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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6415

A failed scan of a split large transaction can delete deferred inserts from earlier fragments after their row cursor has already been published. An in-place retry resumes after that cursor, so the inserts can be lost.

What is changed and how it works?

Save the existing spill offset and phase before each original-row scan. On failure, truncate only records written by that attempt and restore the phase; clean up the spill only when the failed attempt created it. If rollback fails, complete it before another scan or drain. Delay same-commit DDL spill cleanup until the iterator closes successfully.

Add deterministic tests for append and iterator-close errors after a published fragment, plus a partial spill record and a failed rollback. They verify that each row's delete and insert appears once after retry.

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Tests

  • Unit test: go test -tags=intest ./pkg/eventservice ./pkg/spill -count=1
  • Unit test with race detector for the new regressions and same-commit DDL path

Questions

Will it cause performance regression or break compatibility?

No compatibility change. An active large-transaction spill adds one file-size check per original-row scan attempt.

Do you need to update user documentation, design documentation or monitoring documentation?

No. This changes internal scan failure recovery.

Release note

Fix a potential data loss when retrying a large transaction after a spill write or iterator-close failure.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved recovery when scanning large transactions encounters an error. Retrying preserves transaction progress and helps prevent rows from being skipped or emitted more than once.
    • Improved recovery after interrupted spill-file writes, allowing scanning to resume after missing data is restored.
    • Improved handling of completed large transactions before processing the next transaction, including when both share a commit timestamp. Spill data is cleaned up after successful processing.

A failed original-row scan used to delete inserts from earlier fragments even
though their row cursor was already published. Keep a per-attempt spill offset
and roll back only the failed attempt before scanning again.

Cover append and iterator-close failures, partial writes, and a failed rollback.
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The scanner now checkpoints large-transaction spill state before an original-row scan and restores it when scanning or iterator closing fails. Cleanup is deferred until a successful scan completes. Tests cover retries, rollback recovery, event ordering, and changes to the TiDB MySQL test command.

Changes: Large transaction scan retry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Spill checkpoint and rollback
pkg/spill/record_file.go, pkg/eventservice/large_txn_state.go, pkg/eventservice/large_txn_spill_test.go
RecordFile adds size and truncation operations. Large-transaction state saves and restores original-scan checkpoints. A test covers rollback recovery after a partial write.
Scanner rollback and deferred cleanup
pkg/eventservice/event_scanner.go, pkg/eventservice/txn_scan_strategy.go, pkg/eventservice/event_scanner_test.go
The scanner recovers pending rollback, snapshots before scanning, and rolls back failed scans. Spill cleanup is scheduled at EOF and runs after a successful scan and iterator close. Tests cover append and iterator-close failures, retries, and event ordering.

MySQL integration test logging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test command and expected errors
tests/integration_tests/tidb_mysql_test/test.sh
The script updates its comment about duplicate key values in expected error messages and quotes the host and port expansions. It still disables TiDB log redaction.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Scanner as eventScanner.scan
  participant Dispatcher
  participant Iterator as event iterator
  participant Spill as RecordFile
  Scanner->>Dispatcher: recoverOriginalScan
  Scanner->>Dispatcher: snapshotOriginalScan
  Scanner->>Iterator: scan events
  Iterator-->>Scanner: scan or close error
  Scanner->>Dispatcher: rollbackOriginalScan
  Dispatcher->>Spill: truncate to checkpoint offset
  Scanner->>Dispatcher: recoverOriginalScan before retry
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Possibly related issues

  • pingcap/ticdc#6817: The test command still disables log redaction, which corresponds to the issue’s report of redacted duplicate-key values.

Suggested reviewers: lidezhu, 3aceshowhand

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review b254b

This change preserves deferred inserts when a large-transaction scan is retried after an append or iterator-close failure. No concrete merge-blocking defect was established. The only open item is a minor test-coverage suggestion that is already published.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check Warning [#6415] The scanner, spill, and regression test changes support scan retry recovery. The comment and argument quoting changes in tests/integration_tests/tidb_mysql_test/test.sh concern MySQL golden … Remove the unrelated comment and argument quoting changes from tests/integration_tests/tidb_mysql_test/test.sh, or move them to a separate PR.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly describes the main change: preserving spilled inserts when a scan retries.
Description check Passed The description includes the issue, problem, solution, tests, compatibility and documentation answers, and release note.
Linked Issues check Passed [#6415] The scanner checkpoints spill offset and phase, rolls back failed attempts, and completes pending recovery before retry. Cleanup waits for iterator close. Tests cover append and close failures…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.
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[#6415] The scanner checkpoints spill offset and phase, rolls back failed attempts, and completes pending recovery before retry. Cleanup waits for iterator close. Tests cover append and close failures after a published fragment, partial writes, failed rollback, and exact row counts after retry. The supplied evidence supports the existing drain rollback behavior.

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Explanation

[#6415] The scanner, spill, and regression test changes support scan retry recovery. The comment and argument quoting changes in tests/integration_tests/tidb_mysql_test/test.sh concern MySQL golden results, not spill recovery. The global redaction setting was already present at the merge base. An incremental scanner diff also shows a redo test failpoint, but its inclusion in the whole PR is not established by that diff.

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Remove the unrelated comment and argument quoting changes from tests/integration_tests/tidb_mysql_test/test.sh, or move them to a separate PR.

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A rabbit checks the spill-file trail,
Keeps earlier inserts safe from fail.
A retry hops back to its saved place,
Then rows proceed in proper pace.
At EOF, cleanup waits its turn,
While DDL and resolved events return.

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- Line 538: Update the scan flow that sets cleanupLargeTxnAfterScan so the
completed large-transaction dispatcher state is cleared before processing
another transaction, or stop scanning after scheduling cleanup and let
post-iterator cleanup run; prevent getOrCreateLargeTxnState from reusing the
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  • pkg/eventservice/event_scanner.go
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Nitpick Cover a close failure after a published spill reaches same-commit DDL cleanup.

929-939: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover a close failure after a published spill reaches same-commit DDL cleanup.

The close-error case at event_scanner_test.go:929-939 fails its only scan before any spill exists, so it never reaches the deferred cleanup path. TestEventScannerKeepsPublishedSpillOnOriginalScanRetry injects a close failure after a published spill. Its DDL keeps the helper's default FinishedTs, so the same-commit flag is not set. A regression that clears the spill on a close failure only when cleanupLargeTxnAfterScan is set would pass both tests.

Add a case with a published spill and a same-commit DDL. Set the DDL FinishedTs to the commit timestamp of the spilled update, as the same-commit test does at event_scanner_test.go:919-921. Make the failing scan reach the transaction boundary, where the flag is set. Assert that the spill state and its file size survive the close failure, and that retries emit each row once.

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Extend the close-error test around scanner.scan to cover a published spill
followed by same-commit DDL: set the DDL FinishedTs to the spilled update’s
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zap.Error(closeErr))
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_ = dispatcherStat.cleanupLargeTxnState()
rollback(scanErr)

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It doesn't seem to execute cleanupLargeTxnState?

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This is intentional. rollbackOriginalScan calls cleanupLargeTxnState if the failed scan created the spill state. If a spill already existed before this scan, it truncates the file to the checkpoint and preserves the published inserts for retry. Cleaning it up unconditionally here would recreate the data loss in #6415.

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_ = dispatcherStat.cleanupLargeTxnState()
rollback(closeErr)

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Same reasoning applies to an iterator close error: rollback removes a spill created by this scan, but preserves any previously published spill at its checkpoint so the retry can emit those inserts.

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if !ok {
break
}
switch row.RowType {
case common.RowTypeDelete:
deleted[row.PreRow.GetInt64(0)]++
case common.RowTypeInsert:
inserted[row.Row.GetInt64(0)]++
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Supported by static analysis

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git diff --unified=1 1a9de2ddebf07eabadaa0bc60dae46c0cdee28c1 c598ff0a441e8c51ff6d8d371474f0b1811c3a9a -- pkg/eventservice/event_scanner_test.go pkg/eventservice/large_txn_spill_test.go | grep -E '^(diff |@@|[+ -]func Test|[+ -].*(recoverOriginalScan|rollbackOriginalScan|Rename|Truncate|failpoint|injected))'
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Test scanner retry after a rollback failure.

The scanner tests do not fail rollback, and the rollback test bypasses scanner.scan. A regression that removes the scanner recovery call can therefore pass both tests. Inject a rollback failure after the first published fragment, then retry through the scanner and assert that each insert appears once.

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Update the scanner retry test around the row-counting switch to inject a
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