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Nadav Har'El a0e79f391f Merge 'alternator: fix batch write item squashing cdc entries' from Radosław Cybulski
When `BatchWriteItem` operates on multiple items sharing the same partition key in `always_use_lwt` write isolation mode, all CDC log entries are emitted under a single timestamp. The previous `get_records` parsing algorithm in `alternator/streams.cc` assumed that all CDC log entries sharing the same timestamp correspond to a single DynamoDB item change. As a result, it would incorrectly squash multiple distinct item changes into a single Streams record — producing wrong event data (e.g., one INSERT instead of four, with mismatched key/attribute values).

Note: the bug is specific to `always_use_lwt` mode because only in LWT mode does the entire batch share a single timestamp. In non-LWT modes, each item in the batch receives a separate timestamp, so the entries naturally stay separate.

**Commit 1: alternator: add BatchWriteItem Streams test**

- Adds new tests `test_streams_batchwrite_no_clustering_deletes_non_existing_items` and `test_streams_batchwrite_no_clustering_deletes_existing_items` that cover the corner cases of batch-deleting a existing and non-existing item in a table without a clustering key. CDC tables without clustering keys are handled differently, and this path was previously untested for delete operations.
- Adds a new test `test_streams_batchwrite_into_the_same_partition_will_report_wrong_stream_data`, that is a simple way to trigger a bug.
- Adds a new test `test_streams_batchwrite_into_the_same_partition_deletes_existing_items`, that validates various combinations of puts and deletes in a single BatchWrite against the same partition.
- Adds a new `test_table_ss_new_and_old_images_write_isolation_always` fixture and extends `create_table_ss` to accept `additional_tags`, enabling tests with a specific write isolation mode.

**Commit 2: alternator: fix BatchWriteItem squashed Streams entries**

The core fix rewrites the CDC log entry parsing in `get_records` to distinguish items by their clustering key:

- Introduces `managed_bytes_ptr_hash` and `managed_bytes_ptr_equal` helper structs for pointer-based hash map lookups on `managed_bytes`.
- Replaces the single `record`/`dynamodb` pair with a `std::unordered_map<const managed_bytes*, Record, ...>` (`records_map`) keyed by the base table's clustering key value from each CDC log row. For tables without a clustering key, all entries map to a single sentinel key.
- Adds a validation that Alternator tables have at most one clustering key column (as required by the DynamoDB data model).
- On end-of-record (`eor`), flushes all accumulated per-clustering-key records into the output, each with a unique `eventID` (the `event_id` format now includes an index suffix).
- Adjusts the limit check: since a single CDC timestamp bucket can now produce multiple output records, the limit may be slightly exceeded to avoid breaking mid-batch.

Fixes #28439
Fixes: SCYLLADB-540

Closes scylladb/scylladb#28452

* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
  alternator/test: explain why 'always' write isolation mode is used in tests
  alternator/test: add scylla_only to always write isolation fixture
  alternator: fix BatchWriteItem squashed Streams entries
  alternator: add BatchWriteItem test (failing)
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Scylla in-source tests.

For details on how to run the tests, see docs/dev/testing.md

Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/

alternator - Python tests which connect to a single server and use the DynamoDB API unit, boost, raft - unit tests in C++ cqlpy - Python tests which connect to a single server and use CQL topology* - tests that set up clusters and add/remove nodes cql - approval tests that use CQL and pre-recorded output rest_api - tests for Scylla REST API Port 9000 scylla-gdb - tests for scylla-gdb.py helper script nodetool - tests for C++ implementation of nodetool

If you can use an existing folder, consider adding your test to it. New folders should be used for new large categories/subsystems, or when the test environment is significantly different from some existing suite, e.g. you plan to start scylladb with different configuration, and you intend to add many tests and would like them to reuse an existing Scylla cluster (clusters can be reused for tests within the same folder).

To add a new folder, create a new directory, and then copy & edit its suite.ini.