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When describing a table, we need to do it carefully: if some
columns were dropped, we must specify that explicitly by
```
ALTER TABLE {table} DROP {column} USING TIMESTAMP ...
```
in the result of the DESCRIBE statement. Failing to do so
could lead to data resurrection.
However, if a table has been altered many, many times,
we might end up with a huge create statement. Constructing
it could, in turn, trigger an oversized allocation.
Some tests ran into that very problem in fact.
In this commit, we want to mitigate the problem: instead of
allocating a contiguous chunk of memory for the create
statement, we use `bytes_ostream` and `managed_bytes` to
possibly keep data scattered in memory. It makes handling
`cql3::description` less convenient in the code, but since
the struct is pretty much immediately serialized after
creating it, it's a very good trade-off.
A reproducer is intentionally not provided by this commit:
it's easy to test the change, but adding and dropping
a huge number of columns would take a really long amount
of time, so we need to omit it.
Fixes scylladb/scylladb#24018
Backport: all of the supported versions are affected, so we want to backport the changes there.
Closes scylladb/scylladb#24151
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
cql3/description: Serialize only rvalues of description
cql3: Represent create_statement using managed_string
cql3/statements/describe_statement.cc: Don't copy descriptions
cql3: Use managed_bytes instead of bytes in DESCRIBE
utils/managed_string.hh: Introduce managed_string and fragmented_ostringstream
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
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