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When four servers (A, B, C and E where E and A replicate from each other
and A is the master for B and C) form a cluster and only three of them (A,
B and C) are configured into MaxScale, a failover operation from A to B
(making B the current master) and a restart of A causes B to lose its
master status.
The following diagram illustrates the state of the cluster at the end of
the process described above.
+----------------------+
| +---+ |
+------------+ B <-+ |
+-v-+ | +---+ | |
| E | | | |
+-^-+ | +---+ +-+-+ |
+------+ A | | C | |
| +---+ +---+ |
| |
+----------------------+
The external server E was not correctly ignored in the replication
topology generation causing both A and B to be seen as the lowest slave
nodes in the tree. From a theoretical point of view this is the correct
interpretation as there are two distinct trees and neither of them
contains any true masters.
In practice, MaxScale should treat any servers that replicate from an
external master as root level master nodes. Doing this guarantees that they
are labeled as masters if they have slaves replicating from them.
MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation
The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the roles of the various servers within the backend cluster of databases.
MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to support different protocols and routing decisions.
MaxScale is implemented in C and makes extensive use of the asynchronous I/O capabilities of the Linux operating system. The epoll system is used to provide the event driven framework for the input and output via sockets.
The protocols are implemented as external shared object modules which can be loaded at runtime. These modules support a fixed interface, communicating the entries points via a structure consisting of a set of function pointers. This structure is called the "module object".
The code that routes the queries to the database servers is also loaded as external shared objects and are referred to as routing modules.
An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas, issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
We're also on the #maria and #maxscale channels on FreeNode.
Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the MariaDB Jira.
Documentation
For information about installing and using MaxScale, please refer to the documentation. The official documentation can be found on the MariaDB Knowledge Base.
- MariaDB MaxScale 2.1 Documentation
- MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Documentation
- MariaDB MaxScale 1.4 Documentation
The module and configuration documentation can be found in the Documentation directory of the source tree.
Contributing Code
Read the Contributing page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do them.