The new parameter allows ignoring of master servers that are external to
the monitor configuration. This allows sub-trees of the actual replication
tree to be used as fully fledged replication trees.
Break lines at 80 characters. Add a Table of Contents and reorder sections
to have the actual tutorial part first.
Things that still need doing:
* Move limitations and other documentation to the actual router
documentation
* Review and simplify examples
Updated all examples to use parameters instead of router_options. Added a
more clear note about router_options being deprecated. Removed unnecessary
parameters from all examples.
Adds an option 'reply_time' to log_data. When enabled, query execution time
in milliseconds is logged. Execution time is measured as the time between
routeQuery and the first clientReply.
Using 'not_function' it is possible to match functions other than
a specific set of ones. That will make it significantly easier to
allow certain functions to be used with certain columns.
The special handling of no arguments to `function` in conjunction
with an allowing filter has been removed. The same effect can now
be achieved, without special handling, using `not_function`, no
arguments and a blocking filter.
Implementation will follow in a subsequent commit.
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.
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.
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.
The master failure can now be verified by checking when the slaves are
connected to the master. If the slaves do not receive any events from the
master, the connections are considered as down after a configurable limit.
Added two parameters for controlling whether the check is done and for how
long the monitor waits before doing the failover.
