ExportXMLWordPrintableJSON

    • Type: Technical Debt
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • None
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: Schema Management
    • None
    • Storage Engines - Foundations
    • 59.09
    • None
    • None

      Issue Summary

      WT-15242 identifies shared (disaggregated) trees by their block_manager=disagg configuration instead of the ".wt_stable" file name. Metadata entries written by earlier releases carry no such setting, so the btree open path, the file creation path and the code that scans metadata entries still treat a ".wt_stable" name as shared. These name checks exist only for legacy entries and keep the naming assumption alive.

      Context

      • Entries written before WT-15242 (for example by mongodb-9.0 nodes) have no block_manager setting on shared trees, including the shared metadata table and the shared history store.
      • Every shared file created by the current code has block_manager=disagg, so the name check is redundant for new databases and for any database whose entries have all been rewritten.
      • The name check stays until we can show that no database in use has a legacy entry, whether in local metadata, in the shared metadata table, or in any checkpoint a node may still pick up.
      • Related: WT-15242, and the remaining WT_URI_IS_STABLE users, which are naming-convention sites outside this ticket.

      Proposed Solution

      • Confirm which releases wrote entries without the setting, and that no supported deployment can still read or pick up such a database or checkpoint.
      • Drop the name fallback at btree open, in the file creation path and in the metadata scans, so the configuration is the only source of truth.
      • Remove the legacy test and the compatibility test scenarios that depend on the fallback.

      Definition of Done

      • No code decides that a tree is shared from its file name.
      • Compatibility tests that open or pick up databases from older releases are removed or adjusted, and the rest pass.

            Assignee:
            [DO NOT USE] Backlog - Storage Engines Team
            Reporter:
            Chenhao Qu
            Votes:
            0 Vote for this issue
            Watchers:
            1 Start watching this issue

              Created:
              Updated: