Josh Elser created PHOENIX-4537:
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             Summary: RegionServer initiating compaction can trigger schema 
migration and deadlock the system
                 Key: PHOENIX-4537
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-4537
             Project: Phoenix
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Romil Choksi
             Fix For: 5.0.0, 4.14.0


[~sergey.soldatov] has been doing some great digging around a test failure 
we've been seeing at $dayjob. The situation goes like this.

0. Run some arbitrary load
1. Stop HBase
2. Enable schema mapping ({{phoenix.schema.isNamespaceMappingEnabled=true}} and 
{{phoenix.schema.mapSystemTablesToNamespace=true}} in hbase-site.xml)
3. Start HBase
4. Circumstantially, have the SYSTEM.CATALOG table need a compaction to run 
before a client first connects

When the RegionServer initiates the compaction, it will end up running 
{{UngroupedAggregateRegionObserver.clearTsOnDisabledIndexes}} which opens a 
Phoenix connection. While the RegionServer won't upgrade system tables, it 
*will* try to migrate them into the schema mapped variants (e.g. SYSTEM.CATALOG 
to SYSTEM:CATALOG).

However, one of the first steps in the schema migration is to disable the 
SYSTEM.CATALOG table. However, the SYSTEM.CATALOG table can't be disabled until 
the region is CLOSED, and the region cannot be CLOSED until the compaction is 
finished. *deadlock*

The "obvious" fix is to avoid RegionServers from triggering system table 
migrations, but Sergey and I both think that this will end badly (RegionServers 
falling over because they expect the tables to be migrated and they aren't).

Thoughts? [~ankit.singhal], [~jamestaylor], any others?



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