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    WL#3984 (Revise locking of mysql.general_log and mysql.slow_log) · c7bbd891
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    Bug#25422 (Hang with log tables)
    Bug 17876 (Truncating mysql.slow_log in a SP after using cursor locks the
              thread)
    Bug 23044 (Warnings on flush of a log table)
    Bug 29129 (Resetting general_log while the GLOBAL READ LOCK is set causes
               a deadlock)
    
    Prior to this fix, the server would hang when performing concurrent
    ALTER TABLE or TRUNCATE TABLE statements against the LOG TABLES,
    which are mysql.general_log and mysql.slow_log.
    
    The root cause traces to the following code:
    in sql_base.cc, open_table()
      if (table->in_use != thd)
      {
        /* wait_for_condition will unlock LOCK_open for us */
        wait_for_condition(thd, &LOCK_open, &COND_refresh);
      }
    The problem with this code is that the current implementation of the
    LOGGER creates 'fake' THD objects, like
    - Log_to_csv_event_handler::general_log_thd
    - Log_to_csv_event_handler::slow_log_thd
    which are not associated to a real thread running in the server,
    so that waiting for these non-existing threads to release table locks
    cause the dead lock.
    
    In general, the design of Log_to_csv_event_handler does not fit into the
    general architecture of the server, so that the concept of general_log_thd
    and slow_log_thd has to be abandoned:
    - this implementation does not work with table locking
    - it will not work with commands like SHOW PROCESSLIST
    - having the log tables always opened does not integrate well with DDL
    operations / FLUSH TABLES / SET GLOBAL READ_ONLY
    
    With this patch, the fundamental design of the LOGGER has been changed to:
    - always open and close a log table when writing a log
    - remove totally the usage of fake THD objects
    - clarify how locking of log tables is implemented in general.
    
    See WL#3984 for details related to the new locking design.
    
    Additional changes (misc bugs exposed and fixed):
    
    1)
    
    mysqldump which would ignore some tables in dump_all_tables_in_db(),
     but forget to ignore the same in dump_all_views_in_db().
    
    2)
    
    mysqldump would also issue an empty "LOCK TABLE" command when all the tables
    to lock are to be ignored (numrows == 0), instead of not issuing the query.
    
    3)
    
    Internal errors handlers could intercept errors but not warnings
    (see sql_error.cc).
    
    4)
    
    Implementing a nested call to open tables, for the performance schema tables,
    exposed an existing bug in remove_table_from_cache(), which would perform:
      in_use->some_tables_deleted=1;
    against another thread, without any consideration about thread locking.
    This call inside remove_table_from_cache() was not required anyway,
    since calling mysql_lock_abort() takes care of aborting -- cleanly -- threads
    that might hold a lock on a table.
    This line (in_use->some_tables_deleted=1) has been removed.
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