Sylvain Lebresne created CASSANDRA-13813:
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             Summary: Don't let user drop (or generally break) tables in 
system_distributed
                 Key: CASSANDRA-13813
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13813
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
             Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.11.x


There is not currently no particular restrictions on schema modifications to 
tables of the {{system_distributed}} keyspace. This does mean you can drop 
those tables, or even alter them in wrong ways like dropping or renaming 
columns. All of which is guaranteed to break stuffs (that is, repair if you 
mess up with on of it's table, or MVs if you mess up with 
{{view_build_status}}).

I'm pretty sure this was never intended and is an oversight of the condition on 
{{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} in 
[ClientState|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/ClientState.java#L397].
 That condition is such that any keyspace not listed in 
{{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} (which happens to be the case for 
{{system_distributed}}) has no specific restrictions whatsoever, while given 
the naming it's fair to assume the intention that exactly the opposite.



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