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Benedict Elliott Smith commented on CASSANDRA-17162:
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That is not the crux of the issue. The proposal's collective acceptance is 
rejected by the majority of replicas that had promised a higher ballot. The 
collective recollection of the newer proposal is contingent on no nodes 
forgetting the newer proposal. Both are met with the existing implementation, 
though it may be counter-intuitive.

> In the paxos implementation, a delayed proposal might overwrite newer values
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-17162
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17162
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Unmesh Joshi
>            Priority: Normal
>         Attachments: paxos-fix.patch
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> I was going through this blog post , which talks about a possible bug in 
> paxos implementation if in-progress ballot is not set while accepting a 
> proposal.
> [https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/11/16/paxos.html]
> I tried writing a failing test and possible fix. 
> The in_progress_ballot needs to be set when accepting a proposal. The current 
> implementation sets only the proposal_ballot when accepting a proposal.
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