Example #1
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// Send forwards the call to the single store. This is a poor man's
// version of kv.TxnCoordSender, but it serves the purposes of
// supporting tests in this package. Transactions are not supported.
// Since kv/ depends on storage/, we can't get access to a
// TxnCoordSender from here.
// TODO(tschottdorf): {kv->storage}.LocalSender
func (db *testSender) Send(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest) (*roachpb.BatchResponse, *roachpb.Error) {
	if et, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); ok {
		return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("%s method not supported", et.Method()))
	}
	// Lookup range and direct request.
	key, endKey := keys.Range(ba)
	rng := db.store.LookupReplica(key, endKey)
	if rng == nil {
		return nil, roachpb.NewError(roachpb.NewRangeKeyMismatchError(key, endKey, nil))
	}
	ba.RangeID = rng.Desc().RangeID
	replica := rng.GetReplica()
	if replica == nil {
		return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("own replica missing in range"))
	}
	ba.Replica = *replica
	br, pErr := db.store.Send(ctx, ba)
	if br != nil && br.Error != nil {
		panic(roachpb.ErrorUnexpectedlySet(db.store, br))
	}
	if pErr != nil {
		return nil, pErr
	}
	return br, nil
}
Example #2
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// updateState updates the transaction state in both the success and
// error cases, applying those updates to the corresponding txnMeta
// object when adequate. It also updates certain errors with the
// updated transaction for use by client restarts.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) updateState(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest, br *roachpb.BatchResponse, pErr *roachpb.Error) *roachpb.Error {
	trace := tracer.FromCtx(ctx)
	newTxn := &roachpb.Transaction{}
	newTxn.Update(ba.GetTxn())
	// TODO(tamird): remove this clone. It's currently needed to avoid race conditions.
	pErr = proto.Clone(pErr).(*roachpb.Error)
	err := pErr.GoError()
	// TODO(bdarnell): We're writing to errors here (and where using ErrorWithIndex);
	// since there's no concept of ownership copy-on-write is always preferable.
	switch t := err.(type) {
	case nil:
		newTxn.Update(br.Txn)
		// Move txn timestamp forward to response timestamp if applicable.
		// TODO(tschottdorf): see (*Replica).executeBatch and comments within.
		// Looks like this isn't necessary any more, nor did it prevent a bug
		// referenced in a TODO there.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(br.Timestamp)
	case *roachpb.TransactionStatusError:
		// Likely already committed or more obscure errors such as epoch or
		// timestamp regressions; consider txn dead.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(trace, t.Txn)
	case *roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError:
		panic("OpRequiresTxnError must not happen at this level")
	case *roachpb.ReadWithinUncertaintyIntervalError:
		// Mark the host as certain. See the protobuf comment for
		// Transaction.CertainNodes for details.
		if t.NodeID == 0 {
			panic("no replica set in header on uncertainty restart")
		}
		newTxn.Update(&t.Txn)
		newTxn.CertainNodes.Add(t.NodeID)
		// If the reader encountered a newer write within the uncertainty
		// interval, move the timestamp forward, just past that write or
		// up to MaxTimestamp, whichever comes first.
		candidateTS := newTxn.MaxTimestamp
		candidateTS.Backward(t.ExistingTimestamp.Add(0, 1))
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(candidateTS)
		newTxn.Restart(ba.GetUserPriority(), newTxn.Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
		t.Txn = *newTxn
	case *roachpb.TransactionAbortedError:
		trace.SetError()
		newTxn.Update(&t.Txn)
		// Increase timestamp if applicable.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.Txn.Timestamp)
		newTxn.Priority = t.Txn.Priority
		t.Txn = *newTxn
		// Clean up the freshly aborted transaction in defer(), avoiding a
		// race with the state update below.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(trace, t.Txn)
	case *roachpb.TransactionPushError:
		newTxn.Update(t.Txn)
		// Increase timestamp if applicable, ensuring that we're
		// just ahead of the pushee.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.PusheeTxn.Timestamp.Add(0, 1))
		newTxn.Restart(ba.GetUserPriority(), t.PusheeTxn.Priority-1, newTxn.Timestamp)
		t.Txn = newTxn
	case *roachpb.TransactionRetryError:
		newTxn.Update(&t.Txn)
		newTxn.Restart(ba.GetUserPriority(), t.Txn.Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
		t.Txn = *newTxn
	case roachpb.TransactionRestartError:
		// Assertion: The above cases should exhaust all ErrorDetails which
		// carry a Transaction.
		if pErr.Detail != nil {
			panic(fmt.Sprintf("unhandled TransactionRestartError %T", err))
		}
	default:
		trace.SetError()
	}

	return func() *roachpb.Error {
		if len(newTxn.ID) <= 0 {
			return pErr
		}
		id := string(newTxn.ID)
		tc.Lock()
		defer tc.Unlock()
		txnMeta := tc.txns[id]
		// For successful transactional requests, keep the written intents and
		// the updated transaction record to be sent along with the reply.
		// The transaction metadata is created with the first writing operation.
		// A tricky edge case is that of a transaction which "fails" on the
		// first writing request, but actually manages to write some intents
		// (for example, due to being multi-range). In this case, there will
		// be an error, but the transaction will be marked as Writing and the
		// coordinator must track the state, for the client's retry will be
		// performed with a Writing transaction which the coordinator rejects
		// unless it is tracking it (on top of it making sense to track it;
		// after all, it **has** laid down intents and only the coordinator
		// can augment a potential EndTransaction call).
		// consider re-using those.
		if intents := ba.GetIntents(); len(intents) > 0 && (err == nil || newTxn.Writing) {
			if txnMeta == nil {
				if !newTxn.Writing {
					panic("txn with intents marked as non-writing")
				}
				txnMeta = &txnMetadata{
					txn:              *newTxn,
					keys:             cache.NewIntervalCache(cache.Config{Policy: cache.CacheNone}),
					firstUpdateNanos: tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					lastUpdateNanos:  tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					timeoutDuration:  tc.clientTimeout,
					txnEnd:           make(chan struct{}),
				}
				tc.txns[id] = txnMeta
				// If the transaction is already over, there's no point in
				// launching a one-off coordinator which will shut down right
				// away. If we ended up here with an error, we'll always start
				// the coordinator - the transaction has laid down intents, so
				// we expect it to be committed/aborted at some point in the
				// future.
				if _, isEnding := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); err != nil || !isEnding {
					trace.Event("coordinator spawns")
					if !tc.stopper.RunAsyncTask(func() {
						tc.heartbeatLoop(id)
					}) {
						// The system is already draining and we can't start the
						// heartbeat. We refuse new transactions for now because
						// they're likely not going to have all intents committed.
						// In principle, we can relax this as needed though.
						tc.unregisterTxnLocked(id)
						return roachpb.NewError(&roachpb.NodeUnavailableError{})
					}
				}
			}
			for _, intent := range intents {
				txnMeta.addKeyRange(intent.Key, intent.EndKey)
			}
		}
		// Update our record of this transaction, even on error.
		if txnMeta != nil {
			txnMeta.txn = *newTxn
			if !txnMeta.txn.Writing {
				panic("tracking a non-writing txn")
			}
			txnMeta.setLastUpdate(tc.clock.PhysicalNow())
		}
		if err == nil {
			// For successful transactional requests, always send the updated txn
			// record back.
			br.Txn = newTxn
		}
		return pErr
	}()
}
Example #3
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// Send implements the batch.Sender interface. If the request is part of a
// transaction, the TxnCoordSender adds the transaction to a map of active
// transactions and begins heartbeating it. Every subsequent request for the
// same transaction updates the lastUpdate timestamp to prevent live
// transactions from being considered abandoned and garbage collected.
// Read/write mutating requests have their key or key range added to the
// transaction's interval tree of key ranges for eventual cleanup via resolved
// write intents; they're tagged to an outgoing EndTransaction request, with
// the receiving replica in charge of resolving them.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) Send(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest) (*roachpb.BatchResponse, *roachpb.Error) {
	if err := tc.maybeBeginTxn(&ba); err != nil {
		return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
	}
	ba.CmdID = ba.GetOrCreateCmdID(tc.clock.PhysicalNow())
	var startNS int64

	// This is the earliest point at which the request has a ClientCmdID and/or
	// TxnID (if applicable). Begin a Trace which follows this request.
	trace := tc.tracer.NewTrace(tracer.Coord, &ba)
	defer trace.Finalize()
	defer trace.Epoch("sending batch")()
	ctx = tracer.ToCtx(ctx, trace)

	var id string // optional transaction ID
	if ba.Txn != nil {
		// If this request is part of a transaction...
		id = string(ba.Txn.ID)
		// Verify that if this Transaction is not read-only, we have it on
		// file. If not, refuse writes - the client must have issued a write on
		// another coordinator previously.
		if ba.Txn.Writing && ba.IsTransactionWrite() {
			tc.Lock()
			_, ok := tc.txns[id]
			tc.Unlock()
			if !ok {
				return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("transaction must not write on multiple coordinators"))
			}
		}

		// Set the timestamp to the original timestamp for read-only
		// commands and to the transaction timestamp for read/write
		// commands.
		if ba.IsReadOnly() {
			ba.Timestamp = ba.Txn.OrigTimestamp
		} else {
			ba.Timestamp = ba.Txn.Timestamp
		}

		if rArgs, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); ok {
			et := rArgs.(*roachpb.EndTransactionRequest)
			if len(et.Key) != 0 {
				return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("EndTransaction must not have a Key set"))
			}
			et.Key = ba.Txn.Key
			// Remember when EndTransaction started in case we want to
			// be linearizable.
			startNS = tc.clock.PhysicalNow()
			if len(et.Intents) > 0 {
				// TODO(tschottdorf): it may be useful to allow this later.
				// That would be part of a possible plan to allow txns which
				// write on multiple coordinators.
				return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("client must not pass intents to EndTransaction"))
			}
			tc.Lock()
			txnMeta, metaOK := tc.txns[id]
			if id != "" && metaOK {
				et.Intents = txnMeta.intents()
			}
			tc.Unlock()

			if intents := ba.GetIntents(); len(intents) > 0 {
				// Writes in Batch, so EndTransaction is fine. Should add
				// outstanding intents to EndTransaction, though.
				// TODO(tschottdorf): possible issues when the batch fails,
				// but the intents have been added anyways.
				// TODO(tschottdorf): some of these intents may be covered
				// by others, for example {[a,b), a}). This can lead to
				// some extra requests when those are non-local to the txn
				// record. But it doesn't seem worth optimizing now.
				et.Intents = append(et.Intents, intents...)
			} else if !metaOK {
				// If we don't have the transaction, then this must be a retry
				// by the client. We can no longer reconstruct a correct
				// request so we must fail.
				//
				// TODO(bdarnell): if we had a GetTransactionStatus API then
				// we could lookup the transaction and return either nil or
				// TransactionAbortedError instead of this ambivalent error.
				return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("transaction is already committed or aborted"))
			}
			if len(et.Intents) == 0 {
				// If there aren't any intents, then there's factually no
				// transaction to end. Read-only txns have all of their state in
				// the client.
				return nil, roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("cannot commit a read-only transaction"))
			}
			if log.V(1) {
				for _, intent := range et.Intents {
					trace.Event(fmt.Sprintf("intent: [%s,%s)", intent.Key, intent.EndKey))
				}
			}
		}
	}

	// Send the command through wrapped sender, taking appropriate measures
	// on error.
	var br *roachpb.BatchResponse
	{
		var pErr *roachpb.Error
		br, pErr = tc.wrapped.Send(ctx, ba)

		if _, ok := pErr.GoError().(*roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError); ok {
			br, pErr = tc.resendWithTxn(ba)
		}

		if pErr := tc.updateState(ctx, ba, br, pErr); pErr != nil {
			return nil, pErr
		}
	}

	if br.Txn == nil {
		return br, nil
	}

	if _, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); !ok {
		return br, nil
	}
	// If the --linearizable flag is set, we want to make sure that
	// all the clocks in the system are past the commit timestamp
	// of the transaction. This is guaranteed if either
	// - the commit timestamp is MaxOffset behind startNS
	// - MaxOffset ns were spent in this function
	// when returning to the client. Below we choose the option
	// that involves less waiting, which is likely the first one
	// unless a transaction commits with an odd timestamp.
	if tsNS := br.Txn.Timestamp.WallTime; startNS > tsNS {
		startNS = tsNS
	}
	sleepNS := tc.clock.MaxOffset() -
		time.Duration(tc.clock.PhysicalNow()-startNS)
	if tc.linearizable && sleepNS > 0 {
		defer func() {
			if log.V(1) {
				log.Infof("%v: waiting %s on EndTransaction for linearizability", br.Txn.Short(), util.TruncateDuration(sleepNS, time.Millisecond))
			}
			time.Sleep(sleepNS)
		}()
	}
	if br.Txn.Status != roachpb.PENDING {
		tc.cleanupTxn(trace, *br.Txn)
	}
	return br, nil
}
// updateState updates the transaction state in both the success and
// error cases, applying those updates to the corresponding txnMeta
// object when adequate. It also updates certain errors with the
// updated transaction for use by client restarts.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) updateState(
	startNS int64, ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest,
	br *roachpb.BatchResponse, pErr *roachpb.Error) *roachpb.Error {
	newTxn := &roachpb.Transaction{}
	newTxn.Update(ba.Txn)
	if pErr == nil {
		newTxn.Update(br.Txn)
	} else {
		newTxn.Update(pErr.GetTxn())
	}

	switch t := pErr.GetDetail().(type) {
	case *roachpb.TransactionStatusError:
		// Likely already committed or more obscure errors such as epoch or
		// timestamp regressions; consider txn dead.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(ctx, *pErr.GetTxn())
	case *roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError:
		panic("OpRequiresTxnError must not happen at this level")
	case *roachpb.ReadWithinUncertaintyIntervalError:
		// If the reader encountered a newer write within the uncertainty
		// interval, we advance the txn's timestamp just past the last observed
		// timestamp from the node.
		restartTS, ok := newTxn.GetObservedTimestamp(pErr.OriginNode)
		if !ok {
			pErr = roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("no observed timestamp for node %d found on uncertainty restart", pErr.OriginNode))
		} else {
			newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(restartTS)
			newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, newTxn.Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
		}
	case *roachpb.TransactionAbortedError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(pErr.GetTxn().Timestamp)
		newTxn.Priority = pErr.GetTxn().Priority
		// Clean up the freshly aborted transaction in defer(), avoiding a
		// race with the state update below.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(ctx, *newTxn)
	case *roachpb.TransactionPushError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable, ensuring that we're
		// just ahead of the pushee.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.PusheeTxn.Timestamp)
		newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, t.PusheeTxn.Priority-1, newTxn.Timestamp)
	case *roachpb.TransactionRetryError:
		// Increase timestamp so on restart, we're ahead of any timestamp
		// cache entries or newer versions which caused the restart.
		newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, pErr.GetTxn().Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
	case *roachpb.WriteTooOldError:
		newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, newTxn.Priority, t.ActualTimestamp)
	case nil:
		// Nothing to do here, avoid the default case.
	default:
		if pErr.GetTxn() != nil {
			if pErr.CanRetry() {
				panic("Retryable internal error must not happen at this level")
			} else {
				// Do not clean up the transaction here since the client might still
				// want to continue the transaction. For example, a client might
				// continue its transaction after receiving ConditionFailedError, which
				// can come from a unique index violation.
			}
		}
	}

	if pErr != nil && pErr.GetTxn() != nil {
		// Avoid changing existing errors because sometimes they escape into
		// goroutines and then there are races. Fairly sure there isn't one
		// here, but better safe than sorry.
		pErrShallow := *pErr
		pErrShallow.SetTxn(newTxn)
		pErr = &pErrShallow
	}

	if newTxn.ID == nil {
		return pErr
	}
	txnID := *newTxn.ID
	tc.Lock()
	defer tc.Unlock()
	txnMeta := tc.txns[txnID]
	// For successful transactional requests, keep the written intents and
	// the updated transaction record to be sent along with the reply.
	// The transaction metadata is created with the first writing operation.
	// A tricky edge case is that of a transaction which "fails" on the
	// first writing request, but actually manages to write some intents
	// (for example, due to being multi-range). In this case, there will
	// be an error, but the transaction will be marked as Writing and the
	// coordinator must track the state, for the client's retry will be
	// performed with a Writing transaction which the coordinator rejects
	// unless it is tracking it (on top of it making sense to track it;
	// after all, it **has** laid down intents and only the coordinator
	// can augment a potential EndTransaction call). See #3303.
	var intentGroup interval.RangeGroup
	if txnMeta != nil {
		intentGroup = txnMeta.keys
	} else if pErr == nil || newTxn.Writing {
		intentGroup = interval.NewRangeTree()
	}
	if intentGroup != nil {
		// Adding the intents even on error reduces the likelihood of dangling
		// intents blocking concurrent writers for extended periods of time.
		// See #3346.
		ba.IntentSpanIterate(func(key, endKey roachpb.Key) {
			addKeyRange(intentGroup, key, endKey)
		})

		if txnMeta == nil && intentGroup.Len() > 0 {
			if !newTxn.Writing {
				panic("txn with intents marked as non-writing")
			}
			// If the transaction is already over, there's no point in
			// launching a one-off coordinator which will shut down right
			// away. If we ended up here with an error, we'll always start
			// the coordinator - the transaction has laid down intents, so
			// we expect it to be committed/aborted at some point in the
			// future.
			if _, isEnding := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); pErr != nil || !isEnding {
				log.Trace(ctx, "coordinator spawns")
				txnMeta = &txnMetadata{
					txn:              *newTxn,
					keys:             intentGroup,
					firstUpdateNanos: startNS,
					lastUpdateNanos:  tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					timeoutDuration:  tc.clientTimeout,
					txnEnd:           make(chan struct{}),
				}
				tc.txns[txnID] = txnMeta

				if !tc.stopper.RunAsyncTask(func() {
					tc.heartbeatLoop(ctx, txnID)
				}) {
					// The system is already draining and we can't start the
					// heartbeat. We refuse new transactions for now because
					// they're likely not going to have all intents committed.
					// In principle, we can relax this as needed though.
					tc.unregisterTxnLocked(txnID)
					return roachpb.NewError(&roachpb.NodeUnavailableError{})
				}
			} else {
				// If this was a successful one phase commit, update stats
				// directly as they won't otherwise be updated on heartbeat
				// loop shutdown.
				etArgs, ok := br.Responses[len(br.Responses)-1].GetInner().(*roachpb.EndTransactionResponse)
				tc.updateStats(tc.clock.PhysicalNow()-startNS, 0, newTxn.Status, ok && etArgs.OnePhaseCommit)
			}
		}
	}

	// Update our record of this transaction, even on error.
	if txnMeta != nil {
		txnMeta.txn = *newTxn
		if !txnMeta.txn.Writing {
			panic("tracking a non-writing txn")
		}
		txnMeta.setLastUpdate(tc.clock.PhysicalNow())
	}
	if pErr == nil {
		// For successful transactional requests, always send the updated txn
		// record back.
		br.Txn = newTxn
	}
	return pErr
}
// Send implements the batch.Sender interface. If the request is part of a
// transaction, the TxnCoordSender adds the transaction to a map of active
// transactions and begins heartbeating it. Every subsequent request for the
// same transaction updates the lastUpdate timestamp to prevent live
// transactions from being considered abandoned and garbage collected.
// Read/write mutating requests have their key or key range added to the
// transaction's interval tree of key ranges for eventual cleanup via resolved
// write intents; they're tagged to an outgoing EndTransaction request, with
// the receiving replica in charge of resolving them.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) Send(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest) (*roachpb.BatchResponse, *roachpb.Error) {
	{
		// Start new or pick up active trace and embed its trace metadata into
		// header for use by RPC recipients. From here on, there's always an active
		// Trace, though its overhead is small unless it's sampled.
		sp := opentracing.SpanFromContext(ctx)
		if sp == nil {
			sp = tc.tracer.StartSpan(opTxnCoordSender)
			defer sp.Finish()
			ctx = opentracing.ContextWithSpan(ctx, sp)
		}
		// TODO(tschottdorf): To get rid of the spurious alloc below we need to
		// implement the carrier interface on ba.Header or make Span non-nullable,
		// both of which force all of ba on the Heap. It's already there, so may
		// not be a big deal, but ba should live on the stack. Also not easy to use
		// a buffer pool here since anything that goes into the RPC layer could be
		// used by goroutines we didn't wait for.
		if ba.Header.Trace == nil {
			ba.Header.Trace = &tracing.Span{}
		}
		if err := tc.tracer.Inject(sp, basictracer.Delegator, ba.Trace); err != nil {
			return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
		}
	}

	startNS := tc.clock.PhysicalNow()

	if ba.Txn != nil {
		// If this request is part of a transaction...
		if err := tc.maybeBeginTxn(&ba); err != nil {
			return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
		}
		txnID := *ba.Txn.ID
		// Verify that if this Transaction is not read-only, we have it on file.
		// If not, refuse further operations - the transaction was aborted due
		// to a timeout or the client must have issued a write on another
		// coordinator previously.
		if ba.Txn.Writing {
			tc.Lock()
			_, ok := tc.txns[txnID]
			tc.Unlock()
			if !ok {
				pErr := roachpb.NewErrorf("writing transaction timed out, was aborted, " +
					"or ran on multiple coordinators")
				return nil, pErr
			}
		}

		if rArgs, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); ok {
			et := rArgs.(*roachpb.EndTransactionRequest)
			if len(et.Key) != 0 {
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("EndTransaction must not have a Key set")
			}
			et.Key = ba.Txn.Key
			if len(et.IntentSpans) > 0 {
				// TODO(tschottdorf): it may be useful to allow this later.
				// That would be part of a possible plan to allow txns which
				// write on multiple coordinators.
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("client must not pass intents to EndTransaction")
			}
			tc.Lock()
			txnMeta, metaOK := tc.txns[txnID]
			{
				// Populate et.IntentSpans, taking into account both existing
				// writes (if any) and new writes in this batch, and taking
				// care to perform proper deduplication.
				var keys interval.RangeGroup
				if metaOK {
					keys = txnMeta.keys
				} else {
					keys = interval.NewRangeTree()
				}
				ba.IntentSpanIterate(func(key, endKey roachpb.Key) {
					addKeyRange(keys, key, endKey)
				})
				et.IntentSpans = collectIntentSpans(keys)
			}
			tc.Unlock()

			if len(et.IntentSpans) > 0 {
				// All good, proceed.
			} else if !metaOK {
				// If we don't have the transaction, then this must be a retry
				// by the client. We can no longer reconstruct a correct
				// request so we must fail.
				//
				// TODO(bdarnell): if we had a GetTransactionStatus API then
				// we could lookup the transaction and return either nil or
				// TransactionAbortedError instead of this ambivalent error.
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("transaction is already committed or aborted")
			}
			if len(et.IntentSpans) == 0 {
				// If there aren't any intents, then there's factually no
				// transaction to end. Read-only txns have all of their state in
				// the client.
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("cannot commit a read-only transaction")
			}
			if log.V(1) {
				for _, intent := range et.IntentSpans {
					log.Trace(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("intent: [%s,%s)", intent.Key, intent.EndKey))
				}
			}
		}
	}

	// Send the command through wrapped sender, taking appropriate measures
	// on error.
	var br *roachpb.BatchResponse
	{
		var pErr *roachpb.Error
		br, pErr = tc.wrapped.Send(ctx, ba)

		if _, ok := pErr.GetDetail().(*roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError); ok {
			// TODO(tschottdorf): needs to keep the trace.
			br, pErr = tc.resendWithTxn(ba)
		}

		if pErr = tc.updateState(startNS, ctx, ba, br, pErr); pErr != nil {
			log.Trace(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("error: %s", pErr))
			return nil, pErr
		}
	}

	if br.Txn == nil {
		return br, nil
	}

	if _, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); !ok {
		return br, nil
	}
	// If the --linearizable flag is set, we want to make sure that
	// all the clocks in the system are past the commit timestamp
	// of the transaction. This is guaranteed if either
	// - the commit timestamp is MaxOffset behind startNS
	// - MaxOffset ns were spent in this function
	// when returning to the client. Below we choose the option
	// that involves less waiting, which is likely the first one
	// unless a transaction commits with an odd timestamp.
	if tsNS := br.Txn.Timestamp.WallTime; startNS > tsNS {
		startNS = tsNS
	}
	sleepNS := tc.clock.MaxOffset() -
		time.Duration(tc.clock.PhysicalNow()-startNS)
	if tc.linearizable && sleepNS > 0 {
		defer func() {
			if log.V(1) {
				log.Infof("%v: waiting %s on EndTransaction for linearizability", br.Txn.ID.Short(), util.TruncateDuration(sleepNS, time.Millisecond))
			}
			time.Sleep(sleepNS)
		}()
	}
	if br.Txn.Status != roachpb.PENDING {
		tc.cleanupTxn(ctx, *br.Txn)
	}
	return br, nil
}
Example #6
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// Send implements the batch.Sender interface. If the request is part of a
// transaction, the TxnCoordSender adds the transaction to a map of active
// transactions and begins heartbeating it. Every subsequent request for the
// same transaction updates the lastUpdate timestamp to prevent live
// transactions from being considered abandoned and garbage collected.
// Read/write mutating requests have their key or key range added to the
// transaction's interval tree of key ranges for eventual cleanup via resolved
// write intents; they're tagged to an outgoing EndTransaction request, with
// the receiving replica in charge of resolving them.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) Send(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest) (*roachpb.BatchResponse, *roachpb.Error) {
	{
		// Start new or pick up active trace and embed its trace metadata into
		// header for use by RPC recipients. From here on, there's always an active
		// Trace, though its overhead is small unless it's sampled.
		sp := opentracing.SpanFromContext(ctx)
		// TODO(radu): once contexts are plumbed correctly, we should use the Tracer
		// from ctx.
		tracer := tracing.TracerFromCtx(tc.ctx)
		if sp == nil {
			sp = tracer.StartSpan(opTxnCoordSender)
			defer sp.Finish()
			ctx = opentracing.ContextWithSpan(ctx, sp)
		}
		// TODO(tschottdorf): To get rid of the spurious alloc below we need to
		// implement the carrier interface on ba.Header or make Span non-nullable,
		// both of which force all of ba on the Heap. It's already there, so may
		// not be a big deal, but ba should live on the stack. Also not easy to use
		// a buffer pool here since anything that goes into the RPC layer could be
		// used by goroutines we didn't wait for.
		if ba.Header.Trace == nil {
			ba.Header.Trace = &tracing.Span{}
		} else {
			// We didn't make this object but are about to mutate it, so we
			// have to take a copy - the original might already have been
			// passed to the RPC layer.
			ba.Header.Trace = protoutil.Clone(ba.Header.Trace).(*tracing.Span)
		}
		if err := tracer.Inject(sp.Context(), basictracer.Delegator, ba.Trace); err != nil {
			return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
		}
	}

	startNS := tc.clock.PhysicalNow()

	if ba.Txn != nil {
		// If this request is part of a transaction...
		if err := tc.maybeBeginTxn(&ba); err != nil {
			return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
		}
		var et *roachpb.EndTransactionRequest
		var hasET bool
		{
			var rArgs roachpb.Request
			rArgs, hasET = ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction)
			if hasET {
				et = rArgs.(*roachpb.EndTransactionRequest)
				if len(et.Key) != 0 {
					return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("EndTransaction must not have a Key set")
				}
				et.Key = ba.Txn.Key
				if len(et.IntentSpans) > 0 {
					// TODO(tschottdorf): it may be useful to allow this later.
					// That would be part of a possible plan to allow txns which
					// write on multiple coordinators.
					return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("client must not pass intents to EndTransaction")
				}
			}
		}

		if pErr := func() *roachpb.Error {
			tc.Lock()
			defer tc.Unlock()
			if pErr := tc.maybeRejectClientLocked(ctx, *ba.Txn); pErr != nil {
				return pErr
			}

			if !hasET {
				return nil
			}
			// Everything below is carried out only when trying to commit.

			// Populate et.IntentSpans, taking into account both any existing
			// and new writes, and taking care to perform proper deduplication.
			txnMeta := tc.txns[*ba.Txn.ID]
			distinctSpans := true
			if txnMeta != nil {
				et.IntentSpans = txnMeta.keys
				// Defensively set distinctSpans to false if we had any previous
				// requests in this transaction. This effectively limits the distinct
				// spans optimization to 1pc transactions.
				distinctSpans = len(txnMeta.keys) == 0
			}
			ba.IntentSpanIterate(func(key, endKey roachpb.Key) {
				et.IntentSpans = append(et.IntentSpans, roachpb.Span{
					Key:    key,
					EndKey: endKey,
				})
			})
			// TODO(peter): Populate DistinctSpans on all batches, not just batches
			// which contain an EndTransactionRequest.
			var distinct bool
			// The request might already be used by an outgoing goroutine, so
			// we can't safely mutate anything in-place (as MergeSpans does).
			et.IntentSpans = append([]roachpb.Span(nil), et.IntentSpans...)
			et.IntentSpans, distinct = roachpb.MergeSpans(et.IntentSpans)
			ba.Header.DistinctSpans = distinct && distinctSpans
			if len(et.IntentSpans) == 0 {
				// If there aren't any intents, then there's factually no
				// transaction to end. Read-only txns have all of their state
				// in the client.
				return roachpb.NewErrorf("cannot commit a read-only transaction")
			}
			if txnMeta != nil {
				txnMeta.keys = et.IntentSpans
			}
			return nil
		}(); pErr != nil {
			return nil, pErr
		}

		if hasET && log.V(1) {
			for _, intent := range et.IntentSpans {
				log.Tracef(ctx, "intent: [%s,%s)", intent.Key, intent.EndKey)
			}
		}
	}

	// Send the command through wrapped sender, taking appropriate measures
	// on error.
	var br *roachpb.BatchResponse
	{
		var pErr *roachpb.Error
		br, pErr = tc.wrapped.Send(ctx, ba)

		if _, ok := pErr.GetDetail().(*roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError); ok {
			// TODO(tschottdorf): needs to keep the trace.
			br, pErr = tc.resendWithTxn(ba)
		}

		if pErr = tc.updateState(startNS, ctx, ba, br, pErr); pErr != nil {
			log.Tracef(ctx, "error: %s", pErr)
			return nil, pErr
		}
	}

	if br.Txn == nil {
		return br, nil
	}

	if _, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); !ok {
		return br, nil
	}
	// If the --linearizable flag is set, we want to make sure that
	// all the clocks in the system are past the commit timestamp
	// of the transaction. This is guaranteed if either
	// - the commit timestamp is MaxOffset behind startNS
	// - MaxOffset ns were spent in this function
	// when returning to the client. Below we choose the option
	// that involves less waiting, which is likely the first one
	// unless a transaction commits with an odd timestamp.
	if tsNS := br.Txn.Timestamp.WallTime; startNS > tsNS {
		startNS = tsNS
	}
	sleepNS := tc.clock.MaxOffset() -
		time.Duration(tc.clock.PhysicalNow()-startNS)
	if tc.linearizable && sleepNS > 0 {
		defer func() {
			if log.V(1) {
				log.Infof(ctx, "%v: waiting %s on EndTransaction for linearizability", br.Txn.ID.Short(), util.TruncateDuration(sleepNS, time.Millisecond))
			}
			time.Sleep(sleepNS)
		}()
	}
	if br.Txn.Status != roachpb.PENDING {
		tc.Lock()
		tc.cleanupTxnLocked(ctx, *br.Txn)
		tc.Unlock()
	}
	return br, nil
}
Example #7
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// updateState updates the transaction state in both the success and
// error cases, applying those updates to the corresponding txnMeta
// object when adequate. It also updates certain errors with the
// updated transaction for use by client restarts.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) updateState(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest, br *roachpb.BatchResponse, pErr *roachpb.Error) *roachpb.Error {
	trace := tracer.FromCtx(ctx)
	newTxn := &roachpb.Transaction{}
	newTxn.Update(ba.GetTxn())
	err := pErr.GoError()
	switch t := err.(type) {
	case nil:
		newTxn.Update(br.GetTxn())
		// Move txn timestamp forward to response timestamp if applicable.
		// TODO(tschottdorf): see (*Replica).executeBatch and comments within.
		// Looks like this isn't necessary any more, nor did it prevent a bug
		// referenced in a TODO there.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(br.Timestamp)
	case *roachpb.TransactionStatusError:
		// Likely already committed or more obscure errors such as epoch or
		// timestamp regressions; consider txn dead.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(trace, t.Txn)
	case *roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError:
		// TODO(tschottdorf): range-spanning autowrap currently broken.
		panic("TODO(tschottdorf): disabled")
	case *roachpb.ReadWithinUncertaintyIntervalError:
		// Mark the host as certain. See the protobuf comment for
		// Transaction.CertainNodes for details.
		if t.NodeID == 0 {
			panic("no replica set in header on uncertainty restart")
		}
		newTxn.CertainNodes.Add(t.NodeID)
		// If the reader encountered a newer write within the uncertainty
		// interval, move the timestamp forward, just past that write or
		// up to MaxTimestamp, whichever comes first.
		candidateTS := newTxn.MaxTimestamp
		candidateTS.Backward(t.ExistingTimestamp.Add(0, 1))
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(candidateTS)
		newTxn.Restart(ba.GetUserPriority(), newTxn.Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
		t.Txn = *newTxn
	case *roachpb.TransactionAbortedError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.Txn.Timestamp)
		newTxn.Priority = t.Txn.Priority
		t.Txn = *newTxn
		// Clean up the freshly aborted transaction in defer(), avoiding a
		// race with the state update below.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(trace, t.Txn)
	case *roachpb.TransactionPushError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable, ensuring that we're
		// just ahead of the pushee.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.PusheeTxn.Timestamp.Add(0, 1))
		newTxn.Restart(ba.GetUserPriority(), t.PusheeTxn.Priority-1, newTxn.Timestamp)
		t.Txn = newTxn
	case *roachpb.TransactionRetryError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.Txn.Timestamp)
		newTxn.Restart(ba.GetUserPriority(), t.Txn.Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
		t.Txn = *newTxn
	case roachpb.TransactionRestartError:
		// Assertion: The above cases should exhaust all ErrorDetails which
		// carry a Transaction.
		if pErr.Detail != nil {
			panic(fmt.Sprintf("unhandled TransactionRestartError %T", err))
		}
	}

	return func() *roachpb.Error {
		if len(newTxn.ID) <= 0 {
			return pErr
		}
		id := string(newTxn.ID)
		tc.Lock()
		defer tc.Unlock()
		txnMeta := tc.txns[id]
		// For successful transactional requests, keep the written intents and
		// the updated transaction record to be sent along with the reply.
		// The transaction metadata is created with the first writing operation
		// TODO(tschottdorf): already computed the intents prior to sending,
		// consider re-using those.
		if intents := ba.GetIntents(); len(intents) > 0 && err == nil {
			if txnMeta == nil {
				newTxn.Writing = true
				txnMeta = &txnMetadata{
					txn:              *newTxn,
					keys:             cache.NewIntervalCache(cache.Config{Policy: cache.CacheNone}),
					firstUpdateNanos: tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					lastUpdateNanos:  tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					timeoutDuration:  tc.clientTimeout,
					txnEnd:           make(chan struct{}),
				}
				tc.txns[id] = txnMeta
				// If the transaction is already over, there's no point in
				// launching a one-off coordinator which will shut down right
				// away.
				if _, isEnding := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); !isEnding {
					trace.Event("coordinator spawns")
					if !tc.stopper.RunAsyncTask(func() {
						tc.heartbeatLoop(id)
					}) {
						// The system is already draining and we can't start the
						// heartbeat. We refuse new transactions for now because
						// they're likely not going to have all intents committed.
						// In principle, we can relax this as needed though.
						tc.unregisterTxnLocked(id)
						return roachpb.NewError(&roachpb.NodeUnavailableError{})
					}
				}
			}
			for _, intent := range intents {
				txnMeta.addKeyRange(intent.Key, intent.EndKey)
			}
		}
		// Update our record of this transaction, even on error.
		if txnMeta != nil {
			txnMeta.txn.Update(newTxn) // better to replace after #2300
			if !txnMeta.txn.Writing {
				panic("tracking a non-writing txn")
			}
			txnMeta.setLastUpdate(tc.clock.PhysicalNow())
		}
		if err == nil {
			// For successful transactional requests, always send the updated txn
			// record back.
			if br.Txn == nil {
				br.Txn = &roachpb.Transaction{}
			}
			*br.Txn = *newTxn
		}
		return pErr
	}()
}
Example #8
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// updateState updates the transaction state in both the success and
// error cases, applying those updates to the corresponding txnMeta
// object when adequate. It also updates certain errors with the
// updated transaction for use by client restarts.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) updateState(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest, br *roachpb.BatchResponse, pErr *roachpb.Error) *roachpb.Error {
	sp, cleanupSp := tracing.SpanFromContext(opTxnCoordSender, tc.tracer, ctx)
	defer cleanupSp()

	newTxn := &roachpb.Transaction{}
	newTxn.Update(ba.Txn)
	if pErr == nil {
		newTxn.Update(br.Txn)
	} else {
		newTxn.Update(pErr.GetTxn())
	}

	// If the request was successful but we're in a transaction which needs to
	// restart but doesn't know it yet, let it restart now (as opposed to
	// waiting until EndTransaction).
	if pErr == nil && newTxn.Isolation == roachpb.SERIALIZABLE &&
		!newTxn.OrigTimestamp.Equal(newTxn.Timestamp) {
		pErr = roachpb.NewErrorWithTxn(roachpb.NewTransactionRetryError(), br.Txn)
		br = nil
	}

	switch t := pErr.GetDetail().(type) {
	case nil:
		// Move txn timestamp forward to response timestamp if applicable.
		// TODO(tschottdorf): see (*Replica).executeBatch and comments within.
		// Looks like this isn't necessary any more, nor did it prevent a bug
		// referenced in a TODO there.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(br.Timestamp)
	case *roachpb.TransactionStatusError:
		// Likely already committed or more obscure errors such as epoch or
		// timestamp regressions; consider txn dead.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(sp, *pErr.GetTxn())
	case *roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError:
		panic("OpRequiresTxnError must not happen at this level")
	case *roachpb.ReadWithinUncertaintyIntervalError:
		// If the reader encountered a newer write within the uncertainty
		// interval, we advance the txn's timestamp just past the last observed
		// timestamp from the node.
		restartTS, ok := newTxn.GetObservedTimestamp(pErr.OriginNode)
		if !ok {
			pErr = roachpb.NewError(util.Errorf("no observed timestamp for node %d found on uncertainty restart", pErr.OriginNode))
		} else {
			newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(restartTS)
			newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, newTxn.Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
		}
	case *roachpb.TransactionAbortedError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(pErr.GetTxn().Timestamp)
		newTxn.Priority = pErr.GetTxn().Priority
		// Clean up the freshly aborted transaction in defer(), avoiding a
		// race with the state update below.
		defer tc.cleanupTxn(sp, *newTxn)
	case *roachpb.TransactionPushError:
		// Increase timestamp if applicable, ensuring that we're
		// just ahead of the pushee.
		newTxn.Timestamp.Forward(t.PusheeTxn.Timestamp.Add(0, 1))
		newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, t.PusheeTxn.Priority-1, newTxn.Timestamp)
	case *roachpb.TransactionRetryError:
		newTxn.Restart(ba.UserPriority, pErr.GetTxn().Priority, newTxn.Timestamp)
	default:
		if pErr.GetTxn() != nil {
			if pErr.CanRetry() {
				panic("Retryable internal error must not happen at this level")
			} else {
				// Do not clean up the transaction here since the client might still
				// want to continue the transaction. For example, a client might
				// continue its transaction after receiving ConditionFailedError, which
				// can come from a unique index violation.
			}
		}
	}

	if pErr != nil && pErr.GetTxn() != nil {
		// Avoid changing existing errors because sometimes they escape into
		// goroutines and then there are races. Fairly sure there isn't one
		// here, but better safe than sorry.
		pErrShallow := *pErr
		pErrShallow.SetTxn(newTxn)
		pErr = &pErrShallow
	}

	if newTxn.ID == nil {
		return pErr
	}
	txnID := *newTxn.ID
	tc.Lock()
	defer tc.Unlock()
	txnMeta := tc.txns[txnID]
	// For successful transactional requests, keep the written intents and
	// the updated transaction record to be sent along with the reply.
	// The transaction metadata is created with the first writing operation.
	// A tricky edge case is that of a transaction which "fails" on the
	// first writing request, but actually manages to write some intents
	// (for example, due to being multi-range). In this case, there will
	// be an error, but the transaction will be marked as Writing and the
	// coordinator must track the state, for the client's retry will be
	// performed with a Writing transaction which the coordinator rejects
	// unless it is tracking it (on top of it making sense to track it;
	// after all, it **has** laid down intents and only the coordinator
	// can augment a potential EndTransaction call). See #3303.
	intents := ba.GetIntentSpans()
	if len(intents) > 0 && (pErr == nil || newTxn.Writing) {
		if txnMeta == nil {
			if !newTxn.Writing {
				panic("txn with intents marked as non-writing")
			}
			// If the transaction is already over, there's no point in
			// launching a one-off coordinator which will shut down right
			// away. If we ended up here with an error, we'll always start
			// the coordinator - the transaction has laid down intents, so
			// we expect it to be committed/aborted at some point in the
			// future.
			if _, isEnding := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); pErr != nil || !isEnding {
				sp.LogEvent("coordinator spawns")
				txnMeta = &txnMetadata{
					txn:              *newTxn,
					keys:             cache.NewIntervalCache(cache.Config{Policy: cache.CacheNone}),
					firstUpdateNanos: tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					lastUpdateNanos:  tc.clock.PhysicalNow(),
					timeoutDuration:  tc.clientTimeout,
					txnEnd:           make(chan struct{}),
				}
				tc.txns[txnID] = txnMeta

				if !tc.stopper.RunAsyncTask(func() {
					tc.heartbeatLoop(txnID)
				}) {
					// The system is already draining and we can't start the
					// heartbeat. We refuse new transactions for now because
					// they're likely not going to have all intents committed.
					// In principle, we can relax this as needed though.
					tc.unregisterTxnLocked(txnID)
					return roachpb.NewError(&roachpb.NodeUnavailableError{})
				}
			}
		}
	}
	// Update our record of this transaction, even on error.
	if txnMeta != nil {
		txnMeta.txn = *newTxn
		if !txnMeta.txn.Writing {
			panic("tracking a non-writing txn")
		}
		txnMeta.setLastUpdate(tc.clock.PhysicalNow())
		// Adding the intents even on error reduces the likelihood of dangling
		// intents blocking concurrent writers for extended periods of time.
		// See #3346.
		for _, intent := range intents {
			txnMeta.addKeyRange(intent.Key, intent.EndKey)
		}
	}
	if pErr == nil {
		// For successful transactional requests, always send the updated txn
		// record back.
		br.Txn = newTxn
	}
	return pErr
}
Example #9
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// Send implements the batch.Sender interface. If the request is part of a
// transaction, the TxnCoordSender adds the transaction to a map of active
// transactions and begins heartbeating it. Every subsequent request for the
// same transaction updates the lastUpdate timestamp to prevent live
// transactions from being considered abandoned and garbage collected.
// Read/write mutating requests have their key or key range added to the
// transaction's interval tree of key ranges for eventual cleanup via resolved
// write intents; they're tagged to an outgoing EndTransaction request, with
// the receiving replica in charge of resolving them.
func (tc *TxnCoordSender) Send(ctx context.Context, ba roachpb.BatchRequest) (*roachpb.BatchResponse, *roachpb.Error) {
	// Start new or pick up active trace and embed its trace metadata into
	// header for use by RPC recipients. From here on, there's always an active
	// Trace, though its overhead is small unless it's sampled.
	sp, cleanupSp := tracing.SpanFromContext(opTxnCoordSender, tc.tracer, ctx)
	defer cleanupSp()
	// TODO(tschottdorf): To get rid of the spurious alloc below we need to
	// implement the carrier interface on ba.Header or make Span non-nullable,
	// both of which force all of ba on the Heap. It's already there, so may
	// not be a big deal, but ba should live on the stack. Also not easy to use
	// a buffer pool here since anything that goes into the RPC layer could be
	// used by goroutines we didn't wait for.
	if ba.Header.Trace == nil {
		ba.Header.Trace = &tracing.Span{}
	}
	if err := tc.tracer.Inject(sp, basictracer.Delegator, ba.Trace); err != nil {
		return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
	}

	if err := tc.maybeBeginTxn(&ba); err != nil {
		return nil, roachpb.NewError(err)
	}
	var startNS int64
	ba.SetNewRequest()

	// This is the earliest point at which the request has an ID (if
	// applicable). Begin a Trace which follows this request.
	ctx = opentracing.ContextWithSpan(ctx, sp)

	if ba.Txn != nil {
		// If this request is part of a transaction...
		txnID := *ba.Txn.ID
		// Verify that if this Transaction is not read-only, we have it on
		// file. If not, refuse writes - the client must have issued a write on
		// another coordinator previously.
		if ba.Txn.Writing && ba.IsTransactionWrite() {
			tc.Lock()
			_, ok := tc.txns[txnID]
			tc.Unlock()
			if !ok {
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("transaction must not write on multiple coordinators")
			}
		}

		// Set the timestamp to the original timestamp for read-only
		// commands and to the transaction timestamp for read/write
		// commands.
		if ba.IsReadOnly() {
			ba.Timestamp = ba.Txn.OrigTimestamp
		} else {
			ba.Timestamp = ba.Txn.Timestamp
		}

		if rArgs, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); ok {
			et := rArgs.(*roachpb.EndTransactionRequest)
			if len(et.Key) != 0 {
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("EndTransaction must not have a Key set")
			}
			et.Key = ba.Txn.Key
			// Remember when EndTransaction started in case we want to
			// be linearizable.
			startNS = tc.clock.PhysicalNow()
			if len(et.IntentSpans) > 0 {
				// TODO(tschottdorf): it may be useful to allow this later.
				// That would be part of a possible plan to allow txns which
				// write on multiple coordinators.
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("client must not pass intents to EndTransaction")
			}
			tc.Lock()
			txnMeta, metaOK := tc.txns[txnID]
			if metaOK {
				et.IntentSpans = txnMeta.intentSpans()
			}
			tc.Unlock()

			if intentSpans := ba.GetIntentSpans(); len(intentSpans) > 0 {
				// Writes in Batch, so EndTransaction is fine. Should add
				// outstanding intents to EndTransaction, though.
				// TODO(tschottdorf): possible issues when the batch fails,
				// but the intents have been added anyways.
				// TODO(tschottdorf): some of these intents may be covered
				// by others, for example {[a,b), a}). This can lead to
				// some extra requests when those are non-local to the txn
				// record. But it doesn't seem worth optimizing now.
				et.IntentSpans = append(et.IntentSpans, intentSpans...)
			} else if !metaOK {
				// If we don't have the transaction, then this must be a retry
				// by the client. We can no longer reconstruct a correct
				// request so we must fail.
				//
				// TODO(bdarnell): if we had a GetTransactionStatus API then
				// we could lookup the transaction and return either nil or
				// TransactionAbortedError instead of this ambivalent error.
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("transaction is already committed or aborted")
			}
			if len(et.IntentSpans) == 0 {
				// If there aren't any intents, then there's factually no
				// transaction to end. Read-only txns have all of their state in
				// the client.
				return nil, roachpb.NewErrorf("cannot commit a read-only transaction")
			}
			if log.V(1) {
				for _, intent := range et.IntentSpans {
					sp.LogEvent(fmt.Sprintf("intent: [%s,%s)", intent.Key, intent.EndKey))
				}
			}
		}
	}

	// Send the command through wrapped sender, taking appropriate measures
	// on error.
	var br *roachpb.BatchResponse
	{
		var pErr *roachpb.Error
		br, pErr = tc.wrapped.Send(ctx, ba)

		if _, ok := pErr.GetDetail().(*roachpb.OpRequiresTxnError); ok {
			// TODO(tschottdorf): needs to keep the trace.
			br, pErr = tc.resendWithTxn(ba)
		}

		if pErr = tc.updateState(ctx, ba, br, pErr); pErr != nil {
			sp.LogEvent(fmt.Sprintf("error: %s", pErr))
			return nil, pErr
		}
	}

	if br.Txn == nil {
		return br, nil
	}

	if _, ok := ba.GetArg(roachpb.EndTransaction); !ok {
		return br, nil
	}
	// If the --linearizable flag is set, we want to make sure that
	// all the clocks in the system are past the commit timestamp
	// of the transaction. This is guaranteed if either
	// - the commit timestamp is MaxOffset behind startNS
	// - MaxOffset ns were spent in this function
	// when returning to the client. Below we choose the option
	// that involves less waiting, which is likely the first one
	// unless a transaction commits with an odd timestamp.
	if tsNS := br.Txn.Timestamp.WallTime; startNS > tsNS {
		startNS = tsNS
	}
	sleepNS := tc.clock.MaxOffset() -
		time.Duration(tc.clock.PhysicalNow()-startNS)
	if tc.linearizable && sleepNS > 0 {
		defer func() {
			if log.V(1) {
				log.Infof("%v: waiting %s on EndTransaction for linearizability", br.Txn.Short(), util.TruncateDuration(sleepNS, time.Millisecond))
			}
			time.Sleep(sleepNS)
		}()
	}
	if br.Txn.Status != roachpb.PENDING {
		tc.cleanupTxn(sp, *br.Txn)
	}
	return br, nil
}