Yes, the keys were written to 0.6, but when I looked through the thrift client code for 0.6, it explicitly converts all string keys to UTF8 before sending them over to the server so the encoding *should* be right, and after the upgrade to 0.7.5, sstablekeys prints out the correct byte values for those keys, but Cassandra itself is unable to get those rows.
I ran some more tests yesterday with a clean database where I only wrote two rows, one with an ascii key and one with a unicode key, upgraded to 0.7.5, ran nodetool cleanup, and that actually fixed it. After cleanup, the server could fetch both rows correctly. However, when I tried to do the same thing with a snapshot of our live database where we have ~2 million keys, out of which ~1000 are unicode, cleanup failed with a lot of "Keys must be written in descending order" exceptions. I've tried various combinations of cleanup and scrub, running cleanup before upgrading, etc, but I've yet to find something that fixes all the problems without losing those rows. /Henrik On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:48, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > I take it back, the problem started in 0.6 where keys were strings. Looking > into how 0.6 did it's thing > > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 5 May 2011, at 22:36, aaron morton wrote: > > Interesting but as we are dealing with keys it should not matter as they > are treated as byte buffers. > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 5 May 2011, at 04:53, Daniel Doubleday wrote: > > This is a bit of a wild guess but Windows and encoding and 0.7.5 sounds > like > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2367 > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2367> > On May 3, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Henrik Schröder wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > We did some tests before upgrading our Cassandra cluster from 0.6 to 0.7, > just to make sure that the change in how keys are encoded wouldn't cause us > any dataloss. Unfortunately it seems that rows stored under a unicode key > couldn't be retrieved after the upgrade. We're running everything on > Windows, and we're using the generated thrift client in C# to access it. > > I managed to make a minimal test to reproduce the error consistently: > > First, I started up Cassandra 0.6.13 with an empty data directory, and a > really simple config with a single keyspace with a single bytestype > columnfamily. > I wrote two rows, each with a single column with a simple column name and a > 1-byte value of "1". The first row had a key using only ascii chars ('foo'), > and the second row had a key using unicode chars ('ドメインウ'). > > Using multi_get, and both those keys, I got both columns back, as expected. > Using multi_get_slice and both those keys, I got both columns back, as > expected. > I also did a get_range_slices to get all rows in the columnfamily, and I > got both columns back, as expected. > > So far so good. Then I drain and shut down Cassandra 0.6.13, and start up > Cassandra 0.7.5, pointing to the same data directory, with a config > containing the same keyspace, and I run the schematool import command. > > I then start up my test program that uses the new thrift api, and run some > commands. > > Using multi_get_slice, and those two keys encoded as UTF8 byte-arrays, I > only get back one column, the one under the key 'foo'. The other row I > simply can't retrieve. > > However, when I use get_range_slices to get all rows, I get back two rows, > with the correct column values, and the byte-array keys are identical to my > encoded keys, and when I decode the byte-arrays as UTF8 drings, I get back > my two original keys. This means that both my rows are still there, the keys > as output by Cassandra are identical to the original string keys I used when > I created the rows in 0.6.13, but it's just impossible to retrieve the > second row. > > To continue the test, I inserted a row with the key 'ドメインウ' encoded as > UTF-8 again, and gave it a similar column as the original, but with a 1-byte > value of "2". > > Now, when I use multi_get_slice with my two encoded keys, I get back two > rows, the 'foo' row has the old value as expected, and the other row has the > new value as expected. > > However, when I use get_range_slices to get all rows, I get back *three* > rows, two of which have the *exact same* byte-array key, one has the old > column, one has the new column. > > > How is this possible? How can there be two different rows with the exact > same key? I'm guessing that it's related to the encoding of string keys in > 0.6, and that the internal representation is off somehow. I checked the > generated thrift client for 0.6, and it UTF8-encodes all keys before sending > them to the server, so it should be UTF8 all the way, but apparently it > isn't. > > Has anyone else experienced the same problem? Is it a platform-specific > problem? Is there a way to avoid this and upgrade from 0.6 to 0.7 and not > lose any rows? I would also really like to know which byte-array I should > send in to get back that second row, there's gotta be some key that can be > used to get it, the row is still there after all. > > > /Henrik Schröder > > > > >
