Re: Omitting empty columns from CQL SELECT

2012-08-19 Thread aaron morton
> there a situation in which that behavior would be useful? guessing, makes life easier to client implementations and is consistent in the sense that when doing a slice by name the server is the entity that decides which columns are in the result set. I took a look at the performance of variou

Re: Omitting empty columns from CQL SELECT

2012-08-17 Thread Mat Brown
Hi Aaron, Thanks for the answer. That makes sense and I can see it as a formal reason for returning empty columns, but as a practical matter, is there a situation in which that behavior would be useful? Unfortunately a column slice won't do the trick -- the columns we're looking for at any given

Re: Omitting empty columns from CQL SELECT

2012-08-17 Thread aaron morton
If you specify the columns by name in the select clause the query returns them because they should be projected in the result set. Can you use a column slice instead ? Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 17/08/2012, at 11:09 A