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Tim Deeb-SwihartandGitHub be7b5514a5 Reconnect to SQL databases when connections fail (#5926)
## What changed?

Both our PostgreSQL and MySQL database backends will now automatically
reconnect to the database when certain errors occur: all errors chosen
have been experienced when testing this behavior through an AWS Aurora
RDS failover of either MySQL or PostgreSQL.

For both backends we will reconnect when we see:
- `ECONNRESET`
- `ECONNABORTED`
- `ECONNREFUSED`
- `io.EOF`
- `io.ErrUnexpectedEOF`
- `database/sql/driver.ErrBadConn`

for postgres we will also reconnect on the following SQLStates:
- `25006` read-only transaction
- `57P03` cannot connect now
- `0A000` feature not supported, but ONLY when the message is `cannot
set transaction read-write mode during recovery`

for mysql we will also reconnect when we see the following error codes:
- `1040` too many connections 
- `1792` read-only transaction (SQLstate `25006`)
- `1836` running in read-only mode

This logic is easily extensible should we discover more failure modes
over time

## Why?

We've had multiple community reports of Temporal problems during RDS
failover. One part of this is the fact that we wouldn't necessarily
reconnect; we were at the whims of our chosen SQL abstraction's
connection pooling logic.

## How did you test it?

I manually tested this functionality in the presence of repeated RDS
failovers: 

- [x] postgres12 plugin with pq driver
- [x] postgres12 plugin with pgx driver
- [x] mysql plugin

Automated testing will be added to our regular testing pipelines once
our infrastructure friends have added the support I need (it's in
progress)

## Potential risks

We're concerned there's a correctness issue in our PostgreSQL backend
that's related to our behavior during an RDS failover. If we merge this
before I figure out what's going on, we could hide the issue and make it
harder to reproduce.

## Documentation
N/A

## Is hotfix candidate?
Yes?
2024-05-17 16:59:15 -07:00
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Using the SQL schema tool

This package contains the tooling for temporal sql operations. The tooling itself is agnostic of the storage engine behind the sql interface. So, this same tool can be used against, say, OracleDB and MySQLDB

For localhost development

SQL_USER=$USERNAME SQL_PASSWORD=$PASSWD make install-schema-mysql

For production

Create the binary

  • Run make temporal-sql-tool on the root of repositroy
  • You should see an executable temporal-sql-tool
  • Temporal officially support MySQL and Postgres for SQL.
  • For other SQL database, you can add it easily as we do for MySQL/Postgres following our code in sql-extensions

Do one time database creation and schema setup for a new cluster

  • All command below are taking MySQL as example. For postgres, simply use with "--plugin postgres12"
./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --db temporal --plugin mysql8 create
./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --db temporal_visibility --plugin mysql8 create
./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --plugin mysql8 --db temporal setup-schema -v 0.0 -- this sets up just the schema version tables with initial version of 0.0
./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --plugin mysql8 --db temporal update-schema -d ./schema/mysql/v8/temporal/versioned -- upgrades your schema to the latest version

./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --plugin mysql8 --db temporal_visibility setup-schema -v 0.0 -- this sets up just the schema version tables with initial version of 0.0 for visibility
./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --plugin mysql8 --db temporal_visibility update-schema -d ./schema/mysql/v8/visibility/versioned  -- upgrades your schema to the latest version for visibility

Update schema as part of a release

You can only upgrade to a new version after the initial setup done above.

./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --plugin mysql8 --db temporal update-schema -d ./schema/mysql/v8/temporal/versioned -v x.x    -- executes the upgrade to version x.x

./temporal-sql-tool --ep $SQL_HOST -p $port --plugin mysql8 --db temporal_visibility update-schema -d ./schema/mysql/v8/visibility/versioned -v x.x    -- executes the upgrade to version x.x