[jira] [Created] (ZOOKEEPER-1573) Unable to load database due to missing parent node

["Thawan Kooburat (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Thawan Kooburat created ZOOKEEPER-1573:
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             Summary: Unable to load database due to missing parent node
                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-1573
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1573
             Project: ZooKeeper
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: server
    Affects Versions: 3.4.3
            Reporter: Thawan Kooburat


While replaying txnlog on data tree, the server has a code to detect missing parent node. This code block was last modified as part of ZOOKEEPER-1333. In our production, we found a case where this check is return false positive.

The sequence of txns is as follows:

zxid 1:  create /prefix/a
zxid 2:  create /prefix/a/b
zxid 3:  delete /prefix/a/b
zxid 4:  delete /prefix/a

The server start capturing snapshot at zxid 1. However, by the time it traversing the data tree down to /prefix, txn 4 is already applied and /prefix have no children. 

When the server restore from snapshot, it process txnlog starting from zxid 2. This txn generate missing parent error and the server refuse to start up.

The same check allow me to discover bug in ZOOKEEPER-1551, but I don't know if we have any option beside removing this check to solve this issue.  

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