mariadb/KNOWN_BUGS.txt
Guilhem Bichot a5bcb63f45 WL#4374 "Maria - force start if Recovery fails multiple times"
http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=4374
new option --maria-force-start-after-recovery-failures=N; number of consecutive recovery failures (failures
of log reading or recovery processing, anything in [translog_init(),maria_recovery_from_log()])
is stored in the control file; if at a Maria start they are more than N, logs are removed. This is for automated
systems which have to run whatever happens. As tables risk staying corrupted, --maria-recover should also
be used on them: this revision makes maria-recover work (it was disabled).
Fixed bug in translog_is_log_files(). translog_init() now prints message to error log if failed.
Removed \0 in the output of SHOW ENGINE MARIA LOGS; removed hard-coded engine name there.

KNOWN_BUGS.txt:
  As option --maria-force-start-after-recovery-failures is added, it corresponds to the wish "we should fix that if this happens etc".
  LOAD INDEX is not ignored since a few weeks. Listed concurrency bugs have been fixed some time ago.
  Recovery of fulltext and GIS indexes works since a few weeks.
mysql-test/include/maria_make_snapshot.inc:
  configurable prefix in table's name (so far 't' or 't_corrupted')
mysql-test/include/maria_make_snapshot_for_comparison.inc:
  configurable prefix in table's name (so far 't' or 't_corrupted')
mysql-test/include/maria_make_snapshot_for_feeding_recovery.inc:
  configurable prefix in table's name (so far 't' or 't_corrupted')
mysql-test/include/maria_verify_recovery.inc:
  configurable prefix in table's name (so far 't' or 't_corrupted')
mysql-test/lib/mtr_report.pl:
  new test maria-recover.test generates expected corruption warnings in the error log. maria-recovery.test's corrupted table is renamed to t_corrupted1 instead of t1.
mysql-test/r/maria-preload.result:
  result update. maria_pagecache_read* values are similar to the previous version of this file, though a bit bigger
  because using the information_schema and the join leads to some internal maria temp table being used, and thus some
  blocks of it being read.
mysql-test/r/maria-purge.result:
  engine's name in SHOW ENGINE MARIA LOGS changed.
mysql-test/r/maria-recover.result:
  result for new test. We see corruption messages at first SELECT and then none at second SELECT, expected.
mysql-test/r/maria-recovery.result:
  result update
mysql-test/r/maria.result:
  new variables show up
mysql-test/t/disabled.def:
  BUG#34911 is not fixed but the test had been made independent of the bug (workaround). A new bug (crash) has popped recently, so it has to stay
  disabled (BUG#35107).
mysql-test/t/maria-preload.test:
  Work around BUG#34911 "FLUSH STATUS doesn't flush what it should":
  compute differences in status variables before and after relevant queries
mysql-test/t/maria-recover-master.opt:
  test --maria-recover
mysql-test/t/maria-recover.test:
  Test of the --maria-recover option (build a corrupted table and see if it is auto-repaired)
mysql-test/t/maria-recovery-big.test:
  update for new API of include/maria*.inc
mysql-test/t/maria-recovery-bitmap.test:
  update for new API of include/maria*.inc
mysql-test/t/maria-recovery.test:
  update for new API of include/maria*.inc. Corrupted table t1 renamed to t_corrupted1, so that mtr_report.pl
  does not blindly remove all corruption messages for t1 which is
  a common name.
storage/maria/ha_maria.cc:
  Enabling maria-recover.
  Adding option and global variable --maria_force_start_after_recovery_failures: ha_maria_init()
  calls mark_recovery_start() and mark_recovery_success() to keep track of failed consecutive recoveries
  and remove logs if needed.
  Removed \0 in the output of SHOW ENGINE MARIA LOGS; removed hard-coded engine name there.
storage/maria/ma_checkpoint.c:
  new prototype
storage/maria/ma_control_file.c:
  Storing in one byte in the control file, the number of consecutive recovery failures.
storage/maria/ma_control_file.h:
  new prototype
storage/maria/ma_init.c:
  new prototype
storage/maria/ma_locking.c:
  Need to update open_count on disk at first write and close for transactional tables, like we already did for
  non-transactional tables, otherwise we cannot notice that the table is dubious.
storage/maria/ma_loghandler.c:
  translog_is_log_files() is made more generic to serve either to search or to delete logs (the latter is
  for --maria-force-start-after-recovery-failures). It also had a bug (always returned FALSE).
storage/maria/ma_loghandler.h:
  export function because ha_maria::mark_recovery_start() needs it
storage/maria/ma_recovery.c:
  changing name of maria_recover() to distinguish from the maria-recover option.
storage/maria/ma_recovery.h:
  changing name of maria_recover() to distinguish from the maria-recover option.
storage/maria/ma_test_force_start.pl:
  Test of --maria-force-start-after-recovery-failures (and also, to be realistic, of --maria-recover).
  This is standalone because mysql-test-run does not support testing that multiple mysqld restarts expectedly failed.
  I'll have to run it on my machine and also on a Windows machine.
storage/maria/unittest/ma_control_file-t.c:
  adding recovery_failures to the test
storage/maria/unittest/ma_test_loghandler_multigroup-t.c:
  fix for compiler warning (unused variable in non-debug build)
2008-06-02 22:53:25 +02:00

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This file should contain all know fatal bugs in the Maria storage
engine for the last source or binary release. Minor bugs, extensions
and feature request and bugs found since this release can be find in the
MySQL bugs databases at: http://bugs.mysql.com/ (category "Maria
storage engine").
There shouldn't normally be any bugs that affects normal operations in
any Maria release. Still, there are always exceptions and edge cases
and that's what this file is for.
For the first few Alpha releases of Maria there may be some edge cases
that crashes during recovery; We don't like that but we think it's
better to get the Maria alpha out early to get things tested and get
more developers on the code early than wait until these are fixed. We
do however think that the bugs are not seriously enough to stop anyone
from starting to test and even use Maria for real (as long as they are
prepared to upgrade to next MySQL-Maria release ASAP).
If you have found a bug that is not listed here, please add it to
http://bugs.mysql.com/ so that we can either fix it for next release
or in the worst case add it here for others to know!
Known bugs that we are working on and will be fixed shortly
===========================================================
- We have some instabilities in log writing that is under investigatation
This causes mainly assert to triggers in the code and sometimes
the log handler doesn't start up after restart.
Known bugs that are planned to be fixed before Beta
===================================================
- If we get a write failure on disk (disk full or disk error) for the
log, we should stop all usage of transactional tables and mark all
transactional tables that are changed as crashed.
For the moment, if this happens, you have to take down mysqld,
remove all logs, restart mysqld and repair your tables.
If you get the related error:
"Disk is full writing '/usr/local/mysql/var/maria_log.????????' (Errcode: 28)
Waiting for someone to free space..."
you should either free disk space, in which Maria will continue as before
or kill mysqld, remove logs and repair tables.
Missing features that is planned to fix before Beta
===================================================
- Multiple concurrent inserts & multiple concurrent readers at same time
with full MVCC control. Note that UPDATE and DELETE will still be
blocking (as with MyISAM)
- COUNT(*) and TABLE CHECKSUM under MVCC (ie, they are instant and kept up
to date even with multiple inserter)
Features planned for future releases
====================================
http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/
(you can enter "maria" in the "quick search" field there).