Sometimes a single modification to a base partition requires updates to
a large number of view rows. A common example is deletion of a base
partition containing many rows. A large BATCH is also possible.
To avoid large allocations, we split the large amount of work into
batch of 100 (max_rows_for_view_updates) rows each. The existing code
assumed an empty result from one of these batches meant that we are
done. But this assumption was incorrect: There are several cases when
a base-table update may not need a view update to be generated (see
can_skip_view_updates()) so if all 100 rows in a batch were skipped,
the view update stopped prematurely. This patch includes two tests
showing when this bug can happen - one test using a partition deletion
with a USING TIMESTAMP causing the deletion to not affect the first
100 rows, and a second test using a specially-crafed large BATCH.
These use cases are fairly esoteric, but in fact hit a user in the
wild, which led to the discovery of this bug.
The fix is fairly simple: To detect when build_some() is done it is no
longer enough to check if it returned zero view-update rows; Rather,
it explicitly returns whether or not it is done as an std::optional.
The patch includes several tests for this bug, which pass on Cassandra,
failed on Scylla before this patch, and pass with this patch.
Fixes#12297.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closes#12305
(cherry picked from commit 92d03be37b)
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