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Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --strip-hints to omit crash-report hints

A crash report contains, besides the actual server log and backtrace,
several explanatory "hint" paragraphs - bug-reporting boilerplate,
instructions for producing a better stack trace, "Attempting backtrace",
"Output from gdb follows", etc. They are useful once but noise for
someone who reads these reports all day.

Add --strip-hints (off by default). When given, these hints are omitted
and only the real content is kept.

Three sources are handled:

- The paragraphs the server writes to its error log (via the crash
  signal handler) are dropped from the "Server log from this test"
  excerpt by strip_crash_hints(). Each hint is a paragraph running from
  a recognizable opener line to the next blank line, so trimming is
  robust across server-version wording changes; the surrounding data
  (CURRENT_TEST, the signal line, "Server version", the backtrace,
  thread pointer, ...) is kept.

- My::CoreDump prints its own "Output from gdb/lldb follows ..." header;
  it is suppressed too, leaving just the debugger output.

- mariadb-test-run.pl's own end-of-run boilerplate in mtr_report_stats()
  ("The log files in var/log may give you some hint ..." and the
  MariaDB bug-tracker URL) is skipped as well.

$opt_strip_hints is declared with "our" so My::CoreDump and
mtr_report.pm can read it as $::opt_strip_hints.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR conf: honor standard --defaults-* options

Wire the standard MariaDB defaults options into MTR's own option loading,
mirroring libmariadb's get_defaults_options()/my_load_defaults():

  --no-defaults            do not read any option file
  --defaults-file          read [mtr] from this file only
  --defaults-extra-file    read this file in addition (extra-file slot)
  --defaults-group-suffix  also read [mtr<suffix>]
  --print-defaults        print the [mtr] options and exit

--defaults-file and --defaults-extra-file keep their existing MTR meaning
as the server config *template* too: the two consumers read different
groups of the same file - [mysqld]/[client]/... for the template (via
collect_option), [mtr] here. A command-line --defaults-file /
--defaults-extra-file overrides the MTR_CONFIG / MTR_CONFIG_EXTRA
environment variable; --defaults-group-suffix overrides
MARIADB_GROUP_SUFFIX / MYSQL_GROUP_SUFFIX.

An explicitly named file (--defaults-file or $MTR_CONFIG) that does not
exist is an error, matching libmariadb; a missing file in the standard
search order is still skipped silently.

Order of execution in command_line_setup():

  1. get_defaults_options() runs first (before the main GetOptions). It
    consumes the MTR-only options (--no-defaults, --defaults-group-suffix,
    --print-defaults) out of @ARGV, and *peeks* --defaults-file /
    --defaults-extra-file off a copy of @ARGV so they stay in @ARGV for
    the second consumer.

  2. load_defaults() reads the [mtr] group from the selected files and
    prepends the resulting options into @ARGV, ahead of the
    ---end-of-config--- marker.

  3. My::Debugger::fix_options() adjusts optional-argument options.

  4. The main GetOptions(%options) parses everything - the config options
    (before the marker) and the command line (after it). Command-line
    options come later and therefore take precedence. --defaults-file is
    handed to collect_option for the template. Options still unrecognized
    afterwards are validated in a manual loop that uses the marker to
    report whether a bad option came from the config file or the command
    line.

Getopt::Long is configured "pass_through", so a parse leaves any option it
does not declare in @ARGV instead of erroring. Because pass_through is on,
step 1 skims off only the defaults options without touching the rest, and
step 4 does the real parse; neither errors on options it does not declare.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: speed up test collection by caching result-dir listings

collect_one_test_case() located each test's .result/.rdiff files with a
per-test glob:

  for (<{$resdirglob}/$tname*.{rdiff,result}>) { ... }

Because of the "$tname*" wildcard, glob had to opendir and read the whole
result directory on every call, and the "{rdiff,result}" brace made it do
so twice (once per extension).  Run once per test, this is O(tests *
dirsize) - the suite's result directory is re-read ~2x for every test in
the suite.  Profiling the collection of all default suites showed this
single line accounting for 8.3s of the 13.1s phase (63%), and the phase
issuing 408k stat() calls (339k of them ENOENT).

Read each result directory once instead, indexing its .result/.rdiff
files by base test name (the leading run of characters before the first
'.' or ','), and look a test's files up in that cache.  The "$tname*"
glob was only a coarse prefilter anyway - the existing regex
"^$tname((?:,combo)*)\.(rdiff|result)$" does the real matching - so
indexing by base name yields exactly the same candidate set.

Stats (collecting all default suites, 6548 tests, warm cache):

  collection time        13.1s  ->  4.5s  (~2.9x)
  directory-open syscalls  23026 ->  5284

The collected test list (result_file, base_result, skip and comment for
every test) is byte-for-byte identical before and after.
Sergei Petrunia
MDEV-39368: Add mtr --replay-server option to test Optimizer Context Replay

Make --replay-server clean up the environment on replay server:
drop created tables, views, etc.
Sergei Petrunia
MDEV-39368: Add mtr --replay-server option to test Optimizer Context Replay

Re-commit the entire feature as one patch.

KEEP THIS AFTER ALL OPTIMIZER CONTEXT REPLAY COMMITS.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --strip-limits to omit the resource-limits table

On a crash the server writes a "Resource Limits" table (read from
/proc/self/limits) to its error log, which MTR echoes in the crash
report. Like the bug-reporting hints it is rarely useful when reading
these reports routinely.

Add --strip-limits (off by default). When given, the table is dropped
from the "Server log from this test" excerpt by strip_resource_limits().

Unlike a hint paragraph the table has no trailing blank line - it runs
straight into the next section ("Core pattern:", ...). So the filter
removes the opener line (matching both "Resource Limits:" and the newer
"Resource Limits (excludes unlimited resources):"), the
"Limit ... Soft Limit ..." header and the "Max ..." rows, and stops at
the first line that is neither, keeping the surrounding data.

This is independent of --strip-hints.
forkfun
Merge branch '13.0' into 'main'
Daniel Black
MDEV-39813 ST_GeomFromGeoJSON does not control recursion depth

Geometry::create_from_json used strings as things that reinitialize
the je (json_engine). By reinitializing with json_start the killed
pointer gets reset, and also the concept of depth is reset.

There are two states in create_from_json:
1. The search if for the type, once found ci is set
2. Search for the argument, arg becomes != T_NONE

If the type is found first, ci become the class, and once
the arg is found, continued execution on the same je occurs.

If the argument comes before the "type", we've save a copy
of the json_engine_t to process this argument.

In both cases je after the execution is the most progressed
pointer.

Debug assertions on je state aren't enforced by code, if
some invalid GeoJSON is passed, these are actual errors.

Because Geometry::create_from_json is recursive, from
geometrymcollections, a json_read_value is pushed from inside this
function up to Item_func_geometry_from_json::val_str.

Other Gis*::init_from_json start from their actual object and don't
need a json_read_value to start.

Test case an bug report thanks to byteoverride.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR conf: report config file errors as file:line without croak

Make every wrong setting in a server config file fail with a
human-friendly message and no Perl stack trace or source-code line.

My::Config now treats parse errors as data errors instead of caller
bugs: each parse failure dies with a clean "file:line: reason" message
naming the config file and the offending line number, and without the
"at FILE line N." Perl location. This also delivers the file name and
line number that were previously missing. The internal misuse/invariant
assertions keep using croak, which is the right tool there.

load_defaults() (in mariadb-test-run.pl) catches that die and re-throws
it through mtr_error(), which flushes output, prints the uniform mtr
error format and exits in a controlled way. This replaces the earlier
fragile approach of stripping the location suffix off a croak with a
regexp.

mariadb-test-run.pl: validate the parallel option value before the
numeric comparison, so a non-numeric or negative value reports a clean
error instead of an "Argument isn't numeric" warning with a code line.
This path is shared with the command line, so it is fixed there too.
Akshat Nehra
MDEV-39981 Fix ST_GEOMFROMGEOJSON returning wrong result with reversed key order

ST_GEOMFROMGEOJSON requires JSON keys to appear in a specific order
(type before geometries/features/geometry/coordinates). When keys
appear in a different order, the JSON scanner is left in an
inconsistent state because json_skip_level() is not called to advance
past the value when the type has not yet been determined.

Fix: add json_skip_level() calls in the geometries, features, and
geometry key handlers when the type key has not yet been encountered.
This mirrors the existing pattern in the coordinates handler.

All new code of the whole pull request, including one or several files
that are either new files or modified ones, are contributed under the
BSD-new license. I am contributing on behalf of my employer Amazon Web
Services, Inc.
bsrikanth-mariadb
MDEV-40388: sequence.simple fails on replay

The problem is that, when recording is enabled for the query such as,
explain select * from seq_1_to_10;
it recorded the table context having a DDL definition as: -

CREATE TABLE `seq_1_to_10` (
    ->  `seq` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
    ->  PRIMARY KEY (`seq`)
    -> ) ENGINE=SEQUENCE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_uca1400_ai_ci;

Now, when that context is replayed, the DDL statement is executed.
But, we cannot create such a table, and instead it errors out saying
ERROR 1050 (42S01): Table 'seq_1_to_10' already exists.

Solution is to use: -
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS seq_1_to_10 ...;

=====

Also, there is a different way to use sequences as: -
  Create sequence s1;
  Explain select * from s1;

Here, we should be recording the DDL statement, but no need to store the
stats for it. However, we didn't record the DDL statement earlier.
Moreover, sequence's next value should be the same in the replay environment.

Solution here is to record the DDL for such a sequence as
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS s1 ...;
and also set its start value as the recorded environment's previous value using
  SELECT SETVAL(s1, prev_value);
Oleksandr Byelkin
New CC 3.4
Sergei Petrunia
Code cleanup in JSON array-of-object reading, add unit tests.
Georg Richter
Changed the error message back to avoid failing tests
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --exec-rr / --exec-gdb to wrap every --exec

New debugger options run every mysqltest '--exec' command line under a
wrapper (rr record, or gdb --args in an xterm), so external tools invoked
by tests (myisampack, myisamchk, ...) can be traced or debugged without
naming them.

My::Debugger: each debugger with an 'exec' template gets an --exec-<dbg>
option auto-registered.  pre_setup() detects the requested one, runs its
one-time 'pre' hook, and exports MYSQLTEST_EXEC_WRAP (plus _RR_TRACE_DIR
for rr, and an xterm wrapper for terminal debuggers like gdb).

do_exec(): when MYSQLTEST_EXEC_WRAP is set it is injected into the command
line, after any leading shell NAME=VALUE assignments (quotes and
backslashes honoured), so the tool - not the assignment word - is what
gets wrapped.  The implicit /bin/sh -c that popen() supplies provides the
shell layer.
Oleksandr Byelkin
new CC 3.3
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: test --tail-log / --tail-warnings in suite/mtr

Run a child mariadb-test-run.pl on misc.crash (SIGSEGV) and misc.warn
(system-versioned SYSTEM_TIME LIMIT overflow) and check that the crash and
shutdown-warnings reports are trimmed by --head-log / --tail-log / --strip-log
and --tail-warnings.  Also exercise --list-combinations and --suite negation.

The child's volatile output (pids, timestamps, addresses, an unbounded
backtrace, ...) is reduced to a deterministic skeleton with include/grep.inc
and normalized with --replace_regex: the two anchor backtrace frames
(my_print_stacktrace, main) are kept while the variable middle frames and the
per-line values are cut down to "<...cut...>".  The test is gated behind
--big-test.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --exit-line to stop a test at a given line

--exit-line=N stops a test before the command at line N of the test
file, exactly as if an --exit directive were placed there.  Handy for
bisecting where a test starts to misbehave, and for debugging a test
without extracting a standalone test case: record the run under rr
(--rr), then reverse-replay from the end of the trace straight to the
SQL command of interest.

mariadb-test-run.pl gains --exit-line (-l) and forwards it to mysqltest.
The option is global: it applies to every test in the run, each stopping
at line N of its own test file (so N is per-file).  A test whose file has
fewer than N lines is unaffected and runs to completion.

mysqltest gains the --exit-line (-l) option: after reading each command,
if we are in the top-level test file (cur_file == file_stack) and the
command starts at or past the requested line, it aborts like Q_EXIT.
Gating to the main file keeps line numbers of sourced includes from
triggering it.

suite/mtr/feat exercises it by running a child mtr with --exit-line=5 on
main.1st (line 4 "show databases;", line 5 "show tables in mysql;"): the
run stops before line 5, so the recorded result's tables section is
missing and the test fails with a length mismatch - proving the exit
landed exactly at the requested line.  The child's whole output is kept
(no grep); volatile banner/footer lines are cut by prefix via $NORM_RUN.
Sergei Petrunia
MDEV-39368: Add mtr --replay-server option to test Optimizer Context Replay

Re-commit the entire feature as one patch.

KEEP THIS AFTER ALL OPTIMIZER CONTEXT REPLAY COMMITS.
Oleksandr Byelkin
new CC 3.3
Sergei Golubchik
MDEV-40541 role vs user@localhost acl_cache key confusion

localhost connections have ip=0, host="localhost".
roles have ip="", host=""
bsrikanth-mariadb
MDEV-40388: sequence.simple fails on replay

The problem is that, when recording is enabled for the query such as,
explain select * from seq_1_to_10;
it recorded the table context having a DDL definition as: -

CREATE TABLE `seq_1_to_10` (
    ->  `seq` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
    ->  PRIMARY KEY (`seq`)
    -> ) ENGINE=SEQUENCE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_uca1400_ai_ci;

Now, when that context is replayed, the DDL statement is executed.
But, we cannot create such a table, and instead it errors out saying
ERROR 1050 (42S01): Table 'seq_1_to_10' already exists.

Solution is to use: -
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS seq_1_to_10 ...;

=====

Also, there is a different way to use sequences as: -
  Create sequence s1;
  Explain select * from s1;

Here, we should be recording the DDL statement, but no need to store the
stats for it. However, we didn't record the DDL statement earlier.
Moreover, sequence's next value should be the same in the replay environment.

Solution here is to record the DDL for such a sequence as
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS s1 ...;
and also set its start value as the recorded environment's previous value using
  SELECT SETVAL(s1, prev_value);
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: allow excluding suites with --suites=!NAME

Extend the --suite[s] option so a suite name prefixed with '!' excludes
that suite instead of adding it. This makes "run everything except X"
easy and lets a config-file suite list be trimmed on the command line.

Semantics:

  --suites=A,B        run suites A and B (as before)
  --suites=!A        run the default set minus A
  --suites=A,B,!B    run A (a '!' name is removed from the positive names)
  [mtr] suites=A,B
    + --suites=!B      run A (command-line exclusion trims the file set)

Rules:

  - If any plain (positive) names are given, they are the base set;
    otherwise the base is the default suite set.
  - Every '!'-prefixed name is then removed from the base.
  - Names accumulate across the [mtr] config file and the command line,
    so a '!' exclusion on the command line applies to the set configured
    in the file (see below).

To make the cross-source case work, --suites now accumulates its values
into @opt_suites instead of a last-wins scalar: the option handler pushes
each comma-separated value, so the [mtr] config file value and the
command-line value are both collected. The positive/negative resolution
then runs once in main(), producing the final suite list.

Exclusion matching ignores the "-<overlay>" suffix used in the default
list (e.g. "rpl-"), so --suites=!rpl removes "rpl-", and slashes are
preserved (--suites=!compat/oracle works).
Sergei Petrunia
Code cleanup in JSON array-of-object reading, add unit tests.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --combination-select to run one combination

Add --combination-select=N (short alias -c) to run only a single
combination from a .combinations file instead of every one.

N is the position of the combination in the file, counting the []
sections in file order:

  1  first combination      -1  last combination
  2  second combination    -2  last but one
  ...                        ...

So --combination-select=-1 runs only the last combination, -c 2 runs
the second one, etc. N must be a non-zero integer; 0, a non-integer, or
a value outside the range of a given file is an error.

The integer format is validated up front in command_line_setup(), so a
bad value is rejected even for tests that have no .combinations file. The
range and the selection itself are applied in combinations_from_file(),
which is the single point through which every .combinations file is read
(both the suite-level "combinations" file and per-test
"<test>.combinations"), so it always follows the [] section order of the
file. When a test draws combinations from more than one file, N selects
within each file.

It is ignored when --combination is given (that already replaces the
.combinations files with command-line combinations).
PranavKTiwari
FIxed failing issues.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: make the debugger terminal configurable

The terminal emulator for interactive debuggers (--gdb, --exec-gdb, ...)
was hard-coded to xterm.  It is now configurable via the --terminal
option or the MTR_TERM environment variable (the option takes
precedence).  The template understands two placeholders, {title} (window
title) and {command} (the debugger invocation, expanded as separate argv
words); the default "xterm -title {title} -e {command}" reproduces the
previous behaviour.

My::Debugger::term_argv() expands the template into an argv list for the
mysqld/client/boot debuggers; the same template drives the --exec-<dbg>
shell-string wrapper, where {command} must be last.

For example, debug the bootstrap server for main.1st under gdb in a
KDE Konsole window:

  mtr --boot-gdb --terminal='konsole -p tabtitle={title} -e {command}' main.1st
PranavKTiwari
fixed
bsrikanth-mariadb
MDEV-40388: sequence.simple fails on replay

The problem is that, when recording is enabled for the query such as,
explain select * from seq_1_to_10;
it recorded the table context having a DDL definition as: -

CREATE TABLE `seq_1_to_10` (
    ->  `seq` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
    ->  PRIMARY KEY (`seq`)
    -> ) ENGINE=SEQUENCE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_uca1400_ai_ci;

Now, when that context is replayed, the DDL statement is executed.
But, we cannot create such a table, and instead it errors out saying
ERROR 1050 (42S01): Table 'seq_1_to_10' already exists.

Solution is to use: -
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS seq_1_to_10 ...;

=====

Also, there is a different way to use sequences as: -
  Create sequence s1;
  Explain select * from s1;

Here, we should be recording the DDL statement, but no need to store the
stats for it. However, we didn't record the DDL statement earlier.
Moreover, sequence's next value should be the same in the replay environment.

Solution here is to record the DDL for such a sequence as
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS s1 ...;
and also set its start value as the recorded environment's previous value using
  SELECT SETVAL(s1, prev_value);
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR conf: options from .cnf file

MTR options are read from standard MariaDB conf file from [mtr]
section. Command-line options take precedence over configuration file.

There are two variants of config file location:

1. Default behaviour to look for global, server and user configs as
  described in

  https://mariadb.com/kb/en/configuring-mariadb-with-option-files/

2. Custom config location specified by MTR_CONFIG environment
  variable. None of other config files are read in this case.

If there is wrong setting in configuration file MTR fails and displays
the error message. It is clear from the error message from what source
the wrong option comes: config file or command-line. The config file
name and the line number is not printed which is the subject for
further improvement.

Implementation reuses the in-tree My::Config parser instead of adding a
third-party module. A new load_defaults() in mariadb-test-run.pl parses
the config files with My::Config and merges the [mtr] options into the
@ARGV array for further validation in Getopt::Long:

- Config options are merged into the beginning of the array so that
  command-line options take precedence. They are separated from the
  command-line options by ---end-of-config--- which is used as a marker
  for the source of failed options after Getopt::Long;

- a value-less [mtr] option that actually requires a value would let
  Getopt::Long swallow that marker (or the following option) as its
  value; this is detected and reported instead of failing obscurely, and
  the invalid-option message prints the bare option name;

- Global, server and user config files are searched; only the first
  existing among the global and server locations is used, then the
  user's ~/.my.cnf. A config file can also be specified explicitly via
  MTR_CONFIG, in which case no other file is read;

- Argument-less options are passed as is (My::Config::Option::option()
  renders them without a value);

- My::Config already honours !include; it was extended to also support
  !includedir, to skip whitespace-only lines and to ignore any other
  unknown ! directive instead of failing. A line beginning with '#' is
  treated as a comment, as in any my.cnf, not as an option named '#...'.
  (An earlier version of this patch was based on the CPAN MySQL::Config
  module, which ignored all ! directives.)
Oleksandr Byelkin
New CC 3.4
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: fix --server-arg typo in embedded-server comments

Two comments in the embedded-server setup said "--sever-arg=" instead of
"--server-arg=" (the surrounding code uses the correct spelling). Comment
only; no behavior change. The typo is pre-existing (upstream), so it is
fixed here as a separate commit rather than folded into upstream history.
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --strip-backtrace and the --strip-log alias

On a crash the server writes its own stack backtrace (my_print_stacktrace)
to the error log, which MTR echoes in the crash report. When a core file
is available the gdb/lldb backtrace from My::CoreDump is more useful, so
this server-side report is often just noise.

Add --strip-backtrace (off by default). When given, it is dropped from
the "Server log from this test" excerpt by strip_backtrace(). The
gdb/lldb backtrace from a core file is a separate thing and is not
affected.

strip_backtrace() treats the backtrace as a bounded block rather than
matching lines everywhere, so a line outside a backtrace that merely ends
in an [0x...] address is kept:

  - a "Thread pointer:" or "Attempting backtrace" line starts a block;
  - inside a block every recognisable backtrace line is dropped: the
    intro prose, the thread pointer, blank lines, a "stack_bottom" or
    "Stack range" header, frame lines (both "...[0x...]" symbol frames
    and the bare "0x..." addresses printed by the frame-pointer walker)
    and the interleaved addr2line / my_addr_resolve diagnostics;
  - the first line that is not recognisable backtrace content ends the
    block and is kept, so pass-through resumes and a later backtrace (or
    the rest of the log) survives.

Because anything unrecognised ends the block rather than being dropped, a
backtrace with no "stack_bottom" line and no bracketed frames - as the
frame-pointer-walker and aborted-backtrace builds produce - does not
swallow the remainder of the log.

Also add --strip-log, a convenience alias that turns on all three of
--strip-hints, --strip-limits and --strip-backtrace at once.

All stripping runs before the --head-log/--tail-log trimming, so those
line counts apply to the already-stripped log.
forkfun
Merge branch '13.0' into 'main'
forkfun
Merge branch '13.0' into 'main'

check_grant_db(), mysqld_show_create_db(), get_schema_privileges_for_show(),
get_check_constraints_record(), and check_grant()'s any_combination_will_do
path (via get_all_tables()) still treated GRANT OPTION alone as a real
privilege, reintroduced by the MDEV-14443 DENY statement refactor. Same
fix as the original MDEV-37951 patch: exclude GRANT_ACL from the group
mask before testing "has any privilege".
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR: add --list-combinations to list a test's combinations

Add --list-combinations (alias --lc) which, for the specified test(s),
prints the available combinations in the selectable "test,combination"
form and exits without running anything.

For each collected test it prints a summary line followed by one line
per combination, e.g.:

  $ mtr --list-combinations versioning.foreign
  Combinations for versioning.foreign: timestamp,trx_id
  versioning.foreign,timestamp
  versioning.foreign,trx_id

Each printed line is exactly what you pass back to mtr to run that one
combination (it round-trips). When a test draws combinations from more
than one .combinations file (several dimensions), the lines list the
full product, e.g. "test,dim1_value,dim2_value".
Aleksey Midenkov
MDEV-30281 MTR conf: add --mtr-config-only (-M)

--mtr-config-only (-M) makes --defaults-file / --defaults-extra-file be
read for MTR's own [mtr] options only, without also being applied as the
server config template.

Normally those two options serve two consumers of the same file: the
[mtr] group configures MTR itself (load_defaults), while the remaining
groups - [mysqld]/[client]/... - become the test servers' config template
(collect_option). -M opts out of the second use: once load_defaults has
read [mtr], it removes --defaults-file / --defaults-extra-file from @ARGV,
so the main GetOptions/collect_option never turns them into a template.

The switch may be given on the command line, or set inside the [mtr]
section of the config file itself. In the latter case load_defaults
notices mtr-config-only while reading [mtr] and drops the file options on
the fly, so

    [mtr]
    mtr-config-only

turns any file passed via --defaults-file into an MTR-only config.

get_defaults_options() consumes -M out of @ARGV like the other MTR-only
defaults options; it is a directive, not passed through to GetOptions.

-M is only relevant for a command-line --defaults-file /
--defaults-extra-file (the dual-use options). The MTR_CONFIG /
MTR_CONFIG_EXTRA environment variables are read only for [mtr] and never
reach collect_option, so they are mtr-config-only already and -M is a no-op
for them.
bsrikanth-mariadb
MDEV-40388: sequence.simple fails on replay

The problem is that, when recording is enabled for the query such as,
explain select * from seq_1_to_10;
it recorded the table context having a DDL definition as: -

CREATE TABLE `seq_1_to_10` (
    ->  `seq` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
    ->  PRIMARY KEY (`seq`)
    -> ) ENGINE=SEQUENCE DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_uca1400_ai_ci;

Now, when that context is replayed, the DDL statement is executed.
But, we cannot create such a table, and instead it errors out saying
ERROR 1050 (42S01): Table 'seq_1_to_10' already exists.

Solution is to use: -
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS seq_1_to_10 ...;

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Also, there is a different way to use sequences as: -
  Create sequence s1;
  Explain select * from s1;

Here, we should be recording the DDL statement, but no need to store the
stats for it. However, we didn't record the DDL statement earlier.
Moreover, sequence's next value should be the same in the replay environment.

Solution here is to record the DDL for such a sequence as
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS s1 ...;
and also set its start value as the recorded environment's previous value using
  SELECT SETVAL(s1, prev_value);