[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-13305) Slice.isEmpty() returns false for some empty slices

["Joshua McKenzie (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Joshua McKenzie commented on CASSANDRA-13305:
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[~blambov] to review

> Slice.isEmpty() returns false for some empty slices
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-13305
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13305
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
>            Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
>             Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.11.x
>
>
> {{Slice.isEmpty}} is currently defined as {{comparator.compare(end, start) < 0}} but this shouldn't be a strict inequality. Indeed, the way {{Slice.Bound}} is defined, having a start equal to an end implies a range like {{[1, 1)}}, but that range is definitively empty and something we shouldn't let in as that would break merging and other range tombstone related code.
> In practice, if you can currently insert such empty range (with something like {{DELETE FROM t WHERE k = 'foo' AND i >= 1 AND i < 1}}), and that can trigger assertions in {{RangeTomstoneList}} (and possibly other problem).



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