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Tyler Hobbs commented on CASSANDRA-6008:
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bq. Right, but that should only affect purging range tombstones, since we write
the row tombstone based on emptyColumnFamily, not on the Reducer container.
Well, it's true that we'll still write out the row tombstone, but we'll fail to
purge the cells that it shadows (except for the first one), so the delete will
appear to have worked, but both the tombstone and cells will exist in the new
sstable. After gcGrace has passed, the row tombstone will be purged and any
cells that remain will be revived.
> Getting 'This should never happen' error at startup due to sstables missing
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6008
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6008
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Reporter: John Carrino
> Assignee: Tyler Hobbs
> Fix For: 2.0.4
>
> Attachments: 6008-2.0-v1.patch, 6008-trunk-v1.patch
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> Exception encountered during startup: "Unfinished compactions reference
> missing sstables. This should never happen since compactions are marked
> finished before we start removing the old sstables"
> This happens when sstables that have been compacted away are removed, but
> they still have entries in the system.compactions_in_progress table.
> Normally this should not happen because the entries in
> system.compactions_in_progress are deleted before the old sstables are
> deleted.
> However at startup recovery time, old sstables are deleted (NOT BEFORE they
> are removed from the compactions_in_progress table) and then after that is
> done it does a truncate using SystemKeyspace.discardCompactionsInProgress
> We ran into a case where the disk filled up and the node died and was bounced
> and then failed to truncate this table on startup, and then got stuck hitting
> this exception in ColumnFamilyStore.removeUnfinishedCompactionLeftovers.
> Maybe on startup we can delete from this table incrementally as we clean
> stuff up in the same way that compactions delete from this table before they
> delete old sstables.
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