On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Eric Czech <e...@nextbigsound.com> wrote: > That's likely because there wasn't previously a validation class for the > "age" column before you added that index. In other words, the CLI doesn't > display values in a UTF8 format until you tell it to so I think the value > "8" is correct and you could check that by running the CLI command "assume > User validator as utf8" and querying the CF User (without the index) again > to see if you get "8" as the value for the age column.
Note that 0x38 is the character "8" (in ASCII and UTF-8, at least), and I believe the CLI shows hex bytes when no validator class is specified (either by the column family, or an "assume" command being issued), so this explanation seems consistent. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar