Changes in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5.29 (5.7.41-ndb-7.5.29) (2023-01-18, General Availability)

MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5.29 is a new release of MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5, based on MySQL Server 5.7 and including features in version 7.5 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing recently discovered bugs in previous NDB Cluster releases.

Obtaining MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5.  MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5 source code and binaries can be obtained from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

For an overview of changes made in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5, see What is New in NDB Cluster 7.5.

This release also incorporates all bug fixes and changes made in previous NDB Cluster releases, as well as all bug fixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.7 through MySQL 5.7.41 (see Changes in MySQL 5.7.41 (2023-01-17, General Availability)).

• Compilation Notes

• Bugs Fixed

Compilation Notes

• Added GCC 12 support. (Bug #33574176)

Bugs Fixed

• MySQL NDB ClusterJ: ClusterJ could not be built on Ubuntu 22.10 with GCC 12.2. (Bug #34666985)

• In some contexts, a data node process may be sent SIGCHLD by other processes. Previously, the data node process bound a signal handler treating this signal as an error, which could cause the process to shut down unexpectedly when run in the foreground in a Kubernetes environment (and possibly under other conditions as well). This occurred despite the fact that a data node process never starts child processes itself, and thus there is no need to take action in such cases.

  To fix this, the handler has been modified to use SIG_IGN, which should result in cleanup of any child processes.

  Note

  mysqld and ndb_mgmd processes do not bind any handlers for SIGCHLD.

  (Bug #34826194)

• The running node from a node group scans each fragment (CopyFrag) and sends the rows to the starting peer in order to synchronize it. If a row from the fragment is locked exclusively by a user transaction, it blocks the scan from reading the fragment, causing the copyFrag to stall.

  If the starting node fails during the CopyFrag phase then normal node failure handling takes place. The cordinator node's transaction coordinator (TC) performs TC takeover of the user transactions from the TCs on the failed node. Since the scan that aids copying the fragment data over to the starting node is considered internal only, it is not a candidate for takeover, thus the takeover TC marks the CopyFrag scan as closed at the next opportunity, and waits until it is closed.

  The current issue arose when the CopyFrag scan was in the waiting for row lock state, and the closing of the marked scan was not performed. This led to TC takeover stalling while waiting for the close, causing unfinished node failure handling, and eventually a GCP stall potentially affecting redo logging, local checkpoints, and NDB Replication.

  We fix this by closing the marked CopyFrag scan whenever a node failure occurs while the CopyFrag is waiting for a row lock. (Bug #34823988)

  References: See also: Bug #35037327.

• In certain cases, invalid signal data was not handled correctly. (Bug #34787608)

• Following execution of DROP NODEGROUP in the management client, attempting to creating or altering an NDB table specifying an explicit number of partitions or using MAX_ROWS was rejected with Got error 771 'Given NODEGROUP doesn't exist in this cluster' from NDB. (Bug #34649576)

• In a cluster with multiple management nodes, when one management node connected and later disconnected, any remaining management nodes were not aware of this node and were eventually forced to shut down when stopped nodes reconnected; this happened whenever the cluster still had live data nodes.

  On investigation it was found that node disconnection handling was done in the NF_COMPLETEREP path in ConfigManager but the expected NF_COMPLETEREP signal never actually arrived. We solve this by handling disconnecting management nodes when the NODE_FAILREP signal arrives, rather than waiting for NF_COMPLETEREP. (Bug #34582919)

• When reorganizing a table with ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION following addition of new data nodes to the cluster, unique hash indexes were not redistributed properly. (Bug #30049013)

• During a rolling restart of a cluster with two data nodes, one of them refused to start, reporting that the redo log fragment file size did not match the configured one and that an initial start of the node was required. Fixed by addressing a previously unhandled error returned by fsync(), and retrying the write. (Bug #28674694)

• A data node could hit an overly strict assertion when the thread liveness watchdog triggered while the node was already shutting down. We fix the issue by relaxing this assertion in such cases. (Bug #22159697)

• Removed a leak of long message buffer memory that occurred each time an index was scanned for updating index statistics. (Bug #108043, Bug #34568135)

• Fixed an uninitialized variable in Suma.cpp. (Bug #106081, Bug #33764143)