Earlier, by default, the error and message logfiles were written to
the filesystem and trace and debug logfiles to shared memory. Now,
with just one log-file the default must be the file-system. However,
if info and debug messages are logged, then the filesystem will
become a bottle-neck.
A reasonable approach is then as follows (in the config file)
syslog=true
maxlog=false
log_to_shm=true
With this set, the maxlog file will be created to shared memory, but
nothing will be written to it, since it is disabled. However, if there
is a need to investigate something, then a dba can from maxadmin turn
on maxlog logging and also enable info and debug messages. That is, it
will be possible to enable debugging output without restarting maxscale.
Incidentally, the way the config file and command line arguments are
handled should be rewritten. Currently, it is a mess.
There were some variance regarding the way the MaxScale log (i.e.
the file log) was called; "maxlog" in configuration file and
"maxscalelog" at the command line and maxadmin interface. Now it
is uniformly referred to as "maxlog" in the configuration file, at
the command line, from maxadmin and in the code.
modutil_get_complete_packets was assuming that at least 3 bytes of each packet
is available. This results in an out-of-bounds read if less than 3 bytes of data
for a partial result set is available.
The earlier log file based approach for enabling and disabling
messages has now been completely replaced with the syslog priority
based approach.
Similarly as with log files before it is now possible to enable
and disable a log priority for a particular session, even though
it apparently has not been used much.
The local test-programs of the logging has got minimal attention
only to make them compile. They should get an overhaul as they did
not work before either.
Maxadmin earlier gave the impression that you could change whether
messages for different log files could be specifically enabled for
a session. In practice that was true only for trace messages as the
session id and the bitmask telling what logfiles are enabled, were
copied to thread local storage only as far as trace messages were
concered.
The code for setting that information in place is quit short and
efficient, so there is really no reason not to do that always.
This also means that it always will be possible to get your hands
on the session object if there is a need for that.
The code used in the query classifier was not compatible with 10.1 version
of MariaDB and needed to be fine tuned in order for it to work with all
supported versions of MariaDB.
The regular expression used when cleaning multiline configuration parameters
didn't match trailing backslash characters in pathnames. This caused them to be
added to the next line causing a possible error.
