On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:50:53 -0500 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
JE> 2010/3/18 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: >> I find it useful in one particular schema to have SuperColumns with >> specific names and rename them sometimes. Rather than client-side >> (read, write, delete) it would be nice if there was a SuperColumnRename >> Mutation than encapsulated that sequence on the server side and perhaps >> implemented it more efficiently. Right now I pay a pretty high cost for >> the client roundtrips and this would make my writers much more >> efficient. I don't need it to be atomic. >> >> Is this feasible and has it been discussed before? JE> -1 on adding a special case for this. Is it really uncommon or wrong (in Cassandra's data model) to want to rename a SuperColumn? It seems genuinely useful to me, so I must be missing something obvious. Or is the problem with the code complexity and bugs it could spawn? Ted
