With your example you can do an equality search with surname and city and then use "in" with country
Eg. Select * from yourtable where surname="blah" and city="blah blah" and country in ("country1", "country2") Hope that helps Jabbar Azam On 13 Apr 2013 07:06, "Gareth Collins" <gareth.o.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > If I have a cql3 table like this (I don't have a table with this data - > this is just for example): > > create table ( > surname text, > city text, > country text, > event_id timeuuid, > data text, > PRIMARY KEY ((surname, city, country),event_id)); > > there is no way of (easily) getting the set (or a subset) of partition > keys, is there (i.e. surname/city/country)? If I want easy access to do > queries to get a subset of the partition keys, I have to create another > table? > > I am assuming yes but just making sure I am not missing something obvious > here. > > thanks in advance, > Gareth >