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Raphael S. Carvalho 474e962e01 compaction: Restrict tombstone GC sstable set to repaired sstables for tombstone_gc=repair mode
When tombstone_gc=repair, the repaired compaction view's sstable_set_for_tombstone_gc()
previously returned all sstables across all three views (unrepaired, repairing, repaired).
This is correct but unnecessarily expensive: the unrepaired and repairing sets are never
the source of a GC-blocking shadow when tombstone_gc=repair, for base tables.

The key ordering guarantee that makes this safe is:
- topology_coordinator sends send_tablet_repair RPC and waits for it to complete.
  Inside that RPC, mark_sstable_as_repaired() runs on all replicas, moving D from
  repairing → repaired (repaired_at stamped on disk).
- Only after the RPC returns does the coordinator commit repair_time + sstables_repaired_at
  to Raft.
- gc_before = repair_time - propagation_delay only advances once that Raft commit applies.

Therefore, when a tombstone T in the repaired set first becomes GC-eligible (its
deletion_time < gc_before), any data D it shadows is already in the repaired set on
every replica. This holds because:
- The memtable is flushed before the repairing snapshot is taken (take_storage_snapshot
  calls sg->flush()), capturing all data present at repair time.
- Hints and batchlog are flushed before the snapshot, ensuring remotely-hinted writes
  arrive before the snapshot boundary.
- Legitimate unrepaired data has timestamps close to 'now', always newer than any
  GC-eligible tombstone (USING TIMESTAMP to write backdated data is user error / UB).

Excluding the repairing and unrepaired sets from the GC shadow check cannot cause any
tombstone to be wrongly collected. The memtable check is also skipped for the same
reason: memtable data is either newer than the GC-eligible tombstone, or was flushed
into the repairing/repaired set before gc_before advanced.

Safety restriction — materialized views:
The optimization IS applied to materialized view tables. Two possible paths could inject
D_view into the MV's unrepaired set after MV repair: view hints and staging via the
view-update-generator. Both are safe:

(1) View hints: flush_hints() creates a sync point covering BOTH _hints_manager (base
mutations) AND _hints_for_views_manager (view mutations). It waits until ALL pending view
hints — including D_view entries queued in _hints_for_views_manager while the target MV
replica was down — have been replayed to the target node before take_storage_snapshot() is
called. D_view therefore lands in the MV's repairing sstable and is promoted to repaired.
When a repaired compaction then checks for shadows it finds D_view in the repaired set,
keeping T_mv non-purgeable.

(2) View-update-generator staging path: Base table repair can write a missing D_base to a
replica via a staging sstable. The view-update-generator processes the staging sstable
ASYNCHRONOUSLY: it may fire arbitrarily later, even after MV repair has committed
repair_time and T_mv has been GC'd from the repaired set. However, the staging processor
calls stream_view_replica_updates() which performs a READ-BEFORE-WRITE via
as_mutation_source_excluding_staging(): it reads the CURRENT base table state before
building the view update. If T_base was written to the base table (as it always is before
the base replica can be repaired and the MV tombstone can become GC-eligible), the
view_update_builder sees T_base as the existing partition tombstone. D_base's row marker
(ts_d < ts_t) is expired by T_base, so the view update is a no-op: D_view is never
dispatched to the MV replica. No resurrection can occur regardless of how long staging is
delayed.

A potential sub-edge-case is T_base being purged BEFORE staging fires (leaving D_base as
the sole survivor, so stream_view_replica_updates would dispatch D_view). This is blocked
by an additional invariant: for tablet-based tables, the repair writer stamps repaired_at
on staging sstables (repair_writer_impl::create_writer sets mark_as_repaired = true and
perform_component_rewrite writes repaired_at = sstables_repaired_at + 1 on every staging
sstable). After base repair commits sstables_repaired_at to Raft, the staging sstable
satisfies is_repaired(sstables_repaired_at, staging_sst) and therefore appears in
make_repaired_sstable_set(). Any subsequent base repair that advances sstables_repaired_at
further still includes the staging sstable (its repaired_at ≤ new sstables_repaired_at).
D_base in the staging sstable thus shadows T_base in every repaired compaction's shadow
check, keeping T_base non-purgeable as long as D_base remains in staging.

A base table hint also cannot bypass this. A base hint is replayed as a base mutation. The
resulting view update is generated synchronously on the base replica and sent to the MV
replica via _hints_for_views_manager (path 1 above), not via staging.

USING TIMESTAMP with timestamps predating (gc_before + propagation_delay) is explicitly
UB and excluded from the safety argument.

For tombstone_gc modes other than repair (timeout, immediate, disabled) the invariant
does not hold for base tables either, so the full storage-group set is returned.

Implementation:
- Add compaction_group::is_repaired_view(v): pointer comparison against _repaired_view.
- Add compaction_group::make_repaired_sstable_set(): iterates _main_sstables and inserts
  only sstables classified as repaired (repair::is_repaired(sstables_repaired_at, sst)).
- Add storage_group::make_repaired_sstable_set(): collects repaired sstables across all
  compaction groups in the storage group.
- Add table::make_repaired_sstable_set_for_tombstone_gc(): collects repaired sstables from
  all compaction groups across all storage groups (needed for multi-tablet tables).
- Add compaction_group_view::skip_memtable_for_tombstone_gc(): returns true iff the
  repaired-only optimization is active; used by get_max_purgeable_timestamp() in
  compaction.cc to bypass the memtable shadow check.
- is_tombstone_gc_repaired_only() private helper gates both methods: requires
  is_repaired_view(this) && tombstone_gc_mode == repair. No is_view() exclusion.
- Add error injection "view_update_generator_pause_before_processing" in
  process_staging_sstables() to support testing the staging-delay scenario.
- New test test_tombstone_gc_mv_optimization_safe_via_hints: stops servers[2], writes
  D_base + T_base (view hints queued for servers[2]'s MV replica), restarts, runs MV
  tablet repair (flush_hints delivers D_view + T_mv before snapshot), triggers repaired
  compaction, and asserts the MV row is NOT visible — T_mv preserved because D_view
  landed in the repaired set via the hints-before-snapshot path.
- New test test_tombstone_gc_mv_safe_staging_processor_delay: runs base repair before
  writing T_base so D_base is staged on servers[0] via row-sync; blocks the
  view-update-generator with an error injection; writes T_base + T_mv; runs MV repair
  (fast path, T_mv GC-eligible); triggers repaired compaction (T_mv purged — no D_view
  in repaired set); asserts no resurrection; releases injection; waits for staging to
  complete; asserts no resurrection after a second flush+compaction. Demonstrates that
  the read-before-write in stream_view_replica_updates() makes the optimization safe even
  when staging fires after T_mv has been GC'd.

The expected gain is reduced bloom filter and memtable key-lookup I/O during repaired
compactions: the unrepaired set is typically the largest (it holds all recent writes),
yet for tombstone_gc=repair it never influences GC decisions.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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