Table GC: disable binary logging on best effort basis #7588
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Description
By way of optimization, our table lifecycle mechanism only purges rows on the primary tablet. It does so by disabling binary logging. Here's the explanation that is in the code:
With this PR, we disable binary logging on best-effort basis. Here's the explanation that is in the PR's code:
And so, running on e.g. Amazon Aurora, the lifecycle mechanism will not disable binary logging (it will try, but fail to, and silently proceed), and purge rows with binlogs enabled. Performance loss, but logic is sound.
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