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