Hi Bhaskar, Thanks for reporting that problem. It is a nice catch :-)
Could you open a JIRA ticket with all the information that you provided? I will try to fix that problem. Benjamin On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Bhaskar Muppana <mgvbhas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > We are seeing an issue with paging reads missing some small number of > columns when we do paging/limit reads. We get this on a single DC cluster > itself when both reads and writes are happening with QUORUM. Paging/limit > reads see this issue. I have attached the ccm based script which reproduces > the problem. > > * Keyspace RF - 2 > * Table (id int, course text, marks int, primary key(id, course)) > * replicas for partition key 1 - r1, r2 and r3 > * insert (1, '1', 1) , (1, '2', 2), (1, '3', 3), (1, '4', 4), (1, '5', > 5) - succeeded on all 3 replicas > * insert (1, '6', 6) succeeded on r1 and r3, failed on r2 > * delete (1, '2'), (1, '3'), (1, '4'), (1, '5') succeeded on r1 and r2, > failed on r3 > * insert (1, '7', 7) succeeded on r1 and r2, failed on r3 > > Local data on 3 nodes looks like as below now > > r1: (1, '1', 1), tombstone(2-5 records), (1, '6', 6), (1, '7', 7) > r2: (1, '1', 1), tombstone(2-5 records), (1, '7', 7) > r3: (1, '1', 1), (1, '2', 2), (1, '3', 3), (1, '4', 4), (1, '5', > 5), (1, '6', 6) > > If we do a paging read with page_size 2, and if it gets data from r2 and > r3, then it will only get the data (1, '1', 1) and (1, '7', 7) skipping > record 6. This problem would happen if the same query is not doing paging > but limit set to 2 records. > > Resolution code for reads works same for paging queries and normal > queries. Co-ordinator shouldn't respond back to client with records/columns > that it didn't have complete visibility on all required replicas (in this > case 2 replicas). In above case, it is sending back record (1, '7', 7) back > to client, but its visibility on r3 is limited up to (1, '2', 2) and it is > relying on just r2 data to assume (1, '6', 6) doesn't exist, which is > wrong. End of the resolution all it can conclusively say any thing about is > (1, '1', 1), which exists and (1, '2', 2), which is deleted. > > Ideally we should have different resolution implementation for > paging/limit queries. > > We could reproduce this on 2.0.17, 2.1.16 and 3.0.9. > > Seems like 3.0.9 we have ShortReadProtection transformation on list > queries. I assume that is to protect against the cases like above. But, we > can reproduce the issue in 3.0.9 as well. > > Thanks, > Bhaskar > > > > > > >