You are correct, but this is also a limitation with the Thrift API -- it's not CQL specific. It turns out that deleting a slice of columns is difficult. There's an old JIRA ticket somewhere that describes the issues.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Courtney Robinson <sa...@live.co.uk> wrote: > Looking at the CQL spec, it doesn’t seem to be possible to delete a > range of columns for a given key without specifying the individual columns > to be removed, for e.g. > DELETE col1 .. col20 from CF WHERE KEY=<key|(key1,key2)> > Am I correct in thinking so or have I missed that somewhere? > > -- Tyler Hobbs Software Engineer, DataStax <http://datastax.com/> Maintainer of the pycassa <http://github.com/pycassa/pycassa> Cassandra Python client library
