Summary:
Expose DB methods to lock and unlock the WAL.
These methods are intended to use by MyRocks in order to obtain WAL
coordinates in consistent way.
Usage scenario is following:
MySQL has performance_schema.log_status which provides information that
enables a backup tool to copy the required log files without locking for
the duration of copy. To populate this table MySQL does following:
1. Lock the binary log. Transactions are not allowed to commit now
2. Save the binary log coordinates
3. Walk through the storage engines and lock writes on each engine. For
InnoDB, redo log is locked. For MyRocks, WAL should be locked.
4. Ask storage engines for their coordinates. InnoDB reports its current
LSN and checkpoint LSN. MyRocks should report active WAL files names
and sizes.
5. Release storage engine's locks
6. Unlock binary log
Backup tool will then use this information to copy InnoDB, RocksDB and
MySQL binary logs up to specified positions to end up with consistent DB
state after restore.
Currently, RocksDB allows to obtain the list of WAL files. Only missing
bit is the method to lock the writes to WAL files.
LockWAL method must flush the WAL in order for the reported size to be
accurate (GetSortedWALFiles is using file system stat call to return the
file size), also, since backup tool is going to copy the WAL, it is
better to be flushed.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5146
Differential Revision: D14815447
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
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