Short version: It's dictated by indexes being CFs underneath.
Your "workaround" would be substantially less efficient than not using
an index at all and just using range scan.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:20 PM, David Erickson <halcyon1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> Thanks for the reply. Why is there a limitation of requiring an EQ?
> In my case I am modeling my CF with one object per row, with columns
> for object properties. The query I'd like to issue is give me all
> objects with timestamps earlier than a specified time. In this query
> there is nothing for me to set EQ on. I could work around this by
> creating a column for every row with a known value like 0 and include
> that column in the index clause, but that seems silly.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> as the validation error ("No indexed columns present in index clause
>> with operator EQ") explains, you need at least one at EQ after which
>> you can add others w/ other operators
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, David Erickson <halcyon1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have been running the nightly of Cassandra and was able to get the
>>> secondary indices working for me, and queryable with IndexOperator.EQ.
>>> I have an additional index that I need to use IndexOperator.LTE on
>>> for LongType, which I tried to use but the equivalent of a
>>> NotImplementedException was thrown for anything other than .EQ. I
>>> found the commit introducing this:
>>> 283e365196cdad3fb352de0b6d7a8c0ddd1d784a however what puzzles me is
>>> the same commit claims to fix issue 1401 "allow all operators in
>>> secondary clauses to index query"
>>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1401), and introduces
>>> a test for the GTE operator. So my question is why is the
>>> ThriftValidator disallowing these queries?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> http://riptano.com
>>
>
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Jonathan Ellis
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http://riptano.com
