Hi Dave, Thank you for your answer.
2012/5/25 Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> > What version are you using? > I am using version 1.1.0 > It might be related to > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4052 > Indeed the Issue you suggested goes into the direction of my problem. However, things are a little bit more complex. I used the cassandra-cli just for this example, although I'm getting this behavior from other clients (I'm using python and ruby scripts). Basically I'm modifying the schema through the ruby script and I'm trying to query and insert data through the python script. Both of the scripts are meant to be on forever (sort of daemons) and thus they establish once at start a connection to the Cassandra which is kept alive. I can see from the comments on the issue that keeping a long-lived connection to the Cluster might not be ideal and it would probably be better to reconnect upon executing a set of queries.