The document presents a comprehensive overview of transaction management in databases, focusing on recovery methods such as Write Ahead Logging (WAL) and Shadow Paging, as well as the ARIES recovery algorithm. It details how these methods handle concurrency, recovery efficiency, and maintenance of data integrity in the event of crashes. The ARIES methodology encompasses three recovery phases: analysis, redo, and undo, which systematically restore the database to a consistent state after failures.
Introduction
Transaction managementis one of the most important functionalities provided by a
DBMS
Two most important aspects of Transaction Management are
Concurrency Control
Recovery
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Background & Impact
Roadmap towards ARIES
In mid-80’s IBM’s focus is on building a brand new relational DBMS with extensibility
By that time DB2/MVS RDBMS used WAL (write ahead logging) for recovery
SQL/DS used shadow paging for recovery
But researches were unable to producing a recovery method that supported fine-
granularity. They used page as the smallest granularity of locking
The original ARIES work, which was done in the mid-80s and publicly documented in
a research report form in 1989
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Write Ahead Logging(WAL)
The Atomic Rule: The log entry for an insert, update or delete must be written to disk
before the change is made to the DB
The Durability Rule: All log entries for a transaction must be written to disk before the
commit record is written to disk
In WAL Systems updated page is written back to the same disk location from which it was
read.
Each log record is assigned, a unique log sequence number (LSN) at the time the record
is written to the log
The LSN of the log record corresponding to the latest update to the page is placed in a
field in the page header
Ex: All Log Record [prevLSN, TaID, type]
Ex: Update Log Record [PrevLSN, TaID, “update”, pageID, redo info, undo info]
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Shadow Paging
Firsttime a (logical) page is modified after a checkpoint and new physical page is
associated with it on disk.
Later the page (the current version) is written to disk and it is written to the new
location
The old physical page (the shadow version) associated with the (logical) page is not
discarded until the next checkpoint
Restart recovery occurs from the shadow version of the page
Once all the modified pages in the buffer pool & logs are written to disk , shadow
version is discarded
Disadvantages:
Checkpoints tend to be very expensive and disruptive
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The ARIES Familyof Algorithms
ARIES algorithms support:
High concurrency via fine-granularity locking
Operation logging
Efficient recovery
Flexible storage
Buffer management
ARIES relate to:
Nested transactions
Index management
Hashing
Fast restart recovery
Query processing and concurrency control
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ARIES -Restart Recovery
Recovering will use WAL & the most recent checkpoint
Write-ahead log
The most recent checkpoint
Compensation Log Records
undoNextLSN: the LSN of the next log record that is to be undone
Transaction table
active (not committed) transactions
lastLSNs: the LSN of the most recent log record for this transaction. (analysis)
Used for undo
Dirty page table
dirty (not written to disk) pages
recLSNs: LSN of the first log record that caused this page to become dirty
Used for redo
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ARIES -Restart Recovery
ARIESrecovery involves three passes
Analysis pass:
Determine which transactions to undo
Determine which pages were dirty (disk version not up to date)
at time of crash
RedoLSN: LSN from which redo should start
Redo pass:
Repeats history, redoing all actions from RedoLSN
RecLSN and PageLSNs are used to avoid redoing actions already
reflected on page
Undo pass:
Rolls back all incomplete transactions
Transactions whose abort was complete earlier are not undone
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ARIES -Restart Recovery:3 Passes
Analysis, redo and undo passes
Analysis determines where redo should start
Undo has to go back till start of earliest incomplete
transaction
Last checkpoint
Log
Time
End of Log
Analysis pass
Redo pass
Undo pass
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Analysis Phase: Algorithm
1.Find the most recent begin_checkpoint log record.
2. Initialize transaction & dirty page tables from the ones saved in the most
recent checkpoint.
3. Scan forward the records from begin_checkpoint log record to the end
of the log. For each log record LSN, update trans_tab and
dirty_page_tab as follows:
If we see an end log record for T, remove T from trans_tab.
If we see a log record for T’ not in trans_tab, add T’ in trans_tab. If T’ is
in the trans_tab, then set T’s lastLSN field to LSN.
If we see an update/CLR log record for page P and P is not in the dirty
page table, add P in dirty page table and set its recLSN to LSN.
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Analysis Phase: Example(1)
LSN TransID Type PageID
00 T1000 update P500
10 T2000 update P600
20 T2000 update P500
30 T1000 update P505
40 T2000 commit
System Crash
After system crash,
both table are lost.
No previous
checkpointing,
initialize tables to
empty.
pageID recLSN
Transaction Table Dirty Page
Table
transID lastLSN
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Analysis Phase: Example(6)
LSN TransID Type PageID
00 T1000 update P500
10 T2000 update P600
20 T2000 update P500
30 T1000 update P505
40 T2000 Commit
System Crash
Scanning log 40:
Remove T2000 from
transaction table.
We are done!
The redo point starts at 00.
Why?
P500 is the earliest log that
may not have been written to
disk before crash.
We have restored
transaction table & dirty
page table.
pageID recLSN
P500 00
P600 10
P505 30
transID lastLSN
T1000 30
T2000 10
Transaction Table Dirty Page
Table
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Redo Phase: Algorithm
Scan forward from the redo point (LSN 00).
For each update/CLR-undo log record LSN, perform redo unless one of the
conditions holds:
The affected page is not in the dirty page table
It is not dirty. So no need to redo.
The affected page is in the dirty page table, but recLSN > LSN.
The page’s recLSN (oldest log record causing this page to be dirty) is after
LSN.
pageLSN >= LSN
A later update on this page has been written (pageLSN = the most recent
LSN to update the page on disk).
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Redo Phase: Example(1)
LSN TransID Type PageID
00 T1000 update P500
10 T2000 update P600 (disk)
20 T2000 update P500
30 T1000 update P505
40 T2000 commit
System Crash
Scan forward from the redo
point (LSN 00).
Assume that P600 has been
written to disk.
But it can still be in the dirty
page table.
Scanning 00:
P500 is in the dirty page
table.
00(recLSN) = 00 (LSN)
-10 (pageLSN) < 00 (LSN)
Redo 00
Scanning 10:
pageID recLSN
P500 00
P600 10
P505 30
transID lastLSN
T1000 30
Transaction Table Dirty Page
Table
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Undo Phase: Algorithm
It scans backward in time from the end of the log.
It needs to undo all actions from active (not committed) transactions.
They are also called loser transactions.
Same as aborting them.
Analysis phase gives the set of loser transactions, called ToUndo set.
Repeatedly choose the record with the largest LSN value in this set and
processes it, until ToUndo is empty.
If it is a CLR and undoNextLSN value is not null, use undoNextLSN value in
ToUndo. If undoNextLSN is null, this transaction is completely undo.
If it is an update record, a CLR is written and restore the data record value
to before-image. Use prevLSN value in ToUndo.
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Undo Phase: Example(1)
LSN TransID Type PageID
00 T1000 update P500
10 T2000 update P600 (disk)
20 T2000 update P500
30 T1000 update P505
40 T2000 commit
System Crash
The only loser transaction is
T1000.
ToUndo set is {T1000:30}
pageID recLSN
P500 00
P600 10
P505 30
transID lastLSN
T1000 30
Transaction Table Dirty Page
Table
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Undo Phase: Example(2)
The only loser transaction is T1000.
ToUndo set is {T1000:30}
Undoing LSN:30
Write CLR:undo record log.
ToUndo becomes {T1000:00}
Undoing LSN:00
Write CLR:undo record log.
ToUndo becomes null.
We are done.
LSN TransID Type PageID
00 T1000 update P500
10 T2000 update P600 (disk)
20 T2000 update P500
30 T1000 update P505
40 T2000 commit
System Crash
50 T1000 CLR:undo:30 P505
60 T1000 CLR:undo:00 P500
undoNextLSN
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Crashes During Restart(1)
After T1 aborts, undo actions from T1.
Undo LSN #10: write CLR:undo record
log for LSN #10.
Dirty pages:
P1 (recLSN=50)
P3(20)
P5(10).
Loser transaction:
T2(lastLSN=60)
T3(50)
Redo phases starts at 10.
Undo LSN #60.
LSN LOG
00, 05 begin_checkpoint,
end_checkpoint
10 Update: T1 write P5
20 Update: T2 writes P3
30 T1 aborts
40, 45 CLR: Undo T1 LSN 10, T1 end
50 Update: T3 writes P1
60 Update: T2 writes P5
CRASH, RESTART
70 CLR: Undo T2 LSN 60
80, 85 CLR: Undo T3 LSN 50, T3 end
CRASH, RESTART
90,95 CLR: Undo T2 LSN 20, T2 end
undoNextLSN
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Crashes During Restart(2)
Undo LSN #50: write CLR: undo record
log.
T3 is completely undone.
LSN #85,80,70 are written to stable
storage.
Crash occurs after restart.
Loser transaction is T2.
Read LSN #70, set ToUndo to #20.
Undo #20: write another CLR.
Done
LSN LOG
00, 05 begin_checkpoint,
end_checkpoint
10 Update: T1 write P5
20 Update: T2 writes P3
30 T1 aborts
40, 45 CLR: Undo T1 LSN 10, T1 end
50 Update: T3 writes P1
60 Update: T2 writes P5
CRASH, RESTART
70 CLR: Undo T2 LSN 60
80, 85 CLR: Undo T3 LSN 50, T3 end
CRASH, RESTART
90,95 CLR: Undo T2 LSN 20, T2 end
undoNextLSN
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