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  2. SERVER-53335

Queries, updates, and deletes with non-"simple" collations may miss documents when using hashed sharding

    • Fully Compatible
    • ALL
    • v5.0, v4.4, v4.2, v4.0
    • Sharding 2021-07-12

      This is a beginning of time bug (since MongoDB 3.4) from when collation was first introduced.

      This affects queries, updates, and deletes with an explicit non-"simple" collation on hashed-based sharded collections using the "simple" collation as their default collation. For example, db.mycoll.find({_id: "yes"}).collation({locale: "en", strength: 2}) may fail to find an {_id: "YES"} document depending on how the chunks containing hash({_id: "yes"}) and hash({_id: "YES"}) are distributed across shards with an {_id: "hashed"} shard key pattern.

      It also affects queries, updates, and deletes inheriting a non-"simple" collation from a hashed-based sharded collection using a non-"simple" default collation.

      Ranged-based sharding is unaffected because queries using a non-"simple" collation are broadcasted to all shards which own chunks for the collection (aka scatter/gather).

            Assignee:
            jason.zhang@mongodb.com Jason Zhang (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            max.hirschhorn@mongodb.com Max Hirschhorn
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