In theory, scylla-sstable write is an awesome and flexible tool to generate sstables with arbitrary content. This is convenient for tests and could come clutch in a disaster scenario, where certain system table's content need to be manually re-created, system tables that are not writable directly via CQL.
In practice, in its current form this operation is so convoluted to use that even its own author shuns it. This is because the JSON specification of the sstable content is the same as that of the scylla-sstable dump-data: containing every single piece of information on the mutation content. Where this is an advantage for dump-data, allowing users to inspect the data in its entirety -- it is a huge disadvantage for write, because of all these details have to be filled in, down to the last timestamp, to generate an sstable. On top of that, the tool doesn't even support any of the more advanced data types, like collections, UDF and counters.
This PR proposes a new way of generating sstables: based on the success of scylla-sstable query, it introduces CQL support for scylla-sstable write. The content of the sstable can now be specified via standard INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements, which are applied to a memtable, then flushed into the sstable.
To avoid boundless memory consumption, the memtable is flushed every time it reaches 1MiB in size, consequently the command can generate multiple output sstables.
The new CQL input-format is made default, this is safe as nobody is using this command anyway. Hopefully this PR will change that.
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26506
New feature, no backport.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#26515
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/cqlpy/test_tools.py: add test for scylla-sstable write --input-format=cql
replica/mutation_dump: add support for virtual tables
tools/scylla-sstable: print_query_results_json(): handle empty value buffer
tools/scylla-sstable: add cql support to write operation
tools/scylla-sstable: write_operation(): fix indentation
tools/scylla-sstable: write_operation(): prepare for a new input-format
tools/scylla-sstable: generalize query_operation_validate_query()
tools/scylla-sstable: move query_operation_validate_query()
tools/scylla-sstable: extract schema transformation from query operation
replica/table: add virtual write hook to the other apply() overload too
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