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James Taylor commented on PHOENIX-3534:
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Sorry, but I thought of another regression that the new scheme will cause. We
currently use Phoenix queries for our DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()
implementation (see PhoenixDatabaseMetaData). We'll need to do something
fancier now with multiple queries for a view to get all of its columns. Might
be easier to make one query to get all the tables, and then go through our
client-side cache, faulting in any tables as necessary, driving this from our
PTable instead. This work could potentially be done in a separate JIRA, but
some tests would need to be ignored in the meantime.
> Support multi region SYSTEM.CATALOG table
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> 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.
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