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Olivier Michallat commented on CASSANDRA-13992:
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{{METADATA_CHANGED}} tells the client if it needs to update its local copy of
the metadata. For conditional updates, the answer is always no (since the
client should never store that information in the first place); that is why I
think it's more intuitive to set the flag to false.
To put it another way: if the flag is forced to true, I have to add a condition
in the client code ({{newMetadataId.bytes.length > 0}}). My worry is that a
client implementation could forget to check that the id is empty, and end up
with a sub-optimal behavior (that updates the local metadata unnecessarily each
time).
If the flag is absent, conditional updates can be handled like any other
statement.
> Don't send new_metadata_id for conditional updates
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-13992
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13992
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Olivier Michallat
> Assignee: Kurt Greaves
> Priority: Minor
>
> This is a follow-up to CASSANDRA-10786.
> Given the table
> {code}
> CREATE TABLE foo (k int PRIMARY KEY)
> {code}
> And the prepared statement
> {code}
> INSERT INTO foo (k) VALUES (?) IF NOT EXISTS
> {code}
> The result set metadata changes depending on the outcome of the update:
> * if the row didn't exist, there is only a single column \[applied] = true
> * if it did, the result contains \[applied] = false, plus the current value
> of column k.
> The way this was handled so far is that the PREPARED response contains no
> result set metadata, and therefore all EXECUTE messages have SKIP_METADATA =
> false, and the responses always include the full (and correct) metadata.
> CASSANDRA-10786 still sends the PREPARED response with no metadata, *but the
> response to EXECUTE now contains a {{new_metadata_id}}*. The driver thinks it
> is because of a schema change, and updates its local copy of the prepared
> statement's result metadata.
> The next EXECUTE is sent with SKIP_METADATA = true, but the server appears to
> ignore that, and still sends the metadata in the response. So each response
> includes the correct metadata, the driver uses it, and there is no visible
> issue for client code.
> The only drawback is that the driver updates its local copy of the metadata
> unnecessarily, every time. We can work around that by only updating if we had
> metadata before, at the cost of an extra volatile read. But I think the best
> thing to do would be to never send a {{new_metadata_id}} in for a conditional
> update.
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