On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 11:00 PM Paulo Motta <pauloricard...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found this a bit surprising, since I would expect a snapshot with the same > name on different tables to represent the same logical snapshot taken at the > same point-in-time.
I would expect this too, 100%. > This affects the design of the snapshots virtual table schema on > CASSANDRA-18102[1] because the timestamp needs to be included in the primary > key to allow distinguishing between different snapshots with the same name, > which seems a bit counter-intuitive. > > I think we should disallow creating a snapshot if another snapshot already > exists with the same name in any other table, so snapshots with the same name > on different tables are guaranteed to belong to the same logical > point-in-time snapshot. I agree. Even if there is a use case for that behavior, it will almost certainly mislead someone later. Kind Regards, Brandon
