[CASSANDRA-17495] Add Guardrail for ALTER TABLE ADD / DROP / RENAME columns

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

Source Control Link

https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=commit;h=ce515a3d77c2042575827e8bdb1da639fc957491

Test and Documentation Plan

New unit testing around guardrail

• Assignee: Josh McKenzie
• Reporter: Josh McKenzie

Authors

Josh McKenzie

Reviewers

Jon Meredith

• Created: 29/Mar/22 16:16
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:03
• Resolved: 09/May/22 16:24

Description

Operators should have the ability to freeze the schema of tables in place so users can't mutate columns during various cluster operations. For an example of some of the risks see CASSANDRA-13004.