Yes, 4.2 release already had the salting upgrade code for sequences. I'm
not opposed to changing our upgrade contract, but I'd like that to be done
in a follow up release.

Thanks,
James

On Sunday, November 16, 2014, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does Phoenix 4.2.0 have the salting upgrade codle? If yes, I agree. If
> not, there is no public release of Phoenix that has the upgrade code.
> And here is my feedback with my Salesforce hat on: It breaks things! And
> it leads to operational complexity and/or custom patches for us.
>
> Why are you opposed to even discussing a simple change (removal of a few
> lines of code)?
>
> The pro is that upgrading from 4.1 is easier for large users, the con is
> that now the sequence table will remain unsalted. These are the only
> relevant points to discuss.
> Let's weigh these pros/cons on their own merit and decide what we should
> do. That is all that I am asking.
>
> -- Lars
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* James Taylor <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> *To:* Andrew Purtell <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> *Cc:* "[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" <
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>; lars hofhansl <
> [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>;
> James Taylor <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 16, 2014 9:54 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [VOTE] Release of Apache Phoenix 4.2.1 RC1
>
> @Jesse - the sequence table was converted to being salted in the 4.2
> release which is already out.
>
> @Andrew - I like that idea - that would be an improvement. The
> implementation might be tricky, depending on the type of upgrade
> that's necessary to do. Let's discuss this for the next patch release
> and come up with a plan.
>
> FWIW, Phoenix has does it's upgrade in same manner for all of its 20
> prior releases and we've never heard back from any of our users that
> this is broken or not useful. The upgrade of the sequence table to be
> salted is already released as of the 4.2 release, so holding up the
> patch over this doesn't make sense. Can it be improved? Sure, but
> that's not a reason to hold up this patch release with its 30 bug
> fixes.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Andrew Purtell
> <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
> > Can we just make auto schema upgrade configurable in general? Then this
> issue and others like it we might have going forward can be controlled. It
> should be possible to deploy 4.2 clients and have them run in "4.1 mode"
> until the fleet is ready for a cut over to a 4.2 schema upgrade... and same
> for any subsequent minor bump IMO.
> >
> > We should also have a discussion about what kind of major/minor/patch
> version compatibility expectations we want to and/or should set for users
> separate from this vote thread.
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Nov 15, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Jesse Yates <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I dont think it is that unreasonable to not split the sequences table
> for a
> >> release (this is the incompatible change, right?) to gain the ability to
> >> mix 4.1 and 4.2 clients.
> >>
> >> Yes, its a new part of the compatibility story but honestly a necessity
> to
> >> anyone looking to run phoenix in production without having a large
> number
> >> of your clients all stop working at the same time.
> >>
> >> The question is, how critical is the incompatible feature? If its a big
> >> deal, then we can cut a major release with it. If its a small segment of
> >> use cases and some minor perf improvements, then I think we should push
> it.
> >> In the between, then we should discuss (and talk to users about what
> they
> >> want, because that's who we are developing for, in the end).
> >>
> >> We can figure out how to make it compatible in this release - simple
> flag
> >> check should be sufficent in this case - and update our policy.
> >>
> >> Seems a lot to gain for not much cost. But maybe I'm missing something
> >>
> >> -j
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014, 6:00 PM lars hofhansl <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This may work "as designed". but that does not make it _useful_. It is
> >>> something new that we encountered that we did not think through.
> >>> On whether it's a new requirement, that depends on what "backwards
> >>> compatibility" means.
> >>> If we say a 4.2 server is backwards compatible with a 4.1 client, we
> >>> haven't really specified what that means.It is clear that 4.2 metadata
> does
> >>> *not* work with a 4.1 client, but is that really useful then? It means
> any
> >>> user would need to upgrade all their client at the exact same moment.
> >>> If it matters, we can call it a "new requirement", and still do that in
> >>> 4.2. The release is not out, so we can fix it now.
> >>>
> >>> This does break things, as we've seen. I would like to discuss it here.
> >>> Since we did not finish voting - if we wanted to change this, now is
> the
> >>> time.
> >>> -- Lars
> >>>
> >>>      From: James Taylor <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> >>> To: "[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" <
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>; lars hofhansl <
> >>> [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 5:45 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release of Apache Phoenix 4.2.1 RC1
> >>>
> >>> This works as designed. Supporting a mix of 4.1 and 4.2 clients has
> >>> never been in our backwards compatibility contract. If we want to add
> >>> this new requirement in 4.3, then that's fine, but let's at least be
> >>> clear that this is a *new* requirement.
> >>>
> >>> James
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:14 PM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
> >>>> As we discovered at Salesforce, this breaks mixed 4.1 and 4.2 clients
> >>> when those clients use sequences. As soon as the first 4.2 connects to
> a
> >>> cluster upgraded to 4.2 the cluster's metadata is upgraded. At that
> point
> >>> 4.1 clients using sequences are broken.
> >>>> I propose we sink the RC, remove the upgrade code from 4.2, and push
> it
> >>> to 4.3. That means the sequence table will not be pre-split in 4.2.
> >>>>
> >>>> Let's discuss, I won't -1 the RC until we do.
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Lars
> >>>>    From: James Taylor <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> >>>> To: "[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" <
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:25 AM
> >>>> Subject: [VOTE] Release of Apache Phoenix 4.2.1 RC1
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> This is a call for a vote on Apache Phoenix 4.2.1 RC1. This is a bug
> >>>> fix/patch release of Phoenix 4.2, compatible with the 0.98 branch of
> >>>> Apache HBase with feature parity against the Phoenix 3.2 release. The
> >>>> release includes both a source-only release and a convenience binary
> >>>> release.
> >>>>
> >>>> The previous RC was sunk due to a backward compatibility issue and
> >>>> various other bugs.
> >>>>
> >>>> For a complete list of changes, see:
> >>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/phoenix/4.2/CHANGES
> >>>>
> >>>> The source tarball, including signatures, digests, etc can be found
> at:
> >>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/phoenix/phoenix-4.2.1-rc1/src/
> >>>>
> >>>> The binary artifacts can be found at:
> >>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/phoenix/phoenix-4.2.1-rc1/bin/
> >>>>
> >>>> Release artifacts are signed with the following key:
> >>>> https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/mujtaba.asc
> >>>>
> >>>> KEYS file available here:
> >>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/phoenix/KEYS
> >>>>
> >>>> The hash and tag to be voted upon:
> >>>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=phoenix.git;a=commit;h=
> >>> e00763ee0151518decc2db39b207a6e674c0eebb
> >>>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=phoenix.git;a=tag;
> >>> h=refs/tags/v4.2.1-rc1
> >>>>
> >>>> Vote will be open for at least 72 hours. Please vote:
> >>>>
> >>>> [ ] +1 approve
> >>>> [ ] +0 no opinion
> >>>> [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> The Apache Phoenix Team
> >>>
> >>>
>
>
>

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