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Benedict Elliott Smith commented on CASSANDRA-15642:
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So what do you propose? Some questions to consider:
* How long until you're sure you've received all the responses you might ever
receive?
* Can you guarantee to respond within the timeout specified by the operation?
* If not, can you as a result ever guarantee "complete" information?
* If not, is it a coherent concept for a distributed system?
* How would you balance the delayed responses with user requirements to take
corrective action promptly in response to failures?
> Inconsistent failure messages on distributed queries
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> Key: CASSANDRA-15642
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15642
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Consistency/Coordination
> Reporter: Kevin Gallardo
> Priority: Normal
>
> As a follow up to some exploration I have done for CASSANDRA-15543, I
> realized the following behavior in both {{ReadCallback}} and
> {{AbstractWriteHandler}}:
> - await for responses
> - when all required number of responses have come back: unblock the wait
> - when a single failure happens: unblock the wait
> - when unblocked, look to see if the counter of failures is > 1 and if so
> return an error message based on the {{failures}} map that's been filled
> Error messages that can result from this behavior can be a ReadTimeout, a
> ReadFailure, a WriteTimeout or a WriteFailure.
> In case of a Write/ReadFailure, the user will get back an error looking like
> the following:
> "Failure: Received X responses, and Y failures"
> (if this behavior I describe is incorrect, please correct me)
> This causes a usability problem. Since the handler will fail and throw an
> exception as soon as 1 failure happens, the error message that is returned to
> the user may not be accurate.
> (note: I am not entirely sure of the behavior in case of timeouts for now)
> For example, say a request at CL = QUORUM = 3, a failed request may complete
> first, then a successful one completes, and another fails. If the exception
> is thrown fast enough, the error message could say
> "Failure: Received 0 response, and 1 failure at CL = 3"
> Which:
> 1. doesn't make a lot of sense because the CL doesn't match the number of
> results in the message, so you end up thinking "what happened with the rest
> of the required CL?"
> 2. the information is incorrect. We did receive a successful response, only
> it came after the initial failure.
> From that logic, I think it is safe to assume that the information returned
> in the error message cannot be trusted in case of a failure. Only information
> users should extract out of it is that at least 1 node has failed.
> For a big improvement in usability, the {{ReadCallback}} and
> {{AbstractWriteResponseHandler}} could instead wait for all responses to come
> back before unblocking the wait, or let it timeout. This is way, the users
> will be able to have some trust around the information returned to them.
> Additionally, an error that happens first prevents a timeout to happen
> because it fails immediately, and so potentially it hides problems with other
> replicas. If we were to wait for all responses, we might get a timeout, in
> that case we'd also be able to tell wether failures have happened *before*
> that timeout, and have a more complete diagnostic where you can't detect both
> errors at the same time.
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