WFTO – end of January report

Yes! This was a bug fixing week

Since my last report from 2009-01-23 we fixed around 15 Falcon related bugs. Compared to our last WFTO from 2009-01-23 we have 1 new test.

The development of our failed/passed tests ratio over time looks like:

• 1.69% – 4/237 (this report)
• 1.69% – 4/236 (last report)
• 1.28% – 3/234 (report before last one)

News for this week:

• Christopher Powers fixed
  • Bug#39678 Assertion (bdb) fails in IndexRootPage::indexMerge during recovery
  • Bug#41663 Falcon assertion (deferredIndex->virtualOffset) failed at Index.cpp:264
  • Bug#42099 Falcon: Online ALTER add/drop primary key
  • Bug#42131 falcon_backlog test crashes in Record::getEncodedValue
  • Bug#42274 Running iuds6.tst leads to assertion in Falcon
  • Bug#42342 Falcon crash in Index::duplicateKey

• Kevin Lewis fixed
  • Bug#40801 Falcon garbage collection can erase valid key values
  • Bug#42365 Double call defaultDatabase->getOpenConnection() in StorageHandler::initialize
  • Bug#42429 Falcon crash in Table::checkUniqueRecordVersion

• Vladislav Vaintroub fixed
  • Bug#40946 assertion in PageInventoryPage::allocPage in recovery
  • Bug#41227 Falcon: potential corruption of RecordLocatorPage on recovery
  • Bug#42060 Falcon recovery failure – wrong page type, expected 8 got 0 (redoIndexPage)
  • Bug#42392 Falcon bugs in recovery of create tablespace
  • Bug#42394 Unnecessary calls to TableSpace::open() in TableSpaceManager::bootstrap()
  • Bug#42414 falcon_bug_33211 fails when trying to create a table in a non-existing table spa

The four failing test cases are:

• falcon_bug_30124-big
• falcon_bug_36294-big
• falcon_deadlock (a fix for this test failure is in review)
• falcon_bug_22173 (a fix for this regression will be merged into our Falcon source tree soon)

What about you?

We are interested in you! Where do you use Falcon? What do you do with Falcon? Are there any features you want to see in Falcon? You can test Falcon and get famous by providing valuable bug reports or even test cases for Falcon!

Resources:

• The test language we use is described here: MySQL Test Framework
• List of Falcon related bugs you will find here: http://bugs.mysql.com/saved/FalconBugs
• A preview version of Falcon you will find here: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon_Feature_Preview
• Our MySQL Forum dedicated to Falcon related questions is here: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?133
• Our MySQL/Falcon related mailing list you will find here: http://lists.mysql.com/falcon
• To get latest Falcon source code, please see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/installing-source-tree.html
• We successfully compiled our sources on Linux 32-bit and 64-bit, FreeBSD 32-bit and 64-bit, Mac/Intel and Mac/PPC, Windows 32-bit and 64-bit, and Solaris/x86 and Solaris/SPARC.