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coordinator: enforce gc ttl for stalled changefeeds (#6206) - #6235

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This is an automated cherry-pick of #6206

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #5057

In the new architecture, failed, stopped, or stuck changefeeds no longer advance their checkpoints. Stale checkpoint checks only ran when a reported checkpoint advanced, so the coordinator could keep refreshing the GC service safepoint or keyspace barrier beyond gc-ttl.

What is changed and how it works?

After each successful periodic GC safepoint or barrier reconciliation, the coordinator now checks every changefeed that still needs to block GC using its last saved checkpoint. Existing GC fast-fail handling then transitions stale changefeeds to ErrGCTTLExceeded, allowing them to stop contributing to GC blocking.

Non-GC failures still retain GC protection during the configured TTL window. Changefeeds already failed by GC, finished, or removed remain excluded.

A regression test covers a non-GC failed changefeed whose checkpoint does not advance and verifies that periodic GC reconciliation emits the expected GC TTL failure.

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Will it cause performance regression or break compatibility?

No compatibility change is expected. The fix adds one in-memory changefeed scan per GC tick and makes no additional PD requests.

Do you need to update user documentation, design documentation or monitoring documentation?

No.

Release note

Fix an issue where failed, stopped, or stuck changefeeds could block upstream GC beyond gc-ttl.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved garbage-collection safety by validating saved checkpoints across all changefeeds that block GC, including stopped and failed changefeeds.
    • Prevented stale checkpoint data from allowing unsafe GC progress.
    • GC safepoint updates now recheck blocked changefeeds after barrier or safepoint changes, helping prevent unsafe advancement.
    • Corrected stale-checkpoint error reporting for failed changefeeds.
    • Improved shared-schema compatibility for tables that use materialized views.

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@asddongmen This PR has conflicts, I have hold it.
Please resolve them or ask others to resolve them, then comment /unhold to remove the hold label.

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The coordinator now checks saved checkpoints for all GC-blocking changefeeds after successful legacy or next-generation safepoint updates. Tests cover stale failed checkpoints. The shared-schema guard now includes three materialized view fields.

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GC safepoint validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stale-checkpoint validation flow
coordinator/coordinator.go
The coordinator scans eligible changefeeds and validates their saved checkpoints after successful service safepoint or keyspace barrier updates.
GC safepoint validation tests
coordinator/create_changefeed_gc_test.go
The tests verify safepoint update expectations and confirm that a failed changefeed with a stale checkpoint receives the GC TTL error state. Conflict markers were removed from the retained test block.

Shared-schema compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
TableInfo field guard
pkg/common/table_info_shared_schema_guard_test.go
The guard test now requires the MaterializedView, MaterializedViewBase, and MaterializedViewLog fields in TiDB's TableInfo structure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: asddongmen, lidezhu

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2a75e

Many stale changefeeds can delay coordinator events and GC progress, so notifications should be batched or otherwise bounded before merge.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The change to pkg/common/table_info_shared_schema_guard_test.go adds MaterializedView, MaterializedViewBase, and MaterializedViewLog to a TiDB TableInfo compatibility guard. This change has … Remove the unrelated pkg/common/table_info_shared_schema_guard_test.go change, or provide a direct linked issue requirement that requires these fields in this pull request.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: enforcing GC TTL for stalled changefeeds. It is concise and specific.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the repository template. It includes the issue number, problem statement, implementation details, test coverage, compatibility and documentation answers, and a release note.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For #5057, the PR adds checkStaleCheckpoints to scan GC-blocking changefeeds, including non-running changefeeds, by their last saved checkpoints. The coordinator runs the scan after successful next-…
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The change to pkg/common/table_info_shared_schema_guard_test.go adds MaterializedView, MaterializedViewBase, and MaterializedViewLog to a TiDB TableInfo compatibility guard. This change has no demonstrated connection to #5057, which concerns failed changefeed GC blocking and stale checkpoints.

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In `@coordinator/coordinator.go`:
- Line 329: Update the stale-checkpoint handling in coordinator.run and
checkStaleCheckpointTs to accumulate changes for all stale changefeeds during
the scan, then send them to changefeedChangeCh as a single batch after scanning
completes. Preserve the existing successful-GC behavior while avoiding
per-change sends that can block coordinator events and GC ticks.

In `@coordinator/create_changefeed_gc_test.go`:
- Around line 155-157: Remove the unresolved Git conflict markers surrounding
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if info == nil || !info.NeedBlockGC() {
continue
}
c.checkStaleCheckpointTs(ctx, cf, cf.GetLastSavedCheckPointTs())

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Batch stale state changes before sending them to changefeedChangeCh.

coordinator.run consumes changefeedChangeCh and calls updateGCSafepoint from the same goroutine. After a successful GC update, checkStaleCheckpoints sends one change per stale changefeed. Each send can wait up to 10 seconds, so a full 1024-entry channel can delay coordinator events and GC ticks for multiple minutes. Accumulate the stale changes and send one batch after the scan.

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In `@coordinator/coordinator.go` at line 329, Update the stale-checkpoint handling
in coordinator.run and checkStaleCheckpointTs to accumulate changes for all
stale changefeeds during the scan, then send them to changefeedChangeCh as a
single batch after scanning completes. Preserve the existing successful-GC
behavior while avoiding per-change sends that can block coordinator events and
GC ticks.

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This concern is inherited unchanged from the already-merged source PR #6206; the cherry-pick conflict resolution only adjusts release-specific test code. Fixing the batching behavior only on this release branch would diverge from master, so it should be addressed on master first and then backported separately.

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@asddongmen, understood. This change is outside the scope of this release-branch cherry-pick.

Please address the batching change on master first. Backport it to this release branch only if the master fix is selected for backport.

Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue for the master change?

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Cherry-pick conflicts appear resolved; removing the do-not-merge/hold label.

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