Aaron Morton can confirm but I think one problem could be that to create an index on a field with small number of possible values is not good.
Regards, Shahab On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@mithrandi.net>wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:38 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > >> CREATE INDEX ON conv_msgdata_by_participant_cql(msgReadFlag);**** >> >> On general this is a bad idea in Cassandra (also in a relational DB >> IMHO). You will get poor performance from it. >> > > Could you elaborate on why this is a bad idea? > -- > mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar >