If a limit on the replication lag is configured, servers with unmeasured
replication lag should not be used. The code in question did use them even
when a limit was set as the value used for undefined lag was -1 which
always measured lower than the limit.
The connection counts are now always used to pick the best servers where
the initial connections are created. This covers both master and slaves
selection. Reconnections done while routing queries still pick the "best"
server according to the slave selection criteria. This allows better
servers to be taken into use when `lazy_connect` is enabled.
In most cases it is reasonable to stop attempting transaction replays
after a certain number of failed attempts. This prevents transactions from
being repeatedly replayed on the same server over and over again if, for
example, it keeps crashing.
By allowing transactions to the master to end even if the server is in
maintenance mode makes it possible to terminate connections at a known
point. This helps prevent interrupted transactions which can help reduce
errors that are visible to the clients.
The connection creation is now internal to RWSplitSession. This makes the
code more readable by removing the need to pass parameters and allowing
easier reuse of existing functions. The various conditions require to
create connections are now also checked in only one place.
Readwritesplit now picks the best available master if no open master
connection is available. This is required if the server rank is to be
taken into account when master selection is done.
The lazy connection creation reduces the burden that short sessions place
on the backend servers. This also prevents the problems caused by early
disconnections that happen when only one server is used but multiple
connections are created. This does not solve the problem (MXS-619) but it
does mitigate it to acceptable levels.
This commit also adds a change to the weighting algorithm that prefers
existing connections over unopened ones. This helps avoid the
flip-flopping that happens when the absolute scores are very similar. The
hard-coded value might need to be tuned once testing is done.
This commit adds a new parameter that, when enabled, prunes the session
command history to a known length. This makes it possible to keep a
client-side pooled connection open indefinitely at the cost of making
reconnections theoretically unsafe. In practice the maximum history length
can be set to a value that encompasses a single session using the pooled
connection with no risk to session state integrity. The default history
length of 50 commands is quite likely to be adequate for the majority of
use-cases.
If the connection to the master is lost, knowing what type of an error
caused the call to handleError helps deduce what was the real reason for
it. Logging the idle time of the connection helps detect when the
wait_timeout of a connection is exceeded.
By storing the server statistics object in side the session, the lookup
involved in getting a worker-local value is avoided. Since the lookup is
done multiple times for a single query, it is beneficial to store it in
the session.
As the worker-local value is never deleted, it is safe to store a
reference to it in the session. It is also never updated concurrently so
no atomic operations are necessary.
