With the introduction of colocated tables, all the tablet transitions
now operate on groups of colocated tablets instead of individual
tablets. such is tablet migration, and also tablet repair.
The tablet repair currently doesn't work on individual tablets due to
the limitations in the tablet map being shared. The way it was
implemented to work on a group of colocated tablets is by repairing all
the colocated tablets together, using a dedicated rpc, and setting a
shared repair_time in the shared tablet map. It was implemented this
way because we wanted to have some way to repair the tablets of a
colocated table.
However, we want to change this in the next release so that it will be
possible to repair the tablets of a colocated table individually. In
order to simplify and prepare for the future change, we prefer until
then to not repair colocated tables at all. otherwise, we will need to
support both the shared repair and individual repair together for a long
time, and the upgrade will be more complicated.
We change the handling of the tablet 'repair' transition to repair only
the base table's tablets. It means it will not be possible to request
tablet repair for a non-base colocated table such as local MV, CDC and
paxos table. This restriction will be temporary until a later release
where we will suuport repairing colocated tablets.
This is a reasonable restriction because repair for these kind of tables
is not required or as important as for normal tables.
Fixesscylladb/scylladb#27119
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