You do not need a restart if you use nodetool refresh Otherwise a rolling restart will do the trick.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4/01/2012, at 12:31 PM, Jim Newsham wrote: > > Thanks that's very helpful. I'm assuming there's no requirement to stop or > restart Cassandra? > > Thanks, > Jim > > On 1/2/2012 12:07 AM, aaron morton wrote: >> >> Renaming a CF is not directly supported. >> >> You can: >> 1) Add the new CF using the CLI or CQL >> 2) On each node copy the SSTable files and use the new CF name. >> 3) Drop the old CF using the CLI or CQL >> 4) The Drop CF command will create a snapshot, you may want to delete this. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Freelance Developer >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >> On 31/12/2011, at 8:42 AM, Jim Newsham wrote: >> >>> >>> How can I rename a column family (if version matters, I'm interested in >>> both 0.8.x and 1.0.x). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jim >>> >> >
