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Aleksey Yeschenko commented on CASSANDRA-8831:
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Since DESCRIBE is a 3.0-ticket, it's no blocker for this in 2.1 (though I'd
rather this went into 3.0, tbh).
Viewing data embedded in the INSERT statements is an issue, however - and those
should ideally be filtered out on lack of SELECT permission on the
tables-basis. That said, it's not really a blocker, so long as we don't
whitelist the table as accessible to everyone by default, like schema, local,
and peers currently are. So just ignore the security angle for now.
Now, I still haven't read the patch itself. But "table_name" could become a
more generic "table_names set<text>", to properly handle batches.
> Create a system table to expose prepared statements
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-8831
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8831
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
> Assignee: Robert Stupp
> Attachments: 8831-v1.txt, 8831-v2.txt
>
>
> Because drivers abstract from users the handling of up/down nodes, they have
> to deal with the fact that when a node is restarted (or join), it won't know
> any prepared statement. Drivers could somewhat ignore that problem and wait
> for a query to return an error (that the statement is unknown by the node) to
> re-prepare the query on that node, but it's relatively inefficient because
> every time a node comes back up, you'll get bad latency spikes due to some
> queries first failing, then being re-prepared and then only being executed.
> So instead, drivers (at least the java driver but I believe others do as
> well) pro-actively re-prepare statements when a node comes up. It solves the
> latency problem, but currently every driver instance blindly re-prepare all
> statements, meaning that in a large cluster with many clients there is a lot
> of duplication of work (it would be enough for a single client to prepare the
> statements) and a bigger than necessary load on the node that started.
> An idea to solve this it to have a (cheap) way for clients to check if some
> statements are prepared on the node. There is different options to provide
> that but what I'd suggest is to add a system table to expose the (cached)
> prepared statements because:
> # it's reasonably straightforward to implement: we just add a line to the
> table when a statement is prepared and remove it when it's evicted (we
> already have eviction listeners). We'd also truncate the table on startup but
> that's easy enough). We can even switch it to a "virtual table" if/when
> CASSANDRA-7622 lands but it's trivial to do with a normal table in the
> meantime.
> # it doesn't require a change to the protocol or something like that. It
> could even be done in 2.1 if we wish to.
> # exposing prepared statements feels like a genuinely useful information to
> have (outside of the problem exposed here that is), if only for
> debugging/educational purposes.
> The exposed table could look something like:
> {noformat}
> CREATE TABLE system.prepared_statements (
> keyspace_name text,
> table_name text,
> prepared_id blob,
> query_string text,
> PRIMARY KEY (keyspace_name, table_name, prepared_id)
> )
> {noformat}
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