I haven't verified, so i'm not 100% certain, but I believe you'd get back an exception to the client. Yes, this belongs in the DB, but I don't think you're totally blind to what went wrong.
My guess is this exception in the Python driver (but other drivers should have a similar exception): https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/blob/master/cassandra/protocol.py#L288 On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:59 PM Ryan Svihla <r...@foundev.pro> wrote: > Made a Jira about it already > https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/CASSANDRA-12231 > > Regards, > > Ryan Svihla > > On Aug 3, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > > It seems these are basically impossible to track down. > > > https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/207267063-Mutation-of-x-bytes-is-too-large-for-the-maxiumum-size-of-y- > > has some information but their work around is to increase the transaction > log. There's no way to find out WHAT client or what CQL is causing the > large mutation. > > Any thoughts on how to mitigate this? > > Kevin > > -- > > We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations > Engineers! > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: *San Francisco, CA* > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> > >