[Reposting from client-dev, client-dev wasn't getting many responses, and it seems my previous email is no longer allowed to post to the mailing list?]
Hi, After upgrading my cluster from 1.2.16 to 2.0.6, when using the Cassandra community Go driver (http://github.com/gocql/gocql), I’ve found that columns that used to return the native TypeTimestamp (0x000D), now return TypeCustom (0x0000) with the name 'org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DataType’. As far as I can tell the serialization format is identical to TypeTimestamp, but it is unclear why Cassandra made the change, or how to reproduce it (if I create a new table, Cassandra 2.0.6 will return TypeTimestamp). I originally thought CustomTypes were used in a client-specific implementation but them see to part of the driver spec. After studying the other drivers its clear that there are special cases for the ‘org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.*’ custom types however I can’t seem to find any documentation on what types exist and how to deal with them (other than what’s in code). Can someone point me to a documentation and/or explain these custom types and how to unmarshal them? Thanks
