WL#2975: RBR: Stopping slave in middle of non-transaction, no primary key
Affects: Server-7.0
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Status: Assigned
SUMMARY ------- Need to handle when slave stops in the middle of a transaction using MyISAM without primary keys. See also BUG#14418. DECISIONS REGARDING THIS WL --------------------------- 2005-11-07: Lars and Mats thinks this must be fixed before we push into main source tree. 2005-12-02: Elliot, Guilhem, Lars, Mats agree we can limit ourselves to the solution outlined in BUG#14418 in a first step before the push in 5.1, and do the more complete solution outlined above in a second step after the push in 5.1. SITUATION ---------- For MyISAM tables, and any other non-transactional tables, changes to the tables are writted directly to the binary log. For tables that have primary keys, idempotency is guaranteed: the rows will be overwritten if a new row arrives. For tables without primary keys, there are no such guarantees. PROBLEM ------- We replicate to a MyISAM table on the slave and stop the slave in the middle of a transaction. The events that has already been executed are not rolled back in MyISAM, since it is non-transactional. Since MyISAM can have tables without primary key, idempotency of the log is not ensured. Therefore, it is necessary to restart from the point of failure. However, upon restart, the table map events have not been seen, so the table id for the binrow event does not make sense. It is therefore necessary to reread the table map events that have been generated between the start of the transaction/statement and the point of failure in the binary log. SOLUTION -------- The solution implemented should take "WL#2765 interleaving" into account, since at some point in time we should have that and any code written now should be extendable into WL#2765. We have two log positions of interest: 1. the group position (G) pointing at the start of the transaction (which can be used to find the table map events), and 2. the "normal" position (P) pointing at the last executed statement (or binrow event, as it is in this case) If we would have idempotency, the problem would be easy to solve. Then we would simply rerun the whole transaction from G. Since we don't have idempotency, we will instead have to reexecute the table map events from G until we reach P, and first when we reach P will we execute all events. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION (WILL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED) ---------------------------------------------- An alternative solution would be to start from P but somehow have a way to locate the table map events by searching the log. This seems more complex and will not be done.
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