-commit mode, updating both trx and non-trx tables (i.e. issuing a mixed
statement) causes the following sequence of events:
1 - "Flush trx changes" (MYSQL_BIN_LOG::write) - T1:
1.1 - mutex_lock (&LOCK_log)
1.2 - mutex_lock (&LOCK_prep_xids)
1.3 - increase prepared_xids
1.4 - mutex_unlock (&LOCK_prep_xids)
1.5 - mutex_unlock (&LOCK_log)
2 - "Flush non-trx changes" (MYSQL_BIN_LOG::write) - T1:
2.1 - mutex_lock (&LOCK_log)
2.2 - mutex_unlock (&LOCK_log)
3. "unlog" - T1
3.1 - mutex_lock (&LOCK_prep_xids)
3.2 - decrease prepared xids
3.3 - pthread_cond_signal(&COND_prep_xids);
3.4 - mutex_unlock (&LOCK_prep_xids)
The "FLUSH logs" command produces the following sequence of events:
1 - "FLUSH logs" command (MYSQL_BIN_LOG::new_file_impl) - user thread:
1.1 - mutex_lock (&LOCK_log)
1.2 - mutex_lock (&LOCK_prep_xids)
1.3 - while (prepared_xids) pthread_cond_wait(..., &LOCK_prep_xids);
1.4 - mutex_unlock (&LOCK_prep_xids)
1.5 - mutex_unlock (&LOCK_log)
A deadlock will arise if T1 flushes the trx changes and thus increases
prepared_xids but before it is able to continue the execution and flush the
non-trx changes, an user thread calls the "FLUSH logs" command and wait that
the prepared_xids is decreased and gets to zero. However, T1 cannot proceed
with the call to "Flush non-trx changes" because it will block in the mutex
"LOCK_log" and by consequence cannot complete the execution and call the
unlog to decrease the prepared_xids.
To fix the problem, we ensure that the non-trx changes are always flushed
before the trx changes.
Note that if you call "Flush non-trx changes" and a concurrent "FLUSH logs" is
issued, the "Flush non-trx changes" may block, but a deadlock will never happen
because the prepared_xids will eventually get to zero. Bottom line, there will
not be any transaction able to increase the prepared_xids because they will
block in the mutex "LOCK_log" (MYSQL_BIN_LOG::write) and those that increased
the prepared_xids will eventually commit and decrease the prepared_xids.
Non-transactional updates that take place inside a transaction present problems
for logging because they are visible to other clients before the transaction
is committed, and they are not rolled back even if the transaction is rolled
back. It is not always possible to log correctly in statement format when both
transactional and non-transactional tables are used in the same transaction.
In the current patch, we ensure that such scenario is completely safe under the
ROW and MIXED modes.
