Tag: Developers
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Tricky Problems? MariaDB debug container
MariaDB does have bugs. Users see them sometimes. Sometimes developers look for a long time at bug reports and code and still cannot see how the situation occurred. Developers during their analysis ask questions like:
- I wonder if this was already fixed in {not released version}? But how can I ask a user to test that?
- Can I get the user to get good stack trace that would help understand this better? But users sometimes find this hard.
- What exact hardware and kernel configuration is this bug occurring on? And how would I reproduce this?
- I’d like to have a copy of this data to attempt some potentially damaging operation to understand this better? But user data isn’t always sharable, or easily copy-able.
- A rr record of this way that MariaDB got into this state would help me understand this better?
- I know what debugger information I’d get if I was to attack this problem locally, can I ask the user to do it?