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The test_base_partition_deletion_with_metrics test case (and the batch
variant) uses the metric of view updates done during its runtime to check
if we didn't perform too many of them. The test runs in the cqlpy suite,
which runs all test cases sequentially on one Scylla instance. Because
of this, if another test case starts a process which generates view
updates and doesn't wait for it to finish before it exists, we may
observe too many view updates in test_base_partition_deletion_with_metrics
and fail the test.
In all test cases we make sure that all tables that were created
during the test are dropped at the end. However, that doesn't
stop the view building process immediately, so the issue can happen
even if we drop the view. I confirmed it by adding a test just before
test_base_partition_deletion_with_metrics which builds a big
materialized view and drops it at the end - the metrics check still failed.
The issue could be caused by any of the existing test cases where we create
a view and don't wait for it to be built. Note that even if we start adding
rows after creating the view, some of them may still be included in the view
building, as the view building process is started asynchronously. In such
a scenario, the view building also doesn't cause any issues with the data in
these tests - writes performed after view creation generate view updates
synchronously when they're local (and we're running a single Scylla server),
the corresponding view udpates generated during view building are redundant.
Because we have many test cases which could be causing this issue, instead
of waiting for the view building to finish in every single one of them, we
move the susceptible test cases to be run on separate Scylla instances, in
the "cluster" suite. There, no other test cases will influence the results.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/20379
Closes scylladb/scylladb#25209
(cherry picked from commit 2ece08ba43)
Closes scylladb/scylladb#25503
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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