I'm on version 1.1.2 The nodetool command by itself
# nodetool netstats -h localhost Mode: NORMAL Not sending any streams. Not receiving any streams. Pool Name Active Pending Completed Commands n/a 0 5909 Responses n/a 0 1203 Jim From: Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com<mailto:rc...@eventbrite.com>> Reply-To: <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:26:45 -0700 To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: alter column family ? On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Langston, Jim <jim.langs...@compuware.com<mailto:jim.langs...@compuware.com>> wrote: I am trying to alter a column family to change gc_grace_seconds, and now, any of the properties The sequence: use ks ; alter table CF with gc_grace_seconds=864000 ; When listing the CF, gc_grace_seconds is set to 0, after running the CLI, gc_grace_seconds is still set to 0. I tried change the comment property, but this did not change either. Using the same keyspace, I created another table and executed both the gc_grace_seconds change and the comments change. Both of these successfully changed. I'm surprised to hear that other columnfamilies work in the same keyspace. In general when people end up in this case, no schema migrations work. If you do : nodetool -h localhost netstats |grep SCHEMA |sort | uniq -c | sort -n Do you see that all nodes in the cluster have the same schema version? What version of Cassandra? =Rob