Currently, when two cells have the same write timestamp and both are alive or expiring, we compare their value first, before checking if either of them is expiring and if both are expiring, comparing their expiration time and ttl value to determine which of them will expire later or was written later. This was based on an early version of Cassandra. However, the Cassandra implementation rightfully changed ine225c88a65([CASSANDRA-14592](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14592)), where the cell expiration is considered before the cell value. To summarize, the motivation for this change is three fold: 1. Cassandra compatibility 2. Prevent an edge case where a null value is returned by select query when an expired cell has a larger value than a cell with later expiration. 3. A generalization of the above: value-based reconciliation may cause select query to return a mixture of upserts, if multiple upserts use the same timeastamp but have different expiration times. If the cell value is considered before expiration, the select result may contain cells from different inserts, while reconciling based the expiration times will choose cells consistently from either upserts, as all cells in the respective upsert will carry the same expiration time. \Fixes scylladb/scylladb#14182 Also, this series: - updates dml documentation - updates internal documentation - updates and adds unit tests and cql pytest reproducing #14182 \Closes scylladb/scylladb#14183 * github.com:scylladb/scylladb: docs: dml: add update ordering section cql-pytest: test_using_timestamp: add tests for rewrites using same timestamp mutation_partition: compare_row_marker_for_merge: consider ttl in case expiry is the same atomic_cell: compare_atomic_cell_for_merge: update and add documentation compare_atomic_cell_for_merge: compare value last for live cells mutation_test: test_cell_ordering: improve debuggability (cherry picked from commit87b4606cd6) Closes #14649
ScyllaDB Documentation
This repository contains the source files for ScyllaDB Open Source documentation.
- The
devfolder contains developer-oriented documentation related to the ScyllaDB code base. It is not published and is only available via GitHub. - All other folders and files contain user-oriented documentation related to ScyllaDB Open Source and are sources for docs.scylladb.com.
To report a documentation bug or suggest an improvement, open an issue in GitHub issues for this project.
To contribute to the documentation, open a GitHub pull request.
Key Guidelines for Contributors
- Follow the ScyllaDB Style Guide.
- The user documentation is written in reStructuredText (RST) - a plaintext markup language similar to Markdown. If you're not familiar with RST, see ScyllaDB RST Examples.
- The developer documentation is written in Markdown. See Basic Markdown Syntax for reference.
Creating Knowledge Base Articles
The kb/ directory holds source files for knowledge base articles in the Knowledge Base section of the ScyllaDB documentation.
The kb/kb_common subdirectory contains a template for knowledge base articles to help you create new articles.
To create a new knowledge base article (KB):
- Copy the
kb-article-template.rstfile from/kb/kb_commonto/kband rename it with a unique name. - Open the new file and fill in the required information.
- Remove what is not needed.
- Run
make previewto build the docs and preview them locally. - Send a PR with "KB" in its title.
Building User Documentation
Prerequisites
- Python 3. Check your version with
$ python --version. - poetry 1.12 or later
- make
Mac OS X
You must have a working Homebrew in order to install the needed tools.
You also need the standard utility make.
Check if you have these two items with the following commands:
brew help
make -h
Linux Distributions
Building the user docs should work out of the box on most Linux distributions.
Windows
Use "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" for the same tools and capabilities as on Linux distributions.
Building the Docs
- Run
make previewto build the documentation. - Preview the built documentation locally at http://127.0.0.1:5500/.
Cleanup
You can clean up all the build products and auto-installed Python stuff with:
make pristine
Information for Contributors
If you are interested in contributing to Scylla docs, please read the Scylla open source page at http://www.scylladb.com/opensource/ and complete a Scylla contributor agreement if needed. We can only accept documentation pull requests if we have a contributor agreement on file for you.
Third-party Documentation
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Do any copying as a separate commit. Always commit an unmodified version first and then do any editing in a separate commit.
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We already have a copy of the Apache license in our tree, so you do not need to commit a copy of the license.
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Include the copyright header from the source file in the edited version. If you are copying an Apache Cassandra document with no copyright header, use:
This document includes material from Apache Cassandra.
Apache Cassandra is Copyright 2009-2014 The Apache Software Foundation.