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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 safepoint management for stopped and failed changefeeds.
    • Stale checkpoints are now detected consistently, including for non-running changefeeds.
    • Failed changefeeds whose checkpoints exceed the garbage-collection TTL are now detected and reported appropriately.

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The coordinator now checks saved checkpoints for all GC-blocking changefeeds after updating the GC barrier or safepoint. Tests cover a failed changefeed whose checkpoint exceeds GC TTL.

Changes

GC safepoint validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stale checkpoint validation flow
coordinator/coordinator.go
updateGCSafepoint now performs stale-checkpoint validation after a successful GC barrier or safepoint update. The check includes non-running changefeeds that still block GC.
GC safepoint behavior coverage
coordinator/create_changefeed_gc_test.go
Tests require successful stale-checkpoint validation and cover a failed changefeed that returns ErrGCTTLExceeded and emits a failed-state change notification.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Coordinator
  participant GCManager
  participant ChangefeedDB
  participant Changefeed
  Coordinator->>GCManager: update GC barrier or safepoint
  Coordinator->>ChangefeedDB: get all changefeeds
  ChangefeedDB-->>Coordinator: return changefeed list
  Coordinator->>Changefeed: read last saved checkpoint
  Coordinator->>GCManager: check stale checkpoint timestamp
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 84e6b

After the last GC-blocking changefeed is removed, stale GC protection can remain until its TTL expires, delaying garbage collection. Add explicit empty-state cleanup before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the coordinator change and the enforcement of GC TTL for stalled changefeeds.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the issue reference, problem statement, implementation details, test coverage, compatibility and documentation answers, and a release note.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #5057 requires a failed changefeed to stop blocking GC after gc-ttl, with automated coverage. coordinator/coordinator.go adds checkStaleCheckpoints, scans all changefeeds that still satisf…
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coordinator/coordinator.go (1)

443-451: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Delete the service safepoint when no changefeed blocks GC.

Controller.calculateGlobalGCSafepoint returns math.MaxUint64 when no changefeed exists. updateGlobalGcSafepoint replaces that value with the current PD time and calls TryUpdateServiceGCSafepoint. TestUpdateGCSafepointDeletesServiceSafepointWhenNoChangefeed expects one delete call and zero update calls.

gc.Manager and MockManager do not expose TryDeleteServiceGCSafepoint, so the test cannot compile. Add the deletion operation to the manager and implementation, then call it in the empty-changefeed branch and return without calling TryUpdateServiceGCSafepoint.

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In `@coordinator/coordinator.go` around lines 443 - 451, The
updateGlobalGcSafepoint flow must handle minCheckpointTs equal to math.MaxUint64
by calling a new TryDeleteServiceGCSafepoint operation and returning without
updating the safepoint. Add this method to the gc.Manager interface and
MockManager, implement it in the concrete manager, and preserve the existing
timestamp-based TryUpdateServiceGCSafepoint path for active changefeeds.
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In `@coordinator/coordinator.go`:
- Line 329: Update the coordinator flow around checkStaleCheckpointTs so
stale-checkpoint scanning cannot block when changefeedChangeCh is full while run
is synchronously processing updateGCSafepoint and checkStaleCheckpoints.
Preserve every state-change event by decoupling scan delivery from the channel
drained by run, using an unbounded or separately drained handoff.

In `@coordinator/create_changefeed_gc_test.go`:
- Around line 155-157: Resolve the merge-conflict markers in the create
changefeed GC tests, including the blocks around the existing test cases near
lines 155 and 351. Preserve the intended test implementation, remove all
conflict-marker lines, and ensure the Go file is syntactically valid.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@coordinator/coordinator.go`:
- Around line 443-451: The updateGlobalGcSafepoint flow must handle
minCheckpointTs equal to math.MaxUint64 by calling a new
TryDeleteServiceGCSafepoint operation and returning without updating the
safepoint. Add this method to the gc.Manager interface and MockManager,
implement it in the concrete manager, and preserve the existing timestamp-based
TryUpdateServiceGCSafepoint path for active changefeeds.

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if info == nil || !info.NeedBlockGC() {
continue
}
c.checkStaleCheckpointTs(ctx, cf, cf.GetLastSavedCheckPointTs())

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Inspect channel initialization, capacity, sends, and receives.
rg -n -C5 'changefeedChangeCh\s*[:=]|changefeedChangeCh\s*<-|<-\s*c\.changefeedChangeCh' coordinator

Repository: pingcap/ticdc

Length of output: 7338


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sed -n '180,345p' coordinator/coordinator.go
printf '\n--- helper references ---\n'
rg -n -C8 'checkStaleCheckpointTs|send.*change|context.WithTimeout|10\s*\*\s*time\.Second|time\.Second' coordinator/coordinator.go coordinator/*.go

Repository: pingcap/ticdc

Length of output: 36631


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rg -n -C12 'func \(c \*coordinator\) updateGCSafepoint|checkStaleCheckpoints\(' coordinator/coordinator.go coordinator/*.go
sed -n '333,430p' coordinator/coordinator.go

Repository: pingcap/ticdc

Length of output: 10181


Prevent stale-checkpoint scans from blocking on changefeedChangeCh.

When more than 1,024 eligible changefeeds report stale checkpoints, checkStaleCheckpointTs fills changefeedChangeCh. run cannot drain the channel while it synchronously executes updateGCSafepoint and checkStaleCheckpoints. Each blocked send can wait for the 10-second context timeout, causing sequential delays. Change this flow so the scan does not block on the channel that run drains, while preserving each state-change event.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@coordinator/coordinator.go` at line 329, Update the coordinator flow around
checkStaleCheckpointTs so stale-checkpoint scanning cannot block when
changefeedChangeCh is full while run is synchronously processing
updateGCSafepoint and checkStaleCheckpoints. Preserve every state-change event
by decoupling scan delivery from the channel drained by run, using an unbounded
or separately drained handoff.

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

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