[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow to ignore space formats via command line option

[Vladislav Shpilevoy]

On 03/08/2018 16:47, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 03:46:26PM +0300, Vladislav Shpilevoy wrote:
>> It is a common case that an instance is running on a version
>> 1.6.*, then is upgraded to 1.9 with box.schema.upgrade(). But
>> some of users has malformed space formats, and some of them got
>> and ignored errors on box.schema.upgrade(). Such half-upgraded
>> data can not be used to start a new version due to format
>> violations, and can not be rolled back because some of new system
>> spaces managed to be created. And we can not repair raw xlogs and
>> snapshots because we have no such tools and they are zipped.
>>
>> So it would be useful to have a command line option
>> --ignore-space-formats. It would allow to start an instance on
>> the spaces with malformed formats, fix them, create a snapshot
>> and then start with the formats turned on.
>>
>> Closes #3605
>>
>> @TarantoolBot document
>> Title: Command line option '--ignore-space-formats'
>> The option allows to turn off space formats validation before
>> the instance is started. Usefull to fix malformed formats after
>> an upgrade from version < 1.7.5 to >= 1.7.5.
> 
> Why a command line option? Why not a box.cfg parameter?
> Or, even better, box.cfg.force_recovery?
> 

I just do not want to clog box.cfg options with this
pure debug one. Force_recovery should skip violating
records instead of ignoring the format. But I don't
mind, for me all the 3 ways are ok and helps me to
repair customers with broken schemes. So if you want,
I can add a box.cfg option or reuse force_recovery
to always ignore space formats. What should I do?