Schema digest is calculated by querying for mutations of all schema
tables, then compacting them so that all tombstones in them are
dropped. However, even if the mutation becomes empty after compaction,
we still feed its partition key. If the same mutations were compacted
prior to the query, because the tombstones expire, we won't get any
mutation at all and won't feed the partition key. So schema digest
will change once an empty partition of some schema table is compacted
away.
Tombstones expire 7 days after schema change which introduces them. If
one of the nodes is restarted after that, it will compute a different
table schema digest on boot. This may cause performance problems. When
sending a request from coordinator to replica, the replica needs
schema_ptr of exact schema version request by the coordinator. If it
doesn't know that version, it will request it from the coordinator and
perform a full schema merge. This adds latency to every such request.
Schema versions which are not referenced are currently kept in cache
for only 1 second, so if request flow has low-enough rate, this
situation results in perpetual schema pulls.
After ae8d2a550d (5.2.0), it is more liekly to
run into this situation, because table creation generates tombstones
for all schema tables relevant to the table, even the ones which
will be otherwise empty for the new table (e.g. computed_columns).
This change inroduces a cluster feature which when enabled will change
digest calculation to be insensitive to expiry by ignoring empty
partitions in digest calculation. When the feature is enabled,
schema_ptrs are reloaded so that the window of discrepancy during
transition is short and no rolling restart is required.
A similar problem was fixed for per-node digest calculation in
c2ba94dc39e4add9db213751295fb17b95e6b962. Per-table digest calculation
was not fixed at that time because we didn't persist enabled features
and they were not enabled early-enough on boot for us to depend on
them in digest calculation. Now they are enabled before non-system
tables are loaded so digest calculation can rely on cluster features.
Fixes#4485.
Manually tested using ccm on cluster upgrade scenarios and node restarts.
Closes#14441
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test: schema_change_test: Verify digests also with TABLE_DIGEST_INSENSITIVE_TO_EXPIRY enabled
schema_mutations, migration_manager: Ignore empty partitions in per-table digest
migration_manager, schema_tables: Implement migration_manager::reload_schema()
schema_tables: Avoid crashing when table selector has only one kind of tables
cf81eef370