[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-6038) Make the inter-major schema migration barrier more targeted, and, ideally, non-existent

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-6038:
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So if I have a 2.1 node in my 2.0 cluster, as of right now I can't propagate changes from 2.1 -> 2.0 but at least it won't log scary things?

> Make the inter-major schema migration barrier more targeted, and, ideally, non-existent
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6038
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6038
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
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> CASSANDRA-5845 made it so that schema changes in a major-mixed cluster are not propagated to the minorer-major nodes. This lets us perform backwards-incompatible schema changes in major releases safely - like adding the schema_triggers table, moving all the aliases to schema_columns, getting rid of the deprecated schema columns, etc.
> Even this limitation might be too strict, however, and should be avoided if possible (starting with at least versioning schema separately from messaging service versioning, and resorting to major->minor schema block only when truly necessary and not for every x->y pair). 



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