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Aleksey Yeschenko commented on CASSANDRA-14638:
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bq. Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy fix for this. If the order
was changed back to the previous format, you risk issues for users upgrading
from older 3.0 version.
This is true. That said, there are huge fleets still on 2.1 and 2.2 in the
wild, so leaving this unfixed is also a choice that puts some users in
potential danger.
Our internal contract is quite clear, and is quite clearly broken. I would
prefer to address it here and now, rather than maintaining broken behaviour
just for the sake of it. For the record, here are the relevant bits:
{code}
/**
* An iterator that returns the columns of this object in "select" order
(that
* is in global alphabetical order, where the "normal" iterator returns
simple
* columns first and the complex second).
*
* @return an iterator returning columns in alphabetical order.
*/
public Iterator<ColumnDefinition> selectOrderIterator()
{
// In wildcard selection, we want to return all columns in alphabetical
order,
// irregarding of whether they are complex or not
return Iterators.mergeSorted(ImmutableList.of(complexColumns(),
simpleColumns()),
(s, c) ->
{
assert !s.kind.isPrimaryKeyKind();
return
s.name.bytes.compareTo(c.name.bytes);
});
}
{code}
The contact has been defined this way since 2.0, when static columns where
introduced, and was broken relatively recently when 3.0 came out. I would argue
that the correct thing to do is to fix it in the next 3.0 and 3.11 minors, with
a loud NEWS.txt entry and an email to dev@ and users@ warning users who are
both on 2.1/2.2 and 3.0+ and up about the current breakage and the upcoming fix.
> Column result order can change in 'SELECT *' results when upgrading from 2.1
> to 3.0 causing response corruption for queries using prepared statements when
> static columns are used
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-14638
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14638
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: Single C* node ccm cluster upgraded from C* 2.1.20 to
> 3.0.17
> Reporter: Andy Tolbert
> Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.11.x
>
>
> When performing an upgrade from C* 2.1.20 to 3.0.17 I observed that the order
> of columns returned from a 'SELECT *' query changes, particularly when static
> columns are involved.
> This may not seem like that much of a problem, however if using Prepared
> Statements, any clients that remain connected during the upgrade may
> encounter issues consuming results from these queries, as data is reordered
> and the client not aware of it. The result definition is sent in the
> original prepared statement response, so if order changes the client has no
> way of knowing (until C* 4.0 via CASSANDRA-10786) without re-preparing, which
> is non-trivial as most client drivers cache prepared statements.
> This could lead to reading the wrong values for columns, which could result
> in some kind of deserialization exception or if the data types of the
> switched columns are compatible, the wrong values. This happens even if the
> client attempts to retrieve a column value by name (i.e. row.getInt("colx")).
> Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy fix for this. If the order was
> changed back to the previous format, you risk issues for users upgrading from
> older 3.0 version. I think it would be nice to add a note in the NEWS file
> in the 3.0 upgrade section that describes this issue, and how to work around
> it (specify all column names of interest explicitly in query).
> Example schema and code to reproduce:
>
> {noformat}
> create keyspace ks with replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy',
> 'replication_factor': 1};
> create table ks.tbl (p0 text,
> p1 text,
> m map<text, text> static,
> t text,
> u text static,
> primary key (p0, p1)
> );
> insert into ks.tbl (p0, p1, m, t, u) values ('p0', 'p1', { 'm0' : 'm1' },
> 't', 'u');{noformat}
>
> When querying with 2.1 you'll observe the following order via cqlsh:
> {noformat}
> p0 | p1 | m | u | t
> ----+----+--------------+---+---
> p0 | p1 | {'m0': 'm1'} | u | t{noformat}
>
> With 3.0, observe that u and m are transposed:
>
> {noformat}
> p0 | p1 | u | m | t
> ----+----+---+--------------+---
> p0 | p1 | u | {'m0': 'm1'} | t{noformat}
>
>
> {code:java}
> import com.datastax.driver.core.BoundStatement;
> import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
> import com.datastax.driver.core.ColumnDefinitions;
> import com.datastax.driver.core.PreparedStatement;
> import com.datastax.driver.core.ResultSet;
> import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
> import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
> import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Uninterruptibles;
> import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
> public class LiveUpgradeTest {
> public static void main(String args[]) {
> Cluster cluster = Cluster.builder().addContactPoints("127.0.0.1").build();
> try {
> Session session = cluster.connect();
> PreparedStatement p = session.prepare("SELECT * from ks.tbl");
> BoundStatement bs = p.bind();
> // continually query every 30 seconds
> while (true) {
> try {
> ResultSet r = session.execute(bs);
> Row row = r.one();
> int i = 0;
> // iterate over the result metadata in order printing the
> // index, name, type, and length of the first row of data.
> for (ColumnDefinitions.Definition d : r.getColumnDefinitions()) {
> System.out.println(
> i++
> + ": "
> + d.getName()
> + " -> "
> + d.getType()
> + " -> val = "
> + row.getBytesUnsafe(d.getName()).array().length);
> }
> } catch (Throwable t) {
> t.printStackTrace();
> } finally {
> Uninterruptibles.sleepUninterruptibly(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
> }
> }
> } finally {
> cluster.close();
> }
> }
> }
> {code}
> To reproduce, set up a cluster, the schema, and run this script. Then
> upgrade the cluster to 3.0.17 (with ccm, ccm stop; ccm node1 setdir -v
> 3.0.17; ccm start works) and observe after the client is able to reconnect
> that the results are in a different order. i.e.:
>
> With 2.x:
>
> {noformat}
> 0: p0 -> varchar -> val = 2
> 1: p1 -> varchar -> val = 2
> 2: m -> map<varchar, varchar> -> val = 16
> 3: u -> varchar -> val = 1
> 4: t -> varchar -> val = 1{noformat}
>
> With 3.x:
>
> {noformat}
> 0: p0 -> varchar -> val = 2
> 1: p1 -> varchar -> val = 2
> 2: m -> map<varchar, varchar> -> val = 1
> 3: u -> varchar -> val = 16 (<-- the data for 'm' is now at index 3)
> 4: t -> varchar -> val = 1{noformat}
>
>
>
>
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