We just upgrade to C* 1.1.6 We can now change anything using the CLI or cqlsh. So problem solved.
2012/11/14 Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> > Oh! That's obviously the exact same issue. I didn't find this thread while > searching about my issue. > > We will upgrade. > > Thanks for the link. > > > 2012/11/14 aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> > >> May be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4561 >> >> Can you upgrade to 1.1.6 ? >> >> Cheers >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Freelance Cassandra Developer >> New Zealand >> >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >> On 14/11/2012, at 11:39 PM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, I am running C* 1.1.2 and there is no way to turn the compression on >> for a CF. >> >> Here is the command I ran in the CLI: >> >> UPDATE COLUMN FAMILY data_action WITH >> compression_options={sstable_compression:SnappyCompressor, chunk_length_kb >> : 64}; >> >> Show schema : >> >> create column family data_action >> with column_type = 'Standard' >> and comparator = 'UTF8Type' >> and default_validation_class = 'UTF8Type' >> and key_validation_class = 'UTF8Type' >> and read_repair_chance = 1.0 >> and dclocal_read_repair_chance = 0.0 >> and gc_grace = 864000 >> and min_compaction_threshold = 4 >> and max_compaction_threshold = 32 >> and replicate_on_write = true >> and compaction_strategy = >> 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy' >> and caching = 'KEYS_ONLY'; >> >> I tried also through cqlsh without success ("ALTER TABLE data_action WITH >> compression_parameters:sstable_compression = 'SnappyCompressor' AND >> compression_parameters:chunk_length_kb = 64;") >> >> I have no error message just these few lines on system.log: >> >> INFO 10:17:12,051 Completed flushing >> /raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-20-Data.db >> (1367 bytes) for commitlog position >> ReplayPosition(segmentId=721932060965088, position=116556860) >> INFO 10:17:12,052 Compacting >> [SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-20-Data.db'), >> SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-19-Data.db'), >> SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-17-Data.db'), >> SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-18-Data.db')] >> INFO 10:17:12,134 Compacted to >> [/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-21-Data.db,]. >> 50,928 to 46,827 (~91% of original) bytes for 3 keys at 0.544606MB/s. >> Time: 82ms. >> >> I also tried upgrading sstables but compression is definitely not enabled >> (same size of data + JMX show a CompressionRatio of 0.0). >> >> Does anyone already saw something similar ? >> >> Alain >> >> >> >