Doesn't CQL have the same issue? http://crlog.info/2011/09/17/cassandra-query-language-cql-v2-0-reference/#Column+Family+Options+(optional)
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/references/cql/CREATE_COLUMNFAMILY CREATE COLUMNFAMILY user_events (user text PRIMARY KEY) WITH *comparator*=timestamp AND *default_validation*=int; Do CQL enhancements also belong in the same jira project, or somewhere else? Ernie On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Don Smith <dsm...@likewise.com> wrote: > FYI, I submitted an enhancement > ticket<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3660?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel>to > JIRA about this. The ticket was resolved with the comment: "cli is > kept around for backwards compatiblity at this point; cqlsh is 'the > future.'" > > Don > ------------------------------ > *From:* Stephen Pope [stephen.p...@quest.com] > *Sent:* Monday, December 12, 2011 6:34 AM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* RE: Suggestion about syntax of CREATE COLUMN FAMILY > > I’d like to second this. I’ve been working with Cassandra for a good > while now, but when I first started little things like this were confusing. > > > > *From:* Don Smith [mailto:dsm...@likewise.com] > *Sent:* Friday, December 09, 2011 3:41 PM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Suggestion about syntax of CREATE COLUMN FAMILY > > > > Currently, the syntax for creating column families is like this: > > create column family Users > with comparator=UTF8Type > and default_validation_class=UTF8Type > and key_validation_class=UTF8Type; > > > It's not clear what "comparator" and "default_validation_class" refer to. > Much clearer would be: > > create column family Users > with *column_name_comparator*=UTF8Type > and *column_value_validation_class*=UTF8Type > and key_validation_class=UTF8Type; > > > BTW, instead of "column_name_comparator", I'd actually prefer > "column_key_comparator" since it seems more accurate to call column names > "column keys." > > Don >
