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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6202 ref #5083

What is changed and how it works?

Recover tables created after the bootstrap checkpoint from DDL history, preserving surviving dispatchers and split eligibility while repairing missing span coverage. This avoids duplicate scheduling during maintainer failover.

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 Fix an issue where maintainer failover could create duplicate table dispatchers and cause changefeed restarts.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved bootstrap recovery for tables created or removed during initialization.
    • Restored cleanup operators and repaired task coverage for tables discovered during bootstrap.
    • Prevented adoption of tables dropped before the bootstrap checkpoint.
    • Added retry handling when table history is incomplete.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage across default and redo bootstrap modes, operator restoration, task replacement, and paginated history handling.
    • Updated integration test selection for CI.

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Bootstrap now shares one filter and schema store across table-loading paths. Added-table recovery tracks restored state, consumes DDL history, repairs spans, restores operators, and avoids duplicate adoption. Tests cover these paths, and light CI runs the maintainer failover regression test.

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DDL-backed bootstrap recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared bootstrap dependencies
maintainer/maintainer_controller_bootstrap.go
FinishBootstrap creates shared filter and schema store instances and passes them to default and redo table-loading functions.
Added-table state restoration
maintainer/maintainer_controller.go, maintainer/maintainer_controller_test.go
Controller state and tests cover added-table adoption, DDL history pagination, span repair, terminal replacement, operator restoration, and dropped-table handling.
History and failover validation
pkg/eventservice/test_helper.go, tests/integration_tests/run_light_it_in_ci.sh
The mock schema store serves resolved table-trigger DDL events. Light CI selects maintainer_failover_when_operator.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FinishBootstrap
  participant SchemaStore
  participant DispatcherState
  FinishBootstrap->>SchemaStore: fetch resolved table-trigger DDL history
  SchemaStore-->>FinishBootstrap: return additions and timestamps
  FinishBootstrap->>DispatcherState: restore spans and operators
  DispatcherState-->>FinishBootstrap: retain repaired bootstrap state
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Light CI can pass while skipping the integration tests assigned to its configured groups, reducing confidence in unrelated changes. Restore group-specific selection before merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning tests/integration_tests/run_light_it_in_ci.sh replaces the configured test list for every valid light CI group with only maintainer_failover_when_operator. This suppresses unrelated light CI tests… Restore the original per-group test selection in tests/integration_tests/run_light_it_in_ci.sh. If targeted execution is required, add or select maintainer_failover_when_operator without replacing the test list for every light CI group.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing duplicate dispatcher creation during maintainer bootstrap.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes issue references, explains the recovery and deduplication behavior, lists unit and integration tests, and provides a release note. The two question sections are blank, but the…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For directly linked issue #6202, the PR uses DDL history during bootstrap to identify tables created after the checkpoint. It preserves surviving dispatchers, restores create/remove operators, repairs…
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tests/integration_tests/run_light_it_in_ci.sh replaces the configured test list for every valid light CI group with only maintainer_failover_when_operator. This suppresses unrelated light CI tests. The change is not required to fix issue #6202. The maintainer implementation and targeted regression tests are in scope.

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zap.Error(err))
return nil, err
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schemaStore := appcontext.GetService[schemastore.SchemaStore](appcontext.SchemaStore)

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The maintainer should not access SchemaStore directly. These components communicate through the messaging layer, and introducing a direct reference breaks that architectural boundary and tightly couples their lifecycles.

for _, table := range event.NeedAddedTables {
if upperTs, ok := candidates[table.TableID]; ok && event.FinishedTs <= upperTs {
addedTables[table.TableID] = bootstrapAddedTable{table: table, startTs: event.FinishedTs}
delete(candidates, table.TableID)

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I think we need to keep tracking the table until its candidate checkpoint instead of removing it after the first NeedAddedTables.

For example:

  • the bootstrap snapshot is at ts=10 and table t does not exist;
  • t is created at ts=20;
  • t is dropped at ts=30;
  • bootstrap reports the old dispatcher as Stopped with checkpoint=30.

At ts=20 this code adds t to addedTables and removes it from candidates, so the drop at ts=30 never invalidates it. Later buildWorkingTaskMap skips the stopped dispatcher, but processTableSpans creates a new absent span from ts=20. The scheduler may then recreate a dispatcher for a table that has already been dropped.

Could we replay both add and drop state through each candidate's upper timestamp, including normal and database-level drops, and only keep the tables that still exist there? A create-then-drop regression case would also help cover this.

wuhuizuo added a commit to PingCAP-QE/ci that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2026
…est pods (#5245)

## What

Raise the `golang` container resources of the three `pingcap/ticdc`
light
integration-test pod templates to 24Gi / 8 cpu:

-
`pipelines/pingcap/ticdc/latest/pull_cdc_storage_integration_light/pod-test.yaml`
  (16Gi / 6 cpu -> 24Gi / 8 cpu)
-
`pipelines/pingcap/ticdc/latest/pull_cdc_mysql_integration_light/pod-test.yaml`
  (16Gi / 4 cpu -> 24Gi / 8 cpu)
-
`pipelines/pingcap/ticdc/latest/pull_cdc_kafka_integration_light/pod-test.yaml`
  (16Gi / 6 cpu -> 24Gi / 8 cpu)

This matches the memory of the heavy templates and gives the light jobs
the
same headroom, while staying well inside the node capacity.

## Why

These three jobs have been failing on the target staging Jenkins
(`do.pingcap.net/jenkins-staging`) since 2026-09-07/08 with a
staging-only
mechanism: PD's embedded etcd stalls for several seconds (`kv gets too
slow`,
`keep alive lease too slow`, `clock offset` with a multi-second jet lag
on a
50ms refresh interval), the PD leader lease expires, PD steps down, and
the CDC
servers all exit with `ErrCaptureSuicide`, so the test CLI fails. The
same
commit passes on the from-Jenkins (GKE). The stalled paths are the
PD/TiKV data
directories under `/tmp`, which the pods only get 6 (mysql light: 4) cpu
to
serve while PD + TiDB + TiFlash + 3x TiKV + 3x CDC + the downstream
services all
run inside the same cgroup.

Evidence: four replays of the same JOB_SPEC (`pingcap/ticdc#6207
55270ded`) on
staging, with the pod template inlined into the replay script so that
only the
resource limits differ:

| replay | pod resources | result | PD stall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `#23` | 16Gi / 6 cpu | FAILURE | yes |
| `#24` | 24Gi / 8 cpu | SUCCESS (9/16 groups) | no |
| `#25` | 24Gi / 8 cpu | SUCCESS (16/16 groups) | no |
| `#26` | 16Gi / 6 cpu | FAILURE | yes |

The concurrent load was comparable in the passing and the failing
windows
(16-17 concurrent jobs on the production Jenkins instance, which shares
the same
TKE cluster), so the earlier failures are not explained by a quiet
window.

This unblocks the migration presubmits `#5219`, `#5218` and `#5234`,
which are
currently red only because of this environment failure.

## Validation

- `yq` parses all three templates.
- `.ci/verify-k8s-pod-yaml.sh` passes (`kubectl` client and server
dry-run).
- `.ci/verify-storage-class-policy.sh` passes.
- The replay builds above used exactly these limits (`requests=limits` =
8 cpu /
  24Gi) and ran the full 16-group matrix green.
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