The use of monitors in services isn't complete but this was not in the
documentation. A more complete solution should be done at a later date and
the current documentation should be removed.
The combination of the default values of `disable_sescmd_history=false`
and `max_slave_connections=100%` does not make sense as it is not possible
to find a replacement slave in case an active one fails.
Added documentation for dbfwfilter and mentioned the new directory in the
release notes. The configuration guide also gives an example of how the
path parameters are resolved.
When a Galera cluster loses a member, it will recalculate the
wsrep_local_index values. As the index is zero-based, we can be certain
that in a valid cluster there will always be a node with an index of 0.
If the galeramon can't find a node with an index of 0, it means that
either the cluster hasn't stabilized and there's a pending recalculation
of the index or that there's no connectivity between MaxScale and the node
with the index value 0.
With this change and default settings, active-active MaxScale setups with
Galera clusters should always choose the same node as the master.
Added a document that describes the module command system and added the
necessary information in the dbfwfilter documentation.
The release notes also point to the newly created document.
The release notes now mention that the caching is done by the
authenticators, not by the core. It also mentions that only MySQLAuth
implements this functionality.
Added notes to binlogrouter documentation about the changes to the loading
and storing of users.
Cleaned up MySQL-Authenticator document to make it a bit easier to read.
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.
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.
It's now possible to use both a Unix domain socket and host/port
when connecting with MaxAdmin to MaxScale.
By default MaxAdmin will attempt to use the default Unix domain
socket, but if host and/or port has been specified, then an inet
socket will be used.
maxscaled will authenticate the connection attempt differently
depending on whether a Unix domain socket is used or not. If
a Unix domain socket is used, then the Linux user id will be
used for the authorization, otherwise the 1.4.3 username/password
handshake will be performed.
adminusers has now been extended so that there is one set of
functions for local users (connecting locally over a Unix socket)
and one set of functions for remote users (connecting locally
or remotely over an Inet socket).
The local users are stored in the new .../maxscale-users and the
remote users in .../passwd. That is, the old users of a 1.4
installation will work as such in 2.0.
One difference is that there will be *no* default remote user.
That is, remote users will always have to be added manually using
a local user.
The implementation is shared; the local and remote alternatives
use common functions to which the hashtable and filename to be
used are forwarded.
The commands "[add|remove] user" behave now exactly like they did
in 1.4.3, and also all existing users work out of the box.
In addition there is now the commands "[enable|disable] account"
using which Linux accounts can be enabled for MaxAdmin usage.
The change in readwritesplit routing priorities, where hints have the
highest priority, gives users more options to control how readwritesplit
acts.
For example, this allows read-only stored procedures to be routed to
slaves by adding a hint to the query:
CALL myproc(); -- maxscale route to slave
The readwritesplit documentation also warns the user not to use routing
hints unless they can be absolutely sure that no damage will be done.
