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Sergio Bossa commented on CASSANDRA-5725:
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Well, in an ideal world, given C* has the notion of schema, mutations should be
validated with the schema of the coordinator node and associated to such schema
version, which should be unique and monotonic (we are the former, not the
latter): this way, replica nodes could understand if they're missing a schema
update and request it (which would solve this bug), as well as recognize if a
partition is ongoing and react accordingly.
By the way, this probably translates in using vector clocks for schema updates,
and I understand C* has not been designed this way, so let's forget about the
ideal world.
A more pragmatic solution may be to implement a consistency level for schema
updates too: right now we only wait for the schema to be applied on the local
node, while supporting all consistency levels would allow subsequent updates to
succeed under the same CL specification: i.e., applying a schema update at
CL.QUORUM would allow subsequent updates at the same CL to succeed too.
Finally, a trivial one may just be to make the schema problem explicit with a
specific exception.
Certainly, in my opinion, masking a schema problem with a timeout exception is
pretty much confusing, and may lead to several hours spent in debugging/testing
or (if the user isn't that smart to do that) increasing the timeouts, which is
a bad solution to a wrong problem.
Unless I'm missing something in the current design/implementation, which may
well be :)
> Silently failing messages in case of schema not fully propagated
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-5725
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5725
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.2.6
> Reporter: Sergio Bossa
>
> When a new keyspace and/or column family is created on a multi nodes cluster
> (at least three), and then a mutation is executed on such new column family,
> the operations sometimes silently fails by timing out.
> I tracked this down to the schema not being fully propagated to all nodes.
> Here's what happens:
> 1) Node 1 receives the create keyspace/column family request.
> 2) The same node receives a mutation request at CL.QUORUM and sends to other
> nodes too.
> 3) Upon receiving the mutation request, other nodes try to deserialize it and
> fail in doing so if the schema is not fully propagated, i.e. because they
> don't find the mutated column family.
> 4) The connection between node 1 and the failed node is dropped, and the
> request on the former hangs until timing out.
> Here is the underlying exception, I had to tweak several log levels to get
> it:
> {noformat}
> INFO 13:11:39,441 IOException reading from socket; closing
> org.apache.cassandra.db.UnknownColumnFamilyException: Couldn't find
> cfId=a31c7604-0e40-393b-82d7-ba3d910ad50a
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilySerializer.deserializeCfId(ColumnFamilySerializer.java:184)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilySerializer.deserialize(ColumnFamilySerializer.java:94)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.db.RowMutation$RowMutationSerializer.deserialize(RowMutation.java:397)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.db.RowMutation$RowMutationSerializer.deserialize(RowMutation.java:407)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.db.RowMutation$RowMutationSerializer.deserialize(RowMutation.java:367)
> at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageIn.read(MessageIn.java:94)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.receiveMessage(IncomingTcpConnection.java:207)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.handleModernVersion(IncomingTcpConnection.java:139)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.run(IncomingTcpConnection.java:82)
> {noformat}
> Finally, there's probably a correlated failure happening during repairs of
> newly created/mutated column family, causing the repair process to hang
> forever as follows:
> {noformat}
> "AntiEntropySessions:1" daemon prio=5 tid=7fe981148000 nid=0x11abea000 in
> Object.wait() [11abe9000]
> java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
> at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
> - waiting on <7c6200840> (a org.apache.cassandra.utils.SimpleCondition)
> at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:485)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.SimpleCondition.await(SimpleCondition.java:34)
> - locked <7c6200840> (a org.apache.cassandra.utils.SimpleCondition)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.service.AntiEntropyService$RepairSession.runMayThrow(AntiEntropyService.java:695)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:439)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
> "http-8983-1" daemon prio=5 tid=7fe97d24d000 nid=0x11a5c8000 in Object.wait()
> [11a5c6000]
> java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
> at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
> - waiting on <7c620db58> (a org.apache.cassandra.utils.SimpleCondition)
> at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:485)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.SimpleCondition.await(SimpleCondition.java:34)
> - locked <7c620db58> (a org.apache.cassandra.utils.SimpleCondition)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService$4.runMayThrow(StorageService.java:2442)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:439)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.forceTableRepairRange(StorageService.java:2409)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.forceTableRepair(StorageService.java:2387)
> at
> com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.index.solr.SolrCoreResourceManager.repairResources(SolrCoreResourceManager.java:693)
> at
> com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.index.solr.SolrCoreResourceManager.createCore(SolrCoreResourceManager.java:255)
> at
> com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.index.solr.CassandraCoreAdminHandler.handleCreateAction(CassandraCoreAdminHandler.java:121)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CoreAdminHandler.handleRequestBody(CoreAdminHandler.java:144)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135)
> at
> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.handleAdminRequest(SolrDispatchFilter.java:615)
> at
> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:206)
> {noformat}
> I wasn't able to track any exception as I can't reproduce it reliably enough,
> but I believe it's correlated to schema propagation as based on log messages
> the merkle tree request on node 1 happens concurrently to schema installation
> on other nodes.
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