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Stefan Miklosovic commented on CASSANDRA-15803: ----------------------------------------------- Maybe waiting for CEP-21 and having some configuration "transactional" would fix this? I can imagine that setting a guardrail at one node would suddenly configured it everywhere. I do not see any reason why one node should be configured differently from another one when it comes to guardrails. > Separate out allow filtering scanning through a partition versus scanning > over the table > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-15803 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15803 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: CQL/Syntax > Reporter: Jeremy Hanna > Assignee: Stefan Miklosovic > Priority: Normal > > Currently allow filtering can mean two things in the spirit of "avoid > operations that don't seek to a specific row or sequential rows of data." > First, it can mean scanning across the entire table to meet the criteria of > the query. That's almost always a bad thing and should be discouraged or > disabled (see CASSANDRA-8303). Second, it can mean filtering within a > specific partition. For example, in a query you could specify the full > partition key and if you specify a criterion on a non-key field, it requires > allow filtering. > The second reason to require allow filtering is significantly less work to > scan through a partition. It is still extra work over seeking to a specific > row and getting N sequential rows though. So while an application developer > and/or operator needs to be cautious about this second type, it's not > necessarily a bad thing, depending on the table and the use case. > I propose that we separate the way to specify allow filtering across an > entire table from specifying allow filtering across a partition in a > backwards compatible way. One idea that was brought up in Slack in the > cassandra-dev room was to have allow filtering mean the superset - scanning > across the table. Then if you want to specify that you *only* want to scan > within a partition you would use something like > {{ALLOW FILTERING [WITHIN PARTITION]}} > So it will succeed if you specify non-key criteria within a single partition, > but fail with a message to say it requires the full allow filtering. This > would allow for a backwards compatible full allow filtering while allowing a > user to specify that they want to just scan within a partition, but error out > if trying to scan a full table. > This is potentially also related to the capability limitation framework by > which operators could more granularly specify what features are allowed or > disallowed per user, discussed in CASSANDRA-8303. This way an operator could > disallow the more general allow filtering while allowing the partition scan > (or disallow them both at their discretion). -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@cassandra.apache.org