Although the default value is the maximum value of a signed 32-bit
integer, the value is stored as a 64-bit integer. The integer type
conversion functions return 64-bit values so storing it as one makes
sense.
Currently values higher than the default are allowed but the accepted
range of input should be restricted in the future.
Readwritesplit now respects server ranks. When servers are selected for
either routing or connection creation, the servers are partitioned by
their rank into sets of servers. These sets of servers are never mixed so
the end result is that only servers of the same rank are considered for
candidacy.
The master selection is slightly different: the server with the best rank
that is capable of acting as a master is chosen. This means that a session
can have a master with a lower rank and slaves with higher ranks than the
master. In most cases this actually is the preferred behavior as the rank
is used to prioritize usage but not outright prevent it.
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.
Th discarding of connections in maintenance mode must be done after any
results have been written to them. This prevents closing of the connection
before the actual result is returned.
The candidate selection code used default values that would cause reads
past buffers. The code could also dereference the end iterator which
causes undefined behavior.
The `start services` and `stop services` command aliases now map to the
same command as `start maxscale` and `stop maxscale`. This should help
alleviate the confusion that the command naming caused.
The parameters are now written in the order they appear in the module
parameter definitions. Also enabled a previously disabled part in
server unit test.
This fixes some situations where MaxAdmin/MaxCtrl would block and wait
until a monitor operation or tick is complete. This also fixes a deadlock
caused by calling monitor diagnostics inside a monitor script.
Concurrency is enabled by adding one mutex per server object to protect
array-like fields from concurrent reading/writing.
Previously, runtime monitor modifications could directly alter monitor fields,
which could leave the text-form parameters and reality out-of-sync. Also,
the configure-function was not called for the entire monitor-object, only the
module-implementation.
Now, all modifications go through the overridden configure-function, which calls the
base-class function. As most configuration changes are given in text-form, this
removes the need for specific setters. The only exceptions are the server add/remove
operations, which must modify the text-form serverlist.
Was deprecated in 2.3. Similar features are in MariaDB-Monitor.
One system test was modified to use MariaDB-Monitor instead. Some parts
of the test are disabled for now to make it pass.
Queries in the query queue need to be explicitly parsed since they are
stored in a single buffer and thus share the query classification
information. In the next major version this should be changed into an
array of individual buffers instead of a shared buffer.
Always storing runtime configuration changes prevents problems when the
change causes another parameter to change. One example of this is
transaction_replay that implicitly enables other parameters.
