Different nodes can concurrently create the distributed system
keyspace on boot, before the "if not exists" clause can take effect.
However, the resulting schema mutations will be different since
different nodes use different timestamps. This patch forces the
timestamps to be the same across all nodes, so we save some schema
mismatches.
This fixes a bug exposed by ca5dfdf, whereby the initialization of the
distributed system keyspace is done before waiting for schema
agreement. While waiting for schema agreement in
storage_service::join_token_ring(), the node still hasn't joined the
ring and schemas can't be pulled from it, so nodes can deadlock. A
similar situation can happen between a seed node and a non-seed node,
where the seed node progresses to a different "wait for schema
agreement" barrier, but still can't make progress because it can't
pull the schema from the non-seed node still trying to join the ring.
Finally, it is assumed that changes to the schema of the current
distributed system keyspace tables will be protected by a cluster
feature and a subsequent schema synchronization, such that all nodes
will be at a point where schemas can be transferred around.
Fixes#3976
Signed-off-by: Duarte Nunes <duarte@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20181211113407.20075-1-duarte@scylladb.com>
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