apache/cassandra · error · org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.InvalidRequestException

<RuntimeException message> for ks: <keyspace>, table: <table

Error message

<RuntimeException message> for ks: <keyspace>, table: <table>

What it means

The schema-alteration path in ColumnFamilyStore wraps RuntimeExceptions from the underlying update and rethrows them with keyspace and table context appended ('... for ks: X, table: Y'). If the wrapped exception is an InvalidRequestException it is rethrown as such; any other RuntimeException is rethrown as a plain RuntimeException with the enriched message.

Source

Thrown at src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStore.java:1550

            StorageHook.instance.reportWrite(metadata.id, update);
            metric.writeLatency.addNano(nanoTime() - start);
            int affectedRows = update.affectedRowCount();
            metric.totalRowsMutated.inc(affectedRows);
            metric.rowsMutatedPerWriteHistogram.update(affectedRows);
            // CASSANDRA-11117 - certain resolution paths on memtable put can result in very
            // large time deltas, either through a variety of sentinel timestamps (used for empty values, ensuring
            // a minimal write, etc). This limits the time delta to the max value the histogram
            // can bucket correctly. This also filters the Long.MAX_VALUE case where there was no previous value
            // to update.
            if(timeDelta < Long.MAX_VALUE)
                metric.colUpdateTimeDeltaHistogram.update(Math.min(18165375903306L, timeDelta));
        }
        catch (RuntimeException e)
        {
            String message = e.getMessage() + " for ks: " + keyspace.getName() + ", table: " + name;

            if (e instanceof InvalidRequestException)
                throw new InvalidRequestException(message, e);

            throw new RuntimeException(message, e);
        }
    }
    
    private UpdateTransaction newUpdateTransaction(PartitionUpdate update, CassandraWriteContext context, boolean updateIndexes, Memtable memtable)
    {
        return updateIndexes
               ? indexManager.newUpdateTransaction(update, context, FBUtilities.nowInSeconds(), memtable)
               : UpdateTransaction.NO_OP;
    }

    public static class VersionedLocalRanges extends ArrayList<Splitter.WeightedRange>
    {
        public final Epoch ringVersion;

        public VersionedLocalRanges(Epoch ringVersion, int initialSize)
        {

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Solutions

1. Read the root cause message at the start of the message (before 'for ks:') to identify the actual problem
2. Check the server log for the full stack trace with the attached cause
3. Fix the underlying schema operation problem (e.g. drop/recreate the failing index or view)
4. If caused by a reproducible internal bug, gather the stack trace and report it

Example fix

// before
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX ON ks.t (col) USING 'com.example.BrokenIndex'; // RuntimeException from index provider
// after
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX ON ks.t (col) USING 'org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.SASIIndex' WITH OPTIONS = {...}; // valid index class

try { schemaChange(op); } catch (RuntimeException e) { log.error("table update failed: {} (cause={})", e.getMessage(), e.getCause()); /* fix root cause named before 'for ks:' suffix */ }

When it happens

Trigger: Any operation funneled through this catch block (e.g. schema updates, index or view operations on this table) that throws a non-InvalidRequestException RuntimeException, with the message prefixed by the original exception's message.

Common situations: Failures during ALTER TABLE / index builds / view initialization - e.g. custom index class errors, secondary index or materialized-view creation problems - where the root cause message is preserved but annotated with the ks/table.

Understand the failure class

Background: Database query failed: Internal Server Error 500s wrapping SQL, Prisma, and connection failures — what to check first — this error's family across 16 libraries.

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