MDEV-14916 InnoDB reports warning for "Purge reached the head of the history list"
The warning was originally added in commit c6766305 (MySQL 4.1.12, 5.0.3) to trace claimed undo log corruption that was analyzed in https://lists.mysql.com/mysql/176250 on November 9, 2004. Originally, the limit was 20,000 undo log headers or transactions, but in commit 9d6d1902 in MySQL 5.5.11 it was increased to 2,000,000. The message can be triggered when the progress of purge is prevented by a long-running transaction (or just an idle transaction whose read view was started a long time ago), by running many transactions that UPDATE or DELETE some records, then starting another transaction with a read view, and finally by executing more than 2,000,000 transactions that UPDATE or DELETE records in InnoDB tables. Finally, when the oldest long-running transaction is completed, purge would run up to the next-oldest transaction, and there would still be more than 2,000,000 transactions to purge. Because the message can be triggered when the database is obviously not corrupted, it should be removed. Heavy users of InnoDB should be monitoring the "History list length" in SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS; there is no need to spam the error log.
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