I am glad this document helped you. I like to point to this 'thrift-to-cql' document, since it was really useful to me when I found it, even if I had to read it at least 3 times entirely and still need to refer to some piece of it sometimes because of the complexity of what is explained in it.
@Sylvain, you did a real good job with this blog post. Thanks a lot, be sure I will continue sharing it. Alain 2013/8/1 Jon Ribbens <jon-cassan...@unequivocal.co.uk> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 03:10:54PM -0700, Jonathan Haddad wrote: > > It's advised you do not use compact storage, as it's primarily for > > backwards compatibility. > > Yes indeed, I understand what it does and why now, but only because > I was pointed to the thrift-to-cql document. The CQL documentation > itself doesn't make it at all clear, I was originally under the > impression that the way 'COMPACT STORAGE' works was the way CQL > works by default, because that's the natural assumption until it's > explained why it doesn't work that way. > > I was pointing out that either the thrift-to-cql document must be > wrong, or the CQL document must be wrong, because they contradict > each other. >
