Summary:
**This PR does not affect the functionality of `DB` and write-committed transactions.**
`CompactionIterator` uses `KeyCommitted(seq)` to determine if a key in the database is committed.
As the name 'write-committed' implies, if write-committed policy is used, a key exists in the database only if
it is committed. In fact, the implementation of `KeyCommitted()` is as follows:
```
inline bool KeyCommitted(SequenceNumber seq) {
// For non-txn-db and write-committed, snapshot_checker_ is always nullptr.
return snapshot_checker_ == nullptr ||
snapshot_checker_->CheckInSnapshot(seq, kMaxSequence) == SnapshotCheckerResult::kInSnapshot;
}
```
With that being said, we focus on write-prepared/write-unprepared transactions.
A few notes:
- A key can exist in the db even if it's uncommitted. Therefore, we rely on `snapshot_checker_` to determine data visibility. We also require that all writes go through transaction API instead of the raw `WriteBatch` + `Write`, thus at most one uncommitted version of one user key can exist in the database.
- `CompactionIterator` outputs a key as long as the key is uncommitted.
Due to the above reasons, it is possible that `CompactionIterator` decides to output an uncommitted key without
doing further checks on the key (`NextFromInput()`). By the time the key is being prepared for output, the key becomes
committed because the `snapshot_checker_(seq, kMaxSequence)` becomes true in the implementation of `KeyCommitted()`.
Then `CompactionIterator` will try to zero its sequence number and hit assertion error if the key is a tombstone.
To fix this issue, we should make the `CompactionIterator` see a consistent view of the input keys. Note that
for write-prepared/write-unprepared, the background flush/compaction jobs already take a "job snapshot" before starting
processing keys. The job snapshot is released only after the entire flush/compaction finishes. We can use this snapshot
to determine whether a key is committed or not with minor change to `KeyCommitted()`.
```
inline bool KeyCommitted(SequenceNumber sequence) {
// For non-txn-db and write-committed, snapshot_checker_ is always nullptr.
return snapshot_checker_ == nullptr ||
snapshot_checker_->CheckInSnapshot(sequence, job_snapshot_) ==
SnapshotCheckerResult::kInSnapshot;
}
```
As a result, whether a key is committed or not will remain a constant throughout compaction, causing no trouble
for `CompactionIterator`s assertions.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/9830
Test Plan: make check
Reviewed By: ltamasi
Differential Revision: D35561162
Pulled By: riversand963
fbshipit-source-id: 0e00d200c195240341cfe6d34cbc86798b315b9f
Yanqin Jin
0bd4dcde6b