[CASSANDRA-15236] date, smallint, time, and tinyint types should be fixed length

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Local/SSTable
• Bug Category: Degradation - Performance Bug/Regression
• Severity: Low
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: Code Inspection
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Created: 17/Jul/19 18:02
• Updated: 17/Jul/19 18:03

Description

When adding the 4 types above (date, smallint, time, and tinyint) we forgot to override their valueLengthIfFixed() method. As a result of this omission, all 4 types now require an extra byte when serialized - to encode length - even ByteType (tinyint).

In the next major (4.0 or 5.0?) we should fix this inefficiency.