Re: WRITETIME question

2013-12-18 Thread Tyler Hobbs
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Christopher Wirt wrote: > What, if any, is the difference between selecting writetime(column) and > just looking at the Timestamp of a selected column. There's no difference. The writetime() function is only really necessary for native protocol drivers, which don

WRITETIME question

2013-12-18 Thread Christopher Wirt
Is there any reason to use the WRITETIME function on non-counter columns? I'm using CQL statements via the thrift protocol and get a Timestamp returned with each column. I'm pretty sure select a, writetime(a) from b where u = 1 is unnecessary for me. Unless a is a counter. I guess my re