As requested by issue #5619, commit 2150c0f7a2
added a sanity check for USING TIMESTAMP - the number specified in the
timestamp must not be more than 3 days into the future (when viewed as
a number of microseconds since the epoch).
This sanity checking helps avoid some annoying client-side bugs and
mis-configurations, but some users genuinely want to use arbitrary
or futuristic-looking timestamps and are hindered by this sanity check
(which Cassandra doesn't have, by the way).
So in this patch we add a new configuration option, restrict_future_timestamp
If set to "true", futuristic timestamps (more than 3 days into the future)
are forbidden. The "true" setting is the default (as has been the case
sinced #5619). Setting this option to "false" will allow using any 64-bit
integer as a timestamp, like is allowed Cassanda (and was allowed in
Scylla prior to #5619.
The error message in the case where a futuristic timestamp is rejected
now mentions the configuration paramter that can be used to disable this
check (this, and the option's name "restrict_*", is similar to other
so-called "safe mode" options).
This patch also includes a test, which works in Scylla and Cassandra,
with either setting of restrict_future_timestamp, checking the right
thing in all these cases (the futuristic timestamp can either be written
and read, or can't be written). I used this test to manually verify that
the new option works, defaults to "true", and when set to "false" Scylla
behaves like Cassandra.
Fixes#12527
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closes#12537
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