"Currently data query digest includes cells and tombstones which may have
expired or be covered by higher-level tombstones. This causes digest
mismatch between replicas if some elements are compacted on one of the
nodes and not on others. This mismatch triggers read-repair which doesn't
resolve because mutations received by mutation queries are not differing,
they are compacted already.
The fix adds compacting step before writing and digesting query results by
reusing the algorithm used by mutation query. This is not the most optimal
way to fix this. The compaction step could be folded with the query writing,
there is redundancy in both steps. However such change carries more risk,
and thus was postponed.
perf_simple_query test (cassandra-stress-like partitions) shows regression
from 83k to 77k (7%) ops/s.
Fixes #1165."
We use boost::any to convert to and from database values (stored in
serlialized form) and native C++ values. boost::any captures information
about the data type (how to copy/move/delete etc.) and stores it inside
the boost::any instance. We later retrieve the real value using
boost::any_cast.
However, data_value (which has a boost::any member) already has type
information as a data_type instance. By teaching data_type intances about
the corresponding native type, we can elimiante the use of boost::any.
While boost::any is evil and eliminating it improves efficiency somewhat,
the real goal is growing native type support in data_type. We will use that
later to store native types in the cache, enabling O(log n) access to
collections, O(1) access to tuples, and more efficient large blob support.
