[CASSANDRA-15806] C* 4.0 is missing a way to identify transient/non-transient SSTables on disk

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-beta1, 4.0
• Component/s: Tool/sstable
• Bug Category: Correctness
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.0-alpha

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/3f689e93768ea670f7a8351ec30128dd4b410c9c

Test and Documentation Plan

Ran a simple test against sstable to make sure it worked:

sequoyha.pelletier@spelletier-rmbp15:[~/cassandra-trunk/tools/bin]
510-Mon May 11 15:16

 LocalDeletionTime: 1442880000 (09/21/2015 17:00:00)
EncodingStats minTimestamp: 1588980982231688 (05/08/2020 16:36:22)
...
RegularColumns: author:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type, isbn:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type, publisher:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type, category:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type, product_name:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
Is Transient: false

The isTransient is a boolean value so false is enough to verify the information is showing.

• Assignee: sequoyha pelletier
• Reporter: sequoyha pelletier

Authors

sequoyha pelletier

Reviewers

Ekaterina Dimitrova

• Created: 12/May/20 16:05
• Updated: 21/Dec/20 08:08
• Resolved: 20/May/20 04:16

Description

Currently, there is no way to identify SSTables that were created as transient replicated data. Even thought the feature is experimental we should open that up for those that want to experiment. This seems to be an oversight. I have added the missing line of code to the SStableMetadataViewer and will attach a patch shortly.