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    Make new masters inherit replication offsets. · 4456ee11
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    Currently replication offsets could be used into a limited way in order
    to understand, out of a set of slaves, what is the one with the most
    updated data. For example this comparison is possible of N slaves
    were replicating all with the same master.
    
    However the replication offset was not transferred from master to slaves
    (that are later promoted as masters) in any way, so for instance if
    there were three instances A, B, C, with A master and B and C
    replication from A, the following could happen:
    
    C disconnects from A.
    B is turned into master.
    A is switched to master of B.
    B receives some write.
    
    In this context there was no way to compare the offset of A and C,
    because B would use its own local master replication offset as
    replication offset to initialize the replication with A.
    
    With this commit what happens is that when B is turned into master it
    inherits the replication offset from A, making A and C comparable.
    In the above case assuming no inconsistencies are created during the
    disconnection and failover process, A will show to have a replication
    offset greater than C.
    
    Note that this does not mean offsets are always comparable to understand
    what is, in a set of instances, since in more complex examples the
    replica with the higher replication offset could be partitioned away
    when picking the instance to elect as new master. However this in
    general improves the ability of a system to try to pick a good replica
    to promote to master.
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