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Sergey Shelukhin commented on HBASE-3787:
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My 2 concerns about this are as follows.
First, if there are a lot of clients incrementing one counter, gets will have
to read 100s-1000s-... KVs and will be slower.
Second, actually increments and appends are currently versions, because
internally they are just puts. That, plus # of versions restriction, plus
out-of-order puts and deletes, will make version management... interesting.
However it does make operations inherently idempotent.
> Increment is non-idempotent but client retries RPC
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>
> Key: HBASE-3787
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3787
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Client
> Affects Versions: 0.94.4, 0.95.2
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.95.2
>
> Attachments: HBASE-3787-partial.patch, HBASE-3787-v0.patch,
> HBASE-3787-v1.patch, HBASE-3787-v2.patch, HBASE-3787-v3.patch,
> HBASE-3787-v4.patch, HBASE-3787-v5.patch, HBASE-3787-v5.patch
>
>
> The HTable.increment() operation is non-idempotent. The client retries the
> increment RPC a few times (as specified by configuration) before throwing an
> error to the application. This makes it possible that the same increment call
> be applied twice at the server.
> For increment operations, is it better to use
> HConnectionManager.getRegionServerWithoutRetries()? Another option would be
> to enhance the IPC module to make the RPC server correctly identify if the
> RPC is a retry attempt and handle accordingly.
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