25.5.6 ndb_blob_tool — Check and Repair BLOB and TEXT columns of NDB Cluster 表
This tool can be used to check for and remove orphaned BLOB column parts from NDB
tables, as well as to generate a file listing any orphaned parts. It is sometimes useful in diagnosing and repairing corrupted or damaged NDB
tables containing BLOB
or TEXT
columns.
The basic syntax for ndb_blob_tool is shown here:
ndb_blob_tool [options] table [column, ...]
Unless you use the --help
option, you must specify an action to be performed by including one or more of the options --check-orphans
, --delete-orphans
, or --dump-file
. These options cause ndb_blob_tool to check for orphaned BLOB parts, remove any orphaned BLOB parts, and generate a dump file listing orphaned BLOB parts, respectively, and are described in more detail later in this section.
You must also specify the name of a table when invoking ndb_blob_tool. In addition, you can optionally follow the table name with the (comma-separated) names of one or more BLOB
or TEXT
columns from that table. If no columns are listed, the tool works on all of the table's BLOB
and TEXT
columns. If you need to specify a database, use the --database
(-d
) option.
The --verbose
option provides additional information in the output about the tool's progress.
All options that can be used with ndb_mgmd are shown in the following table. Additional descriptions follow the table.
-
Command-Line Format --add-missing
For each inline part in NDB Cluster tables which has no corresponding BLOB part, write a dummy BLOB part of the required length, consisting of spaces.
-
Command-Line Format --character-sets-dir=path
Directory containing character sets.
-
Command-Line Format --check-missing
Check for inline parts in NDB Cluster tables which have no corresponding BLOB parts.
-
Command-Line Format --check-orphans
Check for BLOB parts in NDB Cluster tables which have no corresponding inline parts.
-
Command-Line Format --connect-retries=#
Type Integer Default Value 12
Minimum Value 0
Maximum Value 12
Number of times to retry connection before giving up.
-
Command-Line Format --connect-retry-delay=#
Type Integer Default Value 5
Minimum Value 0
Maximum Value 5
Number of seconds to wait between attempts to contact management server.
-
Command-Line Format --connect-string=connection_string
Type String Default Value [none]
Same as
--ndb-connectstring
. -
Command-Line Format --core-file
Write core file on error; used in debugging.
-
Command-Line Format --database=name
Type String Default Value [none]
Specify the database to find the table in.
-
Command-Line Format --defaults-extra-file=path
Type String Default Value [none]
Read given file after global files are read.
-
Command-Line Format --defaults-file=path
Type String Default Value [none]
Read default options from given file only.
-
Command-Line Format --defaults-group-suffix=string
Type String Default Value [none]
Also read groups with concat(group, suffix).
-
Command-Line Format --delete-orphans
Remove BLOB parts from NDB Cluster tables which have no corresponding inline parts.
-
Command-Line Format --dump-file=file
Type File name Default Value [none]
Writes a list of orphaned BLOB column parts to
file
. The information written to the file includes the table key and BLOB part number for each orphaned BLOB part. -
Command-Line Format --help
Display help text and exit.
-
Command-Line Format --login-path=path
Type String Default Value [none]
Read given path from login file.
-
Command-Line Format --no-login-paths
Skips reading options from the login path file.
-
Command-Line Format --ndb-connectstring=connection_string
Type String Default Value [none]
Set connection string for connecting to ndb_mgmd. Syntax:
[nodeid=
. Overrides entries inid
;][host=]hostname
[:port
]NDB_CONNECTSTRING
andmy.cnf
. -
Command-Line Format --ndb-mgm-tls=level
Type Enumeration Default Value relaxed
Valid Values relaxed
strict
Sets the level of TLS support required to connect to the management server; one of
relaxed
orstrict
.relaxed
(the default) means that a TLS connection is attempted, but success is not required;strict
means that TLS is required to connect. -
Command-Line Format --ndb-mgmd-host=connection_string
Type String Default Value [none]
Same as
--ndb-connectstring
. -
Command-Line Format --ndb-nodeid=#
Type Integer Default Value [none]
Set node ID for this node, overriding any ID set by --ndb-connectstring.
-
--ndb-optimized-node-selection
Command-Line Format --ndb-optimized-node-selection
Enable optimizations for selection of nodes for transactions. Enabled by default; use
--skip-ndb-optimized-node-selection
to disable. -
Command-Line Format --ndb-tls-search-path=list
Type Path name Default Value (Unix) $HOME/ndb-tls
Default Value (Windows) $HOMEDIR/ndb-tls
Specify a list of directories to search for a CA file. On Unix platforms, the directory names are separated by colons (
:
); on Windows systems, the semicolon character (;
) is used as the separator. A directory reference may be relative or absolute; it may contain one or more environment variables, each denoted by a prefixed dollar sign ($
), and expanded prior to use.Searching begins with the leftmost named directory and proceeds from left to right until a file is found. An empty string denotes an empty search path, which causes all searches to fail. A string consisting of a single dot (
.
) indicates that the search path limited to the current working directory.If no search path is supplied, the compiled-in default value is used. This value depends on the platform used: On Windows, this is
\ndb-tls
; on other platforms (including Linux), it is$HOME/ndb-tls
. This can be overridden by compiling NDB Cluster using-DWITH_NDB_TLS_SEARCH_PATH
. -
Command-Line Format --no-defaults
Do not read default options from any option file other than login file.
-
Command-Line Format --print-defaults
Print program argument list and exit.
-
Command-Line Format --usage
Display help text and exit; same as --help.
-
Command-Line Format --verbose
Provide extra information in the tool's output regarding its progress.
-
Command-Line Format --version
Display version information and exit.
First we create an NDB
table in the test
database, using the CREATE TABLE
statement shown here:
USE test;
CREATE TABLE btest (
c0 BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
c1 TEXT,
c2 BLOB
) ENGINE=NDB;
Then we insert a few rows into this table, using a series of statements similar to this one:
INSERT INTO btest VALUES (NULL, 'x', REPEAT('x', 1000));
When run with --check-orphans
against this table, ndb_blob_tool generates the following output:
$> ndb_blob_tool --check-orphans --verbose -d test btest
connected
processing 2 blobs
processing blob #0 c1 NDB$BLOB_19_1
NDB$BLOB_19_1: nextResult: res=1
total parts: 0
orphan parts: 0
processing blob #1 c2 NDB$BLOB_19_2
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=0
NDB$BLOB_19_2: nextResult: res=1
total parts: 10
orphan parts: 0
disconnected
The tool reports that there are no NDB
BLOB column parts associated with column c1
, even though c1
is a TEXT
column. This is due to the fact that, in an NDB
table, only the first 256 bytes of a BLOB
or TEXT
column value are stored inline, and only the excess, if any, is stored separately; thus, if there are no values using more than 256 bytes in a given column of one of these types, no BLOB
column parts are created by NDB
for this column. See Section 13.7, “Data Type Storage Requirements”, for more information.