[CASSANDRA-10583] After bulk loading CQL query on timestamp column returns wrong result

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 3.11.5

Environment

Windows 2008 R2, Java x64 1.8.0_60, CentOS 7, Java 1.8.0._65

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kai Wang
• Created: 23/Oct/15 17:47
• Updated: 01/Aug/21 11:28
• Resolved: 25/May/16 16:23

Description

I have this table:

CREATE TABLE test (
    tag text,
    group int,
    timestamp timestamp,
    value double,
    PRIMARY KEY (tag, group, timestamp)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (group ASC, timestamp DESC)

First I used CQLSSTableWriter to bulk load a bunch of sstables. Then I ran this query:

cqlsh> select * from test where tag = 'MSFT' and group = 1 and timestamp ='2004-12-15 16:00:00-0500';

 tag  | group | timestamp                | value
------+-------+--------------------------+-------
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-15 21:00:00+0000 | 27.11
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-16 21:00:00+0000 | 27.16
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-17 21:00:00+0000 | 26.96
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-20 21:00:00+0000 | 26.95
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-21 21:00:00+0000 | 27.07
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-22 21:00:00+0000 | 26.98
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-23 21:00:00+0000 | 27.01
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-27 21:00:00+0000 | 26.85
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-28 21:00:00+0000 | 26.95
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-29 21:00:00+0000 |  26.9
 MSFT |     1 | 2004-12-30 21:00:00+0000 | 26.76
(11 rows)

The result is obviously wrong.

If I run this query:

cqlsh> select * from test where tag = 'MSFT' and group = 1 and timestamp ='2004-12-16 16:00:00-0500';

 tag | group | timestamp | value
-----+-------+-----------+-------

(0 rows)

In DevCenter I tried to create a similar table and insert a few rows but couldn't reproduce this. This may have something to do with the bulk loading process. But still, the fact cqlsh returns data that doesn't match the query is concerning.