This sets up dependabot to check weekly updates for pip and github-actions dependencies.
If it finds an update it will create a PR to update the dependency. More information can be found here
It includes the update of:
* vmactions/freebsd-vm from 0.1.4 to 0.1.5
* codespell from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
Also includes spelling fixes found by the latest version of codespell.
Includes a dedicated .codespell folder so dependabot can read a requirements.txt file and every files dedicated to codespell can be grouped in the same place
Co-Authored-By: Matthieu MOREL <mmorel-35@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: MOREL Matthieu <matthieu.morel@cnp.fr>
This commit implements a sharded pubsub implementation based off of shard channels.
Co-authored-by: Harkrishn Patro <harkrisp@amazon.com>
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
The mess:
Some parts use alsoPropagate for late propagation, others using an immediate one (propagate()),
causing edge cases, ugly/hacky code, and the tendency for bugs
The basic idea is that all commands are propagated via alsoPropagate (i.e. added to a list) and the
top-most call() is responsible for going over that list and actually propagating them (and wrapping
them in MULTI/EXEC if there's more than one command). This is done in the new function,
propagatePendingCommands.
Callers to propagatePendingCommands:
1. top-most call() (we want all nested call()s to add to the also_propagate array and just the top-most
one to propagate them) - via `afterCommand`
2. handleClientsBlockedOnKeys: it is out of call() context and it may propagate stuff - via `afterCommand`.
3. handleClientsBlockedOnKeys edge case: if the looked-up key is already expired, we will propagate the
expire but will not unblock any client so `afterCommand` isn't called. in that case, we have to propagate
the deletion explicitly.
4. cron stuff: active-expire and eviction may also propagate stuff
5. modules: the module API allows to propagate stuff from just about anywhere (timers, keyspace notifications,
threads). I could have tried to catch all the out-of-call-context places but it seemed easier to handle it in one
place: when we free the context. in the spirit of what was done in call(), only the top-most freeing of a module
context may cause propagation.
6. modules: when using a thread-safe ctx it's not clear when/if the ctx will be freed. we do know that the module
must lock the GIL before calling RM_Replicate/RM_Call so we propagate the pending commands when
releasing the GIL.
A "known limitation", which were actually a bug, was fixed because of this commit (see propagate.tcl):
When using a mix of RM_Call with `!` and RM_Replicate, the command would propagate out-of-order:
first all the commands from RM_Call, and then the ones from RM_Replicate
Another thing worth mentioning is that if, in the past, a client would issue a MULTI/EXEC with just one
write command the server would blindly propagate the MULTI/EXEC too, even though it's redundant.
not anymore.
This commit renames propagate() to propagateNow() in order to cause conflicts in pending PRs.
propagatePendingCommands is the only caller of propagateNow, which is now a static, internal helper function.
Optimizations:
1. alsoPropagate will not add stuff to also_propagate if there's no AOF and replicas
2. alsoPropagate reallocs also_propagagte exponentially, to save calls to memmove
Bugfixes:
1. CONFIG SET can create evictions, sending notifications which can cause to dirty++ with modules.
we need to prevent it from propagating to AOF/replicas
2. We need to set current_client in RM_Call. buggy scenario:
- CONFIG SET maxmemory, eviction notifications, module hook calls RM_Call
- assertion in lookupKey crashes, because current_client has CONFIG SET, which isn't CMD_WRITE
3. minor: in eviction, call propagateDeletion after notification, like active-expire and all commands
(we always send a notification before propagating the command)
Delete the hardcoded command table and replace it with an auto-generated table, based
on a JSON file that describes the commands (each command must have a JSON file).
These JSON files are the SSOT of everything there is to know about Redis commands,
and it is reflected fully in COMMAND INFO.
These JSON files are used to generate commands.c (using a python script), which is then
committed to the repo and compiled.
The purpose is:
* Clients and proxies will be able to get much more info from redis, instead of relying on hard coded logic.
* drop the dependency between Redis-user and the commands.json in redis-doc.
* delete help.h and have redis-cli learn everything it needs to know just by issuing COMMAND (will be
done in a separate PR)
* redis.io should stop using commands.json and learn everything from Redis (ultimately one of the release
artifacts should be a large JSON, containing all the information about all of the commands, which will be
generated from COMMAND's reply)
* the byproduct of this is:
* module commands will be able to provide that info and possibly be more of a first-class citizens
* in theory, one may be able to generate a redis client library for a strictly typed language, by using this info.
### Interface changes
#### COMMAND INFO's reply change (and arg-less COMMAND)
Before this commit the reply at index 7 contained the key-specs list
and reply at index 8 contained the sub-commands list (Both unreleased).
Now, reply at index 7 is a map of:
- summary - short command description
- since - debut version
- group - command group
- complexity - complexity string
- doc-flags - flags used for documentation (e.g. "deprecated")
- deprecated-since - if deprecated, from which version?
- replaced-by - if deprecated, which command replaced it?
- history - a list of (version, what-changed) tuples
- hints - a list of strings, meant to provide hints for clients/proxies. see https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9876
- arguments - an array of arguments. each element is a map, with the possibility of nesting (sub-arguments)
- key-specs - an array of keys specs (already in unstable, just changed location)
- subcommands - a list of sub-commands (already in unstable, just changed location)
- reply-schema - will be added in the future (see https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9845)
more details on these can be found in https://github.com/redis/redis-doc/pull/1697
only the first three fields are mandatory
#### API changes (unreleased API obviously)
now they take RedisModuleCommand opaque pointer instead of looking up the command by name
- RM_CreateSubcommand
- RM_AddCommandKeySpec
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecBeginSearchIndex
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecBeginSearchKeyword
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecFindKeysRange
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecFindKeysKeynum
Currently, we did not add module API to provide additional information about their commands because
we couldn't agree on how the API should look like, see https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9944.
### Somehow related changes
1. Literals should be in uppercase while placeholder in lowercase. Now all the GEO* command
will be documented with M|KM|FT|MI and can take both lowercase and uppercase
### Unrelated changes
1. Bugfix: no_madaory_keys was absent in COMMAND's reply
2. expose CMD_MODULE as "module" via COMMAND
3. have a dedicated uint64 for ACL categories (instead of having them in the same uint64 as command flags)
Co-authored-by: Itamar Haber <itamar@garantiadata.com>
The following variable was renamed:
1. lua_caller -> script_caller
2. lua_time_limit -> script_time_limit
3. lua_timedout -> script_timedout
4. lua_oom -> script_oom
5. lua_disable_deny_script -> script_disable_deny_script
6. in_eval -> in_script
The following variables was moved to lctx under eval.c
1. lua
2. lua_client
3. lua_cur_script
4. lua_scripts
5. lua_scripts_mem
6. lua_replicate_commands
7. lua_write_dirty
8. lua_random_dirty
9. lua_multi_emitted
10. lua_repl
11. lua_kill
12. lua_time_start
13. lua_time_snapshot
This commit is in a low risk of introducing any issues and it
is just moving varibales around and not changing any logic.
Adds the ability to autogenerate the sequence part of the millisecond-only explicit ID specified for `XADD`. This is useful in case added entries have an externally-provided timestamp without sub-millisecond resolution.
Part three of implementing #8702, following #8887 and #9366 .
## Description of the feature
1. Replace the ziplist container of quicklist with listpack.
2. Convert existing quicklist ziplists on RDB loading time. an O(n) operation.
## Interface changes
1. New `list-max-listpack-size` config is an alias for `list-max-ziplist-size`.
2. Replace `debug ziplist` command with `debug listpack`.
## Internal changes
1. Add `lpMerge` to merge two listpacks . (same as `ziplistMerge`)
2. Add `lpRepr` to print info of listpack which is used in debugCommand and `quicklistRepr`. (same as `ziplistRepr`)
3. Replace `QUICKLIST_NODE_CONTAINER_ZIPLIST` with `QUICKLIST_NODE_CONTAINER_PACKED`(following #9357 ).
It represent that a quicklistNode is a packed node, as opposed to a plain node.
4. Remove `createZiplistObject` method, which is never used.
5. Calculate listpack entry size using overhead overestimation in `quicklistAllowInsert`.
We prefer an overestimation, which would at worse lead to a few bytes below the lowest limit of 4k.
## Improvements
1. Calling `lpShrinkToFit` after converting Ziplist to listpack, which was missed at #9366.
2. Optimize `quicklistAppendPlainNode` to avoid memcpy data.
## Bugfix
1. Fix crash in `quicklistRepr` when ziplist is compressed, introduced from #9366.
## Test
1. Add unittest for `lpMerge`.
2. Modify the old quicklist ziplist corrupt dump test.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
With dynamically growing argc (#9528), it is necessary to initialize
argv_len. Normally createClient() handles that, but in the case of a
module shared_client, this needs to be done explicitly.
This also addresses an issue with rewriteClientCommandArgument() which
doesn't properly handle the case where the new element extends beyond
argc but not beyond argv_len.
Moves ZPOP ... 0 fast exit path after type check to reply with
WRONGTYPE. In the past it will return an empty array.
Also now count is not allowed to be negative.
see #9680
before:
```
127.0.0.1:6379> set zset str
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset 0
(empty array)
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset -1
(empty array)
```
after:
```
127.0.0.1:6379> set zset str
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset 0
(error) WRONGTYPE Operation against a key holding the wrong kind of value
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset -1
(error) ERR value is out of range, must be positive
```
For diskless replication in swapdb mode, considering we already spend replica memory
having a backup of current db to restore in case of failure, we can have the following benefits
by instead swapping database only in case we succeeded in transferring db from master:
- Avoid `LOADING` response during failed and successful synchronization for cases where the
replica is already up and running with data.
- Faster total time of diskless replication, because now we're moving from Transfer + Flush + Load
time to Transfer + Load only. Flushing the tempDb is done asynchronously after swapping.
- This could be implemented also for disk replication with similar benefits if consumers are willing
to spend the extra memory usage.
General notes:
- The concept of `backupDb` becomes `tempDb` for clarity.
- Async loading mode will only kick in if the replica is syncing from a master that has the same
repl-id the one it had before. i.e. the data it's getting belongs to a different time of the same timeline.
- New property in INFO: `async_loading` to differentiate from the blocking loading
- Slot to Key mapping is now a field of `redisDb` as it's more natural to access it from both server.db
and the tempDb that is passed around.
- Because this is affecting replicas only, we assume that if they are not readonly and write commands
during replication, they are lost after SYNC same way as before, but we're still denying CONFIG SET
here anyways to avoid complications.
Considerations for review:
- We have many cases where server.loading flag is used and even though I tried my best, there may
be cases where async_loading should be checked as well and cases where it shouldn't (would require
very good understanding of whole code)
- Several places that had different behavior depending on the loading flag where actually meant to just
handle commands coming from the AOF client differently than ones coming from real clients, changed
to check CLIENT_ID_AOF instead.
**Additional for Release Notes**
- Bugfix - server.dirty was not incremented for any kind of diskless replication, as effect it wouldn't
contribute on triggering next database SAVE
- New flag for RM_GetContextFlags module API: REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_ASYNC_LOADING
- Deprecated RedisModuleEvent_ReplBackup. Starting from Redis 7.0, we don't fire this event.
Instead, we have the new RedisModuleEvent_ReplAsyncLoad holding 3 sub-events: STARTED,
ABORTED and COMPLETED.
- New module flag REDISMODULE_OPTIONS_HANDLE_REPL_ASYNC_LOAD for RedisModule_SetModuleOptions
to allow modules to declare they support the diskless replication with async loading (when absent, we fall
back to disk-based loading).
Co-authored-by: Eduardo Semprebon <edus@saxobank.com>
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Add new no-mandatory-keys flag to support COMMAND GETKEYS of commands
which have no mandatory keys.
In the past we would have got this error:
```
127.0.0.1:6379> command getkeys eval "return 1" 0
(error) ERR Invalid arguments specified for command
```
When using SETNX and SETXX we could end up doing key lookup twice.
This presents a small inefficiency price.
Also once we have statistics of write hit and miss they'll be wrong (recording the same key hit twice)
Let modules use additional type of RESP3 response (unused by redis so far)
Also fix tests that where introduced in #8521 but didn't actually run.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Before this commit, module blocked clients did not carry through the original RESP version, resulting with RESP3 clients receiving unexpected RESP2 replies.
## Intro
The purpose is to allow having different flags/ACL categories for
subcommands (Example: CONFIG GET is ok-loading but CONFIG SET isn't)
We create a small command table for every command that has subcommands
and each subcommand has its own flags, etc. (same as a "regular" command)
This commit also unites the Redis and the Sentinel command tables
## Affected commands
CONFIG
Used to have "admin ok-loading ok-stale no-script"
Changes:
1. Dropped "ok-loading" in all except GET (this doesn't change behavior since
there were checks in the code doing that)
XINFO
Used to have "read-only random"
Changes:
1. Dropped "random" in all except CONSUMERS
XGROUP
Used to have "write use-memory"
Changes:
1. Dropped "use-memory" in all except CREATE and CREATECONSUMER
COMMAND
No changes.
MEMORY
Used to have "random read-only"
Changes:
1. Dropped "random" in PURGE and USAGE
ACL
Used to have "admin no-script ok-loading ok-stale"
Changes:
1. Dropped "admin" in WHOAMI, GENPASS, and CAT
LATENCY
No changes.
MODULE
No changes.
SLOWLOG
Used to have "admin random ok-loading ok-stale"
Changes:
1. Dropped "random" in RESET
OBJECT
Used to have "read-only random"
Changes:
1. Dropped "random" in ENCODING and REFCOUNT
SCRIPT
Used to have "may-replicate no-script"
Changes:
1. Dropped "may-replicate" in all except FLUSH and LOAD
CLIENT
Used to have "admin no-script random ok-loading ok-stale"
Changes:
1. Dropped "random" in all except INFO and LIST
2. Dropped "admin" in ID, TRACKING, CACHING, GETREDIR, INFO, SETNAME, GETNAME, and REPLY
STRALGO
No changes.
PUBSUB
No changes.
CLUSTER
Changes:
1. Dropped "admin in countkeysinslots, getkeysinslot, info, nodes, keyslot, myid, and slots
SENTINEL
No changes.
(note that DEBUG also fits, but we decided not to convert it since it's for
debugging and anyway undocumented)
## New sub-command
This commit adds another element to the per-command output of COMMAND,
describing the list of subcommands, if any (in the same structure as "regular" commands)
Also, it adds a new subcommand:
```
COMMAND LIST [FILTERBY (MODULE <module-name>|ACLCAT <cat>|PATTERN <pattern>)]
```
which returns a set of all commands (unless filters), but excluding subcommands.
## Module API
A new module API, RM_CreateSubcommand, was added, in order to allow
module writer to define subcommands
## ACL changes:
1. Now, that each subcommand is actually a command, each has its own ACL id.
2. The old mechanism of allowed_subcommands is redundant
(blocking/allowing a subcommand is the same as blocking/allowing a regular command),
but we had to keep it, to support the widespread usage of allowed_subcommands
to block commands with certain args, that aren't subcommands (e.g. "-select +select|0").
3. I have renamed allowed_subcommands to allowed_firstargs to emphasize the difference.
4. Because subcommands are commands in ACL too, you can now use "-" to block subcommands
(e.g. "+client -client|kill"), which wasn't possible in the past.
5. It is also possible to use the allowed_firstargs mechanism with subcommand.
For example: `+config -config|set +config|set|loglevel` will block all CONFIG SET except
for setting the log level.
6. All of the ACL changes above required some amount of refactoring.
## Misc
1. There are two approaches: Either each subcommand has its own function or all
subcommands use the same function, determining what to do according to argv[0].
For now, I took the former approaches only with CONFIG and COMMAND,
while other commands use the latter approach (for smaller blamelog diff).
2. Deleted memoryGetKeys: It is no longer needed because MEMORY USAGE now uses the "range" key spec.
4. Bugfix: GETNAME was missing from CLIENT's help message.
5. Sentinel and Redis now use the same table, with the same function pointer.
Some commands have a different implementation in Sentinel, so we redirect
them (these are ROLE, PUBLISH, and INFO).
6. Command stats now show the stats per subcommand (e.g. instead of stats just
for "config" you will have stats for "config|set", "config|get", etc.)
7. It is now possible to use COMMAND directly on subcommands:
COMMAND INFO CONFIG|GET (The pipeline syntax was inspired from ACL, and
can be used in functions lookupCommandBySds and lookupCommandByCString)
8. STRALGO is now a container command (has "help")
## Breaking changes:
1. Command stats now show the stats per subcommand (see (5) above)
This is useful for approximating size computation of complex module types.
Note that the mem_usage2 callback is new and has not been released yet, which is why we can modify it.
Implement createPipe() to combine creating pipe and setting flags, also reduce
system calls by prioritizing pipe2() over pipe().
Without createPipe(), we have to call pipe() to create a pipe and then call some
functions (like anetCloexec() and anetNonBlock()) of anet.c to set flags respectively,
which leads to some extra system calls, now we can leverage pipe2() to combine
them and make the process of creating pipe more convergent in createPipe().
Co-authored-by: Viktor Söderqvist <viktor.soderqvist@est.tech>
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
- fix possible heap corruption in ziplist and listpack resulting by trying to
allocate more than the maximum size of 4GB.
- prevent ziplist (hash and zset) from reaching size of above 1GB, will be
converted to HT encoding, that's not a useful size.
- prevent listpack (stream) from reaching size of above 1GB.
- XADD will start a new listpack if the new record may cause the previous
listpack to grow over 1GB.
- XADD will respond with an error if a single stream record is over 1GB
- List type (ziplist in quicklist) was truncating strings that were over 4GB,
now it'll respond with an error.
Co-authored-by: sundb <sundbcn@gmail.com>
This commit makes it possible to explicitly trim the allocation of a
RedisModuleString.
Currently, Redis automatically trims strings that have been retained by
a module command when it returns. However, this is not thread safe and
may result with corruption in threaded modules.
Supporting explicit trimming offers a backwards compatible workaround to
this problem.
This commit introduced a new flag to the RM_Call:
'C' - Check if the command can be executed according to the ACLs associated with it.
Also, three new API's added to check if a command, key, or channel can be executed or accessed
by a user, according to the ACLs associated with it.
- RM_ACLCheckCommandPerm
- RM_ACLCheckKeyPerm
- RM_ACLCheckChannelPerm
The user for these API's is a RedisModuleUser object, that for a Module user returned by the RM_CreateModuleUser API, or for a general ACL user can be retrieved by these two new API's:
- RM_GetCurrentUserName - Retrieve the user name of the client connection behind the current context.
- RM_GetModuleUserFromUserName - Get a RedisModuleUser from a user name
As a result of getting a RedisModuleUser from name, it can now also access the general ACL users (not just ones created by the module).
This mean the already existing API RM_SetModuleUserACL(), can be used to change the ACL rules for such users.
The `cmd` argument was completely unused, and all the code that bothered to pass it was unnecessary.
This is a prepartion for a future commit that treats subcommands as commands
Fix#7297
The problem:
Today, there is no way for a client library or app to know the key name indexes for commands such as
ZUNIONSTORE/EVAL and others with "numkeys", since COMMAND INFO returns no useful info for them.
For cluster-aware redis clients, this requires to 'patch' the client library code specifically for each of these commands or to
resolve each execution of these commands with COMMAND GETKEYS.
The solution:
Introducing key specs other than the legacy "range" (first,last,step)
The 8th element of the command info array, if exists, holds an array of key specs. The array may be empty, which indicates
the command doesn't take any key arguments or may contain one or more key-specs, each one may leads to the discovery
of 0 or more key arguments.
A client library that doesn't support this key-spec feature will keep using the first,last,step and movablekeys flag which will
obviously remain unchanged.
A client that supports this key-specs feature needs only to look at the key-specs array. If it finds an unrecognized spec, it
must resort to using COMMAND GETKEYS if it wishes to get all key name arguments, but if all it needs is one key in order
to know which cluster node to use, then maybe another spec (if the command has several) can supply that, and there's no
need to use GETKEYS.
Each spec is an array of arguments, first one is the spec name, the second is an array of flags, and the third is an array
containing details about the spec (specific meaning for each spec type)
The initial flags we support are "read" and "write" indicating if the keys that this key-spec finds are used for read or for write.
clients should ignore any unfamiliar flags.
In order to easily find the positions of keys in a given array of args we introduce keys specs. There are two logical steps of
key specs:
1. `start_search`: Given an array of args, indicate where we should start searching for keys
2. `find_keys`: Given the output of start_search and an array of args, indicate all possible indices of keys.
### start_search step specs
- `index`: specify an argument index explicitly
- `index`: 0 based index (1 means the first command argument)
- `keyword`: specify a string to match in `argv`. We should start searching for keys just after the keyword appears.
- `keyword`: the string to search for
- `start_search`: an index from which to start the keyword search (can be negative, which means to search from the end)
Examples:
- `SET` has start_search of type `index` with value `1`
- `XREAD` has start_search of type `keyword` with value `[“STREAMS”,1]`
- `MIGRATE` has start_search of type `keyword` with value `[“KEYS”,-2]`
### find_keys step specs
- `range`: specify `[count, step, limit]`.
- `lastkey`: index of the last key. relative to the index returned from begin_search. -1 indicating till the last argument, -2 one before the last
- `step`: how many args should we skip after finding a key, in order to find the next one
- `limit`: if count is -1, we use limit to stop the search by a factor. 0 and 1 mean no limit. 2 means ½ of the remaining args, 3 means ⅓, and so on.
- “keynum”: specify `[keynum_index, first_key_index, step]`.
- `keynum_index`: is relative to the return of the `start_search` spec.
- `first_key_index`: is relative to `keynum_index`.
- `step`: how many args should we skip after finding a key, in order to find the next one
Examples:
- `SET` has `range` of `[0,1,0]`
- `MSET` has `range` of `[-1,2,0]`
- `XREAD` has `range` of `[-1,1,2]`
- `ZUNION` has `start_search` of type `index` with value `1` and `find_keys` of type `keynum` with value `[0,1,1]`
- `AI.DAGRUN` has `start_search` of type `keyword` with value `[“LOAD“,1]` and `find_keys` of type `keynum` with value
`[0,1,1]` (see https://oss.redislabs.com/redisai/master/commands/#aidagrun)
Note: this solution is not perfect as the module writers can come up with anything, but at least we will be able to find the key
args of the vast majority of commands.
If one of the above specs can’t describe the key positions, the module writer can always fall back to the `getkeys-api` option.
Some keys cannot be found easily (`KEYS` in `MIGRATE`: Imagine the argument for `AUTH` is the string “KEYS” - we will
start searching in the wrong index).
The guarantee is that the specs may be incomplete (`incomplete` will be specified in the spec to denote that) but we never
report false information (assuming the command syntax is correct).
For `MIGRATE` we start searching from the end - `startfrom=-1` - and if one of the keys is actually called "keys" we will
report only a subset of all keys - hence the `incomplete` flag.
Some `incomplete` specs can be completely empty (i.e. UNKNOWN begin_search) which should tell the client that
COMMAND GETKEYS (or any other way to get the keys) must be used (Example: For `SORT` there is no way to describe
the STORE keyword spec, as the word "store" can appear anywhere in the command).
We will expose these key specs in the `COMMAND` command so that clients can learn, on startup, where the keys are for
all commands instead of holding hardcoded tables or use `COMMAND GETKEYS` in runtime.
Comments:
1. Redis doesn't internally use the new specs, they are only used for COMMAND output.
2. In order to support the current COMMAND INFO format (reply array indices 4, 5, 6) we created a synthetic range, called
legacy_range, that, if possible, is built according to the new specs.
3. Redis currently uses only getkeys_proc or the legacy_range to get the keys indices (in COMMAND GETKEYS for
example).
"incomplete" specs:
the command we have issues with are MIGRATE, STRALGO, and SORT
for MIGRATE, because the token KEYS, if exists, must be the last token, we can search in reverse. it one of the keys is
actually the string "keys" will return just a subset of the keys (hence, it's "incomplete")
for SORT and STRALGO we can use this heuristic (the keys can be anywhere in the command) and therefore we added a
key spec that is both "incomplete" and of "unknown type"
if a client encounters an "incomplete" spec it means that it must find a different way (either COMMAND GETKEYS or have
its own parser) to retrieve the keys.
please note that all commands, apart from the three mentioned above, have "complete" key specs
List functions operating on elements by index:
* RM_ListGet
* RM_ListSet
* RM_ListInsert
* RM_ListDelete
Iteration is done using a simple for loop over indices.
The index based functions use an internal iterator as an optimization.
This is explained in the docs:
```
* Many of the list functions access elements by index. Since a list is in
* essence a doubly-linked list, accessing elements by index is generally an
* O(N) operation. However, if elements are accessed sequentially or with
* indices close together, the functions are optimized to seek the index from
* the previous index, rather than seeking from the ends of the list.
*
* This enables iteration to be done efficiently using a simple for loop:
*
* long n = RM_ValueLength(key);
* for (long i = 0; i < n; i++) {
* RedisModuleString *elem = RedisModule_ListGet(key, i);
* // Do stuff...
* }
```
Part two of implementing #8702 (zset), after #8887.
## Description of the feature
Replaced all uses of ziplist with listpack in t_zset, and optimized some of the code to optimize performance.
## Rdb format changes
New `RDB_TYPE_ZSET_LISTPACK` rdb type.
## Rdb loading improvements:
1) Pre-expansion of dict for validation of duplicate data for listpack and ziplist.
2) Simplifying the release of empty key objects when RDB loading.
3) Unify ziplist and listpack data verify methods for zset and hash, and move code to rdb.c.
## Interface changes
1) New `zset-max-listpack-entries` config is an alias for `zset-max-ziplist-entries` (same with `zset-max-listpack-value`).
2) OBJECT ENCODING will return listpack instead of ziplist.
## Listpack improvements:
1) Add `lpDeleteRange` and `lpDeleteRangeWithEntry` functions to delete a range of entries from listpack.
2) Improve the performance of `lpCompare`, converting from string to integer is faster than converting from integer to string.
3) Replace `snprintf` with `ll2string` to improve performance in converting numbers to strings in `lpGet()`.
## Zset improvements:
1) Improve the performance of `zzlFind` method, use `lpFind` instead of `lpCompare` in a loop.
2) Use `lpDeleteRangeWithEntry` instead of `lpDelete` twice to delete a element of zset.
## Tests
1) Add some unittests for `lpDeleteRange` and `lpDeleteRangeWithEntry` function.
2) Add zset RDB loading test.
3) Add benchmark test for `lpCompare` and `ziplsitCompare`.
4) Add empty listpack zset corrupt dump test.
We want to add COUNT option for BLPOP.
But we can't do it without breaking compatibility due to the command arguments syntax.
So this commit introduce two new commands.
Syntax for the new LMPOP command:
`LMPOP numkeys [<key> ...] LEFT|RIGHT [COUNT count]`
Syntax for the new BLMPOP command:
`BLMPOP timeout numkeys [<key> ...] LEFT|RIGHT [COUNT count]`
Some background:
- LPOP takes one key, and can return multiple elements.
- BLPOP takes multiple keys, but returns one element from just one key.
- LMPOP can take multiple keys and return multiple elements from just one key.
Note that LMPOP/BLMPOP can take multiple keys, it eventually operates on just one key.
And it will propagate as LPOP or RPOP with the COUNT option.
As a new command, it still return NIL if we can't pop any elements.
For the normal response is nested arrays in RESP2 and RESP3, like:
```
LMPOP/BLMPOP
1) keyname
2) 1) element1
2) element2
```
I.e. unlike BLPOP that returns a key name and one element so it uses a flat array,
and LPOP that returns multiple elements with no key name, and again uses a flat array,
this one has to return a nested array, and it does for for both RESP2 and RESP3 (like SCAN does)
Some discuss can see: #766#8824
Part one of implementing #8702 (taking hashes first before other types)
## Description of the feature
1. Change ziplist encoded hash objects to listpack encoding.
2. Convert existing ziplists on RDB loading time. an O(n) operation.
## Rdb format changes
1. Add RDB_TYPE_HASH_LISTPACK rdb type.
2. Bump RDB_VERSION to 10
## Interface changes
1. New `hash-max-listpack-entries` config is an alias for `hash-max-ziplist-entries` (same with `hash-max-listpack-value`)
2. OBJECT ENCODING will return `listpack` instead of `ziplist`
## Listpack improvements:
1. Support direct insert, replace integer element (rather than convert back and forth from string)
3. Add more listpack capabilities to match the ziplist ones (like `lpFind`, `lpRandomPairs` and such)
4. Optimize element length fetching, avoid multiple calculations
5. Use inline to avoid function call overhead.
## Tests
1. Add a new test to the RDB load time conversion
2. Adding the listpack unit tests. (based on the one in ziplist.c)
3. Add a few "corrupt payload: fuzzer findings" tests, and slightly modify existing ones.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Reduce dict struct memory overhead
on 64bit dict size goes down from jemalloc's 96 byte bin to its 56 byte bin.
summary of changes:
- Remove `privdata` from callbacks and dict creation. (this affects many files, see "Interface change" below).
- Meld `dictht` struct into the `dict` struct to eliminate struct padding. (this affects just dict.c and defrag.c)
- Eliminate the `sizemask` field, can be calculated from size when needed.
- Convert the `size` field into `size_exp` (exponent), utilizes one byte instead of 8.
Interface change: pass dict pointer to dict type call back functions.
This is instead of passing the removed privdata field. In the future if
we'd like to have private data in the callbacks we can extract it from
the dict type. We can extend dictType to include a custom dict struct
allocator and use it to allocate more data at the end of the dict
struct. This data can then be used to store private data later acccessed
by the callbacks.
## Current state
1. Lua has its own parser that handles parsing `reds.call` replies and translates them
to Lua objects that can be used by the user Lua code. The parser partially handles
resp3 (missing big number, verbatim, attribute, ...)
2. Modules have their own parser that handles parsing `RM_Call` replies and translates
them to RedisModuleCallReply objects. The parser does not support resp3.
In addition, in the future, we want to add Redis Function (#8693) that will probably
support more languages. At some point maintaining so many parsers will stop
scaling (bug fixes and protocol changes will need to be applied on all of them).
We will probably end up with different parsers that support different parts of the
resp protocol (like we already have today with Lua and modules)
## PR Changes
This PR attempt to unified the reply parsing of Lua and modules (and in the future
Redis Function) by introducing a new parser unit (`resp_parser.c`). The new parser
handles parsing the reply and calls different callbacks to allow the users (another
unit that uses the parser, i.e, Lua, modules, or Redis Function) to analyze the reply.
### Lua API Additions
The code that handles reply parsing on `scripting.c` was removed. Instead, it uses
the resp_parser to parse and create a Lua object out of the reply. As mentioned
above the Lua parser did not handle parsing big numbers, verbatim, and attribute.
The new parser can handle those and so Lua also gets it for free.
Those are translated to Lua objects in the following way:
1. Big Number - Lua table `{'big_number':'<str representation for big number>'}`
2. Verbatim - Lua table `{'verbatim_string':{'format':'<verbatim format>', 'string':'<verbatim string value>'}}`
3. Attribute - currently ignored and not expose to the Lua parser, another issue will be open to decide how to expose it.
Tests were added to check resp3 reply parsing on Lua
### Modules API Additions
The reply parsing code on `module.c` was also removed and the new resp_parser is used instead.
In addition, the RedisModuleCallReply was also extracted to a separate unit located on `call_reply.c`
(in the future, this unit will also be used by Redis Function). A nice side effect of unified parsing is
that modules now also support resp3. Resp3 can be enabled by giving `3` as a parameter to the
fmt argument of `RM_Call`. It is also possible to give `0`, which will indicate an auto mode. i.e, Redis
will automatically chose the reply protocol base on the current client set on the RedisModuleCtx
(this mode will mostly be used when the module want to pass the reply to the client as is).
In addition, the following RedisModuleAPI were added to allow analyzing resp3 replies:
* New RedisModuleCallReply types:
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_MAP`
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_SET`
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_BOOL`
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_DOUBLE`
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_BIG_NUMBER`
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_VERBATIM_STRING`
* `REDISMODULE_REPLY_ATTRIBUTE`
* New RedisModuleAPI:
* `RedisModule_CallReplyDouble` - getting double value from resp3 double reply
* `RedisModule_CallReplyBool` - getting boolean value from resp3 boolean reply
* `RedisModule_CallReplyBigNumber` - getting big number value from resp3 big number reply
* `RedisModule_CallReplyVerbatim` - getting format and value from resp3 verbatim reply
* `RedisModule_CallReplySetElement` - getting element from resp3 set reply
* `RedisModule_CallReplyMapElement` - getting key and value from resp3 map reply
* `RedisModule_CallReplyAttribute` - getting a reply attribute
* `RedisModule_CallReplyAttributeElement` - getting key and value from resp3 attribute reply
* New context flags:
* `REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_RESP3` - indicate that the client is using resp3
Tests were added to check the new RedisModuleAPI
### Modules API Changes
* RM_ReplyWithCallReply might return REDISMODULE_ERR if the given CallReply is in resp3
but the client expects resp2. This is not a breaking change because in order to get a resp3
CallReply one needs to specifically specify `3` as a parameter to the fmt argument of
`RM_Call` (as mentioned above).
Tests were added to check this change
### More small Additions
* Added `debug set-disable-deny-scripts` that allows to turn on and off the commands no-script
flag protection. This is used by the Lua resp3 tests so it will be possible to run `debug protocol`
and check the resp3 parsing code.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Yossi Gottlieb <yossigo@gmail.com>
Fix module info genModulesInfoStringRenderModulesList lack separator when there's more than one module in the list.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Modules that use background threads with thread safe contexts are likely
to use RM_BlockClient() without a timeout function, because they do not
set up a timeout.
Before this commit, `CLIENT UNBLOCK` would result with a crash as the
`NULL` timeout callback is called. Beyond just crashing, this is also
logically wrong as it may throw the module into an unexpected client
state.
This commits makes `CLIENT UNBLOCK` on such clients behave the same as
any other client that is not in a blocked state and therefore cannot be
unblocked.
- Introduce a new sdssubstr api as a building block for sdsrange.
The API of sdsrange is many times hard to work with and also has
corner case that cause bugs. sdsrange is easy to work with and also
simplifies the implementation of sdsrange.
- Revert the fix to RM_StringTruncate and just use sdssubstr instead of
sdsrange.
- Solve valgrind warnings from the new tests introduced by the previous
PR.
Previously, passing 0 for newlen would not truncate the string at all.
This adds handling of this case, freeing the old string and creating a new empty string.
Other changes:
- Move `src/modules/testmodule.c` to `tests/modules/basics.c`
- Introduce that basic test into the test suite
- Add tests to cover StringTruncate
- Add `test-modules` build target for the main makefile
- Extend `distclean` build target to clean modules too
Create new module type enhanced callbacks: mem_usage2, free_effort2, unlink2, copy2.
These will be given a context point from which the module can obtain the key name and database id.
In addition the digest and defrag context can now be used to obtain the key name and database id.
* Cleaning up the cluster interface by moving almost all related declarations into cluster.h
(no logic change -- just moving declarations/definitions around)
This initial effort leaves two items out of scope - the configuration parsing into the server
struct and the internals exposed by the clusterNode struct.
* Remove unneeded declarations of dictSds*
Ideally all the dictSds functionality would move from server.c into a dedicated module
so we can avoid the duplication in redis-benchmark/cli
* Move crc16 back into server.h, will be moved out once we create a seperate header file for
hashing functions
This PR adds a spell checker CI action that will fail future PRs if they introduce typos and spelling mistakes.
This spell checker is based on blacklist of common spelling mistakes, so it will not catch everything,
but at least it is also unlikely to cause false positives.
Besides that, the PR also fixes many spelling mistakes and types, not all are a result of the spell checker we use.
Here's a summary of other changes:
1. Scanned the entire source code and fixes all sorts of typos and spelling mistakes (including missing or extra spaces).
2. Outdated function / variable / argument names in comments
3. Fix outdated keyspace masks error log when we check `config.notify-keyspace-events` in loadServerConfigFromString.
4. Trim the white space at the end of line in `module.c`. Check: https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/7751
5. Some outdated https link URLs.
6. Fix some outdated comment. Such as:
- In README: about the rdb, we used to said create a `thread`, change to `process`
- dbRandomKey function coment (about the dictGetRandomKey, change to dictGetFairRandomKey)
- notifyKeyspaceEvent fucntion comment (add type arg)
- Some others minor fix in comment (Most of them are incorrectly quoted by variable names)
7. Modified the error log so that users can easily distinguish between TCP and TLS in `changeBindAddr`
These parameters of RedisModule_CreateCommand were previously
undocumented but they are needed for ACL to check permission on keys and
by Redis Cluster to figure our how to route the command.
Co-authored-by: Eduardo Felipe Castegnaro <edufelipe@onsign.tv>
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
This change does not fix any bugs.
1. ```moduleUnload``` should return ```C_OK``` or ```C_ERR```, not ```REDISMODULE_ERR``` or ```REDISMODULE_OK```.
2. The ```where``` parameter of ```listTypePush``` and ```listTypePop``` should be ```LIST_HEAD``` or ```LIST_TAIL```
Adding a new type mask for key space notification, REDISMODULE_NOTIFY_MODULE, to enable unique notifications from commands on REDISMODULE_KEYTYPE_MODULE type keys (which is currently unsupported).
Modules can subscribe to a module key keyspace notification by RM_SubscribeToKeyspaceEvents,
and clients by notify-keyspace-events of redis.conf or via the CONFIG SET, with the characters 'd' or 'A'
(REDISMODULE_NOTIFY_MODULE type mask is part of the '**A**ll' notation for key space notifications).
Refactor: move some pubsub test infra from pubsub.tcl to util.tcl to be re-used by other tests.
* Modules API docs: Link API function names to their definitions
Occurrences of API functions are linked to their definition.
A function index with links to all functions is added on the bottom
of the page.
Comment blocks in module.c starting with a markdown h2 heading are
used as sections. A table of contents is generated from these
headings.
The functions names are changed from h2 to h3, since they are now
rendered as sub-headings within each section.
Existing sections in module.c are used with some minor changes.
Some documentation text is added or sligtly modified.
The markdown renderer will add IDs which may clash with our
generated IDs. By prefixing section IDs with "section-" we make
them different.
Replace double dashes with a unicode long ndash
In a code example, using RedisModule_FreeString instead of
RedisModule_Free makes it behave correctly regardless of whether
automatic memory is used or not.
With this fix, module data type registration will fail if the load or save callbacks are not defined, or the optional aux load and save callbacks are not either both defined or both missing.
* SLOWLOG didn't record anything for blocked commands because the client
was reset and argv was already empty. there was a fix for this issue
specifically for modules, now it works for all blocked clients.
* The original command argv (before being re-written) was also reset
before adding the slowlog on behalf of the blocked command.
* Latency monitor is now updated regardless of the slowlog flags of the
command or its execution (their purpose is to hide sensitive info from
the slowlog, not hide the fact the latency happened).
* Latency monitor now uses real_cmd rather than c->cmd (which may be
different if the command got re-written, e.g. GEOADD)
Changes:
* Unify shared code between slowlog insertion in call() and
updateStatsOnUnblock(), hopefully prevent future bugs from happening
due to the later being overlooked.
* Reset CLIENT_PREVENT_LOGGING in resetClient rather than after command
processing.
* Add a test for SLOWLOG and BLPOP
Notes:
- real_cmd == c->lastcmd, except inside MULTI and Lua.
- blocked commands never happen in these cases (MULTI / Lua)
- real_cmd == c->cmd, except for when the command is rewritten (e.g.
GEOADD)
- blocked commands (currently) are never rewritten
- other than the command's CLIENT_PREVENT_LOGGING, and the
execution flag CLIENT_PREVENT_LOGGING, other cases that we want to
avoid slowlog are on AOF loading (specifically CMD_CALL_SLOWLOG will
be off when executed from execCommand that runs from an AOF)
REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_EVICT and REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_MAXMEMORY
shouldn't be set when the module is run inside a replica that doesn't do eviction.
one may argue that the database is under eviction (the master does eviction and sends DELs to the replica).
but on the other hand, we don't really know the master's configuration.
all that matters is if the current instance does evictions or not.
1. moduleReplicateMultiIfNeeded should use server.in_eval like
moduleHandlePropagationAfterCommandCallback
2. server.in_eval could have been set to 1 and not reset back
to 0 (a lot of missed early-exits after in_eval is already 1)
Note: The new assertions in processCommand cover (2) and I added
two module tests to cover (1)
Implications:
If an EVAL that failed (and thus left server.in_eval=1) runs before a module
command that replicates, the replication stream will contain MULTI (because
moduleReplicateMultiIfNeeded used to check server.lua_caller which is NULL
at this point) but not EXEC (because server.in_eval==1)
This only affects modules as module.c the only user of server.in_eval.
Affects versions 6.2.0, 6.2.1
Bug 1:
When a module ctx is freed moduleHandlePropagationAfterCommandCallback
is called and handles propagation. We want to prevent it from propagating
commands that were not replicated by the same context. Example:
1. module1.foo does: RM_Replicate(cmd1); RM_Call(cmd2); RM_Replicate(cmd3)
2. RM_Replicate(cmd1) propagates MULTI and adds cmd1 to also_propagagte
3. RM_Call(cmd2) create a new ctx, calls call() and destroys the ctx.
4. moduleHandlePropagationAfterCommandCallback is called, calling
alsoPropagates EXEC (Note: EXEC is still not written to socket),
setting server.in_trnsaction = 0
5. RM_Replicate(cmd3) is called, propagagting yet another MULTI (now
we have nested MULTI calls, which is no good) and then cmd3
We must prevent RM_Call(cmd2) from resetting server.in_transaction.
REDISMODULE_CTX_MULTI_EMITTED was revived for that purpose.
Bug 2:
Fix issues with nested RM_Call where some have '!' and some don't.
Example:
1. module1.foo does RM_Call of module2.bar without replication (i.e. no '!')
2. module2.bar internally calls RM_Call of INCR with '!'
3. at the end of module1.foo we call RM_ReplicateVerbatim
We want the replica/AOF to see only module1.foo and not the INCR from module2.bar
Introduced a global replication_allowed flag inside RM_Call to determine
whether we need to replicate or not (even if '!' was specified)
Other changes:
Split beforePropagateMultiOrExec to beforePropagateMulti afterPropagateExec
just for better readability
Have a clear separation between in and out flags
Other changes:
delete dead code in RM_ZsetIncrby: if zsetAdd returned error (happens only if
the result of the operation is NAN or if score is NAN) we return immediately so
there is no way that zsetAdd succeeded and returned NAN in the out-flags
Scenario:
1. A module client is blocked on keys with a timeout
2. Shortly before the timeout expires, the key is being populated and signaled
as ready
3. Redis calls moduleTryServeClientBlockedOnKey (which replies to client) and
then moduleUnblockClient
4. moduleUnblockClient doesn't really unblock the client, it writes to
server.module_blocked_pipe and only marks the BC as unblocked.
5. beforeSleep kics in, by this time the client still exists and techincally
timed-out. beforeSleep replies to the timeout client (double reply) and
only then moduleHandleBlockedClients is called, reading from module_blocked_pipe
and calling unblockClient
The solution is similar to what was done in moduleTryServeClientBlockedOnKey: we
should avoid re-processing an already-unblocked client
A single client pointer is added in the server struct. This is
initialized by the first RM_Call() and reused for every subsequent
RM_Call() except if it's already in use, which means that it's not
used for (recursive) module calls to modules. For these, a new
"fake" client is created each time.
Other changes:
* Avoid allocating a dict iterator in pubsubUnsubscribeAllChannels
when not needed
* Adding current_save_keys_total and current_save_keys_processed info fields.
Present in replication, BGSAVE and AOFRW.
* Changing RM_SendChildCOWInfo() to RM_SendChildHeartbeat(double progress)
* Adding new info field current_fork_perc. Present in Replication, BGSAVE, AOFRW,
and module forks.
The added flag affects the return value of RM_HashSet() to include
the number of inserted fields, in addition to updated and deleted
fields.
errno is set on errors, tests are added and documentation updated.
- removes time sensitive checks from block on background tests during leak checks.
- fix uninitialized variable on RedisModuleBlockedClient() when calling
RM_BlockedClientMeasureTimeEnd() without RM_BlockedClientMeasureTimeStart()
Without this fix, RM_ZsetRem can leave empty sorted sets which are
not allowed to exist.
Removing from a sorted set while iterating seems to work (while
inserting causes failed assetions). RM_ZsetRangeEndReached is
modified to return 1 if the key doesn't exist, to terminate
iteration when the last element has been removed.
This commit enables tracking time of the background tasks and on replies,
opening the door for properly tracking commands that rely on blocking / background
work via the slowlog, latency history, and commandstats.
Some notes:
- The time spent blocked waiting for key changes, or blocked on synchronous
replication is not accounted for.
- **This commit does not affect latency tracking of commands that are non-blocking
or do not have background work.** ( meaning that it all stays the same with exception to
`BZPOPMIN`,`BZPOPMAX`,`BRPOP`,`BLPOP`, etc... and module's commands that rely
on background threads ).
- Specifically for latency history command we've added a new event class named
`command-unblocking` that will enable latency monitoring on commands that spawn
background threads to do the work.
- For blocking commands we're now considering the total time of a command as the
time spent on call() + the time spent on replying when unblocked.
- For Modules commands that rely on background threads we're now considering the
total time of a command as the time spent on call (main thread) + the time spent on
the background thread ( if marked within `RedisModule_MeasureTimeStart()` and
`RedisModule_MeasureTimeEnd()` ) + the time spent on replying (main thread)
To test for this feature we've added a `unit/moduleapi/blockonbackground` test that relies on
a module that blocks the client and sleeps on the background for a given time.
- check blocked command that uses RedisModule_MeasureTimeStart() is tracking background time
- check blocked command that uses RedisModule_MeasureTimeStart() is tracking background time even in timeout
- check blocked command with multiple calls RedisModule_MeasureTimeStart() is tracking the total background time
- check blocked command without calling RedisModule_MeasureTimeStart() is not reporting background time
APIs added for these stream operations: add, delete, iterate and
trim (by ID or maxlength). The functions are prefixed by RM_Stream.
* RM_StreamAdd
* RM_StreamDelete
* RM_StreamIteratorStart
* RM_StreamIteratorStop
* RM_StreamIteratorNextID
* RM_StreamIteratorNextField
* RM_StreamIteratorDelete
* RM_StreamTrimByLength
* RM_StreamTrimByID
The type RedisModuleStreamID is added and functions for converting
from and to RedisModuleString.
* RM_CreateStringFromStreamID
* RM_StringToStreamID
Whenever the stream functions return REDISMODULE_ERR, errno is set to
provide additional error information.
Refactoring: The zset iterator fields in the RedisModuleKey struct
are wrapped in a union, to allow the same space to be used for type-
specific info for streams and allow future use for other key types.
Fix broken formatting in `RM_Call` and `RM_CreateDataType`,
`RM_SubscribeToServerEvent` (nested lists, etc. in list items).
Unhide docs of `RM_LoadDataTypeFromString` and
`RM_SaveDataTypeToString` by removing blank line between docs and
function.
Clarification added to `RM__Assert`: Recommentation to use the
`RedisModule_Assert` macro instead.
All names containing underscores (variable and macro names) are
wrapped in backticks (if not already wrapped in backticks). This
prevents underscore from being interpreted as italics in some
cases.
Names including a wildcard star, e.g. RM_Defrag*(), is wrapped in
backticks (and RM replaced by RedisModule in this case). This
prevents the * from being interpreted as an italics marker.
A list item with a sublist, a paragraph and another sublist is a
combination which seems impossible to achieve with RedCarped
markdown, so the one occurrence of this is rewritten.
Various trivial changes (typos, backticks, etc.).
Ruby script:
* Replace `RM_Xyz` with `RedisModule_Xyz` in docs. (RM is correct
when refering to the C code but RedisModule is correct in the
API docs.)
* Automatic backquotes around C functions like `malloc()`.
* Turn URLs into links. The link text is the URL itself.
* Don't add backticks inside bold (**...**)
Sentinel uses execve to run scripts, so it needs to use FD_CLOEXEC
on all file descriptors, so that they're not accessible by the script it runs.
This commit includes a change to the sentinel tests, which verifies no
FDs are left opened when the script is executed.
The prefix is changed from `RM_` to `module` on the following
internal functions, to prevent them from appearing in the API docs:
RM_LogRaw -> moduleLogRaw
RM_FreeCallReplyRec -> moduleFreeCallReplyRec
RM_ZsetAddFlagsToCoreFlags -> moduleZsetAddFlagsToCoreFlags
RM_ZsetAddFlagsFromCoreFlags -> moduleZsetAddFlagsFromCoreFlags
Fixes markdown formatting errors and some functions not showing
up in the generated documentation at all.
Ruby script (gendoc.rb) fixes:
* Modified automatic instertion of backquotes:
* Don't add backquotes around names which are already preceded by a
backquote. Fixes for example \`RedisModule_Reply\*\` which turning
into \`\`RedisModule_Reply\`\*\` messes up the formatting.
* Add backquotes around types such as RedisModuleString (in addition
to function names `RedisModule_[A-z()]*` and macro names
`REDISMODULE_[A-z]*`).
* Require 4 spaces indentation for disabling automatic backquotes, i.e.
code blocks. Fixes continuations of list items (indented 2 spaces).
* More permissive extraction of doc comments:
* Allow doc comments starting with `/**`.
* Make space before `*` on each line optional.
* Make space after `/*` and `/**` optional (needed when appearing on
its own line).
Markdown fixes in module.c:
* Fix code blocks not indented enough (4 spaces needed).
* Add black line before code blocks and lists where missing (needed).
* Enclose special markdown characters `_*^<>` in backticks to prevent them
from messing up formatting.
* Lists with `1)` changed to `1.` for proper markdown lists.
* Remove excessive indentation which causes text to be unintentionally
rendered as code blocks.
* Other minor formatting fixes.
Other fixes in module.c:
* Remove blank lines between doc comment and function definition. A blank
line here makes the Ruby script exclude the function in docs.
Add INFO field, rdb_active_cow_size, to report COW of a live fork child while
it's active.
- once in 1024 keys check the time, and if there's more than one second since
the last report send a report to the parent via the pipe.
- refactor the child_info_data struct, it's an implementation detail that
shouldn't be in the server struct, and not used to communicate data between
caller and callee
- remove the magic value from that struct (not sure what it was good for), and
instead add handling of short reads.
- add another value to the structure, cow_type, to indicate if the report is
for the new rdb_active_cow_size field, or it's the last report of a
successful operation
- add new Module API to report the active COW
- add more asserts variants to test.tcl
This is a refactory commit, isn't suppose to have any actual impact.
it does the following:
- keep just one server struct fork child pid variable instead of 3
- have one server struct variable indicating the purpose of the current fork
child.
- redisFork is now responsible of updating the server struct with the pid,
which means it can be the one that calls updateDictResizePolicy
- move child info pipe handling into redisFork instead of having them
repeated outside
- there are two classes of fork purposes, mutually exclusive group (AOF, RDB,
Module), and one that can create several forks to coexist in parallel (LDB,
but maybe Modules some day too, Module API allows for that).
- minor fix to killRDBChild:
unlike killAppendOnlyChild and TerminateModuleForkChild, the killRDBChild
doesn't clear the pid variable or call wait4, so checkChildrenDone does
the cleanup for it.
This commit removes the explicit calls to rdbRemoveTempFile, closeChildInfoPipe,
updateDictResizePolicy, which didn't do any harm, but where unnecessary.
* man-like consistent long formatting
* Uppercases commands, subcommands and options
* Adds 'HELP' to HELP for all
* Lexicographical order
* Uses value notation and other .md likeness
* Moves const char *help to top
* Keeps it under 80 chars
* Misc help typos, consistent conjuctioning (i.e return and not returns)
* Uses addReplySubcommandSyntaxError(c) all over
Signed-off-by: Itamar Haber <itamar@redislabs.com>
This Commit pushes forward the observability on overall error statistics and command statistics within redis-server:
It extends INFO COMMANDSTATS to have
- failed_calls in - so we can keep track of errors that happen from the command itself, broken by command.
- rejected_calls - so we can keep track of errors that were triggered outside the commmand processing per se
Adds a new section to INFO, named ERRORSTATS that enables keeping track of the different errors that
occur within redis ( within processCommand and call ) based on the reply Error Prefix ( The first word
after the "-", up to the first space ).
This commit also fixes RM_ReplyWithError so that it can be correctly identified as an error reply.
In the distant history there was only the read flag for commands, and whatever
command that didn't have the read flag was a write one.
Then we added the write flag, but some portions of the code still used !read
Also some commands that don't work on the keyspace at all, still have the read
flag.
Changes in this commit:
1. remove the read-only flag from TIME, ECHO, ROLE and LASTSAVE
2. EXEC command used to decides if it should propagate a MULTI by looking at
the command flags (!read & !admin).
When i was about to change it to look at the write flag instead, i realized
that this would cause it not to propagate a MULTI for PUBLISH, EVAL, and
SCRIPT, all 3 are not marked as either a read command or a write one (as
they should), but all 3 are calling forceCommandPropagation.
So instead of introducing a new flag to denote a command that "writes" but
not into the keyspace, and still needs propagation, i decided to rely on
the forceCommandPropagation, and just fix the code to propagate MULTI when
needed rather than depending on the command flags at all.
The implication of my change then is that now it won't decide to propagate
MULTI when it sees one of these: SELECT, PING, INFO, COMMAND, TIME and
other commands which are neither read nor write.
3. Changing getNodeByQuery and clusterRedirectBlockedClientIfNeeded in
cluster.c to look at !write rather than read flag.
This should have no implications, since these code paths are only reachable
for commands which access keys, and these are always marked as either read
or write.
This commit improve MULTI propagation tests, for modules and a bunch of
other special cases, all of which used to pass already before that commit.
the only one that test change that uncovered a change of behavior is the
one that DELs a non-existing key, it used to propagate an empty
multi-exec block, and no longer does.
* Allow runtest-moduleapi use a different 'make', for systems where GNU Make is 'gmake'.
* Fix issue with builds on Solaris re-building everything from scratch due to CFLAGS/LDFLAGS not stored.
* Fix compile failure on Solaris due to atomicvar and a bunch of warnings.
* Fix garbled log timestamps on Solaris.
When a replica uses the diskless-load swapdb approach, it backs up the old database,
then attempts to load a new one, and in case of failure, it restores the backup.
this means that modules with global out of keyspace data, must have an option to
subscribe to events and backup/restore/discard their global data too.
Add a new set of defrag functions that take a defrag context and allow
defragmenting memory blocks and RedisModuleStrings.
Modules can register a defrag callback which will be invoked when the
defrag process handles globals.
Modules with custom data types can also register a datatype-specific
defrag callback which is invoked for keys that require defragmentation.
The callback and associated functions support both one-step and
multi-step options, depending on the complexity of the key as exposed by
the free_effort callback.
This adds a copy callback for module data types, in order to make
modules compatible with the new COPY command.
The callback is optional and COPY will fail for keys with data types
that do not implement it.
One way this was happening is when a module issued an RM_Call which would inject MULTI.
If the module command that does that was itself issued by something else that already did
added MULTI (e.g. another module, or a Lua script), it would have caused nested MULTI.
In fact the MULTI state in the client or the MULTI_EMITTED flag in the context isn't
the right indication that we need to propagate MULTI or not, because on a nested calls
(possibly a module action called by a keyspace event of another module action), these
flags aren't retained / reflected.
instead there's now a global propagate_in_transaction flag for that.
in addition to that, we now have a global in_eval and in_exec flags, to serve the flags
of RM_GetContextFlags, since their dependence on the current client is wrong for the same
reasons mentioned above.
As we know, redis may reject user's requests or evict some keys if
used memory is over maxmemory. Dictionaries expanding may make
things worse, some big dictionaries, such as main db and expires dict,
may eat huge memory at once for allocating a new big hash table and be
far more than maxmemory after expanding.
There are related issues: #4213#4583
More details, when expand dict in redis, we will allocate a new big
ht[1] that generally is double of ht[0], The size of ht[1] will be
very big if ht[0] already is big. For db dict, if we have more than
64 million keys, we need to cost 1GB for ht[1] when dict expands.
If the sum of used memory and new hash table of dict needed exceeds
maxmemory, we shouldn't allow the dict to expand. Because, if we
enable keys eviction, we still couldn't add much more keys after
eviction and rehashing, what's worse, redis will keep less keys when
redis only remains a little memory for storing new hash table instead
of users' data. Moreover users can't write data in redis if disable
keys eviction.
What this commit changed ?
Add a new member function expandAllowed for dict type, it provide a way
for caller to allow expand or not. We expose two parameters for this
function: more memory needed for expanding and dict current load factor,
users can implement a function to make a decision by them.
For main db dict and expires dict type, these dictionaries may be very
big and cost huge memory for expanding, so we implement a judgement
function: we can stop dict to expand provisionally if used memory will
be over maxmemory after dict expands, but to guarantee the performance
of redis, we still allow dict to expand if dict load factor exceeds the
safe load factor.
Add test cases to verify we don't allow main db to expand when left
memory is not enough, so that avoid keys eviction.
Other changes:
For new hash table size when expand. Before this commit, the size is
that double used of dict and later _dictNextPower. Actually we aim to
control a dict load factor between 0.5 and 1.0. Now we replace *2 with
+1, since the first check is that used >= size, the outcome of before
will usually be the same as _dictNextPower(used+1). The only case where
it'll differ is when dict_can_resize is false during fork, so that later
the _dictNextPower(used*2) will cause the dict to jump to *4 (i.e.
_dictNextPower(1025*2) will return 4096).
Fix rehash test cases due to changing algorithm of new hash table size
when expand.
Blocking command should not be used with MULTI, LUA, and RM_Call. This is because,
the caller, who executes the command in this context, expects a reply.
Today, LUA and MULTI have a special (and different) treatment to blocking commands:
LUA - Most commands are marked with no-script flag which are checked when executing
and command from LUA, commands that are not marked (like XREAD) verify that their
blocking mode is not used inside LUA (by checking the CLIENT_LUA client flag).
MULTI - Command that is going to block, first verify that the client is not inside
multi (by checking the CLIENT_MULTI client flag). If the client is inside multi, they
return a result which is a match to the empty key with no timeout (for example blpop
inside MULTI will act as lpop)
For modules that perform RM_Call with blocking command, the returned results type is
REDISMODULE_REPLY_UNKNOWN and the caller can not really know what happened.
Disadvantages of the current state are:
No unified approach, LUA, MULTI, and RM_Call, each has a different treatment
Module can not safely execute blocking command (and get reply or error).
Though It is true that modules are not like LUA or MULTI and should be smarter not
to execute blocking commands on RM_Call, sometimes you want to execute a command base
on client input (for example if you create a module that provides a new scripting
language like javascript or python).
While modules (on modules command) can check for REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_LUA or
REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_MULTI to know not to block the client, there is no way to
check if the command came from another module using RM_Call. So there is no way
for a module to know not to block another module RM_Call execution.
This commit adds a way to unify the treatment for blocking clients by introducing
a new CLIENT_DENY_BLOCKING client flag. On LUA, MULTI, and RM_Call the new flag
turned on to signify that the client should not be blocked. A blocking command
verifies that the flag is turned off before blocking. If a blocking command sees
that the CLIENT_DENY_BLOCKING flag is on, it's not blocking and return results
which are matches to empty key with no timeout (as MULTI does today).
The new flag is checked on the following commands:
List blocking commands: BLPOP, BRPOP, BRPOPLPUSH, BLMOVE,
Zset blocking commands: BZPOPMIN, BZPOPMAX
Stream blocking commands: XREAD, XREADGROUP
SUBSCRIBE, PSUBSCRIBE, MONITOR
In addition, the new flag is turned on inside the AOF client, we do not want to
block the AOF client to prevent deadlocks and commands ordering issues (and there
is also an existing assert in the code that verifies it).
To keep backward compatibility on LUA, all the no-script flags on existing commands
were kept untouched. In addition, a LUA special treatment on XREAD and XREADGROUP was kept.
To keep backward compatibility on MULTI (which today allows SUBSCRIBE, and PSUBSCRIBE).
We added a special treatment on those commands to allow executing them on MULTI.
The only backward compatibility issue that this PR introduces is that now MONITOR
is not allowed inside MULTI.
Tests were added to verify blocking commands are not blocking the client on LUA, MULTI,
or RM_Call. Tests were added to verify the module can check for CLIENT_DENY_BLOCKING flag.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Itamar Haber <itamar@redislabs.com>
Add two optional callbacks to the RedisModuleTypeMethods structure, which is `free_effort`
and `unlink`. the `free_effort` callback indicates the effort required to free a module memory.
Currently, if the effort exceeds LAZYFREE_THRESHOLD, the module memory may be released
asynchronously. the `unlink` callback indicates the key has been removed from the DB by redis, and
may soon be freed by a background thread.
Add `lazyfreed_objects` info field, which represents the number of objects that have been
lazyfreed since redis was started.
Add `RM_GetTypeMethodVersion` API, which return the current redis-server runtime value of
`REDISMODULE_TYPE_METHOD_VERSION`. You can use that when calling `RM_CreateDataType` to know
which fields of RedisModuleTypeMethods are gonna be supported and which will be ignored.
In redisFork(), we don't set child pid, so updateDictResizePolicy()
doesn't take effect, that isn't friendly for copy-on-write.
The bug was introduced this in redis 6.0: 56258c6
The bug occurs when 'callback' re-registers itself to a point
in the future and the execution time in non-negligible:
'now' refers to time BEFORE callback was executed and is used
to calculate 'next_period'.
We must get the actual current time when calculating 'next_period'
- Clarify some documentation comments
- Make sure blocked-on-keys client privdata is accessible
from withing the timeout callback
- Handle blocked clients in beforeSleep - In case a key
becomes "ready" outside of processCommand
See #7879#7880
This cleans up and simplifies the API by passing the command name as the
first argument. Previously the command name was specified explicitly,
but was still included in the argv.
* Introduce a new API's: RM_GetContextFlagsAll, and
RM_GetKeyspaceNotificationFlagsAll that will return the
full flags mask of each feature. The module writer can
check base on this value if the Flags he needs are
supported or not.
* For each flag, introduce a new value on redismodule.h,
this value represents the LAST value and should be there
as a reminder to update it when a new value is added,
also it will be used in the code to calculate the full
flags mask (assuming flags are incrementally increasing).
In addition, stated that the module writer should not use
the LAST flag directly and he should use the GetFlagAll API's.
* Introduce a new API: RM_IsSubEventSupported, that returns for a given
event and subevent, whether or not the subevent supported.
* Introduce a new macro RMAPI_FUNC_SUPPORTED(func) that returns whether
or not a function API is supported by comparing it to NULL.
* Introduce a new API: int RM_GetServerVersion();, that will return the
current Redis version in the format 0x00MMmmpp; e.g. 0x00060008;
* Changed unstable version from 999.999.999 to 255.255.255
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Yossi Gottlieb <yossigo@gmail.com>
The main motivation here is to provide a way for modules to create a
single, global context that can be used for logging.
Currently, it is possible to obtain a thread-safe context that is not
attached to any blocked client by using `RM_GetThreadSafeContext`.
However, the attached context is not linked to the module identity so
log messages produced are not tagged with the module name.
Ideally we'd fix this in `RM_GetThreadSafeContext` itself but as it
doesn't accept the current context as an argument there's no way to do
that in a backwards compatible manner.
This is essentially the same as calling COMMAND GETKEYS but provides a
more efficient interface that can be used in every context (i.e. not a
Redis command).
Avoid using a static buffer for short key index responses, and make it
caller's responsibility to stack-allocate a result type. Responses that
don't fit are still allocated on the heap.
Adding [B]LMOVE <src> <dst> RIGHT|LEFT RIGHT|LEFT. deprecating [B]RPOPLPUSH.
Note that when receiving a BRPOPLPUSH we'll still propagate an RPOPLPUSH,
but on BLMOVE RIGHT LEFT we'll propagate an LMOVE
improvement to existing tests
- Replace "after 1000" with "wait_for_condition" when wait for
clients to block/unblock.
- Add a pre-existing element to target list on basic tests so
that we can check if the new element was added to the correct
side of the list.
- check command stats on the replica to make sure the right
command was replicated
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
When REDISMODULE_EVENT_CLIENT_CHANGE events are delivered, modules may
want to mutate the client state (e.g. perform authentication).
This change links the module context with the real client rather than a
fake client for these events.
The client pointed to by the module context may in some cases be a fake
client. RM_Authenticate*() calls in this case would be ineffective but
appear to succeed, and this change fails them to make it easier to catch
such cases.
Before this commit, we would have continued to add replies to the reply buffer even if client
output buffer limit is reached, so the used memory would keep increasing over the configured limit.
What's more, we shouldn’t write any reply to the client if it is set 'CLIENT_CLOSE_ASAP' flag
because that doesn't conform to its definition and we will close all clients flagged with
'CLIENT_CLOSE_ASAP' in ‘beforeSleep’.
Because of code execution order, before this, we may firstly write to part of the replies to
the socket before disconnecting it, but in fact, we may can’t send the full replies to clients
since OS socket buffer is limited. But this unexpected behavior makes some commands work well,
for instance ACL DELUSER, if the client deletes the current user, we need to send reply to client
and close the connection, but before, we close the client firstly and write the reply to reply
buffer. secondly, we shouldn't do this despite the fact it works well in most cases.
We add a flag 'CLIENT_CLOSE_AFTER_COMMAND' to mark clients, this flag means we will close the
client after executing commands and send all entire replies, so that we can write replies to
reply buffer during executing commands, send replies to clients, and close them later.
We also fix some implicit problems. If client output buffer limit is enforced in 'multi/exec',
all commands will be executed completely in redis and clients will not read any reply instead of
partial replies. Even more, if the client executes 'ACL deluser' the using user in 'multi/exec',
it will not read the replies after 'ACL deluser' just like before executing 'client kill' itself
in 'multi/exec'.
We added some tests for output buffer limit breach during multi-exec and using a pipeline of
many small commands rather than one with big response.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Redis 6.0 introduces I/O threads, it is so cool and efficient, we use C11
_Atomic to establish inter-thread synchronization without mutex. But the
compiler that must supports C11 _Atomic can compile redis code, that brings a
lot of inconvenience since some common platforms can't support by default such
as CentOS7, so we want to implement redis atomic type to make it more portable.
We have implemented our atomic variable for redis that only has 'relaxed'
operations in src/atomicvar.h, so we implement some operations with
'sequentially-consistent', just like the default behavior of C11 _Atomic that
can establish inter-thread synchronization. And we replace all uses of C11
_Atomic with redis atomic variable.
Our implementation of redis atomic variable uses C11 _Atomic, __atomic or
__sync macros if available, it supports most common platforms, and we will
detect automatically which feature we use. In Makefile we use a dummy file to
detect if the compiler supports C11 _Atomic. Now for gcc, we can compile redis
code theoretically if your gcc version is not less than 4.1.2(starts to support
__sync_xxx operations). Otherwise, we remove use mutex fallback to implement
redis atomic variable for performance and test. You will get compiling errors
if your compiler doesn't support all features of above.
For cover redis atomic variable tests, we add other CI jobs that build redis on
CentOS6 and CentOS7 and workflow daily jobs that run the tests on them.
For them, we just install gcc by default in order to cover different compiler
versions, gcc is 4.4.7 by default installation on CentOS6 and 4.8.5 on CentOS7.
We restore the feature that we can test redis with Helgrind to find data race
errors. But you need install Valgrind in the default path configuration firstly
before running your tests, since we use macros in helgrind.h to tell Helgrind
inter-thread happens-before relationship explicitly for avoiding false positives.
Please open an issue on github if you find data race errors relate to this commit.
Unrelated:
- Fix redefinition of typedef 'RedisModuleUserChangedFunc'
For some old version compilers, they will report errors or warnings, if we
re-define function type.
Improve RM_Call inline documentation about the fmt argument
so that we don't completely depend on the web docs.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
During a long AOF or RDB loading, the memory stats were not updated, and
INFO would return stale data, specifically about fragmentation and RSS.
In the past some of these were sampled directly inside the INFO command,
but were moved to cron as an optimization.
This commit introduces a concept of loadingCron which should take
some of the responsibilities of serverCron.
It attempts to limit it's rate to approximately the server Hz, but may
not be very accurate.
In order to avoid too many system call, we use the cached ustime, and
also make sure to update it in both AOF loading and RDB loading inside
processEventsWhileBlocked (it seems AOF loading was missing it).
Added RedisModule_HoldString that either returns a
shallow copy of the given String (by increasing
the String ref count) or a new deep copy of String
in case its not possible to get a shallow copy.
Co-authored-by: Itamar Haber <itamar@redislabs.com>
Before this fix we where attempting to select a db before creating db the DB, see: #7323
This issue doesn't seem to have any implications, since the selected DB index is 0,
the db pointer remains NULL, and will later be correctly set before using this dummy
client for the first time.
As we know, we call 'moduleInitModulesSystem()' before 'initServer()'. We will allocate
memory for server.db in 'initServer', but we call 'createClient()' that will call 'selectDb()'
in 'moduleInitModulesSystem()', before the databases where created. Instead, we should call
'createClient()' for moduleFreeContextReusedClient after 'initServer()'.
Specifically, the key passed to the module aof_rewrite callback is a stack allocated robj. When passing it to RedisModule_EmitAOF (with appropriate "s" fmt string) redis used to panic when trying to inc the ref count of the stack allocated robj. Now support such robjs by coying them to a new heap robj. This doesn't affect performance because using the alternative "c" or "b" format strings also copies the input to a new heap robj.
The scan key module API provides the scan callback with the current
field name and value (if it exists). Those arguments are RedisModuleString*
which means it supposes to point to robj which is encoded as a string.
Using createStringObjectFromLongLong function might return robj that
points to an integer and so break a module that tries for example to
use RedisModule_StringPtrLen on the given field/value.
The PR introduces a fix that uses the createObject function and sdsfromlonglong function.
Using those function promise that the field and value pass to the to the
scan callback will be Strings.
The PR also changes the Scan test module to use RedisModule_StringPtrLen
to catch the issue. without this, the issue is hidden because
RedisModule_ReplyWithString knows to handle integer encoding of the
given robj (RedisModuleString).
The PR also introduces a new test to verify the issue is solved.
By using a "circular BRPOPLPUSH"-like scenario it was
possible the get the same client on db->blocking_keys
twice (See comment in moduleTryServeClientBlockedOnKey)
The fix was actually already implememnted in
moduleTryServeClientBlockedOnKey but it had a bug:
the funxction should return 0 or 1 (not OK or ERR)
Other changes:
1. Added two commands to blockonkeys.c test module (To
reproduce the case described above)
2. Simplify blockonkeys.c in order to make testing easier
3. cast raxSize() to avoid warning with format spec
37a10cef introduced automatic wrapping of MULTI/EXEC for the
alsoPropagate API. However this collides with the built-in mechanism
already present in module.c. To avoid complex changes near Redis 6 GA
this commit introduces the ability to exclude call() MUTLI/EXEC wrapping
for also propagate in order to continue to use the old code paths in
module.c.
The callback approach we took is very efficient, the module can do any
filtering of keys without building any list and cloning strings, it can
also read data from the key's value. but if the user tries to re-open
the key, or any other key, this can cause dict re-hashing (dictFind does
that), and that's very bad to do from inside dictScan.
this commit protects the dict from doing any rehashing during scan, but
also warns the user not to attempt any writes or command calls from
within the callback, for fear of unexpected side effects and crashes.
Because "keymiss" is "special" compared to the rest of
the notifications (Trying not to break existing apps
using the 'A' format for notifications)
Also updated redis.conf and module.c docs
This bug affected RM_StringToLongDouble and HINCRBYFLOAT.
I added tests for both cases.
Main changes:
1. Fixed string2ld to fail if string contains \0 in the middle
2. Use string2ld in getLongDoubleFromObject - No point of
having duplicated code here
The two changes above broke RM_SaveLongDouble/RM_LoadLongDouble
because the long double string was saved with length+1 (An innocent
mistake, but it's actually a bug - The length passed to
RM_SaveLongDouble should not include the last \0).
If a blocked module client times-out (or disconnects, unblocked
by CLIENT command, etc.) we need to call moduleUnblockClient
in order to free memory allocated by the module sub-system
and blocked-client private data
Other changes:
Made blockedonkeys.tcl tests a bit more aggressive in order
to smoke-out potential memory leaks
With the previous API, a NULL return value was ambiguous and could
represent either an old value of NULL or an error condition. The new API
returns a status code and allows the old value to be returned
by-reference.
This commit also includes test coverage based on
tests/modules/datatype.c which did not exist at the time of the original
commit.
This is useful to tell redis and modules to try to avoid doing things that may
increment the replication offset, and should be used when draining a master
and waiting for replicas to be in perfect sync before a failover.
Matthieu MOREL