yaw <yawyway <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi all, connecting to a cluster with cassandra-cli and trying a > describe command, > I obtain a "missing K_TABLE" message
<snip> > Is this a real issue? I would chock this one up to a mix of user error and cryptic CLI message. describe command is describe keyspace <keyspaceName> ------ [defa...@unknown] describe keyspace alerts Keyspace: alerts Column Family Name: byLocation Column Family Type: Super Column Sorted By: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type flush period: null minutes ------ The CLI seems to be nice enough to guess that what you want is describe keyspace. If the CLI responded with something informative, users would have a d'oh moment and type it right next time. ------ [defa...@unknown] describe alerts line 1:9 missing K_TABLE at 'alerts' Keyspace: alerts Column Family Name: byLocation Column Family Type: Super Column Sorted By: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type flush period: null minutes ------ I'm guessing that as describe <keyspaceName> gives a message that the developers plan to describe other things in the future. At which point, it'll become a worst bet that the user intends to describe keyspace as more things can be described.
