384a0628b0
Before this PR, writes to the previous CDC generations would
always be rejected. After this PR, they will be accepted if the
write's timestamp is greater than `now - generation_leeway`.
This change was proposed around 3 years ago. The motivation was
to improve user experience. If a client generates timestamps by
itself and its clock is desynchronized with the clock of the node
the client is connected to, there could be a period during
generation switching when writes fail. We didn't consider this
problem critical because the client could simply retry a failed
write with a higher timestamp. Eventually, it would succeed. This
approach is safe because these failed writes cannot have any side
effects. However, it can be inconvenient. Writing to previous
generations was proposed to improve it.
The idea was rejected 3 years ago. Recently, it turned out that
there is a case when the client cannot retry a write with the
increased timestamp. It happens when a table uses CDC and LWT,
which makes timestamps permanent. Once Paxos commits an entry
with a given timestamp, Scylla will keep trying to apply that entry
until it succeeds, with the same timestamp. Applying the entry
involves writing to the CDC log table. If it fails, we get stuck.
It's a major bug with an unknown perfect solution.
Allowing writes to previous generations for `generation_leeway` is
a probabilistic fix that should solve the problem in practice.
Apart from this change, this PR adds tests for it and updates
the documentation.
This PR is sufficient to enable writes to the previous generations
only in the gossiper-based topology. The Raft-based topology
needs some adjustments in loading and cleaning CDC generations.
These changes won't interfere with the changes introduced in this
PR, so they are left for a follow-up.
Fixes scylladb/scylladb#7251
Fixes scylladb/scylladb#15260
Closes scylladb/scylladb#17134
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs: using-scylla: cdc: remove info about failing writes to old generations
docs: dev: cdc: document writing to previous CDC generations
test: add test_writes_to_previous_cdc_generations
cdc: generation: allow increasing generation_leeway through error injection
cdc: metadata: allow sending writes to the previous generations
(cherry picked from commit 9bb4482ad0)
Backport note: in tests, replaced `servers_add` with loop of `server_add`
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