It's part of "update column family:" [defa...@unknown] help update column family; ... - column_metadata: Metadata which describes columns of column family. Supported format is [{ k:v, k:v, ... }, { ... }, ...] Valid attributes: column_name, validation_class (see comparator), index_type (integer), index_name.
example: update column family Foo with column_metadata=[{ column_name:Test, validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:0, index_name:IdxName}] and rows_cached=100 and comment='this is helpful comment.'; On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > How do I set an index on a column in cassandra 0.7? > > This is what I am trying to do: > [defa...@keyspace1] get Standard1 where user = 'jpartogi'; > No indexed columns present in index clause with operator EQ > > > I can not find this in the CLI help nor the wiki. Maybe I am not looking > hard enough? > > Thanks heaps for your help > > -- > http://twitter.com/jpartogi > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com