Hi all, I seem to have backed myself into a corner and I cannot easily upgrade from a custom 0.7.4 installation to the default 0.8.2. Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated. Below is an outline of the problem.
Current installation: 0.7.4 with Ed Anuff's custom composite comparators. https://github.com/riptano/hector-composite/commit/74407df3ef97c3fa90eae9f68d84b50be3d9938e CF Comprator Type : "DynamicComposite" New installation: 0.8.2 with Casasndra's native DynamicComposite column time. CF Comparator Type: "DynamicComposite(a=>AsciiType,b=>BytesType,i=>IntegerType,x=>LexicalUUIDType,l=>LongType,t=>TimeUUIDType,s=>UTF8Type,u=>UUIDType,A=>AsciiType(reversed=true),B=>BytesType(reversed=true),I=>IntegerType(reversed=true),X=>LexicalUUIDType(reversed=true),L=>LongType(reversed=true),T=>TimeUUIDType(reversed=true),S=>UTF8Type(reversed=true),U=>UUIDType(reversed=true))" I cannot simply upgrade Cassandra, this fails because the comparator is incorrectly defined for version 0.8.1 and on. My issue is that the column family definition has changed, the bytes that are stored are compatible, I simply need to re-define the CF and migrate the column data over. Initially I was thinking I could perform a read from the rows and columns from a single 0.7 node, then insert them into the 0.8 cluster, however I cannot have 2 different versions of the thrift API running in the same java JVM due to namespace conflicts. Idea is to perform the following steps, if anyone has any better suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. 1. Back up all my CFs that use the dynamic composite, and copy the SSTable out of my Keyspace's data directory to tmp 2. Drop all CFs that use dynamic composite 3. Re-create the CFs with the new comparator definition 4. Using an external program directly read the 0.7 SSTables (without starting the cassandra daemon) and insert the rows and columns into the 0.8 cluster via thrift. Can anyone point me at a good example for reading rows and columns directly from the SSTables without using the thrift api? Thanks, Todd
