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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6658

What is changed and how it works?

Dispatchers replicating different spans of the same table can have different start timestamps after scheduling or recovery. Since TableInfoVersion can include the dispatcher’s start timestamp, a higher schema file version does not establish that another dispatcher’s DML has already been persisted.

Previously, the cloud storage sink could discard valid DML after finding a higher-version schema file with the same checksum, while still executing its flush callbacks.

This PR restores the schema reuse behavior of the old architecture, before #1943:

• Remove hasNewerSchemaVersion from CheckOrWriteSchema and remove the corresponding DML discard branch and unused helper from the writer.
• Reuse an existing schema file with the same checksum, regardless of whether its version is older or newer than the incoming version. CheckOrWriteSchema returns the effective schema version and an error.
• Write DML and index files using the effective schema version through the normal persistence path before executing flush callbacks. Schema files retain the existing schema__.json format.

Check List

Tests

• Unit test
• Integration test

Questions

Will it cause performance regression or break compatibility?

• This change introduces a new schema filename format. Updated consumers can read legacy files, but older consumers cannot recognize the new filenames.
• Older TiCDC writers can interpret the version and checksum in new filenames as table-wide metadata and still discard valid DML. Upgrading the consumer alone does not make mixed-version writer deployments safe.
• New dispatcher IDs created by split or merge operations can produce additional schema files. The retained version check does not provide exactly-once DML output or eliminate replay after recovery.

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Release note

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved cloud storage handling of DML records when schema versions differ across nodes, including correct placement of data and index files.
  • With table-across-nodes enabled, older DML is processed using the effective schema rather than incorrectly marked stale; stale-data detection remains unchanged when the setting is disabled.
  • Schema discovery now distinguishes dispatcher-scoped schemas from unscoped legacy schemas, helping prevent unrelated schemas from affecting stale checks or being rediscovered.
• Improvements
  • Improved handling of DDL schemas discovered alongside dispatcher schemas, supporting consistent schema and query retention.

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Walkthrough

Cloud storage schema files now support dispatcher-scoped names. Schema checks and consumer discovery account for dispatcher scope and legacy DDL schemas. Tests cover schema selection, file discovery, and split-span DML persistence when start timestamps differ.

Changes: Dispatcher-scoped cloud storage schemas

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Schema filename and generation pkg/cloudstorage/generator.go, pkg/cloudstorage/path_key.go, pkg/cloudstorage/schema_file.go, pkg/cloudstorage/path_test.go, pkg/cloudstorage/path_key_test.go, pkg/cloudstorage/schema_file_test.go	Schema filenames and generated paths can include a dispatcher ID. Schema checks compare candidate files within the applicable dispatcher scope. Path parsing and tests cover scoped and unscoped names.
Consumer schema discovery cmd/storage-consumer/consumer.go, cmd/storage-consumer/consumer_test.go	The consumer parses dispatcher-scoped schema metadata and handles DDL schema replacement during discovery. Tests cover schema ordering and discovery of DDL schemas, dispatcher schemas, and data files.
Split-span validation and startup downstreamadapter/sink/cloudstorage/writer_test.go, cmd/storage-consumer/main.go	Writer tests check persisted data and index files for equal and differing schema-version timestamps. Consumer initialization moves from package initialization into main.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: 3aceshowhand

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 10be4

The change scopes cloud storage schema files per dispatcher and updates the consumer to recognize both filename formats. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 42dc1

The change restores persistence for split-table streams without changing storage destinations or file formats. No new privilege gain or externally reachable operation was identified. The behavior applies to every table in enabled streams, while concurrent recovery and replay remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed outcome is additional persistence of already-delivered DML for all tables using an enabled sink, including singleton tables. The inspected change does not select a new storage destination or grant credentials. An attacker-controlled route to cross-tenant or cross-service storage was not established by this evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The newly accepted path still requires a same-checksum schema match for version reuse and retains routed schema/table selection and physical-table path inputs. These are existing identity and compatibility mechanisms, not newly added security controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — On the persistence path, data writes complete before index publication, and callbacks run only after both succeed. Write-admission, data-write, writer-close, or index-write errors return before callbacks. Existing index resynchronization and collision probing remain available after restart or ownership transfer, but do not establish exactly-once replay or atomic multi-file publication.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 10.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Description check		The description contradicts the implemented approach. It says the PR removes stale-DML checks and retains the existing filename format. The changes instead scope schema filenames and version checks by…	Update the change description to explain dispatcher-scoped filenames, retained stale-DML checks, and storage-consumer handling. Answer the documentation question and provide a release note for the bug fix.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		[#6658] CheckOrWriteSchema compares schema versions within each dispatcher scope. TestWriterSplitSpanSchemaVersions verifies that both records, index files, and callbacks persist when the newer-st…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#6658] Dispatcher-scoped filenames and version checks address the reported DML loss. Consumer parsing, DDL replay handling, tests, and the main initialization refactor support the new format and it…
Title check		The title describes the DML discard issue addressed by the change. It is broad because stale-DML checks remain within each dispatcher scope.

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Explanation

[#6658] CheckOrWriteSchema compares schema versions within each dispatcher scope. TestWriterSplitSpanSchemaVersions verifies that both records, index files, and callbacks persist when the newer-starting dispatcher writes first. It also tests equal and reversed versions.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

[#6658] Dispatcher-scoped filenames and version checks address the reported DML loss. Consumer parsing, DDL replay handling, tests, and the main initialization refactor support the new format and its tests. No unrelated changes are identified.

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Docstring coverage is 10.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 10 functions across 10 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description contradicts the implemented approach. It says the PR removes stale-DML checks and retains the existing filename format. The changes instead scope schema filenames and version checks by dispatcher.

Resolution

Update the change description to explain dispatcher-scoped filenames, retained stale-DML checks, and storage-consumer handling. Answer the documentation question and provide a release note for the bug fix.

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• cmd/storage-consumer/consumer.go
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• downstreamadapter/sink/cloudstorage/writer_test.go
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• pkg/cloudstorage/path_key.go
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