Clint, what you want is this : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4851
select * from foo where key=something and fam = 'Info' and (qual,version) > ('A',2013) and qual < 'D' ALLOW FILTERING On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Clint Kelly <clint.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > Is there any way to have inequalities comparisons on multiple clustering > columns in a WHERE clause in CQL? For example, I'd like to do: > > select * from foo where fam = 'Info' and qual > 'A' and qual < 'D' and > version > 2013 ALLOW FILTERING; > > I get an error: > > Bad Request: PRIMARY KEY part version cannot be restricted (preceding > part qual is either not restricted or by a non-EQ relation) > > when I try this. Is there any way to make a query like this work? I > understand that this query will not be a nice, continuous scan of data, but > I'd rather have a slower query than have to do all of this filtering on the > client side. Any other suggestions? > > BTW my table looks like this: > > CREATE TABLE foo ( > key text, > fam text, > qual text, > version int, > val text, > PRIMARY KEY (key, fam, qual, version) > ) WITH > 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 > index_interval=128 AND > read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND > replicate_on_write='true' AND > populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND > default_time_to_live=0 AND > speculative_retry='99.0PERCENTILE' AND > memtable_flush_period_in_ms=0 AND > compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND > compression={'sstable_compression': 'LZ4Compressor'}; > > Best regards, > Clint >