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Re: contextCSN interaction between syncrepl and syncprov

Howard Chu wrote:
Rein Tollevik wrote:

Syncrepl should never be propagating contextCSN updates whose SID matches the current serverID. By definition, only the current server should ever be generating changes with the current serverID.

Syncrepl is updating all csn values, including those with its own sid. Syncprov must correct those values in the very likely case that syncrepl's provider isn't up to date with the local servers changes. Or the csn with the current servers sid could be lowered, which is a really bad thing!

Updates to "foreign" contextCSN values (i.e those
with a SID not matching the current non-zero serverID) should be
imported into the set of contextCSN values syncprov itself maintain.
Syncprov could also short-circuit the contextCSN update and delay it to
its own checkpoint.  I'm not sure what effect the checkpoint feature
have today when syncrepl constantly updates the contextCSN..

The checkpoint probably only made sense for single-master. 

OK, any point in making it work again?  It shouldn't be that hard..

Syncprov must, when syncrepl updates the contextCSN in the suffix of a
subordinate DB, update its own knowledge of the "foreign" CSNs to be the
*lowest* CSN with any given SID stored in all the subordinate DBs (where
syncrepl is configured).  And no update must take place unless a
contextCSN value have been stored in *all* the syncrepl-enabled
subordinate DBs.  Any  values matching the current non-zero serverID
should be updated in this case too, but a new value should probably not
be inserted.

Every source of updates to a DB must use its own unique SID. There should not be a lowest/highest foreign CSN to choose; there should only be one per SID. And as already noted, no syncrepl should ever be sending in a contextCSN update for the current serverID, those can only come from clients directly writing the local DB.

All updates takes place on a remote server, with its unique sid. The problem with this configuration is that there may more than one syncrepl instance, each in its own subordinate db, replicating from that same remote provider. Some of these databases may be in sync, other not, implying that their csn values must not be mixed. Syncprov, sitting on the glue database and maintaining the joint set of databases, must not advertise that it is in sync when one of its subordinates isn't. I.e, it must choose the lowest foreign csn (for any given sid) stored in all its subordinate databases.

Note that, for ordinary MMR, syncrepl and syncprov must be configured in the same database, meaning that this case is not valid there.

Rein