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Yang Yang commented on CASSANDRA-2774:
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Thanks a lot Sylvain for looking through this.
2 answers to your last comment:
1) "it is impossible for other nodes to have a version for A's shard that is
greater than what A has", actually it is possible. D is able to have a higher
version(clock) for A-shard because A's A-shard clock was decremented from some
time before, due to wipe out by the delete. D *did not increment* the clock of
A-shard. in other words, the result "D having a higher A-shard clock than A"
can be achieved by either "D increments the A-shard clock" (which is
impossible) *or* "A decrements its A-shard clock" which is possible through the
deletion.
2) regarding your example.
if the 3 operations are in 3 sstables, which are merged in the following order:
+1
+1
Delete
the second +1 will already have an epoch of 1 (which you pointed out , through
inheritance), while the first one has an epoch of 0,
in the new reconcile() rules (line 172--178 in the patch), because the second
+1 has a different, higher epoch (timestampOfLastDelete) than
the first one, the first +1 will be thrown away. so in this example, the final
result will always be +1.
the central point of the change is that we do not ever look at timestamp()
again, only look at timestampOfLastDelete (timestamp() is only used
to assign timestampOfLastDelete for delete operations)
Thanks
Yang
> one way to make counter delete work better
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-2774
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2774
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Yang Yang
> Attachments: counter_delete.diff
>
>
> current Counter does not work with delete, because different merging order of
> sstables would produces different result, for example:
> add 1
> delete
> add 2
> if the merging happens by 1-2, (1,2)--3 order, the result we see will be 2
> if merging is: 1--3, (1,3)--2, the result will be 3.
> the issue is that delete now can not separate out previous adds and adds
> later than the delete. supposedly a delete is to create a completely new
> incarnation of the counter, or a new "lifetime", or "epoch". the new approach
> utilizes the concept of "epoch number", so that each delete bumps up the
> epoch number. since each write is replicated (replicate on write is almost
> always enabled in practice, if this is a concern, we could further force ROW
> in case of delete ), so the epoch number is global to a replica set
> changes are attached, existing tests pass fine, some tests are modified since
> the semantic is changed a bit. some cql tests do not pass in the original
> 0.8.0 source, that's not the fault of this change.
> see details at
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201106.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
> the goal of this is to make delete work ( at least with consistent behavior,
> yes in case of long network partition, the behavior is not ideal, but it's
> consistent with the definition of logical clock), so that we could have
> expiring Counters
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