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Aleksey Yeschenko commented on CASSANDRA-13813:
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Not having {{system_distributed}} in {{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} is an
oversight from the patch that added {{system_distributed}}.
Had it been added correctly, CASSANDRA-13812 would not be a problem -
{{ClientState.preventSystemKSSchemaModification()}} would've forbidden those
drops.
The constant is there to enumerate the keyspace whose tables cannot be
modified, and that's the purpose it serves. It might not have the best possible
name, though, or be ideally documented.
I'd start with adding {{system_distributed}} to {{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}}
- that would immediately fix CASSANDRA-13812 and this ticket. Then rename
{{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} to something more descriptive (even
{{PARTIALLY_ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} would be a start. And document the
intent.
> Don't let user drop (or generally break) tables in system_distributed
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-13813
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13813
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
> Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.11.x
>
>
> There is not currently no particular restrictions on schema modifications to
> tables of the {{system_distributed}} keyspace. This does mean you can drop
> those tables, or even alter them in wrong ways like dropping or renaming
> columns. All of which is guaranteed to break stuffs (that is, repair if you
> mess up with on of it's table, or MVs if you mess up with
> {{view_build_status}}).
> I'm pretty sure this was never intended and is an oversight of the condition
> on {{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} in
> [ClientState|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/ClientState.java#L397].
> That condition is such that any keyspace not listed in
> {{ALTERABLE_SYSTEM_KEYSPACES}} (which happens to be the case for
> {{system_distributed}}) has no specific restrictions whatsoever, while given
> the naming it's fair to assume the intention that exactly the opposite.
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