When a partition key or clustering key value exceeds the 64 KiB limit (65535 bytes serialized), Scylla used to raise a generic std::runtime_error "Key size too large: N > M" from the low-level compound-key serializer. That error surfaced to clients as a CQL server error (code 0x0000, "NoHostAvailable"-looking), which is both ugly and incompatible with Cassandra - Cassandra returns a clean InvalidRequest with the message "Key length of N is longer than maximum of M". Fix this at the single chokepoint: compound_type::serialize_value in keys/compound.hh. The serializer is on every path that materializes a key - INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/BATCH build mutations through it, and SELECT builds partition and clustering ranges through it - so a single throw replacement produces a clean InvalidRequest consistently across all paths and all key shapes (single, compound PK, composite CK). The previous approach on this PR branch patched three call sites in cql3/restrictions/statement_restrictions.cc, which only covered SELECT, duplicated the check, and placed it mid-restrictions code (flagged in review). Dropping those changes in favour of the root-cause fix here. Un-xfail the tests this fixes: - test/cqlpy/test_key_length.py: test_insert_65k_pk, test_insert_65k_ck, test_where_65k_pk, test_where_65k_ck, test_insert_65k_ck_composite, test_insert_total_compound_pk_err, test_insert_total_composite_ck_err. - test/cqlpy/cassandra_tests/.../insert_test.py: testPKInsertWithValueOver64K, testCKInsertWithValueOver64K. - test/cqlpy/cassandra_tests/.../select_test.py: testPKQueryWithValueOver64K. test_insert_65k_pk_compound stays xfail: its oversized value gets rejected by the Python driver's CQL wire-protocol encoder (see CASSANDRA-19270) before reaching the server, so the fix can't apply. Updated its reason. testCKQueryWithValueOver64K stays xfail with an updated reason: Cassandra silently returns empty for an oversized clustering key in WHERE, while Scylla now throws InvalidRequest - a deliberate choice mirroring the partition-key case, documented in the discussion on #10366. Add three tight-boundary tests (addressing review feedback on the previous revision) that pin MAX+1 behaviour for SELECT and INSERT of both partition and clustering keys. Update test/cluster/dtest/limits_test.py to match the new message ("Key length of \\d+ is longer than maximum of 65535"). fixes #10366 fixes #12247 Co-authored-by: Alexander Turetskiy <someone.tur@gmail.com> Closes scylladb/scylladb#23433
Scylla in-source tests.
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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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