[CASSANDRA-17151] Guardrail for column size

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-alpha1, 5.0
• Component/s: Feature/Guardrails
• Epic Link: CEP-3: Guardrails
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/4b7069c06c7913e1f3f2d5622d8cbc04746b0bac

Test and Documentation Plan

New tests are included.

• Assignee: Andres de la Peña
• Reporter: Andres de la Peña

Authors

Andres de la Peña

Reviewers

David Capwell, Ekaterina Dimitrova

• Created: 15/Nov/21 18:23
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:02
• Resolved: 16/Aug/22 16:37

Description

Add a guardrail for limiting the max size of column values, for example:

# Failure threshold to prevent writing large column values.
# Defaults to -1 to disable.
column_value_size_failure_threshold_in_kb: -1

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-8048 Add WARN for large resultsets
• links to: PR trunk