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+# Copyright 2020-present ScyllaDB
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+#############################################################################
+# Various tests for Light-Weight Transactions (LWT) support in Scylla.
+# Note that we have many more LWT tests in the cql-repl framework:
+# ../cql/lwt*_test.cql, ../cql/cassandra_cql_test.cql.
+#############################################################################
+
+import re
+import pytest
+from cassandra.protocol import InvalidRequest
+
+from util import new_test_table, unique_key_int
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def table1(cql, test_keyspace):
+    schema='p int, c int, r int, s int static, PRIMARY KEY(p, c)'
+    with new_test_table(cql, test_keyspace, schema) as table:
+        yield table
+
+# An LWT UPDATE whose condition uses non-static columns begins by reading
+# the clustering row which must be specified by the WHERE. If there is a
+# static column in the partition, it is read as well. The value of the all
+# these columns - regular and static - is then passed to the condition.
+# As discovered in issue #10081, if the row determined by WHERE does NOT
+# exist, Scylla still needs to read the static column, but forgets to do so.
+# this test reproduces this issue.
+@pytest.mark.xfail(reason="Issue #10081")
+def test_lwt_missing_row_with_static(cql, table1):
+    p = unique_key_int()
+    # Insert into partition p just the static column - and no clustering rows.
+    cql.execute(f'INSERT INTO {table1}(p, s) values ({p}, 1)')
+    # Now, do an update with WHERE p={p} AND c=1. This clustering row does
+    # *not* exist, so we expect to see r=null - and s=1 from before.
+    r = list(cql.execute(f'UPDATE {table1} SET s=2,r=1 WHERE p={p} AND c=1 IF s=1 and r=null'))
+    assert len(r) == 1
+    assert r[0].applied == True
+    # At this point we should have one row, for c=1 
+    assert list(cql.execute(f'SELECT * FROM {table1} WHERE p={p}')) == [(p, 1, 2, 1)]
+
+# The fact that to reproduce #10081 above we needed the condition (IF) to
+# mention a non-static column as well, suggests that Scylla has a different code
+# path for the case that the condition has *only* static columns. In fact,
+# in that case, the WHERE doesn't even need to specify the clustering key -
+# the partition key should be enough. The following test confirms that this
+# is indeed the case.
+def test_lwt_static_condition(cql, table1):
+    p = unique_key_int()
+    cql.execute(f'INSERT INTO {table1}(p, s) values ({p}, 1)')
+    # When the condition only mentions static (partition-wide) columns,
+    # it is allowed not to specify the clustering key in the WHERE:
+    r = list(cql.execute(f'UPDATE {table1} SET s=2 WHERE p={p} IF s=1'))
+    assert len(r) == 1
+    assert r[0].applied == True
+    assert list(cql.execute(f'SELECT * FROM {table1} WHERE p={p}')) == [(p, None, 2, None)]
+    # When the condition also mentions a non-static column, WHERE must point
+    # to a clustering column, i.e., mention the clustering key. If the
+    # clustering key is missing, we get an InvalidRequest error, where the
+    # message is slightly different between Scylla and Cassandra ("Missing
+    # mandatory PRIMARY KEY part c" and "Some clustering keys are missing: c",
+    # respectively.
+    with pytest.raises(InvalidRequest, match=re.compile('missing', re.IGNORECASE)):
+        cql.execute(f'UPDATE {table1} SET s=2 WHERE p={p} IF r=1')