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Gregory Chanan commented on SOLR-6137:
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The Schema API blocking mode is an interesting idea, I'd want to think more
about that.
In some sense, the schemaless issue seems easier to solve than the Schema API
issue. This is because if we run all (or more) of the update chain, instead of
just skipping to the distributed update handler on the forwarded nodes, we
could have all the cores apply the schema changes, so we are guaranteed of
having the correct schema on each core. We'd need to be smarter about trying
to update the schema in ZK (as I noted above, concurrent schema changes may
fail currently). But that doesn't seem impossible.
The Schema API issue does seem more difficult. A blocking mode could work in
theory, though I guess one complication is you need to wait for all the cores
that use the config, not just all the cores of the collection. Although,
perhaps we should just throw in some checks that only one collection is using a
certain managed schema config at a time; it may make the logic easier and it
seems very unlikely the user actually wants to use the same schema for multiple
collections (I did that myself the first time before realizing why it didn't
make any sense).
As Steve noted above, a blocking mode could be used by the schemaless
functionality as well, instead of what I wrote above.
> Managed Schema / Schemaless and SolrCloud concurrency issues
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SOLR-6137
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6137
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Schema and Analysis, SolrCloud
> Reporter: Gregory Chanan
>
> This is a follow up to a message on the mailing list, linked here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-dev/201406.mbox/%3CCAKfebOOcMeVEb010SsdcH8nta%3DyonMK5R7dSFOsbJ_tnre0O7w%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> The Managed Schema integration with SolrCloud seems pretty limited.
> The issue I'm running into is variants of the issue that schema changes are
> not pushed to all shards/replicas synchronously. So, for example, I can make
> the following two requests:
> 1) add a field to the collection on server1 using the Schema API
> 2) add a document with the new field, the document is routed to a core on
> server2
> Then, there appears to be a race between when the document is processed by
> the core on server2 and when the core on server2, via the
> ZkIndexSchemaReader, gets the new schema. If the document is processed
> first, I get a 400 error because the field doesn't exist. This is easily
> reproducible by adding a sleep to the ZkIndexSchemaReader's processing.
> I hit a similar issue with Schemaless: the distributed request handler sends
> out the document updates, but there is no guarantee that the other
> shards/replicas see the schema changes made by the update.chain.
> Another issue I noticed today: making multiple schema API calls concurrently
> can block; that is, one may get through and the other may infinite loop.
> So, for reference, the issues include:
> 1) Schema API changes return success before all cores are updated; subsequent
> calls attempting to use new schema may fail
> 2) Schemaless changes may fail on replicas/other shards for the same reason
> 3) Concurrent Schema API changes may block
> From Steve Rowe on the mailing list:
> {quote}
> For Schema API users, delaying a couple of seconds after adding fields before
> using them should workaround this problem. While not ideal, I think schema
> field additions are rare enough in the Solr collection lifecycle that this is
> not a huge problem.
> For schemaless users, the picture is worse, as you noted. Immediate
> distribution of documents triggering schema field addition could easily prove
> problematic. Maybe we need a schema update blocking mode, where after the ZK
> schema node watch is triggered, all new request processing is halted until
> the schema is finished downloading/parsing/swapping out? (Such a mode should
> help Schema API users too.)
> {quote}
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