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Bowen Song commented on CASSANDRA-19948:
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[~jmckenzie]

> I disagree with this statement in general. Nodes miss data often enough that 
> only getting CDC from one node is a pretty risky proposition if you want your 
> downstream consumers to have a view of the cluster that matches. Again, could 
> definitely see it in cases where you don't care as much about consistency.

It depends.

In a DC with 3 racks, RF=3 and write with CL=QUORUM, only have CDC enabled on 2 
racks can still provide strong enough consistency from CDC. As long as the CQL 
client sees a write is successful, the CDC consumer will definitely see that 
write too.

> Changing cdc table property can cause schema disagreement
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-19948
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19948
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Cluster/Schema
>            Reporter: Bowen Song
>            Priority: Normal
>             Fix For: 4.1.x, 5.0.x, 5.x
>
>         Attachments: 4.1.1.txt, 4.1.6.txt, 5.0.0-corrected.txt, 
> cdc_schema_disagreement.sh
>
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> In the cassandra.yaml file, there is a parameter named "cdc_enabled" which 
> allows CDC to be enabled or disabled on each individual nodes.
> It has been found that it can cause schema disagreement or discrepancy when 
> an "ALTER TABLE ... WITH cdc=..." statement is ran against a node which has 
> "cdc_enabled" set to "false" in a cluster in which nodes have mixed 
> "true"/"false" values for the "cdc_enabled" settings.
> The exact behaviour of the above is version-dependant.
> On Cassandra 4.1.1, the cluster will end up in the schema disagreement state. 
> A rolling restart will bring the schema back in sync, but the changes made to 
> the `cdc` table property will be lost. 
> On Cassandra 4.1.6, the cluster will not have visible schema disagreement in 
> the "nodetool describecluster" command's output, but the "ALTER TABLE" 
> statement only has cosmetic effect on the node it is run. The node with 
> "cdc_enabled" set to "false" will show the "cdc" table property has changed, 
> but this does not affect its behaviour in any way. At the same time, other 
> nodes do not see that table property change at all. This is perhaps even 
> worse than on 4.1.1, because the alter table statement is silently failing. 
> On Casandra 5.0.0, the behaviour is the same as 4.1.6.
> A shell script for reproducing the above described behaviours in Docker, and 
> the outputs of it on both 4.1.1 and 4.1.6 and 5.0.0 are attached.
>  
> Edit on 25 Sep: added test result on 5.0.0



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