Comment 25 for bug 1113301

Hi Daniel,

AFAIK, the potential metadata lock cases might happen in different stages with pt-osc (creating new table, altering new table, creating the triggers, swapping the tables, dropping old table, dropping the triggers).
Taking --tries into consideration, what will pt-osc tool do if the number of tries was reached in one of those stages?
For example:
1- Creating new table ... done
2- Altering new table ... done
3- Creating triggers ... failed after reaching the number of tries.

What is the case related to the newly created table? will it be dropped before exiting the tool?
1- if the table will be dropped this is another potential metadata lock issue?
2- if it will be kept - beside having unneeded table in the system - executing the tool to alter the same table again might cause trouble or fail.

Thanks,
Abdel-Mawla