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Jeremy Hanna updated CASSANDRA-6013:
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Labels: LWT (was: )
> CAS may return false but still commit the insert
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6013
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6013
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
> Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
> Priority: Major
> Labels: LWT
> Fix For: 2.0.1
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> Attachments: 6013-v2.txt, 6013-v3.txt, 6013-v4.patch, 6013.txt
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> If a Paxos proposer proposes some value/update and that propose fail, there
> is no guarantee on whether this value will be accepted or not ultimately.
> Paxos guarantees that we'll agree on "a" value (for a given round in our
> case), but does not guarantee that the proposer of the agreed upon value will
> know it. In particular, if for a given proposal at least one accepter has
> accepted it but not a quorum does, then that value might (but that's not
> guaranteed either) be replayed (and committed) by another proposer.
> Currently, if a proposer A proposes some update U but it is rejected, A will
> sleep a bit and retry U. But if U was accepted by at least one acceptor, some
> other proposer B might replay U, succeed and commit it. If A does its retry
> after that happens, he will prepare, check the condition, and probably find
> that the conditions don't apply anymore since U has been committed already.
> It will thus return false, even though U has been in fact committed.
> Unfortunately I'm not sure there is an easy way for a proposer whose propose
> fails to know if the update will prevail or not eventually. Which mean the
> only acceptable solution I can see would be to return to the user "I don't
> know" (through some exception for instance). Which is annoying because having
> a proposal rejected won't be an extremely rare occurrence, even with
> relatively light contention, and returning "I don't know" often is a bit
> unfriendly.
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