On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > You can not even put two statements on the same line. So the ';' is semi > > useless syntax. > > Nobody ever asked for that, but lots of people asked to allow > statements spanning multiple lines. > > > Is their a way to move things forward without hurting backwards > > compatibility of the CLI? > > Yes. Create a new one based on CQL but leave the old one around. > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com > On a semi related note. How can you update a column family and add an index? [default@app] create column family people; 4e3310c0-b8d1-11e0-0000-242d50cf1f9f Waiting for schema agreement... ... schemas agree across the cluster [default@app] update column family people with column_metadata = [{ column_name : ascii(inserted_at), validation_class : LongType , index_type : 0 , index_name : ins_idx}]; org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'FUNCTION_CALL' as hex bytes [default@app] update column family people with column_metadata = [{ column_name : inserted_at, validation_class : LongType , index_type : 0 , index_name : ins_idx}]; org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'inserted_at' as hex bytes Edward
