That was my initial thought, just wanted to see if there was anything else 
going on. Sounds like Henrik has a workaround so all is well. 

Cheers
 
-----------------
Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 9 May 2011, at 18:10, Jonathan Ellis wrote:

> Strongly suspect that he has invalid unicode characters in his keys.
> 0.6 wasn't as good at validating those as 0.7.
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:51 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
>> Out of interest i've done some more digging. Not sure how much more I've
>> contributed but here goes...
>> Ran this against an clean v 0.6.12 and it works (I expected it to fail on
>> the first read)
>>     client = pycassa.connect()
>>     standard1 = pycassa.ColumnFamily(client, 'Keyspace1', 'Standard1')
>>     uni_str = u"数時間"
>>     uni_str = uni_str.encode("utf-8")
>> 
>>     print "Insert row", uni_str
>>     print uni_str, standard1.insert(uni_str, {"bar" : "baz"})
>>     print "Read rows"
>>     print "???", standard1.get("???")
>>     print uni_str, standard1.get(uni_str)
>> Ran that against the current 0.6 head from the command line and it works.
>> Run against the code running in intelli J and the code fails as expected.
>> Code also fails as expected on 0.7.5
>> At one stage I grabbed the buffer created by fastbinary.encode_binary in the
>> python generated batch_mutate_args.write() and it looked like the key was
>> correctly utf-8 encoded (matching bytes to the previous utf-8 encoding of
>> that string).
>> I've updated the git
>> project https://github.com/amorton/cassandra-unicode-bug
>> Am going to leave it there unless there is interest to keep looking
>> into it.
>> -----------------
>> Aaron Morton
>> Freelance Cassandra Developer
>> @aaronmorton
>> http://www.thelastpickle.com
>> On 8 May 2011, at 13:31, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>> 
>> Right, that's sort of a half-repair: it will repair differences in
>> replies it got, but it won't doublecheck md5s on the rest in the
>> background. So if you're doing CL.ONE reads this is a no-op.
>> 
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:25 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I remembered something like that so had a look at
>> RangeSliceResponseResolver.resolve()  in 0.6.12 and it looks like it
>> schedules the repairs...
>> 
>>            protected Row getReduced()
>> 
>>            {
>> 
>>                ColumnFamily resolved =
>> ReadResponseResolver.resolveSuperset(versions);
>> 
>>                ReadResponseResolver.maybeScheduleRepairs(resolved, table,
>> key, versions, versionSources);
>> 
>>                versions.clear();
>> 
>>                versionSources.clear();
>> 
>>                return new Row(key, resolved);
>> 
>>            }
>> 
>> 
>> Is that right?
>> 
>> 
>> -----------------
>> 
>> Aaron Morton
>> 
>> Freelance Cassandra Developer
>> 
>> @aaronmorton
>> 
>> http://www.thelastpickle.com
>> 
>> On 8 May 2011, at 00:48, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>> 
>> range_slices respects consistencylevel, but only single-row reads and
>> 
>> multiget do the *repair* part of RR.
>> 
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 1:44 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> get_range_slices() does read repair if enabled (checked
>> DoConsistencyChecksBoolean in the config, it's on by default) so you should
>> be getting good reads. If you want belt-and-braces run nodetool repair
>> first.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> 
>> On 7 May 2011, at 11:46, Jeremy Hanna wrote:
>> 
>> Great!  I just wanted to make sure you were getting the information you
>> needed.
>> 
>> On May 6, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Henrik Schröder wrote:
>> 
>> Well, I already completed the migration program. Using get_range_slices I
>> could migrate a few thousand rows per second, which means that migrating all
>> of our data would take a few minutes, and we'll end up with pristine
>> datafiles for the new cluster. Problem solved!
>> 
>> I'll see if I can create datafiles in 0.6 that are uncleanable in 0.7 so
>> that you all can repeat this and hopefully fix it.
>> 
>> 
>> /Henrik Schröder
>> 
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 00:35, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> If you're able, go into the #cassandra channel on freenode (IRC) and talk to
>> driftx or jbellis or aaron_morton about your problem.  It could be that you
>> don't have to do all of this based on a conversation there.
>> 
>> On May 6, 2011, at 5:04 AM, Henrik Schröder wrote:
>> 
>> I'll see if I can make some example broken files this weekend.
>> 
>> 
>> /Henrik Schröder
>> 
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 02:10, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The difficulty is the different thrift clients between 0.6 and 0.7.
>> 
>> If you want to roll your own solution I would consider:
>> 
>> - write an app to talk to 0.6 and pull out the data using keys from the
>> other system (so you know can check referential integrity while you are at
>> it). Dump the data to flat file.
>> 
>> - write an app to talk to 0.7 to load the data back in.
>> 
>> I've not given up digging on your migration problem, having to manually dump
>> and reload if you've done nothing wrong is not the best solution. I'll try
>> to find some time this weekend to test with:
>> 
>> - 0.6 server, random paritioner, standard CF's, byte column
>> 
>> - load with python or the cli on osx or ubuntu (dont have a window machine
>> any more)
>> 
>> - migrate and see whats going on.
>> 
>> If you can spare some sample data to load please send it over in the user
>> group or my email address.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> -----------------
>> 
>> Aaron Morton
>> 
>> Freelance Cassandra Developer
>> 
>> @aaronmorton
>> 
>> http://www.thelastpickle.com
>> 
>> On 6 May 2011, at 05:52, Henrik Schröder wrote:
>> 
>> We can't do a straight upgrade from 0.6.13 to 0.7.5 because we have rows
>> stored that have unicode keys, and Cassandra 0.7.5 thinks those rows in the
>> sstables are corrupt, and it seems impossible to clean it up without losing
>> data.
>> 
>> However, we can still read all rows perfectly via thrift so we are now
>> looking at building a simple tool that will copy all rows from our 0.6.3
>> cluster to a parallell 0.7.5 cluster. Our question is now how to do that and
>> ensure that we actually get all rows migrated? It's a pretty small cluster,
>> 3 machines, a single keyspace, a singke columnfamily, ~2 million rows, a few
>> GB of data, and a replication factor of 3.
>> 
>> So what's the best way? Call get_range_slices and move through the entire
>> token space? We also have all row keys in a secondary system, would it be
>> better to use that and make calls to get_multi or get_multi_slices instead?
>> Are we correct in assuming that if we use the consistencylevel ALL we'll get
>> all rows?
>> 
>> 
>> /Henrik Schröder
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> 
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> 
>> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> 
>> http://www.datastax.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> http://www.datastax.com
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
> http://www.datastax.com

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