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Aleksey Yeschenko commented on CASSANDRA-6831:
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Hmm. There are two compatibility levels:
1. Using Thrift API, can I safely perform write requests against a column
family if I only have access to its Thrift metadata? (true for all column
families except those with compound sparse comparators, aka 'CQL3 tables')
2. Using Thrift API, can I update the column family without potentially losing
extra metadata added via CQL? Now this depends strictly on whether or not such
metadata (aliases) have been added via CQL3.
WITH COMPACT STORAGE tables are always 1-compatible (including tools that
auto-generate code and ORM-style libraries), but not always 2-compatible
(depends on whether or not the the table has been created via CQL3 or altered
via CQL3 to rename default aliases).
Now that I've thought about this more, I think we should go with your original
approach (copy the aliases from the original CFMetaData), but handle that
assertion in this very ticket.
> Updates to COMPACT STORAGE tables via cli drop CQL information
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-6831
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6831
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Russell Bradberry
> Assignee: Mikhail Stepura
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.2.17, 2.0.8, 2.1 beta2
>
>
> If a COMPACT STORAGE table is altered using the CLI all information about the
> column names reverts to the initial "key, column1, column2" namings.
> Additionally, the changes in the columns name will not take effect until the
> Cassandra service is restarted. This means that the clients using CQL will
> continue to work properly until the service is restarted, at which time they
> will start getting errors about non-existant columns in the table.
> When attempting to rename the columns back using ALTER TABLE an error stating
> the column already exists will be raised. The only way to get it back is to
> ALTER TABLE and change the comment or something, which will bring back all
> the original column names.
> This seems to be related to CASSANDRA-6676 and CASSANDRA-6370
> In cqlsh
> {code}
> Connected to cluster1 at 127.0.0.3:9160.
> [cqlsh 3.1.8 | Cassandra 1.2.15-SNAPSHOT | CQL spec 3.0.0 | Thrift protocol
> 19.36.2]
> Use HELP for help.
> cqlsh> CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy',
> 'replication_factor' : 3 };
> cqlsh> USE test;
> cqlsh:test> CREATE TABLE foo (bar text, baz text, qux text, PRIMARY KEY(bar,
> baz) ) WITH COMPACT STORAGE;
> cqlsh:test> describe table foo;
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> bar text,
> baz text,
> qux text,
> PRIMARY KEY (bar, baz)
> ) WITH COMPACT STORAGE AND
> bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND
> caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND
> comment='' AND
> dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND
> gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND
> read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND
> replicate_on_write='true' AND
> populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND
> compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND
> compression={'sstable_compression': 'SnappyCompressor'};
> {code}
> Now in cli:
> {code}
> Connected to: "cluster1" on 127.0.0.3/9160
> Welcome to Cassandra CLI version 1.2.15-SNAPSHOT
> Type 'help;' or '?' for help.
> Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit.
> [default@unknown] use test;
> Authenticated to keyspace: test
> [default@test] UPDATE COLUMN FAMILY foo WITH comment='hey this is a comment';
> 3bf5fa49-5d03-34f0-b46c-6745f7740925
> {code}
> Now back in cqlsh:
> {code}
> cqlsh:test> describe table foo;
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> bar text,
> column1 text,
> value text,
> PRIMARY KEY (bar, column1)
> ) WITH COMPACT STORAGE AND
> bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND
> caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND
> comment='hey this is a comment' AND
> dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND
> gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND
> read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND
> replicate_on_write='true' AND
> populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND
> compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND
> compression={'sstable_compression': 'SnappyCompressor'};
> cqlsh:test> ALTER TABLE foo WITH comment='this is a new comment';
> cqlsh:test> describe table foo;
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> bar text,
> baz text,
> qux text,
> PRIMARY KEY (bar, baz)
> ) WITH COMPACT STORAGE AND
> bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND
> caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND
> comment='this is a new comment' AND
> dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND
> gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND
> read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND
> replicate_on_write='true' AND
> populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND
> compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND
> compression={'sstable_compression': 'SnappyCompressor'};
> {code}
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