This backports to ZODB4 Connection ZODB5's approach to handle MVCC via
always calling storage.loadBefore() instead of "load for latest version
+ loadBefore if we were notified of database changes" approach.

Why?
----

Short answer: because Wendelin.core 2 needs to know at which particular
database state application-level ZODB connection is viewing the
database, and it is hard to implement such functionality correctly
without this backport. Please see appendix for the explanation.

What
----

This backports to ZODB4 the minimum necessary part of upstream commit 227953b9
(Simplify MVCC by determining transaction start time using lastTransaction) +
follow-up correctness fixes:

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/50
https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/56
https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/291
https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/307

In short:

- a Connection is always opened with explicitly corresponding to a particular database revision
- Connection uses only loadBefore with that revision to load objects
- every time a Connection is (re)opened, the result of queued invalidations and
  explicit query to storage.lastTransaction is carefully merged to refresh
  Connection's idea about which database state it corresponds to.

The "careful" in last point is important. Historically ZODB5 was first reworked
in commit 227953b9 (https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/56) to always
call lastTransaction to refresh state of Connection view. Since there
was no proper synchronisation with respect to process of handling
invalidations, that lead to data corruption issue due to race in
Connection.open() vs invalidations:

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/290

That race and data corruption was fixed in commit b5895a5c
(https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/291) by way of avoiding
lastTransaction call and relying only on invalidations channel when
refreshing Connection view.

This fix in turn led to another data corruption issue because in
presence of client-server reconnections, ZODB storage drivers can partly
skip notifying client with detailed invalidation messages:

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/291#issuecomment-581047061

A fix to that issue (https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/307)
proposed to change back to query storage for lastTransaction on every
Connection refresh, but to implement careful merging of lastTransaction
result and data from invalidation channel. However it was found that the
"careful merging" can work correctly only if we require from storage
drivers a particular ordering of invalidation events wrt lastTransaction
return and result:

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/307#discussion_r434145034

While ZEO was already complying with that requirements, NEO had to be
fixed to support that:

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/pull/307#discussion_r434166238
neoppod@a7d101ec
neoppod@96a5c01f

Patch details
-------------

We change Connection._txn_time to be a "before" for the database state
to which Connection view corresponds. This state is hooked to be
initialized and updated in Connection._flush_invalidations - the
function that is called from both explicit Connection (re)open and at
transaction boundaries via Connection.afterCompletion hook.

Objects loading is factored into Connection._load which replaces old
"load + check invalidated + fallback to loadBefore" game in
Connection._setstate.

Connection.open now calls Connection._flush_invalidations
unconditionally - even if it was global cache reset event - because
besides invalidation flushes the latter is now responsible for querying
storage lastTransaction.

TmpStore - a "storage" that provides runtime support for savepoints - is
refactored correspondingly to delegate loading of original objects back
to underlying Connection.

DB.close is modified - similarly to ZODB5 - to release DB's Connections
carefully with preventing connections from DB poll from implicitly
starting new transactions via afterCompletion hook.

ZODB.nxd_patches is introduced to indicate to client software that this
particular patch is present and can be relied upon.

Tests are updated correspondingly. In 227953b9 Jim talks about
converting many tests - because

	"Lots of tests didn't clean up databases and connections properly"

and because new MVCC approach

	"makes database and connection hygiene a bit more important,
	especially for tests, because a connection will continue to interact
	with storages if it isn't properly closed, which can lead to errors if
	the storage is closed."

but finally implementing automatic cleanup at transaction boundaries
because there are too many tests to fix. We backport only automatic
cleanup + necessary explicit test fixes to keep the diff minimal.

All tests pass. This includes tests for ZODB itself, ZEO and NEO test
over hereby modified ZODB(*), my test programs from

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/290	and
https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/issues/155

and ERP5 tests. Upcoming wendelin.core 2 also work with this change.

(*) ZEO, NEO and ERP5 tests fail sometimes, but there is no regression
here because ZEO, NEO and ERP5 tests are failing regularly, and in the
same way, even with unmodified ZODB.

Appendix. zconn_at
------------------

This appendix provides motivation for the backport:

For wendelin.core v2 we need a way to know at which particular database
state application-level ZODB connection is viewing the database. Knowing
that state, WCFS client library interacts with WCFS filesystem server
and, in simple terms, requests the server to provide data as of that
particular database state. Let us call the function that for a client
ZODB connection returns database state corresponding to its database
view zconn_at.

Now here is the problem: zconn_at is relatively easy to implement for
ZODB5 - see e.g. here:

https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/wendelin.core/blob/v0.13-54-ga6a8f5b/lib/zodb.py#L142-181
wendelin.core@3bd82127

however, for ZODB4, since its operational models is not
directly MVCC, it is not that straightforward. Still, even for older
ZODB4, for every client connection, there _is_ such at that corresponds
to that connection view of the database.

We need ZODB4 support, because ZODB4 is currently the version that
Nexedi uses, and my understanding is that it will stay like this for not
a small time. I have the feeling that ZODB5 was reworked in better
direction, but without caring enough about quality which resulted in
concurrency bugs with data corruption effects like

https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/290
https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/issues/155
etc.

Even though the first one is now fixed (but it broke other parts and so
both ZODB had to be fixed again _and_ NEO had to be fixed for that ZODB
fix to work currently), I feel that upgrading into ZODB5 for Nexedi will
require some non-negligible amount of QA work, and thus it is better if
we move step-by-step - even if we eventually upgrade to ZODB5 - it is
better we first migrate wendelin.core 1 -> wendelin.core 2 with keeping
current version of ZODB.

Now please note what would happen if zconn_at gives, even a bit, wrong
answer: wcfs client will ask wcfs server to provide array data as of
different database state compared to current on-client ZODB connection.
This will result in that data accessed via ZBigArray will _not_
correspond to all other data accessed via regular ZODB mechanism.
It is, in other words, a data corruptions.
In some scenarios it can be harmless, but generally it is the worst
that can happen to a database.

It is good to keep in mind ZODB issue290 when imagining corner cases
that zconn_at has to deal with. Even though that issue is ZODB5 only, it
shows what kind of bugs it can be in zconn_at implementation for ZODB4.

Just for the reference: in Wendelin-based systems there is usually constant
stream of database ingestions coming from many places simultaneously. Plus many
activities crunching on the DB at the same time as well. And the more clients a
system handles, the more there will be level-of-concurrency increase. This
means that the problem of correctly handling concurrency issues in zconn_at is
not purely theoretical, but has direct relation to our systems.

--------

With this backport, zconn_at for ZODB4 becomes trivial and robust to implement:

https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/wendelin.core/blob/484071b3/lib/zodb.py#L183-195

I would like to thank Joshua Wölfel whose internship helped this topic
to shape up:

https://www.erp5.com/project_section/wendelin-ia-project/forum/Joshua-internship-D8b7NNhWfz

/cc @nexedi, @jwolf083Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>