"When we get two range tombstones with the same lower bound from
different data sources (e.g. two sstable), which need to be combined
into a single stream, they need to be de-overlapped, because each
mutation fragment in the stream must have a different position. If we
have range tombstones [1, 10) and [1, 20), the result of that
de-overlapping will be [1, 10) and [10, 20]. The problem is that if
the stream corresponds to a clustering slice with upper bound greater
than 1, but lower than 10, the second range tombstone would appear as
being out of the query range. This is currently violating assumptions
made by some consumers, like cache populator.
One effect of this may be that a reader will miss rows which are in
the range (1, 10) (after the start of the first range tombstone, and
before the start of the second range tombstone), if the second range
tombstone happens to be the last fragment which was read for a
discontinuous range in cache and we stopped reading at that point
because of a full buffer and cache was evicted before we resumed
reading, so we went to reading from the sstable reader again. There
could be more cases in which this violation may resurface.
There is also a related bug in mutation_fragment_merger. If the reader
is in forwarding mode, and the current range is [1, 5], the reader
would still emit range_tombstone([10, 20]). If that reader is later
fast forwarded to another range, say [6, 8], it may produce fragments
with smaller positions which were emitted before, violating
monotonicity of fragment positions in the stream.
A similar bug was also present in partition_snapshot_flat_reader.
Possible solutions:
1) relax the assumption (in cache) that streams contain only relevant
range tombstones, and only require that they contain at least all
relevant tombstones
2) allow subsequent range tombstones in a stream to share the same
starting position (position is weakly monotonic), then we don't need
to de-overlap the tombstones in readers.
3) teach combining readers about query restrictions so that they can drop
fragments which fall outside the range
4) force leaf readers to trim all range tombstones to query restrictions
This patch implements solution no 2. It simplifies combining readers,
which don't need to accumulate and trim range tombstones.
I don't like solution 3, because it makes combining readers more
complicated, slower, and harder to properly construct (currently
combining readers don't need to know restrictions of the leaf
streams).
Solution 4 is confined to implementations of leaf readers, but also
has disadvantage of making those more complicated and slower.
There is only one consumer which needs the tombstones with monotonic positions, and
that is the sstable writer.
Fixes #3093."
* tag 'tgrabiec/fix-out-of-range-tombstones-v1' of github.com:scylladb/seastar-dev:
tests: row_cache: Introduce test for concurrent read, population and eviction
tests: sstables: Add test for writing combined stream with range tombstones at same position
tests: memtable: Test that combined mutation source is a mutation source
tests: memtable: Test that memtable with many versions is a mutation source
tests: mutation_source: Add test for stream invariants with overlapping tombstones
tests: mutation_reader: Test fast forwarding of combined reader with overlapping range tombstones
tests: mutation_reader: Test combined reader slicing on random mutations
tests: mutation_source_test: Extract random_mutation_generator::make_partition_keys()
mutation_fragment: Introduce range()
clustering_interval_set: Introduce overlaps()
clustering_interval_set: Extract private make_interval()
mutation_reader: Allow range tombstones with same position in the fragment stream
sstables: Handle consecutive range_tombstone fragments with same position
tests: streamed_mutation_assertions: Merge range_tombstones with the same position in produces_range_tombstone()
streamed_mutation: Introduce peek()
mutation_fragment: Extract mergeable_with()
mutation_reader: Move definition of combining mutation reader to source file
mutation_reader: Use make_combined_reader() to create combined reader
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