This feature allows the user to specify the minimum number of
connected replicas having a lag less or equal than the specified
amount of seconds for writes to be accepted.
There is a new 'lag' information in the list of slaves, in the
"replication" section of the INFO output.
Also the format was changed in a backward incompatible way in order to
make it more easy to parse if new fields are added in the future, as the
new format is comma separated but has named fields (no longer positional
fields).
Now masters, using the time at which the last REPLCONF ACK was received,
are able to explicitly disconnect slaves that are no longer responding.
Previously the only chance was to see a very long output buffer, that
was highly suboptimal.
ACKs can be also used as a base for synchronous replication. However in
that case they'll be explicitly requested by the master when the client
sends a request that needs to be replicated synchronously.
This special command is used by the slave to inform the master the
amount of replication stream it currently consumed.
it does not return anything so that we not need to consume additional
bandwidth needed by the master to reply something.
The master can do a number of things knowing the amount of stream
processed, such as understanding the "lag" in bytes of the slave, verify
if a given command was already processed by the slave, and so forth.
When master send commands, there is no need for the slave to reply.
Redis used to queue the reply in the output buffer and discard the reply
later, this is a waste of work and it is not clear why it was this way
(I sincerely don't remember).
This commit changes it in order to don't queue the reply at all.
All tests passing.
Also the logfile option was modified to always have an explicit value
and to log to stdout when an empty string is used as log file.
Previously there was special handling of the string "stdout" that set
the logfile to NULL, this always required some special handling.
This is just to make the code exactly like the above instance used for
requirepass. No actual change nor the original code violated the Redis
coding style.
There was a race condition in the AOF rewrite code that, with bad enough
timing, could cause a volatile key just about to expire to be turned
into a non-volatile key. The bug was never reported to cause actualy
issues, but was found analytically by an user in the Redis mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/redis-db/Kvh2FAGK4Uk
This commit fixes issue #1079.
Tilt mode was too aggressive (not processing INFO output), this
resulted in a few problems:
1) Redirections were not followed when in tilt mode. This opened a
window to misinform clients about the current master when a Sentinel
was in tilt mode and a fail over happened during the time it was not
able to update the state.
2) It was possible for a Sentinel exiting tilt mode to detect a false
fail over start, if a slave rebooted with a wrong configuration
about at the same time. This used to happen since in tilt mode we
lose the information that the runid changed (reboot).
Now instead the Sentinel in tilt mode will still remove the instance
from the list of slaves if it changes state AND runid at the same
time.
Both are edge conditions but the changes should overall improve the
reliability of Sentinel.
