To support debian13, we need to modify the installation instructions since `apt-key` command is no longer available
Also updated installation instruction to match the latest release
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26673
**No need for backport since we added debian13 only in master for now**
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27205
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
install-on-linux.rst: update installation example to supported release
docs: modify debian/ubutnu installation instructions
When migrating tablet size during the end_migration tablet transition stage, we need the pending and leaving replica hosts. The leaving and pending replicas are gathered in objects of type std::optional<tablet_replica> and are not checked if they contain a value before dereferencing which could cause an exception in the topology coordinator.
This patch adds a check for leaving and pending replicas, and only performs the tablet size migration if neither are empty.
This bug was introduced in 10f07fb95a
This change also adds the ability to create a tablet size in load_stats during end_migration stage of a tablet rebuild. We compute the new tablet size from by averaging the tablet sizes of the existing replicas.
This change also adds the virtual table tablet_sizes which contains tablet sizes of all the replicas of all the tablets in the cluster.
A version containing this bug has not yet been released, so a backport is not needed.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27118
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test: add tests for tablet size migration during end_migration
virtual_table: add tablet_sizes virtual table
load_stats: update tablet sizes after migration or rebuild
Example of installation is out of date, since scylla-5.2 is EOL for long time
upding the example for more recent release (together with packages update)
This commit fixes the information about object storage:
- Object storage configuration is no longer marked as experimental.
- Redundant information has been removed from the description.
- Information related to object storage for SStabels has been removed
as the feature is not working.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26985Closesscylladb/scylladb#26987
This PR:
- Removes n1-highmem instances from Recommended Instances.
- Adds missing support for n2-highmem-96.
- Updates the reference to n2 instances in the Google Cloud docs (fixes a broken link to GCP).
- Adds the missing information about processors for n2-highmem-instance - Ice Lake and Cascade Lake (requested by CX).
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/25946
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/24223
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/23976
No backport needed if this PR is merged before 2025.4 branching.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26182
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
doc: update information for n2-highmem instances
doc: remove n1-highmem instances from Recommended Instances
This commit updates the section for n2-highmem instances
on the Cloud Instance Recommendations page
- Added missing support for n2-highmem-96
- Update the reference to n2 instances in the Google Cloud docs.
- Added the missing information about processors for this instance
type (Ice Lake and Cascade Lake).
Add documentation for the quarantine/ subdirectory that holds SSTables
isolated due to validation failures or corruption. Document the scrub
operation's quarantine_mode parameter options and the drop_quarantined_sstables
API operation.
Also update the directory hierarchy example to include the quarantine directory.
Fixes#10742
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Ganesh <vansi.ganeshs@gmail.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27023
Add a table name to Alternator's tracing output, as some clients would
like to consistently receive this information.
- add missing `tracing::add_table_name` in `executor::scan`
- add emiting tables' names in `trace_state::build_parameters_map`
- update tests, so when tracing is looked for it is filtered by table's
name, which confirms table is being outputed.
- change `struct one_session_records` declaration to `class one_session_records`,
as `one_session_records` is later defined as class.
Refs #26618Fixes#24031Closesscylladb/scylladb#26634
Adds a new documentation page for the incremental repair feature.
The page covers:
- What incremental repair is and its benefits over the standard repair process.
- How it works at a high level by tracking the repair status of SSTables.
- The prerequisite of using the tablets architecture.
- The different user-configurable modes: 'regular', 'full', and 'disabled'.
Fixes#25600Closesscylladb/scylladb#26221
Fixes#27077
Multiple points can be clarified relating to:
* Names of each sub-procedure could be clearer
* Requirements of each sub-procedure could be clearer
* Clarify which keyspaces are relevant and how to check them
* Fix typos in keyspace name
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26855
Update nodetool scrub documentation to include --quarantine-mode and --drop-unfixable-sstables options,
add a section explaining quarantine modes
and provide examples and procedures for handling and removing corrupted SSTables.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27018
This patch adds the missing warning about the lack of possibility
to return the similarity distance. This will be added in the next
iteration.
Fixes#27086
It has to be backported to 2025.4 as this is the limitation in 2025.4.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27096
The updates include:
- adding missing parts like topology states and table rows,
- documenting zero-token nodes,
- replacing the old recovery procedure with the new one.
Fixes#26412
Updates of internal docs (usually read on master) don't require
backporting.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27022
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs/dev/topology-over-raft: update the recovery section
docs/dev/topology-over-raft: document zero-token nodes
docs/dev/topology-over-raft: clarify the lack of tablet-specific states
docs/dev/topology-over-raft: add the missing join_group0 state
docs/dev/topology-over-raft: update the topology columns
This series allows an operator to reset 'cleanup needed' flag if he already cleaned up the node, so that automatic cleanup will not do it again. We also change 'nodetool cleanup' back to run cleanup on one node only (and reset 'cleanup needed' flag in the end), but the new '--global' option allows to run cleanup on all nodes that needed it simultaneously.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26866
Backport to all supported version since automatic cleanup behaviour as it is now may create unexpected by the operator load during cluster resizing.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26868
* https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb:
cleanup: introduce "nodetool cluster cleanup" command to run cleanup on all dirty nodes in the cluster
cleanup: Add RESTful API to allow reset cleanup needed flag
97ab3f6622 changed "nodetool cleanup" (without arguments) to run
cleanup on all dirty nodes in the cluster. This was somewhat unexpected,
so this patch changes it back to run cleanup on the target node only (and
reset "cleanup needed" flag afterwards) and it adds "nodetool cluster
cleanup" command that runs the cleanup on all dirty nodes in the
cluster.
Some of the columns were added, but the doc wasn't updated.
`upgrade_state` was updated in only one of the two places.
`ignore_nodes` was changed to a static column.
The service level controller relies on `auth::service` to collect
information about roles and the relation between them and the service
levels (those attached to them). Unfortunately, the service level
controller is initialized way earlier than `auth::service` and so we
had to prevent potential invalid queries of user service levels
(cf. 46193f5e79).
Unfortunately, that came at a price: it made the maintenance socket
incompatible with the current implementation of the service level
controller. The maintenance socket starts early, before the
`auth::service` is fully initialized and registered, and is exposed
almost immediately. If the user attempts to connect to Scylla within
this time window, via the maintenance socket, one of the things that
will happen is choosing the right service level for the connection.
Since the `auth::service` is not registered, Scylla with fail an
assertion and crash.
A similar scenario occurs when using maintenance mode. The maintenance
socket is how the user communicates with the database, and we're not
prepared for that either.
To avoid unnecessary crashes, we add new branches if the passed user is
absent or if it corresponds to the anonymous role. Since the role
corresponding to a connection via the maintenance socket is the anonymous
role, that solves the problem.
Some accesses to `auth::service` are not affected and we do not modify
those.
Fixesscylladb/scylladb#26816
Backport: yes. This is a fix of a regression.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26856
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/cluster/test_maintenance_mode.py: Wait for initialization
test: Disable maintenance mode correctly in test_maintenance_mode.py
test: Fix keyspace in test_maintenance_mode.py
service/qos: Do not crash Scylla if auth_integration absent
This patch series re-enables support for speculative retry values `0` and `100`. These values have been supported some time ago, before [schema: fix issue 21825: add validation for PERCENTILE values in speculative_retry configuration. #21879
](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/pull/21879). When that PR prevented using invalid `101PERCENTILE` values, valid `100PERCENTILE` and `0PERCENTILE` value were prevented too.
Reproduction steps from [[Bug]: drop schema and all tables after apply speculative_retry = '99.99PERCENTILE' #26369](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26369) are unable to reproduce the issue after the fix. A test is added to make sure the inclusive border values `0` and `100` are supported.
Documentation is updated to give more information to the users. It now states that these border values are inclusive, and also that the precision, with automatic rounding, is 1 decimal digit.
Fixes#26369
This is a bug fix. If at any time a client tries to use value >= 99.5 and < 100, the raft error will happen. Backport is needed. The code which introduced inconsistency is introduced in 2025.2, so no backporting to 2025.1.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26909
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test: cqlpy: add test case for non-numeric PERCENTILE value
schema: speculative_retry: update exception type for sstring ops
docs: cql: ddl.rst: update speculative-retry-options
test: cqlpy: add test for valid speculative_retry values
schema: speculative_retry: allow 0 and 100 PERCENTILE values
This PR extends the restore API so that it accepts primary_replica_only as parameter and it combines the concepts of primary-replica-only with scoped streaming so that with:
- `scope=all primary_replica_only=true` The restoring node will stream to the global primary replica only
- `scope=dc primary_replica_only=true` The restoring node will stream to the local primary replica only.
- `scope=rack primary_replica_only=true` The restoring node will stream only to the primary replica from within its own rack (with rf=#racks, the restoring node will stream only to itself)
- `scope=node primary_replica_only=true` is not allowed, the restoring node will always stream only to itself so the primary_replica_only parameter wouldn't make sense.
The PR also adjusts the `nodetool refresh` restriction on running restore with both primary_replica_only and scope, it adds primary_replica_only to `nodetool restore` and it adds cluster tests for primary replica within scope.
Fixes#26584Closesscylladb/scylladb#26609
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
Add cluster tests for checking scoped primary_replica_only streaming
Improve choice distribution for primary replica
Refactor cluster/object_store/test_backup
nodetool restore: add primary-replica-only option
nodetool refresh: Enable scope={all,dc,rack} with primary_replica_only
Enable scoped primary replica only streaming
Support primary_replica_only for native restore API
Before this series, Alternator's CreateTable operation defaults to creating a table replicated with vnodes, not tablets. The reasons for this default included missing support for LWT, Materialized Views, Alternator TTL and Alternator Streams if tablets are used. But today, all of these (except the still-experimental Alternator Streams) are now fully available with tablets, so we are finally ready to switch Alternator to use tablets by default in new tables.
We will use the same configuration parameter that CQL uses, tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces, to determine whether new keyspaces use tablets by default. If set to `enabled`, tablets are used by default on new tables. If set to `disabled`, tablets will not be used by default (i.e., vnodes will be used, as before). A third value, `enforced` is similar to `enabled` but forbids overriding the default to vnodes when creating a table.
As before, the user can set a tag during the CreateTable operation to override the default choice of tablets or vnodes (unless in `enforced` mode). This tag is now named `system:initial_tablets` - whereas before this patch it was called `experimental:initial_tablets`. The rules stay the same as with the earlier, experimental:initial_tablets tag: when supplied with a numeric value, the table will use tablets. When supplied with something else (like a string "none"), the table will use vnodes.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/22463
Backport to 2025.4, it's important not to delay phasing out vnodes.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26836
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test,alternator: use 3-rack clusters in tests
alternator: improve error in tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces=enforced
config: make tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces live-updatable
alternator: improve comment about non-hidden system tags
alternator: Fix test_ttl_expiration_streams()
alternator: Fix test_scan_paging_missing_limit()
alternator: Don't require vnodes for TTL tests
alternator: Remove obsolete test from test_table.py
alternator: Fix tag name to request vnodes
alternator: Fix test name clash in test_tablets.py
alternator: test_tablets.py handles new policy reg. tablets
alternator: Update doc regarding tablets support
alternator: Support `tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces` config flag
Fix incorrect hint for tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces
Fix comment for tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces
Add --primary-replica-only and update docs page for
nodetool restore.
The relationship with the scope parameter is:
- scope=all primary_replica_only=true gets the global primary replica
- scope=dc primary_replica_only=true gets the local primary replica
- scope=rack primary_replica_only=true is like a noop, it gets the only
replica in the rack (rf=#racks)
- scope=node primary_replica_only=node is not allowed
Fixes#26584
Signed-off-by: Robert Bindar <robert.bindar@scylladb.com>
If the user connects to Scylla via the maintenance socket, it may happen
that `auth_integration` has not been registered in the service level
controller yet. One example is maintenance mode when that will never
happen; another when the connection occurs before Scylla is fully
initialized.
To avoid unnecessary crashes, we add new branches if the passed user is
absent or if it corresponds to the anonymous role. Since the role
corresponding to a connection via the maintenance socket is the anonymous
role, that solves the problem.
In those cases, we completely circumvent any calls to `auth_integration`
and handle them separately. The modified methods are:
* `get_user_scheduling_group`,
* `with_user_service_level`,
* `describe_service_levels`.
For the first two, the new behavior is in line with the previous
implementation of those functions. The last behaves differently now,
but since it's a soft error, crashing the node is not necessary anyway.
We throw an exception instead, whose error message should give the user
a hint of what might be wrong.
The other uses of `auth_integration` within the service level controller
are not problematic:
* `find_effective_service_level`,
* `find_cached_effective_service_level`.
They take the name of a role as their argument. Since the anonymous role
doesn't have a name, it's not possible to call them with it.
Fixesscylladb/scylladb#26816
docs/alternator/compatibility.md describes support for global (multi-DC)
tables, and suggests that the CQL command "ALTER TABLE" should be used
to change the replication of an Alternator table. But actually, the
right command is "ALTER KEYSPACE", not "ALTER TABLE". So fix the
document.
Fixes#26737Closesscylladb/scylladb#26872
Clarify how the value of `XPERCENTILE` is handled:
- Values 0 and 100 are supported
- The percentile value is rounded to the nearest 0.1 (1 decimal place)
Refs #26369
Reflect honouring by Alternator the value of the config flag
`tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces`, as well as renaming of the tag
`experimental:initial_tablets` into `system:initial_tablets`.
Fixes: #26440
1. Added description to primary-replica-only option
2. Fixed code text to better reflect the constrained cheked in the code
itself. namely: that both primary replica only and scope must be
applied only if load and steam is applied too, and that they are mutual
exclusive to each other.
Note: when https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26584 is
implemented (with #26609) there will be a need to align the docs as
well - namely, primary-replica-only and scope will no longer be
mutual exclusive
Signed-off-by: Ran Regev <ran.regev@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26480
An Alternator user was recently "bit" when switching `alternator_enforce_authorization` from "false" to "true": ְְְAfter the configuration change, all application requests suddenly failed because unbeknownst to the user, their application used incorrect secret keys.
This series introduces a solution for users who want to **safely** switch `alternator_enforce_authorization` from "false" to "true": Before switching from "false" to "true", the user can temporarily switch a new option, `alternator_warn_authorization`, to true. In this "warn" mode, authentication and authorization errors are counted in metrics (`scylla_alternator_authentication_failures` and `scylla_alternator_authorization_failures`) and logged as WARNings, but the user's application continues to work. The user can use these metrics or log messages to learn of errors in their application's setup, fix them, and only do the switch of `alternator_enforce_authorization` when the metrics or log messages show there are no more errors.
The first patch is the implementation of the the feature - the new configuration option, the metrics and the log messages, the second patch is a test for the new feature, and the third patch is documentation recommending how to use the warn mode and the associated metrics or log messages to safely switch `alternaor_enforce_authorization` from false to true.
Fixes#25308
This is a feature that users need, so it should probably be backported to live branches.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#25457
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs/alternator: explain alternator_warn_authorization
test/alternator: tests for new auth failure metrics and log messages
alternator: add alternator_warn_authorization config
Counters are now supported in tablet-enabled keyspaces, so remove
the documentation that listed counters as an unsupported feature
and the note warning users about the limitation.
If a node is dead and cannot be brought back, tablet migrations are
stuck, until the node is explicitly marked as "permanently dead" /
"ignored node" / "excluded" (name differs in different contexts).
Currently, this is done during removenode and replace operations but
it should be possible to only mark the node as dead, for the purpose
of unblocking migrations or other topology operations, without doing
the actual removenode, because full removal might be currently
impossible, or not desirable due to lack of capacity or priorities.
This patch introduces this kind of API:
nodetool excludenode <host-id> [ ... <host-id> ]
Having this kind of API is an improvement in user experience in
several cases. For example, when we lose a rack, the only viable
option for recovery is to run removenode with an extra
--ignore-dead-nodes option. This removenode will fail in the tablet
draining phase, as there is no live node in the rack to rebuild
replicas in. This is confusing to the operator. But necessary before
ALTER KEYSPACE can proceed in order to change replication options to
drop the rack from RF.
Having this API allows operators to have more unified procedures,
where "nodetool excludenode" is always the first step of recovery,
which unblocks further topology operations, both those which restore
capacity, but also auto-scaling, tablet split/merge, load balancing,
etc.
Fixes#21281
We want to move towards rack-list based replication factor for tablets being the default mode, and in the future the only supported mode. This PR is a step towards that. We auto-expand numeric RF to rack list on keyspace creation and ALTER when rf_rack_valid_keyspaces option is enabled.
The PR is mostly about adjusting tests. The main logic change is in the last patch, which modifies option post-processing in ks_prop_defs.
Fixes#26397Closesscylladb/scylladb#26692
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
cql3: ks_prop_defs: Expand numeric RF to rack list
locator: Move rack_list to topology.hh
alternator: Do not set RF for zero-token DCs
alternator: Switch keyspace creation to use ks_prop_defs
test: alternator: Adjust for rack lists
cql3: Move validation of invalid ALTER KEYSPACE earlier, to ks_prop_defs
test: cqlpy: Mark tests using rack lists as scylla-only
test: Switch to rack-list based RF
test: Generalize tests to work with both numeric RF and rack lists
test: cluster: test_zero_token_nodes_multidc: Adjust to rack list RF
test: Prepare for handling errors specific to rack list path
test: cluster: dtest: alternator: Force RF=1 in test_putitem_contention
test: Create cluster with multiple racks in multi-dc setups
test: boost: network_topology_strategy_test: Adjust to rack-list RF
test: tablets: Adjust to rack list
test: cluster: test_group0_schema_versioning: Use smaller RF to respect rf-rack-validness
test: tablets_test: Convert test_per_shard_goal_mixed_dc_rf to be rack-valid
test: object_store: test_backup: Adjust for rack lists
test: cluster: tablets: Do not move tablet across racks in test_tablet_transition_sanity
test: cluster: mv: Do not move tablets across racks
test: cluster: util: Fix docstring for parse_replication_options()
tablets, topology_coordinator: Skip tablet draining on replace
Auto-exands numeric RF in CREATE/ALTER KEYSPACE statements for
new DCs specified in the statement.
Doesn't auto-expand existing options, as the rack choice may not be in
line with current replica placement. This requires co-locating tablet
replicas, and tracking of co-location state, which is not implemented yet.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grabiec <tgrabiec@scylladb.com>
In commit a3ec6c7d1d we supposedly
implemented the feature of telling TTL experation events from regular
user-sent deletions. However, that implementation did not actually work
at all... It had two bugs:
1. It created an null rjson::value() instead of an empty dictionary
rjson::empty_object(), so GetRecords failed every time such a
TTL expiration event was generated.
2. In the output, it used lowercase field names "type" and "principalId"
instead of the uppercase "Type" and "PrincipalId". This is not the
correct capitalization, and when boto3 recieves such incorrect
fields it silently deletes them and never passes them to the user's
get_records() call.
This patch fixes those two bugs, and importantly - enables a test for
this feature. We did already have such a test but it was marked as
"veryslow" so doesn't run in CI and apparently not even run once to
check the new feature. This test is not actually very long on Alternator
when the TTL period is set very low (as we do in our tests), so I replaced
the "veryslow" marker by "waits_for_expiration". The latter marker means
that the test is still very slow - as much as half an hour - on DynamoDB -
but runs quickly on Scylla in our test setup, and enabled in CI by
default.
The enabled test failed badly before this patch (a server error during
GetRecords), and passes with this patch.
Also, the aforementioned commit forgot to remove the paragraph in
Alternator's compatibility.md that claims we don't have that feature yet.
So we do it now.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26633
The previous patches added the ability to set
alternator_warn_authorization. In this patch we add to our
documentation a recommendation that this setting be used as an
intermediate step when wanting to change alternator_enforce_authorization
from "false" to "true". We explain why this is useful and important.
The new documentation is in docs/alternator/compatibility.md, where
we previously explained the alternator_enforce_authorization configuration.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
add a background fiber to the topology coordinator that runs
periodically and checks for old CDC streams for tablets keyspaces that
can be garbage collected.
In theory, scylla-sstable write is an awesome and flexible tool to generate sstables with arbitrary content. This is convenient for tests and could come clutch in a disaster scenario, where certain system table's content need to be manually re-created, system tables that are not writable directly via CQL.
In practice, in its current form this operation is so convoluted to use that even its own author shuns it. This is because the JSON specification of the sstable content is the same as that of the scylla-sstable dump-data: containing every single piece of information on the mutation content. Where this is an advantage for dump-data, allowing users to inspect the data in its entirety -- it is a huge disadvantage for write, because of all these details have to be filled in, down to the last timestamp, to generate an sstable. On top of that, the tool doesn't even support any of the more advanced data types, like collections, UDF and counters.
This PR proposes a new way of generating sstables: based on the success of scylla-sstable query, it introduces CQL support for scylla-sstable write. The content of the sstable can now be specified via standard INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements, which are applied to a memtable, then flushed into the sstable.
To avoid boundless memory consumption, the memtable is flushed every time it reaches 1MiB in size, consequently the command can generate multiple output sstables.
The new CQL input-format is made default, this is safe as nobody is using this command anyway. Hopefully this PR will change that.
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26506
New feature, no backport.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26515
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/cqlpy/test_tools.py: add test for scylla-sstable write --input-format=cql
replica/mutation_dump: add support for virtual tables
tools/scylla-sstable: print_query_results_json(): handle empty value buffer
tools/scylla-sstable: add cql support to write operation
tools/scylla-sstable: write_operation(): fix indentation
tools/scylla-sstable: write_operation(): prepare for a new input-format
tools/scylla-sstable: generalize query_operation_validate_query()
tools/scylla-sstable: move query_operation_validate_query()
tools/scylla-sstable: extract schema transformation from query operation
replica/table: add virtual write hook to the other apply() overload too
In 380f243986 we added support for rack
lists in replication options. Drivers which are not prepared to parse
that (as of now, all of them), will not create metadata object for
that keyspace. This breaks, for example, the "copy to/from" cqlsh
command. Potentially other things too.
To fix that, keep the "replication" column in the old format, and
store numeric RF there, which corresponds to the number of
replicas. Accurate options in the new format are put in
"replication_v2".
We set replication_v2 in the schema only when it differs from the old
"replication" so that the new column is not set during upgrade,
otherwise downgrade would fail. Partition tombstone is added to ensure
that pre-alter replication_v2 value is deleted on alters which change
replication to a value which is the same as the post-alter
"replication" value.
Fixes#26415Closesscylladb/scylladb#26429
This patch implements the changes required by the Vector Store authorization, as described in https://scylladb.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RND/pages/107085899/Vector+Store+Authentication+And+Authorization+To+ScyllaDB, that is:
- adding a new permission VECTOR_SEARCH_INDEXING, grantable only on ALL KEYSPACES
- allowing users with that permission to perform SELECT queries, but only on tables with a vector index
- increasing the number of scheduling groups by one to allow users to create a service level for a vector store user
- adjusting the tests and documentation
These changes are needed, as the vector indexes are managed by the external service, Vector Store, which needs to read the tables to create the indexes in its memory. We would like to limit the privileges of that service to a minimum to maintain the principle of least privilege, therefore a new permission, one that allows the SELECTs conditional on the existence of a vector_index on the table.
Fixes: VECTOR-201
Backport reasoning:
Backport to 2025.4 required as this can make upgrading clusters more difficult if we add it in 2026.1. As for now Scylla Cloud requires version 2025.4 to enable vector search and permission is set by orchestrator so there is no chance that someone will try to add this permission during upgrade. In 2026.1 it will be more difficult.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#25976
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs: adjust docs for VS auth changes
test: add tests for VECTOR_SEARCH_INDEXING permission
cql: allow VECTOR_SEARCH_INDEXING users to select
auth: add possibilty to check for any permission in set
auth: add a new permission VECTOR_SEARCH_INDEXING
