MaxScale now refuses to run as root. However, it is possible to
start MaxScale as root, as long as a user to run MaxScale as is
provided as a command line argument.
It is possible to run as root by invoking MaxScale as root and
by specifying the MaxScale user to be root.
Only used in conjunction with queued connections, which are not
enabled anyway. Once that comes on the table again, better to use
some standard data structures.
The transaction safety was checked even if master GTID registration was
disabled. This always caused a failure when the router was started without
the transaction safety parameter.
As transaction safety is required by the GTID registration, it is not very
helpful to refuse to start if an invalid set of options is detected. To
make usage of the master GTID registration easier, the transaction safety
is also automatically enabled.
The two depended on the PCRE2 and Connector-C libraries which means that
the libraries need to be built first. This information needs to be told to
CMake with the add_dependency call.
From the documentation:
* `never`: When there is an active transaction, no data will be returned
from the cache, but all requests will always be sent to the backend.
The cache will be populated inside _explicitly_ read-only transactions.
Inside transactions that are not explicitly read-only, the cache will
be populated _until_ the first non-SELECT statement.
* `read_only_transactions`: The cache will be used and populated inside
_explicitly_ read-only transactions. Inside transactions that are not
explicitly read-only, the cache will be populated, but not used
_until_ the first non-SELECT statement.
* `all_transactions`: The cache will be used and populated inside
_explicitly_ read-only transactions. Inside transactions that are not
explicitly read-only, the cache will be used and populated _until_ the
first non-SELECT statement.
When deciding whether the cache should be consulted or not,
the value of the configuration parameter 'cache_in_transaction'
is taken into account as well.
Now SHOW ALL SLAVES STATUS reports new fields:
Retried_transactions;
Max_relay_log_size,
Executed_log_entries,
Slave_received_heartbeats,
Slave_heartbeat_period,
Gtid_Slave_Pos"
Currently binlog server doesn't send to slaves these event types:
- MARIADB10_START_ENCRYPTION_EVENT
- IGNORABLE_EVENT
It also skips events with LOG_EVENT_IGNORABLE_F flag.
This modification allows sending events with that flag.
If something is SELECTed that should be cached for some, but not
for the current user, the cached entry it nevertheless updated.
That way the cached data will always be the last fetched value
and it is also possible to use this behaviour for explicitly
updating the cache entry.
The JSON API specification states that all resources must support direct
modification of resource relationships by providing only the definition
for a particular relationship type to a /:type/:id/relationships/:type
endpoint.
The relevant part of the JSON API specification:
http://jsonapi.org/format/#crud-updating-to-many-relationships
The test did not properly move the relationships from the old monitor to
the new one. The test to passed as the relationship modification was not
really tested.
When pre-parsing the configuration file, the existence of environment
variables is only done for the [maxscale] section. For other sections
a nicer error message is obtained if the comlplaint is made when the
configuration file is actually loaded.
Mechanism for providing custom error message from the pre-parsing
function added.
If 'substitute_variables' has been set to true, then the value of
a parameter like `some_param=$SOME_VAR' is replaced with the value
of the environment variable 'SOME_VAR'.
It is a fatal error to refer to a variable that does not exist.
With this variables set to true, if $VAR is used as a value in the
configuration file, then `$VAR` will be replaced with the value of
the environment variable VAR.
When servers were added to monitors that were created at runtime, the
server list serialization overwrote the original persisted configuration
of the monitor. To solve this problem, the serialization of the server
list and the monitor parameters were combined.
When binary data was processed, it was possible that the values were
misinterpreted as OK packets which caused debug assertions to trigger.
In addition to this, readwritesplit did not handle the case when all
packets were routed individually.
The authentication phase expects full packets. If the packets aren't
complete a debug assertion would get hit. To detect this, the result of
the extracted buffer needs to be checked.
If multiple queries that only generate OK packets were executed, the
result returned by the server would consist of a chain of OK packets. This
special case needs to be handled by the modutil_count_signal_packets.
The current implementation is very ugly as it simulates a result with at
least one resultset in it. A better implementation would hide it behind a
simple boolean return value and an internal state object.
A multi-statements can return multiple resultsets in one response. To
accommodate for this, both the readwritesplit and modutil code must be
altered.
By ignoring complete resultsets in readwritesplit, the code can deduce
whether a result is complete or not.
The original offset needs to be separately tracked to assert that an OK
packet is not the first packet in the buffer. The functional offset into
the buffer is modified to reduce the need to iterate over buffers that
have already been processed.
When LEAST_BEHIND_MASTER routing criteria was used, the info level logging
function would fall through to the default case. In debug builds, this
would trigger a debug assertion.
Returning the results of a query as a set of packets is currently more
efficient. This is mainly due to the fact that each individual packet for
single packet routing is allocated from the heap which causes a
significant loss in performance.
Took the new capability into use in readwritesplit and modified the
reply_is_complete function to work with non-contiguous results.
The GLIBC backtrace functionality doesn't generate file names and line
numbers in the generated stacktrace. This can to be done manually by
executing a set of system commands.
Conceptually doing non-signal-safe operations in a signal handler is very
wrong but as stacktraces are only printed when something has gone horribly
wrong, there is no real need to worry about making things worse.
As a safeguard for fatal errors while the stacktrace is being generated,
it is first dumped into the standard error output of the process. This
will function even if malloc is corrupted.
When the router requires statement based output, the gathering of complete
packets can be skipped as the process of splitting the complete packets
into individual packets implies that only complete packets are handled.
Also added a quicker check for stored protocol commands than a call to
protocol_get_srv_command.
The backend protocol command tracking didn't check whether the session was
the dummy session. The DCB's session is always set to this value when it
is put into the persistent pool.
If a query was processed in the client protocol module when a prepared
statement was being executed by the backend module, the current command
would get overwritten. This caused a debug assertion in readwritesplit to
trigger as the result was neither a single packet nor a collected result.
The RCAP_TYPE_STMT_INPUT capability guarantees that a buffer contains a
complete packet. This information can be used to track the currently
executed command based on the buffer contents which allows asynchronicity
betweent the client and backend protocol. In practice this only comes in
play when routers queue queries for later execution.
