In the previous patch, we added a "view virtual" flag on columns. In this
patch we add persistance to this flag: I.e., writing it to the on-disk
schema table and reading it back on startup. But the implementation is
not as simple as adding a flag:
In the on-disk system tables, we have a "columns" table listing all the
columns in the database and their types. Cqlsh's "DESCRIBE MATERIALIZED
VIEW" works by reading this "columns" table, and listing all of the
requested view's columns. Therefore, we cannot add "virtual columns" -
which are columns not added by the user and not intended to be seen -
to this list.
We therefore need to create in this patch a separate list for virtual
columns, in a new table "view_virtual_columns". This table is essentially
identical to the existing "columns" table, just separate. We need to write
each column to the appropriate table (columns with the view_virtual flag to
"view_virtual_columns", columns without it to the old "columns"), read
from both on startup, and remember to delete columns from both when a table
is dropped.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Digest only looks like live values, ignoring deletion
information. Equality should be consistent with that, so that schemas
considered equal do not trigger the alter path unnecessarily.
When migrating schema tables from v2 to v3, mutations underlying
table schema will change, and so will their digest. However, we want
the digest to be the same on new nodes as on the old nodes, because
schema exchange is not possible between the two nodes, so they
must to request schema definitions from each other.
The solution is to make the digest persistable, so that it sticks to
given table schema, surviving both migration and node restarts. On
migration from v2, the digest will be calculated from v2 mutations, so
it will be the same on new and old nodes.
It will be used to store Scylla spcific table metadata. We cannot
store it in the standard "tables" table for compatibility reasons -
Cassandra will fail to read schema if it encounteres columns it is not
expecting.
This patch allows a view schema to be frozen. To unfreeze such a
schema, we add an is_view attribute to the schema idl.
Signed-off-by: Duarte Nunes <duarte@scylladb.com>
We want the node's schema version to change whenever
table_schema_version of any table changes. The latter is calculated by
hashing mutations so we should also use mutation hash when calculating
schema digest.
We must use canonical_mutation form to allow for changes in the schema
of schema tables. The node which deserializes schema mutations may not
have the same version of the schema tables so we cannot use
frozen_mutation, which is a schema dependent form.
