Detailed explanation of examples of mysqldump

Some production environments use mysqldump --single-transaction to perform database backup at night, and a colleague happened to perform an alter table operation during the backup period. Part of the operation succeeded and part failed. Why?

The test was executed on MySQL 5.6.36. There is a version difference in this problem!

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##Explanation of single-transaction parameter in mysqldump For:

Creates a consistent snapshot by dumping all tables in a
single transaction. Works ONLY for tables stored in
storage engines which support multiversioning (currently
only InnoDB does); the dump is NOT guaranteed to be
consistent for other storage engines.
 While a
--single-transaction dump is in process, to ensure a
valid dump file (correct table contents and binary log
position), no other connection should use the following
statements: ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE,
TRUNCATE TABLE, as consistent snapshot is not isolated
from them.
 Option automatically turns off --lock-tables.

The red font part is the key point, but it’s a little confusing, so I’d better try it out.

According to the introduction of "Exploration of Several Main Options of Mysqldump", the command mysqldump --single-transaction --master-data that we execute during backup is equivalent to executing the following code:

FLUSH TABLES;
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;SET SESSION TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ;
START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT;
SHOW MASTER STATUS;
UNLOCK TABLES;

SHOW TABLES LIKE 'xxx'SET OPTION SQL_QUOTE_SHOW_CREATE=1SHWO CREATE TABLE 'xxx'SHOW FIELDS FROM 'xxx'SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'xxx'SELECT /*!40001 SQL_NO_CACHE */ * FROM  xxx

QUIT

Scenario 1: When mysqldump starts but has not yet been backed up to table tb001, another session performs an alter operation on table tb001, and then mysqldump exports table tb001

## The #alter operation completed successfully, but the mysqldump operation failed.

Scenario 2: mysqldump starts the backup and completes the export of tb001. During the export of other tables, other sessions perform alter operations on the tables

The alter table operation is blocked until mysqldump completes or exits after failure.

When using mysqldump to back up, simulate the environment of scenario 2, the error message is:

mysqldump: Error 1412: Table definition has changed, please retry transaction when dumping table ` tb1002` at row: 0

View the export file, the final content is:

--
-- Dumping data for table `tb1002`--LOCK TABLES `tb1002` WRITE;/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `tb1002` DISABLE KEYS */;

Summary:

single-transaction parameter through Innodb Multiple versions are used to obtain data consistency, while operations such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, and TRUNCATE TABLE will destroy data consistency, and the two operations cannot be executed concurrently.

If the table modification operation starts within the time period "after mysqldump is opened but before the modification table data is exported", the table modification operation will be completed successfully, but mysqldump will fail;

If If the table modification operation starts within the time period when "mysqldum has exported the modification table data but has not yet completed the mysqldump operation", the table modification operation is blocked and mysqldum can complete it successfully. The table modification operation can be executed normally only after the mysqldump operation is completed.

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