4946 is marked as a dup of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4913
Looks like it's fixed in the trunk now. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 15/11/2012, at 2:19 AM, Timmy Turner <timm.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using a describe columnfamilies/tables query, Cassandra only gives me <empty> > in 1.2.0-beta1 and the error mentioned in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4946 in 1.2.0-beta2, despite > there actually being columnfamilies in the currently selected/used keyspace. > Selecting/updating the columnfamilies and describe columnfamily statements > work fine. > > Is this a bug that will eventually be fixed, or does describe columnfamilies > only list the columnfamilies after certain conditions (e.g. only after > they've been flushed to the disk) have been met? If so, what are these > conditions, and is there any way to force Cassandra to execute the necessary > steps to meet these conditions? >