I noticed in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8575 that the `end_error` variable in `synapse_port_db` is set to an `Exception`, even though later we expect it to be a `str`.
This PR simply casts an exception raised to a string. I'm doing this instead of having `end_error` be of type exception as we explicitly set `end_error` to a str here:
d25eb8f370/scripts/synapse_port_db (L542-L547)
This whole file could probably use some heavy refactoring, but until then at least this fix will prevent exception contents from being hidden from us and users.
* Add `DeferredCache.get_immediate` method
A bunch of things that are currently calling `DeferredCache.get` are only
really interested in the result if it's completed. We can optimise and simplify
this case.
* Remove unused 'default' parameter to DeferredCache.get()
* another get_immediate instance
* type annotations for LruCache
* changelog
* Apply suggestions from code review
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This implements a more standard API for instantiating a homeserver and
moves some of the dependency injection into the test suite.
More concretely this stops using `setattr` on all `kwargs` passed to `HomeServer`.
This PR makes several changes to the `./scripts-dev/lint.sh` script, which lints the codebase with a number of tools:
* Adds usage information, with `-h` flag to show it. Otherwise it will show when providing an unknown flag.
* Adds option `-d` which will check both staged and unstaged files that have changed since the last commit and add them to the list of files to lint.
- Note that only files without an extension, or with a `.py` extension will be allowed. This prevents editing bash scripts causing the linters to break on non-python files.
* Improves the print-out of which files/directories are being linted.
We asserted that the IDs returned by postgres sequence was greater than
any we had seen, however this is technically racey as we may update the
current positions out of order.
We now assert that the sequences are correct on startup, so the
assertion is no longer really required, so we remove them.
Autocommit means that we don't wrap the functions in transactions, and instead get executed directly. Introduced in #8456. This will help:
1. reduce the number of `could not serialize access due to concurrent delete` errors that we see (though there are a few functions that often cause serialization errors that we don't fix here);
2. improve the DB performance, as it no longer needs to deal with the overhead of `REPEATABLE READ` isolation levels; and
3. improve wall clock speed of these functions, as we no longer need to send `BEGIN` and `COMMIT` to the DB.
Some notes about the differences between autocommit mode and our default `REPEATABLE READ` transactions:
1. Currently `autocommit` only applies when using PostgreSQL, and is ignored when using SQLite (due to silliness with [Twisted DB classes](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/9998)).
2. Autocommit functions may get retried on error, which means they can get applied *twice* (or more) to the DB (since they are not in a transaction the previous call would not get rolled back). This means that the functions need to be idempotent (or otherwise not care about being called multiple times). Read queries, simple deletes, and updates/upserts that replace rows (rather than generating new values from existing rows) are all idempotent.
3. Autocommit functions no longer get executed in [`REPEATABLE READ`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html) isolation level, and so data can change queries, which is fine for single statement queries.
