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CASSANDRA-5225 (release)
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CASSANDRA-5225

1. Symptom

Missing columns when requesting specific columns from wide row. The data is still in the table, just it might not be returned to the user. It also won’t return wrong result (e.g., rows that shouldn’t be returned), only returning partial (incomplete) result.

This only occurs to wide rows, where there are multiple index slices.

 

Category (in the spreadsheet):

wrong computation

1.1 Severity

Critical

1.2 Was there exception thrown? (Exception column in the spreadsheet)

Yes. Java RuntimeException (corrupted table exception)

 

1.2.1 Were there multiple exceptions?

no

 

1.3 Was there a long propagation of the failure?

No

 

1.4 Scope of the failure (e.g., single client, all clients, single file, entire fs, etc.)

Single file

 

Catastrophic? (spreadsheet column)

no

2. How to reproduce this failure

2.0 Version

1.2.1

2.1 Configuration

Configured as widerow and selecting from the range of multiple indexes.

 

# of Nodes?

1

2.2 Reproduction procedure

1) Insert  a large number of columns into Cassandra (so it is a wide row)

2) fetch columns in a portion of ranges

See testcase

Num triggering events

2

 

2.2.1 Timing order (Order important column)

yes

2.2.2 Events order externally controllable? (Order externally controllable? column)

yes

2.3 Can the logs tell how to reproduce the failure?

Yes

2.4 How many machines needed?

1

3. Diagnosis procedure

Error msg?

yes

3.1 Detailed Symptom (where you start)

When requesting specific columns from a wide row, thrift query does not return with the correct output.

3.2 Backward inference

Taking closer look, Cassandra is reading from the wrong column index. A problem was found with the index checking algorithm. In fact, it was written in reverse.

 

4. Root cause

4.1 Category:

Semantic

4.2 Are there multiple fault?

no

4.2 Can we automatically test it?

yes

5. Fix

5.1 How?

The fix reverses the algorithm.

Before

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After

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