Thanks Eric for the explanation.
Regards,
Shahab
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> A basic question and it seems that I have a gap in my understanding.
>
> I have a simple table in Cassandra with multiple column families. I add
> new columns to each of these column families on the fly. When I view (using
> the 'DESCRIBE table' command) the schema of a particular column family, I
> see only one entry for column (bolded below). What is the reason for that?
> The column that I am adding have string names and byte values, written
> using Hector 1.1-3 (
> HFactory.createColumn(...) method).
>
> CREATE TABLE mytable (
> key text,
> *column1* ascii,
> value blob,
> PRIMARY KEY (key, column1)
> ) WITH COMPACT STORAGE AND
> bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND
> caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND
> comment='' AND
> dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND
> gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND
> read_repair_chance=1.000000 AND
> replicate_on_write='true' AND
> populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND
> compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND
> compression={'sstable_compression': 'SnappyCompressor'};
>
> cqlsh 3.0.2
> Cassandra 1.2.5
> CQL spec 3.0.0
> Thrift protocol 19.36.0
>
>
> Given this, I can also only query on this one column1 or value using the
> 'SELECT' statement.
>
> The OpsCenter on the other hand, displays multiple columns as
> expected. Basically the demarcation of multiple columns i clearer.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
> Shahab
>
