Alberto Bortolan created CASSJAVA-93:
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Summary: Wildcard prepared statements don't get updated metadata
with older DSE and Cassandra versions
Key: CASSJAVA-93
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSJAVA-93
Project: Apache Cassandra Java driver
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Core
Reporter: Alberto Bortolan
h2. Problem description
You prepare a wildcard select statement ({{{}SELECT *{}}}) and while the
application using it is running, the table is altered dropping one column. What
happens is that under the hood, the driver re-prepares the statement, but does
not change the metadata associated, in particular
the map between a column name and it's position within the returned tuple.
As an example, if you have a table with non PK columns c1, c2, c3, c4 :
{code:java}
CREATE TABLE myks.t1 (
id text PRIMARY KEY,
c1 text,
c2 text,
c3 text,
c4 text ); {code}
and prepare the statement
{code:java}
"SELECT * FROM myks.t1 WHERE id = ?"{code}
If, after the prepare occurred column "c2" is dropped, when going through the
row contained in a resultSet returned by the execution of the prepared
statement, you get:
{code:java}
row.getString("c1") //data from c1
row.getString("c2") //data from c3 (column shift)
row.getString("c3") //data from c4 (column shift)
row.getString("c4") // IndexOutOfBoundsException {code}
while the correct behavior should be:
{code:java}
row.getString("c1") //data from c1
row.getString("c2") // IllegalArgumentException: c2 is not a column in this row
row.getString("c3") //data from c3
row.getString("c4") //data from c4 {code}
h2. Some observations
This issue is reproducible when running an application using the Cassandra Java
driver against Cassandra < 4.0 and DSE < 6.x. I'm aware that at the time this
jira is defined, Cassandra 3.x and older are in EOL, while DSE 5.1 is still
supported (EOSL 12/31/2026)
The issue appears to be linked to the changes in the protocols in DSE 6 and
Cassandra 4 ( CASSANDRA-10786 ) which add a hash of the metadata for PREPARE
and EXECUTE.
Older server versions do not return this information (although they still
returns the actual metadata)
If the statement is explicitly prepared again using the same string, the
behavior with the new prepared object will still be incorrect.
If the statement is explicitly prepared again using a string with trivial
changes (such as adding spaces or an ending semicolon) the new prepared object
will behave correctly ( presumably because it's tied to a separate prepared
statement ID on server side)
Restarting the application makes things work.
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