this optional flag gives --critical-load a second chance. When configured to positive value, meeting with critical-load spawns a timer. When this timer expires a second check for critical-load is made; if still met, gh-ost bails out.
By default the interval is zero, in which case gh-ost bails out immediately on meeting critical load.
This flag makes migration silently and happily discard any existing foreign keys on migrated table. This is useful for intentional dropping of foreign keys, as gh-ost does not otherwise have support for foreign key migration.
At some time in the future gh-ost may support foreign key migration, at which time this flag will be removed
- `--max-lag-millis` is at least `100ms`
- `--heartbeat-interval-millis` introduced; defaults `500ms`, can range `100ms` - `1s`
- Control replicas lag calculated asynchronously to throttle test
- aggressive when `max-lag-millis < 1000` and when `replication-lag-query` is given
This will wait indefinitely for the replication status to change.
This allows us to run test schema changes in RDS without needing
custom RDS commands in gh-ost.
- by default gh-ost will not delete an existing socket file
and thus, will fail running if socket file exists. This is the desired behavior.
- The flag --initially-drop-socket-file indicates we take responsibility and wish gh-ost to delete this file on startup
- Cutover would stall after `lock tables` wait-timeout due do waiting on a channel that would never be written to. This has been identified, reproduced, fixed, confirmed.
- Change of table names. Heres the story:
- Because were testing this even while `pt-online-schema-change` is being used in production, the `_tbl_old` naming convention makes for a collision.
- "old" table name is now `_tbl_del`, "del" standing for "delete"
- ghost table name is now `_tbl_gho`
- when issuing `--test-on-replica`, we keep the ghost table around, and were also briefly renaming original table to "old". Well this collides with a potentially existing "old" table on master (one that hasnt been dropped yet).
`--test-on-replica` uses `_tbl_ght` (ghost-test)
- similar problem with `--execute-on-replica`, and in this case the table doesnt stick around; calling it `_tbl_ghr` (ghost-replica)
- changelog table is now `_tbl_ghc` (ghost-changelog)
- To clarify, I dont want to go down the path of creating "old" tables with 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or infinite leading underscored. I think this is very confusing and actually not operations friendly. Its OK that the migration will fail saying "hey, you ALREADY have an old table here, why dont you take care of it first", rather than create _yet_another_ `____tbl_old` table. Were always confused on which table it actually is that gets migrated, which is safe to `drop`, etc.
- just after rowcopy completing, just before cutover, during cutover: marking as point in time _of interest_ so as to increase logging frequency.
- Rowcopy time is bounded by copy end-time
- Retries are configurable via `--default-retries` (default: `60`)
- `migrator` notes the hostname
- `applier` and `inspector` note `impliedKey` (`@@hostname` and `@@port`)
- Added lots of code comments
- Adding documentation for "triggerless design"
