Stefan Podkowinski created CASSANDRA-14999:
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             Summary: Incorrect fallback calculation of getApproximateKeyCount
                 Key: CASSANDRA-14999
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14999
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Stefan Podkowinski


Creating a key count for a number of sstables depends on a probabilistic 
hyperloglog data structure for estimating cardinality of keys. In case of any 
errors, we'll fallback to [some 
code|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/7d138e20ea987d44fffbc47de4674b253b7431ff/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/format/SSTableReader.java#L294]
 that does not calculate the cardinality, but simply creates a sum of all 
estimated keys for all sstables. This will lead to very different results for 
larger numbers of sstables with identical keys.

We should have a look at the possible implications of that. Do we depend on 
this value for sizing bloom filters?



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