In this series we implement the UpdateTable operation to add a GSI to an existing table, or remove a GSI from a table. As the individual commit messages will explained, this required changing how Alternator stores materialized view keys - instead of insisting that these key must be real columns (that is **not** the case when adding a GSI to an existing table), the materialized view can now take as its key any Alternator attribute serialized inside the ":attrs" map holding all non-key attributes. Fixes#11567.
We also fix the IndexStatus and Backfilling attributes returned by DescribeTable - as DynamoDB API users use this API to discover when a newly added GSI completed its "backfilling" (what we call "view building") stage. Fixes#11471.
This series should not be backported lightly - it's a new feature and required fairly large and intrusive changes that can introduce bugs to use cases that don't even use Alternator or its UpdateTable operations - every user of CQL materialized views or secondary indexes, as well as Alternator GSI or LSI, will use modified code. **It should be backported to 2025.1**, though - this version was actually branched long after this PR was sent, and it provides a feature that was promised for 2025.1.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#21989
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
alternator: fix view build on oversized GSI key attribute
mv: clean up do_delete_old_entry
test/alternator: unflake test for IndexStatus
test/alternator: work around unrelated bug causing test flakiness
docs/alternator: adding a GSI is no longer an unimplemented feature
test/alternator: remove xfail from all tests for issue 11567
alternator: overhaul implementation of GSIs and support UpdateTable
mv: support regular_column_transformation key columns in view
alternator: add new materialized-view computed column for item in map
build: in cmake build, schema needs alternator
build: build tests with Alternator
alternator: add function serialized_value_if_type()
mv: introduce regular_column_transformation, a new type of computed column
alternator: add IndexStatus/Backfilling in DescribeTable
alternator: add "LimitExceededException" error type
docs/alternator: document two more unimplemented Alternator features
(cherry picked from commit 529ff3efa5)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#22826
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