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Samarth Jain commented on PHOENIX-3534: --------------------------------------- bq . Today we copy the metadata from the table to the view and when the view is altered, we flag it as "diverged" from the base table (by setting the BASE_COLUMN_COUNT to a special value, -1 I believe). This is not really correct, as if say column C is dropped from the base table, it really should be dropped from the children as well (which is likely not the case now). Do you mean if we drop the column from the views if it is dropped from the base table? [~tdsilva] implemented that in PHOENIX-2156. > Support multi region SYSTEM.CATALOG table > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: PHOENIX-3534 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-3534 > Project: Phoenix > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: James Taylor > Assignee: churro morales > > Currently Phoenix requires that the SYSTEM.CATALOG table is single region > based on the server-side row locks being held for operations that impact a > table and all of it's views. For example, adding/removing a column from a > base table pushes this change to all views. > As an alternative to making the SYSTEM.CATALOG transactional (PHOENIX-2431), > when a new table is created we can do a lazy cleanup of any rows that may be > left over from a failed DDL call (kudos to [~lhofhansl] for coming up with > this idea). To implement this efficiently, we'd need to also do PHOENIX-2051 > so that we can efficiently find derived views. > The implementation would rely on an optimistic concurrency model based on > checking our sequence numbers for each table/view before/after updating. Each > table/view row would be individually locked for their change (metadata for a > view or table cannot span regions due to our split policy), with the sequence > number being incremented under lock and then returned to the client. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)