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Kadir Ozdemir reassigned PHOENIX-6141:
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Assignee: Palash Chauhan
> Ensure consistency between SYSTEM.CATALOG and SYSTEM.CHILD_LINK
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> Key: PHOENIX-6141
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-6141
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 5.0.0, 4.15.0
> Reporter: Chinmay Kulkarni
> Assignee: Palash Chauhan
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 4.17.0
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> Before 4.15, "CREATE/DROP VIEW" was an atomic operation since we were issuing
> batch mutations on just the 1 SYSTEM.CATALOG region. In 4.15 we introduced
> SYSTEM.CHILD_LINK to store the parent->child links and so a CREATE VIEW is no
> longer atomic since it consists of 2 separate RPCs (1 to SYSTEM.CHILD_LINK
> to add the linking row and another to SYSTEM.CATALOG to write metadata for
> the new view).
> If the second RPC i.e. the RPC to write metadata to SYSTEM.CATALOG fails
> after the 1st RPC has already gone through, there will be an inconsistency
> between both metadata tables. We will see orphan parent->child linking rows
> in SYSTEM.CHILD_LINK in this case. This can cause the following issues:
> # ALTER TABLE calls on the base table will fail
> # DROP TABLE without CASCADE will fail
> # The upgrade path has calls like UpgradeUtil.upgradeTable() which will fail
> # Any metadata consistency checks can be thrown off
> # Unnecessary extra storage of orphan links
> The first 3 issues happen because we wrongly deduce that a base table has
> child views due to the orphan linking rows.
> This Jira aims at trying to come up with a way to make mutations among
> SYSTEM.CATALOG and SYSTEM.CHILD_LINK an atomic transaction. We can use a
> 2-phase commit approach like in global indexing or also potentially explore
> using a transaction manager.
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