MDEV-25292 Atomic CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE
Atomic CREATE OR REPLACE allows to keep an old table intact if the
command fails or during the crash. That is done through creating
a table with a temporary name and filling it with the data
(for CREATE OR REPLACE .. SELECT), then renaming the original table
to another temporary (backup) name and renaming the replacement table
to original table. The backup table is kept until the last chance of
failure and if that happens, the replacement table is thrown off and
backup recovered. When the command is complete and logged the backup
table is deleted.
Atomic replace algorithm
Two DDL chains are used for CREATE OR REPLACE:
ddl_log_state_create (C) and ddl_log_state_rm (D).
1. (C) Log CREATE_TABLE_ACTION of TMP table (drops TMP table);
2. Create new table as TMP;
3. Do everything with TMP (like insert data);
finalize_atomic_replace():
4. Link chains: (D) is executed only if (C) is closed;
5. (D) Log DROP_ACTION of BACKUP;
6. (C) Log RENAME_TABLE_ACTION from ORIG to BACKUP (replays BACKUP -> ORIG);
7. Rename ORIG to BACKUP;
8. (C) Log CREATE_TABLE_ACTION of ORIG (drops ORIG);
9. Rename TMP to ORIG;
finalize_ddl() in case of success:
10. Close (C);
11. Replay (D): BACKUP is dropped.
finalize_ddl() in case of error:
10. Close (D);
11. Replay (C):
1) ORIG is dropped (only after finalize_atomic_replace());
2) BACKUP renamed to ORIG (only after finalize_atomic_replace());
3) drop TMP.
If crash happens (C) or (D) is replayed in reverse order. (C) is
replayed if crash happens before it is closed, otherwise (D) is
replayed.
Temporary table for CREATE OR REPLACE
Before dropping "old" table, CREATE OR REPLACE creates "tmp" table.
ddl_log_state_create holds the drop of the "tmp" table. When
everything is OK (data is inserted, "tmp" is ready) ddl_log_state_rm
is written to replace "old" with "tmp". Until ddl_log_state_create
is closed ddl_log_state_rm is not executed.
After the binlogging is done ddl_log_state_create is closed. At that
point ddl_log_state_rm is executed and "tmp" is replaced with
"old". That is: final rename is done by the DDL log.
With that important role of DDL log for CREATE OR REPLACE operation
replay of ddl_log_state_rm must fail at the first hit error and
print the error message if possible. F.ex. foreign key error is
discovered at this phase: InnoDB rejects to drop the "old" table and
returns corresponding foreign key error code.
Additional notes
- CREATE TABLE without REPLACE is not affected by this commit.
- Engines having HTON_EXPENSIVE_RENAME flag set are not affected by
this commit.
- CREATE TABLE .. SELECT XID usage is fixed and now there is no need
to log DROP TABLE via DDL_CREATE_TABLE_PHASE_LOG (see comments in
do_postlock()). XID is now correctly updated so it disables
DDL_LOG_DROP_TABLE_ACTION. Note that binary log is flushed at the
final stage when the table is ready. So if we have XID in the
binary log we don't need to drop the table.
- Three variations of CREATE OR REPLACE handled:
1. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE t1 (..);
2. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE t1 LIKE t2;
3. CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE t1 SELECT ..;
- Test case uses 6 combinations for engines (aria, aria_notrans,
myisam, ib, lock_tables, expensive_rename) and 2 combinations for
binlog types (row, stmt). Combinations help to check differences
between the results. Error failures are tested for the above three
variations.
- expensive_rename tests CREATE OR REPLACE without atomic
replace. The effect should be the same as with the old behaviour
before this commit.
- Triggers mechanism is unaffected by this change. This is tested in
create_replace.test.
- LOCK TABLES is affected. Lock restoration must be done after "rm"
chain is replayed.
- Moved ddl_log_complete() from send_eof() to finalize_ddl(). This
checkpoint was not executed before for normal CREATE TABLE but is
executed now.
- CREATE TABLE will now rollback also if writing to the binary
logging failed. See rpl_gtid_strict.test
Rename and drop via DDL log
We replay ddl_log_state_rm to drop the old table and rename the
temporary table. In that case we must throw the correct error
message if ddl_log_revert() fails (f.ex. on FK error).
If table is deleted earlier and not via DDL log and the crash
happened, the create chain is not closed. Linked drop chain is not
executed and the new table is not installed. But the old table is
already deleted.
ddl_log.cc changes
Now we can place action before DDL_LOG_DROP_INIT_ACTION and it will
be replayed after DDL_LOG_DROP_TABLE_ACTION.
report_error parameter for ddl_log_revert() allows to fail at first
error and print the error message if possible.
ddl_log_execute_action() now can print error message.
Since we now can handle errors from ddl_log_execute_action() (in
case of non-recovery execution) unconditional setting "error= TRUE"
is wrong (it was wrong anyway because it was overwritten at the end
of the function).
On XID usage
Like with all other atomic DDL operations XID is used to avoid
inconsistency between master and slave in the case of a crash after
binary log is written and before ddl_log_state_create is closed. On
recovery XIDs are taken from binary log and corresponding DDL log
events get disabled. That is done by
ddl_log_close_binlogged_events().
On linking two chains together
Chains are executed in the ascending order of entry_pos of execute
entries. But entry_pos assignment order is undefined: it may assign
bigger number for the first chain and then smaller number for the
second chain. So the execution order in that case will be reverse:
second chain will be executed first.
To avoid that we link one chain to another. While the base chain
(ddl_log_state_create) is active the secondary chain
(ddl_log_state_rm) is not executed. That is: only one chain can be
executed in two linked chains.
The interface ddl_log_link_chains() was done in "MDEV-22166
ddl_log_write_execute_entry() extension".
More on CREATE OR REPLACE .. SELECT
We use create_and_open_tmp_table() like in ALTER TABLE to create
temporary TABLE object (tmp_table is (NON_)TRANSACTIONAL_TMP_TABLE).
After we created such TABLE object we use create_info->tmp_table()
instead of table->s->tmp_table when we need to check for
parser-requested tmp-table.
External locking is required for temporary table created by
create_and_open_tmp_table(). F.ex. that disables logging for Aria
transactional tables and without that (when no mysql_lock_tables()
is done) it cannot work correctly.
For making external lock the patch requires Aria table to work in
non-transactional mode. That is usually done by
ha_enable_transaction(false). But we cannot disable transaction
completely because: 1. binlog rollback removes pending row events
(binlog_remove_pending_rows_event()). The row events are added
during CREATE .. SELECT data insertion phase. 2. replication slave
highly depends on transaction and cannot work without it.
So we put temporary Aria table into non-transactional mode with
"thd->transaction->on hack". See comment for on_save variable.
Note that Aria table has internal_table mode. But we cannot use it
because:
if (!internal_table)
{
mysql_mutex_lock(&THR_LOCK_myisam);
old_info= test_if_reopen(name_buff);
}
For internal_table test_if_reopen() is not called and we get a new
MARIA_SHARE for each file handler. In that case duplicate errors are
missed because insert and lookup in CREATE .. SELECT is done via two
different handlers (see create_lookup_handler()).
For temporary table before dropping TABLE_SHARE by
drop_temporary_table() we must do ha_reset(). ha_reset() releases
storage share. Without that the share is kept and the second CREATE
OR REPLACE .. SELECT fails with:
HA_ERR_TABLE_EXIST (156): MyISAM table '#sql-create-b5377-4-t2' is
in use (most likely by a MERGE table). Try FLUSH TABLES.
HA_EXTRA_PREPARE_FOR_DROP also removes MYISAM_SHARE, but that is
not needed as ha_reset() does the job.
ha_reset() is usually done by
mark_tmp_table_as_free_for_reuse(). But we don't need that mechanism
for our temporary table.
Atomic_info in HA_CREATE_INFO
Many functions in CREATE TABLE pass the same parameters. These
parameters are part of table creation info and should be in
HA_CREATE_INFO (or whatever). Passing parameters via single
structure is much easier for adding new data and
refactoring.
InnoDB changes (revised by Marko Mäkelä)
row_rename_table_for_mysql(): Specify the treatment of FOREIGN KEY
constraints in a 4-valued enum parameter. In cases where FOREIGN KEY
constraints cannot exist (partitioned tables, or internal tables of
FULLTEXT INDEX), we can use the mode RENAME_IGNORE_FK.
The mod RENAME_REBUILD is for any DDL operation that rebuilds the
table inside InnoDB, such as TRUNCATE and native ALTER TABLE
(or OPTIMIZE TABLE). The mode RENAME_ALTER_COPY is used solely
during non-native ALTER TABLE in ha_innobase::rename_table().
Normal ha_innobase::rename_table() will use the mode RENAME_FK.
CREATE OR REPLACE will rename the old table (if one exists) along
with its FOREIGN KEY constraints into a temporary name. The replacement
table will be initially created with another temporary name.
Unlike in ALTER TABLE, all FOREIGN KEY constraints must be renamed
and not inherited as part of these operations, using the mode RENAME_FK.
dict_get_referenced_table(): Let the callers convert names when needed.
create_table_info_t::create_foreign_keys(): CREATE OR REPLACE creates
the replacement table with a temporary name table, so for
self-references foreign->referenced_table will be a table with
temporary name and charset conversion must be skipped for it.
Reviewed by:
Michael Widenius <email address hidden>
