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  2. DOCS-13581

Investigate changes in SERVER-44343: Make 'reIndex' a standalone-only command

      Description

      Downstream Change Summary

      The reIndex command can now only be run on a standalone mongod.

      Description of Linked Ticket

      Trying to run the 'reIndex' command on a secondary while having unfinished prepared transactions will hit an invariant. After dropping the index that will be re-indexed, we hit an invariant when doing a collection scan to insert all the documents in the collection for that index.

      Invariant failure lock.mode != MODE_S && lock.mode != MODE_X {6917529027641081857: Global, 1} in X src/mongo/db/storage/wiredtiger/wiredtiger_prepare_conflict.h 111
      

      ldeng recommended to try set the 'canIgnorePrepareConflicts' flag to true for the 'reIndex' command but that ended up hitting another invariant while trying to drop all the indexes.

      WiredTiger error (95) [1572545292:296845][8488:0x7f381342b700], file:_mdb_catalog.wt, WT_CURSOR.insert: __wt_txn_modify, 463: Transactions with ignore_prepare=true cannot perform updates: Operation not supported Raw: [1572545292:296845][8488:0x7f381342b700], file:_mdb_catalog.wt, WT_CURSOR.insert: __wt_txn_modify, 463: Transactions with ignore_prepare=true cannot perform updates: Operation not supported
      
      Invariant failure: ret resulted in status UnknownError: 95: Operation not supported at src/mongo/db/storage/wiredtiger/wiredtiger_record_store.cpp 1442
      

      We should consider disallowing the 'reIndex' command from running on secondaries and removing it in a future release.

      Scope of changes

      Please review and update:

      • reIndex command page (and any appropriate method pages if applicable)
      • 5.0 compatibility notes

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            Assignee:
            joseph.dougherty@mongodb.com Joseph Dougherty
            Reporter:
            backlog-server-pm Backlog - Core Eng Program Management Team
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              3 years, 15 weeks, 6 days ago