I'm surprised this would have fall through the cracks but that certainly look like a regression (a bug). If you can reproduce on 3.0.4 (just to make sure we haven't fixed it recently), then please open a ticket in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA/ with your repro steps.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:47 AM, julien muller <julien.mul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed the following change in behavior while migrating from 2.0.11: > Elements of the clustering key seems to not be secondary indexable anymore. > Anyone could give me an insight about this issue? Or point me to documents > relative to this evolution? > > There is a sample table with some data: > CREATE TABLE table1 ( > name text, > class int, > inter text, > power int, > PRIMARY KEY (name, class, inter) > ) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (class DESC, inter ASC); > INSERT INTO table1 (name, class, inter, power) VALUES ('R1',1, 'int1',13); > INSERT INTO table1 (name, class, inter, power) VALUES ('R1',2, 'int1',18); > INSERT INTO table1 (name, class, inter, power) VALUES ('R1',3, 'int1',37); > INSERT INTO table1 (name, class, inter, power) VALUES ('R1',4, 'int1',49); > > In version 2.0.11, I used to have a secondary index on inter, that allowed > me to make fast queries on this table: > CREATE INDEX table1_inter ON table1 (inter); > SELECT * FROM table1 where name='R1' AND class>0 AND class<4 AND > inter='int1' ALLOW FILTERING; > > While testing on 3.3.0, I get the following message: > *Cluste* > *ring column "inter" cannot be restricted (preceding column "class" is > restricted by a non-EQ relation)* > It seems to only be considered as a key and the index and ALLOW FILTERING > are not taken into account anymore (as it was in 2.0.11). > > Further tests confused me, as I found an ugly workaround: If I duplicate > the column inter as a regular column, I can simply query it with the > secondary index and no ALLOW FILTERING. It looks like the behavior I would > anticipate and do not understand why it does not work on inter only because > it is a clustering key. > > Any insight highly appreciated! > > Julien >