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Sylvain Lebresne reopened CASSANDRA-14568:
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Sorry I'm a bit slow to check this one, but I don't think the fix here is 
correct.

That is, while it makes sure complex deletions are handled for static rows, I 
believe it also doesn't encode the "composite" in the same way than 2.x was 
(the added unit test passes because it only check the encoding round-trips, 
which it does, but I believe things don't work properly if tested against a 
true 2.1 node).

Namely, the encoding of the "clustering prefix" (what comes before the column 
name) for a static cell in 2.x uses N empty components (see 
[here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-2.1/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/composites/CompoundSparseCellNameType.java#L68-L69]),
 where N is the table clustering size, while the patch uses an empty clustering 
(that is, put the column name as first component, no matter how many clustering 
the table has; see 
[here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.0/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/LegacyLayout.java#L210-L214]
 and, in 
[serializeCompound|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.0/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/LegacyLayout.java#L2394-L2400],
 there will be no clustering elements since {{STATIC_PREFIX}} has size 0 and 
{{CompositeType.Builder}} does not compensate for that in any way). 

> Static collection deletions are corrupted in 3.0 -> 2.{1,2} messages
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-14568
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14568
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Assignee: Benedict
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 3.0.17, 3.11.3
>
>
> In 2.1 and 2.2, row and complex deletions were represented as range 
> tombstones.  LegacyLayout is our compatibility layer, that translates the 
> relevant RT patterns in 2.1/2.2 to row/complex deletions in 3.0, and vice 
> versa.  Unfortunately, it does not handle the special case of static row 
> deletions, they are treated as regular row deletions. Since static rows are 
> themselves never directly deleted, the only issue is with collection 
> deletions.
> Collection deletions in 2.1/2.2 were encoded as a range tombstone, consisting 
> of a sequence of the clustering keys’ data for the affected row, followed by 
> the bytes representing the name of the collection column.  STATIC_CLUSTERING 
> contains zero clusterings, so by treating the deletion as for a regular row, 
> zero clusterings are written to precede the column name of the erased 
> collection, so the column name is written at position zero.
> This can exhibit itself in at least two ways:
>  # If the type of your first clustering key is a variable width type, new 
> deletes will begin appearing covering the clustering key represented by the 
> column name.
>  ** If you have multiple clustering keys, you will receive a RT covering all 
> those rows with a matching first clustering key.
>  ** This RT will be valid as far as the system is concerned, and go 
> undetected unless there are outside data quality checks in place.
>  # Otherwise, an invalid size of data will be written to the clustering and 
> sent over the network to the 2.1 node.
>  ** The 2.1/2.2 node will handle this just fine, even though the record is 
> junk.  Since it is a deletion covering impossible data, there will be no 
> user-API visible effect.  But if received as a write from a 3.0 node, it will 
> dutifully persist the junk record.
>  ** The 3.0 node that originally sent this junk, may later coordinate a read 
> of the partition, and will notice a digest mismatch, read-repair and 
> serialize the junk to disk
>  ** The sstable containing this record is now corrupt; the deserialization 
> expects fixed-width data, but it encounters too many (or too few) bytes, and 
> is now at an incorrect position to read its structural information
>  ** (Alternatively when the 2.1 node is upgraded this will occur on eventual 
> compaction)



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