You are correct. In CQL the timestamps come from the server unless specified. In thrift the user must supply, otherwise it is always 0.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Michael Theroux <mthero...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hello, > > We are having an odd sporadic issue that I believe maybe due to time > synchronization. Without going into details on the issue right now, quick > question, from the documentation I see numerous references that Cassandra > utilizes timestamps generated by the clients to determine write > serialization. However, going through the code, it appears that for CQL > over thrift, it will only use client generated timestamps if "USING > TIMESTAMP" is utilized in the cql statement, otherwise it will use a > server-generated timestamp. > > I was looking through 1.1.2 code. > > Am I reading this correctly? > > -Mike
