pdpb: add WatchGCStates streaming RPC - #1528
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PD protobuf contract adds the streaming ChangesPD protobuf API updates
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to WatchGCStates clients that skip the initial snapshot may miss GC-state updates after reconnecting, leaving their keyspace state incomplete. Clarify or enforce reconnect behavior before merge. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The PR adds WatchGCStates and GCStateChange support, but it removes exclude_gc_barriers and makes barrier omission unconditional. This conflicts with issue Resolution Restore the exclude_gc_barriers request behavior, or update the linked issue to approve the changed contract. Verify the generated pkg/pdpb/pdpb.pb.go and scripts/proto.lock files, which are excluded by the !/*.pb.go and !/*.lock filters. Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
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In `@proto/pdpb.proto`:
- Line 1295: Update the WatchGCStatesResponse contract around repeated gc_states
and exclude_gc_barriers so global GC barrier changes are represented: add an
appropriate global-barrier response field with matching filtering semantics, or
explicitly document that the stream excludes global barriers.
- Around line 1292-1295: Update the documentation for WatchGCStatesResponse and
its gc_states field to specify that skip_loading_initial=false produces an
initial full snapshot, subsequent responses contain complete GCState entries
only for changed keyspaces, and keyspaces removed from the watched set are
represented explicitly with a documented deletion/tombstone mechanism or removal
rule.
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| message WatchGCStatesResponse { | ||
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When skip_loading_initial is false, this response has neither a revision nor a snapshot-boundary marker. In the linked PD implementation the listener is registered before the initial scan runs asynchronously, so a live update can be queued before an older value collected by that scan; a native WatchGCStates client can then observe, for example, safe point 200 followed by stale safe point 100, with no way to reject the fallback.
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You are right, and I’ve noticed the issue and plan to address it in the PD implementation as part of tikv/pd#10498.
One possible solution is to maintain a per-watcher
dirtyDuringInitialset. Live updates mark the keyspace dirty underGCStateManager.mu; before an initial batch is enqueued, initial entries for dirty keyspaces are filtered under the same mutex. This guarantees that either the initial value is enqueued before the live value, or the stale initial value is omitted.
See tikv/pd#10498 (review) for details
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GetAllKeyspacesGCStates returns global GC barriers separately, but this watch response can only carry per-keyspace GCState.gc_barriers. Therefore a caller using the default exclude_gc_barriers = false still cannot observe global-barrier additions, removals, or expiry, so replacing polling with this stream yields an incomplete view of GC state.
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I see the concern. After looking at the intended consumers, I’m leaning toward not exposing GC barrier details through WatchGCStates at all.
The stream is mainly intended for GC executors to observe effective GC state changes, such as changes to txn_safe_point or gc_safe_point. GC barriers are inputs used internally by PD’s GC manager to calculate those values, and other components should not need to depend on the barrier records themselves.
For troubleshooting and diagnostics, the recently added get gc-state command in pd-ctl already provides the full picture, including both per-keyspace GC barriers and cluster-wide global GC barriers.
To make this scope explicit, I propose removing exclude_gc_barriers and documenting that WatchGCStates neither includes barrier details nor emits events for barrier-only changes. If a barrier change later results in an actual GC state change, that updated state will still be sent through the stream.
This would also keep the implementation simpler: the watcher would no longer need separate barrier-loading and filtering paths, or special handling for barrier-only events, for a use case we do not currently have.
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Add a server-streaming API for observing effective GC state changes. Represent updates as ordered upsert and removal events so clients can maintain a materialized per-keyspace view and reload it after reconnecting. Keep GC barriers internal to PD. The stream omits barrier details and barrier-only updates while still reporting changes to the resulting effective safe points. Signed-off-by: Wenxuan Zhang <wenxuangm@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: MyonKeminta <MyonKeminta@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@proto/pdpb.proto`:
- Line 1300: Define the reconnect contract for skip_loading_initial in the
relevant request/response protocol documentation or schema: require reconnecting
clients to set it to false so initial state is reloaded, unless a resumable
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Define reconnect behavior for skip_loading_initial=true.
The request sends initial state only when this field is false, but the response says reconnects reload initial state. Because the protocol has no resume cursor or replay mechanism, a client that reconnects with true can miss updates. Require reconnects to use false, or add resumable stream state.
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In `@proto/pdpb.proto` at line 1300, Define the reconnect contract for
skip_loading_initial in the relevant request/response protocol documentation or
schema: require reconnecting clients to set it to false so initial state is
reloaded, unless a resumable cursor/replay mechanism is implemented. Keep the
existing non-reconnect behavior unchanged.
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Issue Number: close #1529
Closes #1440, which this PR supersedes because its original head branch is no longer writable.
Summary
WatchGCStatesRPC to PD.Related issues
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