Ability to configure Druid to fail a query that tries to reach an unavailable segment
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Description
### Description
A configuration option (e.g. `druid.sql.planner.failOnMissingSegments`) that when set to true, Druid looks at the segment metadata for the __time specified in the query and fails if there's an unavailable realtime segment for that datasource.
### Motivation
I recognize this isn't a perfect system but realtime ingestion is typically ingesting data related to the current time, so if that fails (e.g. a realtime segment gets dropped due to failure during handover) then the data that was once being returned by queries appears to disappear. Our users see this as **inconsistent/unreliable data and trust in Druid falls**. Our user would prefer an error here, something akin to "Data is missing for __time specified"
For additional motivation, if ingestion is failing then reduced load on the failing nodes might help. If queries fail before ever hitting ingestion nodes this can help reduce load on the failing nodes.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by tracing Druid's SQL planner query path and segment metadata handling; define the behavior for unavailable realtime segments and verify that the configuration causes queries for the specified __time and datasource to fail.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, sql
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100