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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6747

What is changed and how it works?

The MySQL sink did not populate the approximate data size of converted UPDATE row changes. As a result, the batching logic treated every row as zero bytes, so positive max-multi-update-row-size values never triggered the fallback to single-row UPDATE statements for TiDB downstreams.

This change calculates each UPDATE’s approximate data size by summing the raw column sizes of both its previous and current row images, then stores the estimate in the SQL row change. The existing batching logic uses these estimates to generate one UPDATE statement per row when the average size is at or above the configured threshold.

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Tests

• Unit test
• Integration test

Questions

Will it cause performance regression or break compatibility?

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Release note

Fixed a bug that caused max-multi-update-row-size to be ignored when batching UPDATE statements for TiDB downstreams.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved how update row sizes are estimated, helping multi-row updates respect configured size limits.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for update batching across payload sizes, database types, and batch settings.

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Walkthrough

Update rows now receive an approximate data size based on their before and after values. A new test checks how row size, configured thresholds, downstream type, and batch-update settings affect generated UPDATE statements.

Changes: MySQL update batch sizing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Estimate update row sizes and verify batching pkg/sink/mysql/mysql_writer_dml_batch.go, pkg/sink/mysql/mysql_writer_dml_test.go	groupRowsByType stores the sum of the raw lengths of each update row’s before and after values. Tests check generated statements and arguments across row sizes, thresholds, downstream types, and batch-update settings.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested labels: release-note, size/L

Suggested reviewers: lidezhu, asddongmen

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f9ec1

The size estimate enables the existing batching threshold. The remaining suggestion strengthens regression coverage and does not block merging after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: honoring max-multi-update-row-size for batched MySQL updates.
Description check		The description includes the required issue reference, problem statement, implementation details, test coverage, and release note. The performance and documentation questions are left unanswered, but …
Linked Issues check		The change implements #6747. In groupRowsByType, each converted UPDATE sets ApproximateDataSize to the sum of raw lengths from both PreRow and Row. Existing batching logic can therefore apply …
Out of Scope Changes check		The pull request changes only the MySQL UPDATE size estimate and adds focused unit coverage for max-multi-update-row-size. Both changes directly support #6747. No unrelated implementation or test ch…

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The description includes the required issue reference, problem statement, implementation details, test coverage, and release note. The performance and documentation questions are left unanswered, but the description is otherwise complete and directly related to the changes.

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Explanation

The change implements #6747. In groupRowsByType, each converted UPDATE sets ApproximateDataSize to the sum of raw lengths from both PreRow and Row. Existing batching logic can therefore apply MaxMultiUpdateRowSize. TestPrepareDMLsMaxMultiUpdateRowSize covers thresholds, row images, TiDB behavior, and generated statement counts.

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The pull request changes only the MySQL UPDATE size estimate and adds focused unit coverage for max-multi-update-row-size. Both changes directly support #6747. No unrelated implementation or test changes are present in the reviewed diff.

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Before and after values count.
Thresholds guide the batch along,
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Follow-up Comments

Add a mixed-size UPDATE case to the batch-size test.

1044-1045: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a mixed-size UPDATE case to the batch-size test.

Every case in TestPrepareDMLsMaxMultiUpdateRowSize builds rows of one size. Each row in a case uses the same prePayload and payload. A regression that sizes the batch from the first row only would still pass. Add a case where the first UPDATE is small and the second is about 16 KiB, with MaxMultiUpdateRowSize set to 1024. The expected result is two statements. The current implementation already returns two statements for that input.

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Add a mixed-size case to TestPrepareDMLsMaxMultiUpdateRowSize where the first
UPDATE is small, the second is about 16 KiB, and MaxMultiUpdateRowSize is 1024;
assert that the input produces two statements.

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• 2026-11-02 08:42:09.679089412 +0000 UTC m=+483254.304239679: ☑️ agreed by lidezhu.
• 2026-11-02 08:53:52.965683634 +0000 UTC m=+483957.590833905: ☑️ agreed by 3AceShowHand.

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In response to a cherrypick label: new pull request created to branch release-nextgen-202609: #6792.

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In response to a cherrypick label: new pull request created to branch release-8.5: #6800.