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What happened?

For one of the ETCD clusters that we maintain, we've switched the auto-compaction-mode to revision based compaction. The auto-compaction-retention is set to 1000:

$ grep ^auto-compaction /etc/etcd/etcd.conf.yml 
auto-compaction-mode: "revision"
auto-compaction-retention: "1000"

When restarting, the etcd log shows the following:

{"level":"info","ts":"2024-04-18T15:27:31.278121+0200","caller":"embed/etcd.go:308","msg":"starting an etcd server","etcd-version":"3.5.12","git-sha":"e7b3bb6cc","go-version":"go1.20.13","go-os":"linux","go-arch":"amd64","max-cpu-set":2,"max-cpu-available":2,"member-initialized":true,"name":"10.10.10.10","data-dir":"/var/lib/etcd","wal-dir":"","wal-dir-dedicated":"","member-dir":"/var/lib/etcd/member","force-new-cluster":false,"heartbeat-interval":"100ms","election-timeout":"1s","initial-election-tick-advance":true,"snapshot-count":100000,"max-wals":5,"max-snapshots":5,"snapshot-catchup-entries":5000,"initial-advertise-peer-urls":["https://10.10.10.10:2380"],"listen-peer-urls":["https://10.10.10.10:2380"],"advertise-client-urls":["https://10.10.10.10:2379"],"listen-client-urls":["https://10.10.10.10:2379"],"listen-metrics-urls":["https://10.10.10.10:4001"],"cors":["*"],"host-whitelist":["*"],"initial-cluster":"","initial-cluster-state":"new","initial-cluster-token":"","quota-backend-bytes":8589934592,"max-request-bytes":1572864,"max-concurrent-streams":4294967295,"pre-vote":true,"initial-corrupt-check":false,"corrupt-check-time-interval":"0s","compact-check-time-enabled":false,"compact-check-time-interval":"1m0s","auto-compaction-mode":"revision","auto-compaction-retention":"1µs","auto-compaction-interval":"1µs","discovery-url":"","discovery-proxy":"","downgrade-check-interval":"5s"}

In this log, I would've expected to see "auto-compaction-retention":"1000", instead it shows "auto-compaction-retention":"1µs". This gives you the idea you made mistakes in the configuration.

Also, "auto-compaction-interval":"1µs" also seems wrong, since the interval is 5 minutes for revision based compaction (from what I saw, hardcoded in the source code)

What did you expect to happen?

The logs should show auto-compaction-retention set to 1000 instead of 1µs

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

Change auto-compaction-mode to revision, restart and check the logs.

Anything else we need to know?

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Etcd version (please run commands below)

$ etcd --version
etcd Version: 3.5.12
Git SHA: e7b3bb6cc
Go Version: go1.20.13
Go OS/Arch: linux/amd64

$ etcdctl version
etcdctl version: 3.5.12
API version: 3.5

Etcd configuration (command line flags or environment variables)

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Etcd debug information (please run commands below, feel free to obfuscate the IP address or FQDN in the output)

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Relevant log output

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