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Andrew Hust commented on CASSANDRA-6717:
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I’ve started adding dtests for this and ran into a small issue. With the
schema_* tables being renamed some of them conflict with the cql describe
command. Example when scoped to the system_schema keyspace running `desc
tables` gives a list of tables in the keyspace instead of the cql for the
tables table. Using `desc system_schema.tables` works as expected.
Does any documentation or ? need to be updated to explain that behavior?
> Modernize schema tables
> -----------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-6717
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6717
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
> Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
> Labels: client-impacting, doc-impacting
> Fix For: 3.0 beta 1
>
>
> There is a few problems/improvements that can be done with the way we store
> schema:
> # CASSANDRA-4988: as explained on the ticket, storing the comparator is now
> redundant (or almost, we'd need to store whether the table is COMPACT or not
> too, which we don't currently is easy and probably a good idea anyway), it
> can be entirely reconstructed from the infos in schema_columns (the same is
> true of key_validator and subcomparator, and replacing default_validator by a
> COMPACT_VALUE column in all case is relatively simple). And storing the
> comparator as an opaque string broke concurrent updates of sub-part of said
> comparator (concurrent collection addition or altering 2 separate clustering
> columns typically) so it's really worth removing it.
> # CASSANDRA-4603: it's time to get rid of those ugly json maps. I'll note
> that schema_keyspaces is a problem due to its use of COMPACT STORAGE, but I
> think we should fix it once and for-all nonetheless (see below).
> # For CASSANDRA-6382 and to allow indexing both map keys and values at the
> same time, we'd need to be able to have more than one index definition for a
> given column.
> # There is a few mismatches in table options between the one stored in the
> schema and the one used when declaring/altering a table which would be nice
> to fix. The compaction, compression and replication maps are one already
> mentioned from CASSANDRA-4603, but also for some reason
> 'dclocal_read_repair_chance' in CQL is called just 'local_read_repair_chance'
> in the schema table, and 'min/max_compaction_threshold' are column families
> option in the schema but just compaction options for CQL (which makes more
> sense).
> None of those issues are major, and we could probably deal with them
> independently but it might be simpler to just fix them all in one shot so I
> wanted to sum them all up here. In particular, the fact that
> 'schema_keyspaces' uses COMPACT STORAGE is annoying (for the replication map,
> but it may limit future stuff too) which suggest we should migrate it to a
> new, non COMPACT table. And while that's arguably a detail, it wouldn't hurt
> to rename schema_columnfamilies to schema_tables for the years to come since
> that's the prefered vernacular for CQL.
> Overall, what I would suggest is to move all schema tables to a new keyspace,
> named 'schema' for instance (or 'system_schema' but I prefer the shorter
> version), and fix all the issues above at once. Since we currently don't
> exchange schema between nodes of different versions, all we'd need to do that
> is a one shot startup migration, and overall, I think it could be simpler for
> clients to deal with one clear migration than to have to handle minor
> individual changes all over the place. I also think it's somewhat cleaner
> conceptually to have schema tables in their own keyspace since they are
> replicated through a different mechanism than other system tables.
> If we do that, we could, for instance, migrate to the following schema tables
> (details up for discussion of course):
> {noformat}
> CREATE TYPE user_type (
> name text,
> column_names list<text>,
> column_types list<text>
> )
> CREATE TABLE keyspaces (
> name text PRIMARY KEY,
> durable_writes boolean,
> replication map<string, string>,
> user_types map<string, user_type>
> )
> CREATE TYPE trigger_definition (
> name text,
> options map<tex, text>
> )
> CREATE TABLE tables (
> keyspace text,
> name text,
> id uuid,
> table_type text, // COMPACT, CQL or SUPER
> dropped_columns map<text, bigint>,
> triggers map<text, trigger_definition>,
> // options
> comment text,
> compaction map<text, text>,
> compression map<text, text>,
> read_repair_chance double,
> dclocal_read_repair_chance double,
> gc_grace_seconds int,
> caching text,
> rows_per_partition_to_cache text,
> default_time_to_live int,
> min_index_interval int,
> max_index_interval int,
> speculative_retry text,
> populate_io_cache_on_flush boolean,
> bloom_filter_fp_chance double
> memtable_flush_period_in_ms int,
> PRIMARY KEY (keyspace, name)
> )
> CREATE TYPE index_definition (
> name text,
> index_type text,
> options map<text, text>
> )
> CREATE TABLE columns (
> keyspace text,
> table text,
> name text,
> kind text, // PARTITION_KEY, CLUSTERING_COLUMN, REGULAR or COMPACT_VALUE
> component_index int;
> type text,
> indexes map<text, index_definition>,
> PRIMARY KEY (keyspace, table, name)
> )
> {noformat}
> Nit: wouldn't hurt to create a simple enum that is reuse by both CFMetaData
> and CFPropDefs for table options names while we're at it once they are the
> same instead of repeating string constants which is fragile.
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