Normal Description
How to reproduce:
1. Insert column
2. Flush, so you'll have sstable-1
3. Delete just inserted column
4. Flush, now you have sstable-2 as well
5. Left it uncompacted for more then gc grace time or just use 0, so you dont have to wait
6. Read data form column. You'll read just deleted column
/* add the SSTables on disk */ // This sorts sstables in the order sstable-2, sstable-1 Collections.sort(view.sstables, SSTable.maxTimestampComparator); //... for (SSTableReader sstable : view.sstables) { //... if (iter.getColumnFamily() != null) //... while (iter.hasNext()) { OnDiskAtom atom = iter.next(); // the problem is here. reading atom after gc grace time // makes this condition false. so tombstone from sstable-2 // is not placed to temp container and is just thrown away. // On next iteration of outer for statement an original // data inserted in step 1 from sstable-1 will be read and // placed to temp. if (atom.getLocalDeletionTime() >= gcBefore) temp.addAtom(atom); // } // .. so at the end of the for statemet we resolve data from temp. which // do not have tombstone at all -> data are resurrected. container.addAll(temp, HeapAllocator.instance); }