The `global` parameter causes the time window defined by the `time`
parameter to be applied at the instance level instead of the session
level. This means that a write from one connection will cause all other
connections to use the master for a certain period of time.
Using a configurable time window for consistency is not good as it is not
absolute and cannot adjust to how servers behave.
One example that demonstrates this is when a slave is normally lagging
behind by less than a second but some event causes the lag to spike up to
several seconds. In this case the configured time window would no longer
guarantee consistency.
Another reason to avoid a "static" time window is the fact taht it
prevents load balancing in the cases where slaves catch up to the master
within time window. This happens when time is configured to a higher value
to avoid inconsistencies at all costs.
Added a test case that verified the feature works.
In the tokenizer we will now recognize the character set names
of MariaDB and return a specific token for those. However, where
a character set name is not expected, it will automatically be
treated as an identifier.
Note that when the character set name is explicitly specified
for a literal string, the name must be prefixed with an underscore.
That is, if the character set name is "latin1", when used when
specifying a literal string, it's used as "_latin1 'a'".
Note that this does not fix the sqlite3 bug causing a leak, but
since the statement will now correctly be parsed, the leak will
not manifest itself.
The mkopcodeh.tcl of sqlite3 version 3110100 has a bug that
manifests itself so that it generates broken code depending on
what keywords there are and in what order. The mkopcodeh.tcl
from 3200000 does not have that problem.
Originally, the sqlite installation was imported into the MaxScale
repository in the one gigantic MaxScale 1.4 -> 2.0 commit.
Consequently, there is no import commit to compare to if you want
to extract all MaxScale specific changes. To make it simpler in the
future, sqlite will now be imported in a commit of its own.
Since the user authentication stores a SHA2-512 hash of the password on
disk, caching the hash results in memory speeds up the authentication
process significantly. Storing the password on disk in plain-text form
would also speed it up but this would be quite insecure.
So as to allow the change date to be update at each maintenance
release, we need to have a separate license for each minor release.
In each minor branch there will then be a LICENCE.TXT symbolic link
that points to the actual file.
Generated the new MaxCtrl documentation with the new help output. The help
output now doesn't auto-wrap which causes lines to be longer but it
prevents broken Markdown formatting. It also makes it more readable on
wider terminals.
The number of sessions wasn't always incremented but it was always
decremented. This happened primarily when authentication failed. By making
the management of the counters a part of the object lifecycle, this
problem goes away.
Requiring contiguous buffers removes the need to use mxs::Buffer which
also removes the need to check for buffer boundaries.
Converted all the functions used by get_canonical into `static inline` so
that the compiler knows it can inline them. A few of them weren't `static`
which made the calls to the functions unnecessarily expensive.
The backslash was added instead of assigned. Since the value stored at
that position is always a null byte, assignment and addition would result
in the same outcome.
The help output of all the list and show commands now explains what each
field in the output table means. The generated table will be added at the
end of the help output.
The descriptions table looks like this:
Field Description
----- -----------
Version MaxScale version
Commit MaxScale commit ID
Started At Time when MaxScale was started
Activated At Time when MaxScale left passive mode
Uptime Time MaxScale has been running
Parameters Global MaxScale parameters
