Re: Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Jürgen Albersdorfer
Wow, didn't recognize/expect such fundamental Change in a minor Version. - But then I can at least say that I have a 21 Node production Cluster running with all different Versions from 3.11.0 to 3.11.4. Am Do., 5. März 2020 um 08:09 Uhr schrieb Erick Ramirez < erick.rami...@datastax.com>: > Are

Re: Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Erick Ramirez
> > Are you telling me that cassandra changes sstanle file format when > updating from 3.11.4 to 3.11.5? > It was introduced in C* 3.0.18 and 3.11.4. The format changed from -mc- to -md- because of a bug with min/max clustering values. It had the potential to result in data loss so there was no

Re: Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Jürgen Albersdorfer
Are you telling me that cassandra changes sstanle file format when updating from 3.11.4 to 3.11.5? Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 05.03.2020 um 02:05 schrieb Sandeep Nethi : > >  > Hi, > > I think there is no way to revert sstables to previous version once they are > upgraded and having

Re: Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Sandeep Nethi
Hi, I think there is no way to revert sstables to previous version once they are upgraded and having new transactions on upgraded version. But you can try some workarounds by creating a secondary datacenter with 3.11.0 and having the primary datacenter upgraded to 3.11.5. This way if you come

Re: Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Erick Ramirez
> > ... the older version of C* will not be able to read the SSTables using > the old format. > Sorry, I meant to say *"... using the NEW format"*. Cheers!

Re: Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Erick Ramirez
Once you've upgraded to a version of Cassandra that uses a new SSTable format, you cannot downgrade the binaries -- for whatever reason -- because the older version of C* will not be able to read the SSTables using the old format. I'm more concerned that you think reverting to a .0 release is a

Downgrading from 3.11.5 to 3.11.0

2020-03-04 Thread Surbhi Gupta
Hi, As the SSTable file formats have changed from 3.11.4 to "md " https://docs.datastax.com/en/landing_page/doc/landing_page/compatibility.html We are going to take snapshots but still wanted to understand . After we do upgrades stable when we upgrade from 3.11.0 to 3.11.5 , and later in future