The Avro C API fails to write bytes of size zero. A workaround is to write
a single zero byte for each NULL field of type bytes.
Also added an option to configure the Avro block size in case very large
records are written.
The firewall filter should allow COM_PING and other similar commands to
pass through as they are mainly used to check the status of the backend
server or to display statistics. The COM_PROCESS_KILL is the exception as
it affects the state of the backend server. This is better controlled with
permissions in the server than in the firewall filter.
Commands that require special grants aren't allowed to pass as they are
mainly for maintenance purposes and these should not be done through the
firewall.
The max_slave_replication_lag parameter for readwritesplit only works for
monitors that detect replication lag. As the MySQL monitor is the only one
that implements this functionality, the parameter only has meaning when
used with master-slave clusters.
The documentation listed the rules as a comma separated list when they
were parsed as a whitespace separated list. The match specifiers were also
defined as optional when in fact they were mandatory.
If a master once had slaves and is in the stale status, it will not retain
this status after a restart. Without storing on-disk information, the
stale master status cannot be deduced by looking at the master
alone. Because of this, the user should be able to manually enable the
stale master status.
The listen() backlog is now set to INT_MAX which should guarantee that the
internal limit is always higher than the system limit. This means that the
length of the queue always follows /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog.
The TARBALL variable controls if a special tar.gz package is built when
packages are generated. This package has a different directory structure
compared to the RPM/DEB packages.
If RPM/DEB packages are built, tar.gz packages are not built. This makes
RPM/DEB generation faster and allows tarballs to be built separately with
a proper directory structures.
The `detect_stale_slave` functionality used to only work when MaxScale had
the knowledge that a master server has existed and that replication was
working at some point in time. This might be a "safe" way to do it in
regards to staleness of the data but in practice it is preferrable to
always allow slave to be used for reads.
This change adds the missing functionality to the monitor by assigning
slave status to all servers which are configured as replication slaves
when no master can be found.
The new member variable that was added to the SERVER should be removed in
2.1 where the server_info offers the same functionalty without "polluting"
the SERVER type.
The document is now split into module type sections. Added documentation on the
limitations on multiple monitors monitoring the same servers and filters not
receiving complete packets when used with readconnroute.
In the configuration section of services and monitors, the
password to be used can now be specified using 'password'
in addition to 'passwd'.
If both are provided, then the value of 'passwd' is used. That
way there cannot be any surprises, should someone for whatever
reason currently (in 1.4.3 an invalid parameter will not prevent
MaxScale from starting) have a 'password' entry in his config file.
In the next release 'passwd' can be deprecated and in the release
after that removed.
