Perhaps you should fix your clock drift issues instead of trying to use a 
workaround?

> On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Peddi, Praveen <pe...@amazon.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> We are using Cassandra 2.0.9 and we currently have “using timestamp” clause 
> in all our update queries. We did this to fix occasional issues with ntp 
> drift on AWS. We recently introduced conditional update in couple of our API 
> and we realized that I can’t have “using timestamp” and “if column1=?” in the 
> same query.
> 
> com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.InvalidQueryException: Cannot provide 
> custom timestamp for conditional update
> 
> How do I achieve this if I want to override timestamp in a query with 
> conditional update? Also, does anyone know the reason behind not supporting 
> “using timestamp” for conditional update? I am trying to understand the 
> problems this would cause.
> 
> Thanks
> Praveen

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