rocksdb/unreleased_history
Peter Dillinger 5da900f28a Fix a case of ignored corruption in creating backups (#12200)
Summary:
We often need to read the table properties of an SST file when taking a backup. However, we currently do not check checksums for this step, and even with that enabled, we ignore failures. This change ensures we fail creating a backup if corruption is detected in that step of reading table properties.

To get this working properly (with existing unit tests), we also add some temperature handling logic like already exists in
BackupEngineImpl::ReadFileAndComputeChecksum and elsewhere in BackupEngine. Also, SstFileDumper needed a fix to its error handling logic.

This was originally intended to help diagnose some mysterious failures (apparent corruptions) seen in taking backups in the crash test, though that is now fixed in https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12206

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12200

Test Plan: unit test added that corrupts table properties, along with existing tests

Reviewed By: ajkr

Differential Revision: D52520674

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: 032cfc0791428f3b8147d34c7d424ab128e28f42
2024-01-05 09:48:19 -08:00
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behavior_changes Group SST write in flush, compaction and db open with new stats (#11910) 2023-12-29 15:29:23 -08:00
bug_fixes Fix a case of ignored corruption in creating backups (#12200) 2024-01-05 09:48:19 -08:00
new_features Group SST write in flush, compaction and db open with new stats (#11910) 2023-12-29 15:29:23 -08:00
performance_improvements Update HISTORY/version/format compatibility script for the 8.10 release (#12154) 2023-12-15 14:44:23 -08:00
public_api_changes Expose Options::ttl through C API (#12170) 2023-12-21 15:04:53 -08:00
README.txt Trigger compaction to the next level if the data age exceeds periodic_compaction_seconds (#12175) 2023-12-28 12:50:08 -08:00
add.sh Some fixes to unreleased_history/ (#11504) 2023-06-02 15:55:02 -07:00
release.sh Update for 8.5.fb branch cut (#11642) 2023-08-02 12:34:11 -07:00

README.txt

Adding release notes
--------------------

When adding release notes for the next release, add a file to one of these
directories:

unreleased_history/new_features
unreleased_history/behavior_changes
unreleased_history/public_api_changes
unreleased_history/bug_fixes

with a unique name that makes sense for your change, preferably using the .md
extension for syntax highlighting.

There is a script to help, as in

$ unreleased_history/add.sh unreleased_history/bug_fixes/crash_in_feature.md

or simply

$ unreleased_history/add.sh

will take you through some prompts.

The file should usually contain one line of markdown, and "* " is not
required, as it will automatically be inserted later if not included at the
start of the first line in the file. Extra newlines or missing trailing
newlines will also be corrected.

The only times release notes should be added directly to HISTORY are if
* A release is being amended or corrected after it is already "cut" but not
tagged, which should be rare.
* A single commit contains a noteworthy change and a patch release version bump


Ordering of entries
-------------------

Within each group, entries will be included using ls sort order, so important
entries could start their file name with a small three digit number like
100pretty_important.md.

The ordering of groups such as new_features vs. public_api_changes is
hard-coded in unreleased_history/release.sh


Updating HISTORY.md with release notes
--------------------------------------

The script unreleased_history/release.sh does this. Run the script before
updating version.h to the next development release, so that the script will pick
up the version being released. You might want to start with

$ DRY_RUN=1 unreleased_history/release.sh | less

to check for problems and preview the output. Then run

$ unreleased_history/release.sh

which will git rm some files and modify HISTORY.md. You still need to commit the
changes, or revert with the command reported in the output.


Why not update HISTORY.md directly?
-----------------------------------

First, it was common to hit unnecessary merge conflicts when adding entries to
HISTORY.md, which slowed development. Second, when a PR was opened before a
release cut and landed after the release cut, it was easy to add the HISTORY
entry to the wrong version's history. This new setup completely fixes both of
those issues, with perhaps slightly more initial work to create each entry.
There is also now an extra step in using `git blame` to map a release note
to its source code implementation, but that is a relatively rare operation.