Bug #21785 "Server crashes after rename of the log table" and
Bug #21966 "Strange warnings on create like/repair of the log
tables"
According to the patch, from now on, one should use RENAME to
perform a log table rotation (this should also be reflected in
the manual).
Here is a sample:
use mysql;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS general_log2 LIKE general_log;
RENAME TABLE general_log TO general_log_backup, general_log2 TO general_log;
The rules for Rename of the log tables are following:
IF 1. Log tables are enabled
AND 2. Rename operates on the log table and nothing is being
renamed to the log table.
DO 3. Throw an error message.
ELSE 4. Perform rename.
The very RENAME query will go the the old (backup) table. This is
consistent with the behavoiur we have with binlog ROTATE LOGS
statement.
Other problems, which are solved by the patch are:
1) Now REPAIR of the log table is exclusive operation (as it should be), this
also eliminates lock-related warnings. and
2) CREATE LIKE TABLE now usese usual read lock on the source table rather
then name lock, which is too restrictive. This way we get rid of another
log table-related warning, which occured because of the above fact
(as a side-effect, name lock resulted in a warning).
gets deadlocked when dropping w/ log on"
Log tables rely on concurrent insert machinery to add data.
This means that log tables are always opened and locked by
special (artificial) logger threads. Because of this, the thread
which tries to drop a log table starts to wait for the table
to be unlocked. Which will happen only if the log table is disabled.
Alike situation happens if one tries to alter a log table.
However in addition to the problem above, alter table calls
check_if_locking_is_allowed() routine for the engine. The
routine does not allow alter for the log tables. So, alter
doesn't start waiting forever for logs to be disabled, but
returns with an error.
Another problem is that not all engines could be used for
the log tables. That's because they need concurrent insert.
In this patch we:
(1) Explicitly disallow to drop/alter a log table if it
is currently used by the logger.
(2) Update MyISAM to support log tables
(3) Allow to drop log tables/alter log tables if log is
disabled
At the same time we (4) Disallow to alter log tables to
unsupported engine (after this patch CSV and MyISAM are
alowed)
Recommit with review fixes.
Added missing DBUG_xxx_RETURN statements
Fixed some usage of not initialized variables (as found by valgrind)
Ensure that we don't remove locked tables used as name locks from open table cache until unlock_table_names() are called.
This was fixed by having drop_locked_name() returning any table used as a name lock so that we can free it in unlock_table_names()
This will allow Tomas to continue with his work to use namelocks to syncronize things.
Note: valgrind still produces a lot of warnings about using not initialized code and shows memory loss errors when running the ndb tests
and new binlog format called "mixed" (which is statement-based except if only row-based is correct,
in this cset it means if UDF or UUID is used; more cases could be added in later 5.1 release):
SET GLOBAL|SESSION BINLOG_FORMAT=row|statement|mixed|default;
the global default is statement unless cluster is enabled (then it's row) as in 5.1-alpha.
It's not possible to use SET on this variable if a session is currently in row-based mode and has open temporary tables (because CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLE was not binlogged so temp table is not known on slave), or if NDB is enabled (because
NDB does not support such change on-the-fly, though it will later), of if in a stored function (see below).
The added tests test the possibility or impossibility to SET, their effects, and the mixed mode,
including in prepared statements and in stored procedures and functions.
Caveats:
a) The mixed mode will not work for stored functions: in mixed mode, a stored function will
always be binlogged as one call and in a statement-based way (e.g. INSERT VALUES(myfunc()) or SELECT myfunc()).
b) for the same reason, changing the thread's binlog format inside a stored function is
refused with an error message.
c) the same problems apply to triggers; implementing b) for triggers will be done later (will ask
Dmitri).
Additionally, as the binlog format is now changeable by each user for his session, I remove the implication
which was done at startup, where row-based automatically set log-bin-trust-routine-creators to 1
(not possible anymore as a user can now switch to stmt-based and do nasty things again), and automatically
set --innodb-locks-unsafe-for-binlog to 1 (was anyway theoretically incorrect as it disabled
phantom protection).
Plus fixes for compiler warnings.
