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C. Scott Andreas updated CASSANDRA-14593:
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    Component/s: Coordination

> Read-Repair breaks partition-level update atomicity
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-14593
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14593
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Coordination
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Priority: Major
>
> We advertise generally that updates apply atomically within a partition, and 
> users depend on the fact that visibility is guaranteed to coincide, i.e. that 
> two rows updated at once will only be seen together.
>  
> However, a read that only touches one of these rows can lead to a quorum of 
> nodes having only part of the update.
>  
> For instance, let’s take either a write at CL.ONE, or a failed write at 
> QUORUM, that updates two rows.  The write makes it to only one node.  A read 
> is performed that only touches one of these rows, and happens to include the 
> node that received the write so read-repair is engaged.  Now, all nodes are 
> updated to contain this row touched by the read-repair.
>  
> A new QUORUM read is performed covering both rows, and the node that received 
> the whole update is not queried.  Now only the first row is returned.
>  
> Any application depending on both rows being visible together, for any query 
> that requests them, will now be in an indeterminate state.
>  
> This seems like a fairly dangerous contractual failure, and one we should 
> explicitly document, and we should permit disabling read-repair entirely for 
> users who need it.
>  
> Or, perhaps preferably, we could modify read-repair to perform a 
> whole-partition repair, that is only triggered by the detection of 
> inconsistency (rather than being directly driven by the requested data).



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