Merged patch series from Piotr Sarna:
This series allows reading rows from Scylla's system tables
via alternator by using a virtual interface.
If a Query or Scan request intercepts a table name with the following
pattern: .scylla.alternator.KEYSPACE_NAME.TABLE_NAME, it will read
the data from Scylla's KEYSPACE_NAME.TABLE_NAME table.
The interface is expected to only return data for Scylla system tables
and trying to access regular tables via this interface is expected
to return an error.
This series comes with tests (alternator-test, scylla_only).
Fixes#6122
Tests: alternator-test(local,remote (to verify that scylla_only works)
Piotr Sarna (5):
alternator: add fallback serialization for all types
alternator: add fetching static columns if they exist
alternator: add a way of accessing system tables from alternator
alternator-test: add scylla-only test for querying system tables
docs: add an entry about accessing Scylla system tables
alternator-test/test_system_tables.py | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
alternator/executor.cc | 38 ++++++++++++++++-
alternator/executor.hh | 1 +
alternator/serialization.cc | 11 +++--
docs/alternator/alternator.md | 15 +++++++
5 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 alternator-test/test_system_tables.py