Fixes #1834.

`get_new_events_for_appservice` internally calls `get_events_as_list`, which will filter out any rejected events. If all returned events are filtered out, `_notify_interested_services` will return without updating the last handled stream position. If there are 100 consecutive such events, processing will halt altogether.

Breaking the loop is now done by checking whether we're up-to-date with `current_max` in the loop condition, instead of relying on an empty `events` list.


Signed-off-by: Willem Mulder <14mRh4X0r@gmail.com>

I hope this will improve
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9564.

If backfilling is slow then the client may time out and retry, causing
Synapse to start a new `/backfill` before the existing backfill has
finished, duplicating work.

Fixes #9956.

This adds quite a lot of OpenTracing decoration for database activity. Specifically it adds tracing at four different levels:

 * emit a span for each "interaction" - ie, the top level database function that we tend to call "transaction", but isn't really, because it can end up as multiple transactions.
 * emit a span while we hold a database connection open
 * emit a span for each database transaction - actual actual transaction.
 * emit a span for each database query.

I'm aware this might be quite a lot of overhead, but even just running it on a local Synapse it looks really interesting, and I hope the overhead can be offset just by turning down the sampling frequency and finding other ways of tracing requests of interest (eg, the `force_tracing_for_users` setting).

The existing tracing reports an error each time there is a timeout, which isn't
really representative.

Additionally, we log things about the way `wait_for_events` works
(eg, the result of the callback) to the *parent* span, which is confusing.

So that they render nicely in mdbook (see #10086), and so that we no longer have a mix of structured text languages in our documentation (excluding files outside of `docs/`).

[MSC2432](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2432) added this endpoint originally but it has since been included in the spec for nearly a year. 

This is progress towards https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8334

Related to: #6681, #5956, #10040

Signed-off-by: Dirk Klimpel <dirk@klimpel.org>

... using the script from matrix-org/sytest#1052

c.f. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9617 and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/proposals/2858-Multiple-SSO-Identity-Providers.md

Fixes #9627.

Empirically, this helped my server considerably when handling gaps in Matrix HQ. The problem was that we would repeatedly call have_seen_events for the same set of (50K or so) auth_events, each of which would take many minutes to complete, even though it's only an index scan.

Signed-off-by: Brad Murray <brad@beeper.com>

Fixes #10087.

... because tags on spans which aren't being sampled get thrown away.

Split out from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247

Strings:

 - `parse_string`
 - `parse_string_from_args`
 - `parse_strings_from_args`

For comparison with ints:

 - `parse_integer`
 - `parse_integer_from_args`

Previous discussions:

 - https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247#discussion_r573195687
 - https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247#discussion_r574214156
 - https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9247#discussion_r573264791



Signed-off-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@element.io>

Implements MSC2414: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2414


See #8551 

Signed-off-by: Callum Brown <callum@calcuode.com>

Synapse 1.35.0rc2 (2021-05-27)
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Bugfixes
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- Fix a bug introduced in v1.35.0rc1 when calling the spaces summary API via a GET request. ([\#10079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10079))