Just stumbled upon this by chance, is it related? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2497
Conan On 6 May 2012 13:19, cyril auburtin <cyril.aubur...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's the comparator so? because I tried without the single quotes on > column_name and same error > thanks > > > 2012/5/6 Pierre Chalamet <pie...@chalamet.net> > >> create column family Post with comparator=UTF8Type and >> colum_metadata=[{column_name : user, validation_class : UTF8Type}] and >> comment='bla’;**** >> >> ** ** >> >> - Pierre**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* cyril auburtin [mailto:cyril.aubur...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* dimanche 6 mai 2012 13:10 >> *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org >> *Subject:* [1.1] Can't create column**** >> >> ** ** >> >> [default@ks] create column family Post with column_type = 'Standard' and >> column_metadata = [{column_name: 'user', validation_class: 'UTF8Type'}, >> {column_name: 'type', validation_class: 'UTF8Type'}] and comment = 'bla'; >> **** >> >> java.lang.RuntimeException: >> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'user' as >> hex bytes**** >> >> ** ** >> > >