[jira] [Created] (KUDU-1539) Read/Write operations using new schema on recently altered tables may fail

["Dan Burkert (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Dan Burkert created KUDU-1539:
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             Summary: Read/Write operations using new schema on recently altered tables may fail
                 Key: KUDU-1539
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1539
             Project: Kudu
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Dan Burkert


Currently the master will transition from state ALTERING to RUNNING when a single replica from every tablet heartbeats with the new schema.  This can cause clients who issue the alter and wait for the alter to be done (the master to transitioning the table back to RUNNING) to subsequently fail reads and writes, since an arbitrary replica (even the leader) is not guaranteed to have committed the schema alteration (only a majority is necessary).

We could make the situation better by only considering the leader heartbeat when determining whether to go from ALTERING to RUNNING, but it doesn't close the hole of reading/writing from a follower.



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