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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-10301:
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[~benedict] Are you waiting on something for committing?
> Search for items past end of descending BTreeSearchIterator can fail
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> Key: CASSANDRA-10301
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10301
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Benedict
> Assignee: Benedict
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 3.0.0 rc1
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> A very simple problem, but obvious and with simple fix once it is made
> apparent.
> The internal {{seekTo}} method uses {{binarySearch}} semantics for its return
> value, however when searching backwards {{-1}} is a real value that should be
> returned to the client, as it indicates "past the end" - so basing inexact
> matches from -1 leads to a conflicting meaning, and so it gets
> misinterpreted. Rebasing inexact results to -2 fixes the problem.
> This was not caught because the randomized testing apparently did not test
> for values outside the bounds of the btree. This has been fixed as well, and
> the tests did easily exhibit the problem without the fix.
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