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

[Kirill Yukhin <kyukhin@tarantool.org>]

Hello Vlad,
On 03 авг 16:58, Vladislav Shpilevoy wrote:
> 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?
I think adding box.cfg{} parameter is more flexible approach.
You can start w/ such option turned ON, and the turn it OFF
w/o restart of whole instance.

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Regards, Kirill Yukhin