proxy: return an error on COM_PING during graceful shutdown (#1226)

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This is an automated cherry-pick of #1226

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #1224

Problem Summary:

Applications and connection pools (e.g. Keycloak) use COM_PING to decide whether a pooled connection is still usable. TiDB replies to COM_PING with an error once it starts a graceful shutdown, so clients can drain their pools. TiProxy forwarded the ping to the backend and returned OK, so clients kept using connections to an instance that was about to go away.

What is changed and how it works:

TiProxy now answers COM_PING the same way TiDB does. For reference, pkg/server/conn.go in TiDB:

case mysql.ComPing:
	if cc.server.health.Load() {
		return cc.writeOK(ctx)
	}
	return servererr.ErrServerShutdown

• SQLServer gets a shuttingDown flag, set at the very beginning of PreClose(). TiDB sets its health flag before sleeping for graceful-wait-before-shutdown, so TiProxy does the same — the ping must already report the drain during that window, which is exactly when the load balancer is taking the instance offline.
• The flag is passed to each connection through the new BCConfig.ShuttingDown closure, and BackendConnManager.ExecuteCmd() answers COM_PING itself instead of forwarding it to the backend.
• The reply is ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN (1053, SQLSTATE 08S01, "Server shutdown in progress"), identical to TiDB. As in TiDB, the connection is not closed: a MySQL error is returned to the client and the connection keeps serving until the existing graceful-close logic tears it down.

ShuttingDown is nil for the traffic replay path, so replayed pings are unaffected.

Check List

Tests

• Unit test
• Integration test
• Manual test (add detailed scripts or steps below)
• No code

TestPingDuringShutdown checks that the ping is forwarded to the backend while serving, and that once shutting down TiProxy replies with 1053/08S01 without sending anything to the backend, keeps the connection alive, and still forwards other commands.

TestShuttingDownBeforeGracefulWait checks that the flag is set at the start of PreClose, not after graceful-wait-before-shutdown.

Notable changes

• Has configuration change
• Has HTTP API interfaces change
• Has tiproxyctl change
• Other user behavior changes

Release note

TiProxy now returns an error for `COM_PING` during graceful shutdown, the same as TiDB, so that clients and connection pools can detect that the instance is draining.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added graceful-shutdown signaling for client connections.
  • During shutdown, connection health checks receive a MySQL server-shutdown error instead of being forwarded to the backend.
  • Existing connections remain open, and other commands continue to be handled normally.

• Bug Fixes

  • Shutdown status is now reported as soon as graceful shutdown begins, including while the server is waiting for active requests to finish.
  • Improved connection behavior ensures shutdown errors are returned consistently without prematurely closing connections.

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Walkthrough

The proxy now records graceful shutdown state and returns ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN for COM_PING during shutdown. Backend connections receive the shutdown callback. Tests validate PING handling and early shutdown-state visibility. Merge-conflict remnants are removed.

Changes

Graceful shutdown PING handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backend PING interception and error response pkg/proxy/backend/backend_conn_mgr.go, pkg/proxy/backend/backend_conn_mgr_test.go	ExecuteCmd intercepts COM_PING during shutdown and writes a MySQL ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN error without closing the connection. Tests cover normal forwarding, shutdown errors, and later command forwarding.
Proxy shutdown state and backend wiring pkg/proxy/proxy.go, pkg/proxy/proxy_test.go	SQLServer stores shutdown state with atomic.Bool. PreClose sets the state before the graceful-wait period. onConn passes the shutdown callback to backend connections. Tests verify early state visibility. Merge-conflict remnants are removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant SQLServer
  participant BackendConnMgr
  participant Backend
  SQLServer->>SQLServer: Set shuttingDown during PreClose
  Client->>BackendConnMgr: COM_PING
  BackendConnMgr->>SQLServer: Load shutdown state
  alt Server is serving
    BackendConnMgr->>Backend: Forward COM_PING
    Backend-->>Client: PING response
  else Server is shutting down
    BackendConnMgr-->>Client: ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN error
  end

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 89e7f

The shutdown PING behavior preserves connections and subsequent commands, with no merge-blocking risk identified.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: returning an error for COM_PING during graceful shutdown.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the repository template. It includes the issue number, problem summary, implementation details, tests, user behavior changes, and a release note.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1224 requires COM_PING to return an error during graceful shutdown. SQLServer.PreClose() sets shuttingDown before the graceful wait. BackendConnManager.ExecuteCmd() handles COM_PING l…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed shutdown flag, connection wiring, COM_PING handling, conflict resolution, and tests directly implement Issue #1224. No unrelated functional change is established.

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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/proxy/backend/backend_conn_mgr_test.go`:
- Line 852: Update the test around ExecuteCmd to read the client packet into
request first, then call ts.mp.ExecuteCmd with context.Background() and request,
capturing its single error result. Derive cmd from request[0], matching the
pattern used by forwardCmd4Proxy.

In `@pkg/proxy/backend/backend_conn_mgr.go`:
- Around line 91-101: Resolve the merge conflicts across
pkg/proxy/backend/backend_conn_mgr.go lines 91-101 by preserving the release
fields and the ShuttingDown callback; in
pkg/proxy/backend/backend_conn_mgr_test.go lines 789-872, keep countingPacketIO
intact and declare TestPingDuringShutdown separately; in pkg/proxy/proxy.go
lines 198-221, retain the release-compatible constructor and wire it to the
shutdown callback.

In `@pkg/proxy/proxy.go`:
- Around line 213-220: Update the SQLServer constructor and DialContext setup to
remain compatible with release-1.3: remove or backport the unsupported s.dialer,
s.meter, and backendInst.ClusterName() references, preserve the existing
constructor contract, and add ShuttingDown: s.shuttingDown.Load to the resolved
configuration.

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