[CASSANDRA-5696] Upgrading to cassandra-1.2 with a dead LEFT state from 1.1 causes problems

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.7
• Labels: qa-resolved
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Brandon Williams

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Jason Brown

• Tester: Ryan McGuire
• Created: 24/Jun/13 21:34
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 26/Jun/13 21:16

Description

In 1.1, we wrote LEFT states as LEFT,token,expiretime in gossip. However in 1.2, VersionValue serializes this to LEFT,expiretime,tokens and causes the upgrade 1.2 to try and parse it this way as well, causing it to try to parse the token as an expiretime.

Another wrinkle to this is assassinate still writes it the old way: LEFT,tokens,expiretime.