SELECT and ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION".
ALTER TABLE on InnoDB table (including partitioned tables)
acquired exclusive locks on rows of table being altered.
In cases when there was concurrent transaction which did
locking reads from this table this sometimes led to a
deadlock which was not detected by MDL subsystem nor by
InnoDB engine (and was reported only after exceeding
innodb_lock_wait_timeout).
This problem stemmed from the fact that ALTER TABLE acquired
TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ lock on table being altered. This lock
was interpreted as a write lock and thus for table being
altered handler::external_lock() method was called with
F_WRLCK as an argument. As result InnoDB engine treated
ALTER TABLE as an operation which is going to change data
and acquired LOCK_X locks on rows being read from old
version of table.
In case when there was a transaction which already acquired
SR metadata lock on table and some LOCK_S locks on its rows
(e.g. by using it in subquery of DML statement) concurrent
ALTER TABLE was blocked at the moment when it tried to
acquire LOCK_X lock before reading one of these rows.
The transaction's attempt to acquire SW metadata lock on
table being altered led to deadlock, since it had to wait
for ALTER TABLE to release SNW lock. This deadlock was not
detected and got resolved only after timeout expiring
because waiting were happening in two different subsystems.
Similar deadlocks could have occured in other situations.
This patch tries to solve the problem by changing ALTER TABLE
implementation to use TL_READ_NO_INSERT lock instead of
TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ. After this step handler::external_lock()
is called with F_RDLCK as an argument and InnoDB engine
correctly interprets ALTER TABLE as operation which only
reads data from original version of table. Thanks to this
ALTER TABLE acquires only LOCK_S locks on rows it reads.
This, in its turn, causes inter-subsystem deadlocks to go
away, as all potential lock conflicts and thus deadlocks will
be limited to metadata locking subsystem:
- When ALTER TABLE reads rows from table being altered it
can't encounter any locks which conflict with LOCK_S row
locks. There should be no concurrent transactions holding
LOCK_X row locks. Such a transaction should have been
acquired SW metadata lock on table first which would have
conflicted with ALTER's SNW lock.
- Vice versa, when DML which runs concurrently with ALTER
TABLE tries to lock row it should be requesting only LOCK_S
lock which is compatible with locks acquired by ALTER,
as otherwise such DML must own an SW metadata lock on table
which would be incompatible with ALTER's SNW lock.
Fix for bug #46947 "Embedded SELECT without FOR UPDATE is
causing a lock", with after-review fixes.
SELECT statements with subqueries referencing InnoDB tables
were acquiring shared locks on rows in these tables when they
were executed in REPEATABLE-READ mode and with statement or
mixed mode binary logging turned on.
This was a regression which were introduced when fixing
bug 39843.
The problem was that for tables belonging to subqueries
parser set TL_READ_DEFAULT as a lock type. In cases when
statement/mixed binary logging at open_tables() time this
type of lock was converted to TL_READ_NO_INSERT lock at
open_tables() time and caused InnoDB engine to acquire
shared locks on reads from these tables. Although in some
cases such behavior was correct (e.g. for subqueries in
DELETE) in case of SELECT it has caused unnecessary locking.
This patch tries to solve this problem by rethinking our
approach to how we handle locking for SELECT and subqueries.
Now we always set TL_READ_DEFAULT lock type for all cases
when we read data. When at open_tables() time this lock
is interpreted as TL_READ_NO_INSERT or TL_READ depending
on whether this statement as a whole or call to function
which uses particular table should be written to the
binary log or not (if yes then statement should be properly
serialized with concurrent statements and stronger lock
should be acquired).
Test coverage is added for both InnoDB and MyISAM.
This patch introduces an "incompatible" change in locking
scheme for subqueries used in SELECT ... FOR UPDATE and
SELECT .. IN SHARE MODE.
In 4.1 the server would use a snapshot InnoDB read for
subqueries in SELECT FOR UPDATE and SELECT .. IN SHARE MODE
statements, regardless of whether the binary log is on or off.
If the user required a different type of read (i.e. locking read),
he/she could request so explicitly by providing FOR UPDATE/IN SHARE MODE
clause for each individual subquery.
On of the patches for 5.0 broke this behaviour (which was not documented
or tested), and started to use locking reads fora all subqueries in SELECT ...
FOR UPDATE/IN SHARE MODE. This patch restored 4.1 behaviour.
