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Alexander Bulaev commented on CASSANDRA-7186: --------------------------------------------- The cluster is in this state right NOW, so feel free to ask for any diagnostics that may be relevant :) > alter table add column not always propogating > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-7186 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7186 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Martin Meyer > Assignee: Philip Thompson > Fix For: 2.0.12 > > > I've been many times in Cassandra 2.0.6 that adding columns to existing > tables seems to not fully propagate to our entire cluster. We add an extra > column to various tables maybe 0-2 times a week, and so far many of these > ALTERs have resulted in at least one node showing the old table description a > pretty long time (~30 mins) after the original ALTER command was issued. > We originally identified this issue when a connected clients would complain > that a column it issued a SELECT for wasn't a known column, at which point we > have to ask each node to describe the most recently altered table. One of > them will not know about the newly added field. Issuing the original ALTER > statement on that node makes everything work correctly. > We have seen this issue on multiple tables (we don't always alter the same > one). It has affected various nodes in the cluster (not always the same one > is not getting the mutation propagated). No new nodes have been added to the > cluster recently. All nodes are homogenous (hardware and software), running > 2.0.6. We don't see any particular errors or exceptions on the node that > didn't get the schema update, only the later error from a Java client about > asking for an unknown column in a SELECT. We have to check each node manually > to find the offender. The tables he have seen this on are under fairly heavy > read and write load, but we haven't altered any tables that are not, so that > might not be important. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)