Summary:
The following sequence of events can cause silent data loss for write-committed
transactions.
```
Time thread 1 bg flush
| db->Put("a")
| txn = NewTxn()
| txn->Put("b", "v")
| txn->Prepare() // writes only to 5.log
| db->SwitchMemtable() // memtable 1 has "a"
| // close 5.log,
| // creates 8.log
| trigger flush
| pick memtable 1
| unlock db mutex
| write new sst
| txn->ctwb->Put("gtid", "1") // writes 8.log
| txn->Commit() // writes to 8.log
| // writes to memtable 2
| compute min_log_number_to_keep_2pc, this
| will be 8 (incorrect).
|
| Purge obsolete wals, including 5.log
|
V
```
At this point, writes of txn exists only in memtable. Close db without flush because db thinks the data in
memtable are backed by log. Then reopen, the writes are lost except key-value pair {"gtid"->"1"},
only the commit marker of txn is in 8.log
The reason lies in `PrecomputeMinLogNumberToKeep2PC()` which calls `FindMinPrepLogReferencedByMemTable()`.
In the above example, when bg flush thread tries to find obsolete wals, it uses the information
computed by `PrecomputeMinLogNumberToKeep2PC()`. The return value of `PrecomputeMinLogNumberToKeep2PC()`
depends on three components
- `PrecomputeMinLogNumberToKeepNon2PC()`. This represents the WAL that has unflushed data. As the name of this method suggests, it does not account for 2PC. Although the keys reside in the prepare section of a previous WAL, the column family references the current WAL when they are actually inserted into the memtable during txn commit.
- `prep_tracker->FindMinLogContainingOutstandingPrep()`. This represents the WAL with a prepare section but the txn hasn't committed.
- `FindMinPrepLogReferencedByMemTable()`. This represents the WAL on which some memtables (mutable and immutable) depend for their unflushed data.
The bug lies in `FindMinPrepLogReferencedByMemTable()`. Originally, this function skips checking the column families
that are being flushed, but the unit test added in this PR shows that they should not be. In this unit test, there is
only the default column family, and one of its memtables has unflushed data backed by a prepare section in 5.log.
We should return this information via `FindMinPrepLogReferencedByMemTable()`.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/9571
Test Plan:
```
./transaction_test --gtest_filter=*/TransactionTest.SwitchMemtableDuringPrepareAndCommit_WC/*
make check
```
Reviewed By: siying
Differential Revision: D34235236
Pulled By: riversand963
fbshipit-source-id: 120eb21a666728a38dda77b96276c6af72b008b1
Yanqin Jin