This is part of a much bigger problem, one which has many parts, among them:
1. Cassandra is complex. Getting a gestalt understanding of it makes me think I understand how Alzheimer's patients must feel. 2. There is no official documentation. Perhaps everything is out there somewhere, who knows? 3. Cassandra is a moving target. Books are out of date before they hit the press. 4. Most of the important knowledge about Cassandra exists in a kind of oral history, that is hard to keep up with, and even harder to understand once it's long past. I think it is clear that we need a better one-stop-shop for good documentation. What hasn't been talked about much - but I think it's just as important - is a good one-stop-shop for Cassandra's oral history. (You might think this list is the place, but it's too noisy to be useful, except at the very tip of the cowcatcher. Cassandra needs a canonized version of its oral history.) On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > 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 >
