MaxScale can now start without any defined monitors. This allows the core
services to be configured beforehand. With the changes to dynamic
modifications to servers, automatic scaling of slaves is possible.
The `add server` command accepts a server name and either a service name
or a monitor name. It will add servers to services and monitors. Since all
monitors use the MONITOR_SERVER structures directly, the monitors need
to be stopped before new servers are added to them
The debugcmd parameter processing didn't actually allow the maximum number
of parameters to be passed to the function. The detailed help text was
never printed and most of them were only duplicates of the short
description.
Before a query is routed to a backend, the status of the server reference
is checked. This allows the servers that are removed from a service to be
ejected from the list of active servers for active sessions.
The createInstace, newSession, closeSession and freeSession functions were
cleaned up and reorganized to be a bit clearer for the reader. Removed
unnecessary comments and replaced them with ones that explain what's
happening in the code.
Removed unused linked lists from both sessions and instances and replaced
them with better alternatives. This should improve performance since new
session don't have to acquire the instance level lock to put themselves
into the session list.
Removed the use of the BACKEND structure and replaced it with the use of
the SERVER_REF structure of the service. This allows dynamic changes to be
made to the list of servers.
Cleaned up parts of the code and removed obsolete or useless
functions. The schemarouter module could do with some refactoring since it
derives from readwritesplit.
The BACKEND structure in readconnroute is now replaced with the use of the
SERVER_REF structure of the service. This allows dynamic changes to the
list of servers to be made.
The readwritesplit now understands that the amount of servers can change
and some of the items in the list of server references aren't in use. This
allows dynamic changes to the number of servers used by readwritesplit.
Servers can now be added and removed from services which allows routers to
use them with new sessions. The routers don't fully use the new
functionality in the server references which prevents new servers from
being taken into use.
If shutdown has been initiated (via maxadmin or by sending a
SIGINT or SIGTERM) and a SIGTERM is received, the process
is terminated.
If shutdown has been initiated (via maxadmin or by sending a
SIGINT or SIGTERM) and a SIGINT (Ctrl-C) is received, a warning
is printed that shutdown is in progess. Then, if an additional
SIGINT is received, the process is terminated.
So, in practice:
- If MaxScale is running as a daemon, the first SIGTERM initiates
shutdown and a second one unconditionally terminates the process.
- If MaxScale is running in the console, the first Ctrl-C initiates
shutdown, the second prints a warning and the third terminates
the process.
This is to ensure that MaxScale can be forced to exit, in
case some thread is hung for whatever reason, and is thus preventing
the controlled shutdown.
The qlafilter now has an option to log all messages to a single
file instead of session-specific files. Session ids are printed
to the beginning of the line when using this mode. Documentation
updated to match. Also, added an option to flush after every
write.
When persistent connections were used, it was possible that the injection
of COM_CHANGE_USER statements caused a crash when a DCB in the wrong state
was accessed.
For MySQL protocol modules, the `data` member of the client DCB points to
the shared session data, a MYSQL_session struct, but for sessions in the
persistent pool, it points to NULL. The boolean, `was_persistent`, tells
whether a DCB was just taken from the pool or it has been in use.
The `was_persistent` status wasn't properly reset for connections that
were put into the pool which caused a COM_CHANGE_USER statement to be
injected for stale connections in the pool which caused a crash when the
NULL `data` member was accessed.
The filter can detect SERVER_MORE_RESULTS_EXIST which means the server
is sending more result sets: example:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS multi;
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE multi() BEGIN
SELECT 1;
SELECT id FROM t2 limit 40;
set @a=4;
SELECT 2;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
MySQL> call multi()
If a Galera node has a nonpositive priority, the node will never be chosen
as the master. This gives the user more control over how the master is
chosen.
The luafilter didn't use a format string with dcb_printf which can lead to
unexpected results if the returned string contains printf special
characters.
When a persistent connection is taken from the pool, the state is reset
with a COM_CHANGE_USER on the next write. This allows reuse of persistent
connections without having to worry about the state of the MySQL session.
The MAXROWS_DISCARDING_RESPONSE is handled differently: the OK packet
is sent only after an EOF is seen in a reply even with multiple packet
transmission from the backend
max rows filter first implementation
Resultsets with more than max_resultset_rows
will be skipped and empty result set is returned to client.
Not yet tested with multi_statements
[MaxRows]
type=filter
module=maxrows
max_resultset_rows=10
debug=15
Now that a filter can express that the transaction state is tracked,
the cache implementation can be simplified. We do not need to cater
for the case that a "too short" or "too long" a packet would be
delivered.
Further, since the autocommit mode and transaction state of the session
are tracked, the filter can cache data when it is safe to do so. In
practice that means when either AUTOCOMMIT is ON and no explicit
transaction is active or when a READ ONLY transaction is active,
irrespective of the autocommit state.
In principle it would be possible to tentatively cache data during
a transaction, and if the transaction is committed successfully
flush the tentatively cached data to the actual cache, but that will
be for another day.
The transaction state only reflects explicitly started transactions.
Thus, by looking at the autocommit mode and the transaction state a
component can figure out whether the current statement will be committed
or not.
The transaction state must be updated after a buffer has been split
into buffer containing individual packets.
NOTE: The actual updating of the transaction state and the autocommit
mode is currently wrong, but will be updated in a subsequent change.
The authentication checks make sure that a user has all the required
grants to access the database. This prevents the creation of unnecessary
backend connections reducing the overall load on the database.
Doing preliminary authentication in MaxScale enables the creation of more
informative error messages.
