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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: ref #70255

Problem Summary:

Dumpling column filters currently require --no-schemas/-m, so a filtered export cannot include a restorable table schema matching the projected data columns.

What changed and how does it work?

  • Allow --column-filter and --column-filter-file with schema output.
  • Resolve and cache projected table schemas in a two-phase preflight before creating any output tasks.
  • Keep generated columns only when all direct and transitive dependencies remain in the projected schema.
  • Remove indexes and constraints as a whole when their local columns are removed.
  • Reject a retained foreign key when its referenced target column is removed by another table's projection.
  • Preserve partition and TTL definitions without rewriting them, and reject projection when either references a removed column.
  • Preserve the original DDL when no writable column is removed.

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Tests

  • Unit test
  • Integration test
  • Manual test (add detailed scripts or steps below)
  • No need to test
    • I checked and no code files have been changed.

Manual test details:

  • Started TiDB v8.5.7 with tiup playground v8.5.7 --without-monitor --db 1 --pd 1 --kv 1 --tiflash 0.
  • Exported a CSV table with direct and transitive generated columns, restored the projected DDL into a new database, and verified generated values.
  • Verified partition and TTL definitions are preserved when their dependency columns remain and fail before any output is written when those columns are removed.
  • Verified a cross-table foreign key fails before any output is written when its referenced target column is removed.

Side effects

  • Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
  • Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
  • Breaking backward compatibility

Documentation

  • Affects user behaviors
  • Contains syntax changes
  • Contains variable changes
  • Contains experimental features
  • Changes MySQL compatibility

Release note

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Support exporting projected table schemas when Dumpling column filters are enabled.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Column filters now apply to both exported data and table schemas.
    • Projected schemas preserve required generated columns, indexes, partitions, TTLs, and dependencies.
    • Added validation for invalid column references and incompatible projections.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Column-filter exports no longer require schemas to be disabled.
    • Improved handling and messaging for unsupported view projections.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for projected schemas, generated columns, and related constraints.

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📝 Walkthrough

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Column filters now apply to schema output. Dumpling parses and rewrites CREATE TABLE statements, validates dependencies, and emits projected schemas. Tests cover configuration, AST projection, dump integration, and end-to-end output.

Changes

Column filter schema projection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Enable schema projection with column filters
dumpling/export/config.go, dumpling/export/config_test.go, dumpling/export/sql.go
Column-filter options work with schema output. columnProjection stores selected columns and projected schema metadata.
Rewrite projected CREATE TABLE definitions
dumpling/export/schema_projection.go
The exporter removes unselected columns and incompatible constraints. It validates generated columns, indexes, foreign keys, partitions, TTL definitions, and expressions.
Prepare and emit projected schemas
dumpling/export/dump.go
The dump flow fetches base-table definitions, rejects views, prepares projected SQL, and uses it for table metadata output.
Validate projected schema behavior
dumpling/export/schema_projection_test.go, dumpling/tests/column_filter/run.sh, dumpling/export/BUILD.bazel
Tests verify projection ordering, dependency handling, unchanged schemas, and filtered schema contents. Bazel includes the new source, tests, and parser dependency.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 114d9

Projected-schema exports can skip cross-table foreign-key validation when identifier casing differs, producing DDL that references a removed target column and may fail during restoration. Merge should wait for the lookup to use case-insensitive matching.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DumplingConfig
  participant Exporter
  participant Database
  participant SchemaFile
  DumplingConfig->>Exporter: Configure column filter
  Exporter->>Database: Fetch SHOW CREATE TABLE
  Database-->>Exporter: Return original schema SQL
  Exporter->>Exporter: Project columns and validate dependencies
  Exporter->>SchemaFile: Write projected CREATE TABLE
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Possibly related PRs

  • pingcap/tidb#70196: Both changes modify Dumpling’s column-filter projection flow. This change extends it to projected schema output.

Poem

A rabbit trims the table wide,
Keeps needed fields aligned.
Constraints hop, invalid ones go,
Projected schemas now flow.
Tests guard each burrowed byte.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
dumpling/export/schema_projection_test.go (1)

45-46: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a positive assertion for the retained columns.

Line 45 only asserts that the schema excludes `secret`. A defect that dropped every column would still pass this subtest. Assert that the retained columns are present, so the subtest proves the projection kept them.

♻️ Proposed assertion
 		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.Contains(t, meta.ShowCreateTable(), "`id`")
+		require.Contains(t, meta.ShowCreateTable(), "`name`")
 		require.NotContains(t, meta.ShowCreateTable(), "`secret`")
 		require.NoError(t, mock.ExpectationsWereMet())
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In `@dumpling/export/schema_projection_test.go` around lines 45 - 46, The schema
projection test should verify both exclusion and retention: in the test around
meta.ShowCreateTable(), add positive assertions that the expected retained
columns are present, while keeping the existing assertion that "`secret`" is
absent. Use the column names already defined by the test’s projection input.
dumpling/export/dump.go (1)

528-589: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider extracting the two schema phases into named helpers.

The block adds three nested loops inside prepareColumnProjection, and the function now mixes four concerns: per-table projection build, view rejection, schema resolution, and schema rewrite. The two-phase ordering is correct, because phase 3 reads the schemaColumns that phase 2 writes for every table.

Extracting the phases makes that ordering constraint explicit and reduces nesting:

  • rejectViewsForProjection(conf) error
  • resolveProjectedSchemaColumns(tctx, conf, conn) error
  • rewriteProjectedSchemas(conf) error

A short comment on the phase boundary would also record why the rewrite cannot run in the same loop as the resolution.

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In `@dumpling/export/dump.go` around lines 528 - 589, Refactor
prepareColumnProjection by extracting view validation, schema resolution, and
schema rewriting into named helpers such as rejectViewsForProjection,
resolveProjectedSchemaColumns, and rewriteProjectedSchemas. Preserve the
existing two-phase ordering so rewriteProjectedSchemas runs only after
resolveProjectedSchemaColumns has populated schemaColumns for every table, and
keep the current errors and projection updates intact.
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Inline comments:
In `@dumpling/export/schema_projection.go`:
- Around line 288-291: Normalize projection identity for case-insensitive
matching before the foreign-key target lookup in the schema projection flow.
Update the lookup around the projections map and the existing self-reference
handling to reuse a case-insensitive projection index or equivalent lookup,
ensuring DDL identifiers match entries from conf.Tables and missing targets are
not silently skipped.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@dumpling/export/dump.go`:
- Around line 528-589: Refactor prepareColumnProjection by extracting view
validation, schema resolution, and schema rewriting into named helpers such as
rejectViewsForProjection, resolveProjectedSchemaColumns, and
rewriteProjectedSchemas. Preserve the existing two-phase ordering so
rewriteProjectedSchemas runs only after resolveProjectedSchemaColumns has
populated schemaColumns for every table, and keep the current errors and
projection updates intact.

In `@dumpling/export/schema_projection_test.go`:
- Around line 45-46: The schema projection test should verify both exclusion and
retention: in the test around meta.ShowCreateTable(), add positive assertions
that the expected retained columns are present, while keeping the existing
assertion that "`secret`" is absent. Use the column names already defined by the
test’s projection input.
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