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transaction as a whole, such as the ID of the executing server,
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unique identifier for the transaction.
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the start and end timestamp of the transaction, segmenting
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metadata and a unique identifier for the transaction.
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statements which modified the state of the server. The Statement
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message is, itself, a generic envelope message containing a
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sub-message which describes the specific data modification which
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occurred on the server (such as, for instance, an INSERT statement.
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occurred on the server (such as, for instance, an INSERT statement).
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The generic "envelope" message containing information common to each
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SQL statement executed against a server (such as a start and end timestamp
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of the Statement should construct the inner Statement subclass representing
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have to be rolled back.
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present a specific set of problems for a transaction coordinator or
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replication system uses a mechanism which provides bulk change
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multiple protobuf Transaction messages if the message grows too large.
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created to hold the rest of the Statement's row changes. In these cases,
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submessages is not helpful if the Statement isn't segmented. We need this
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Segmenting a Single SQL Statement
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certain threshold, Drizzle's replication services component will begin
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sending Transaction messages to replicas which contain a chunk
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#. Construct an UpdateHeader message with information about the tables
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and fields involved in the UPDATE statement. Push this UpdateHeader
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message onto the Transaction message's statement vector.
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component builds a new UpdateRecord message and appends this message
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ReplicationServices component sets the current UpdateData message's
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message to replicators.
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message and constructs a transaction context with the same
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transaction ID and server information.
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Statement sub-message is segmented, as described above.
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receiver to undo any changes made for this single statement, but not
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a single statement, then a message buffering strategy should be employed
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