Re: CQL support for compound columns

2011-12-29 Thread Jonathan Ellis
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3685 On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> That's to allow defining column names that are not text/utf8.  So you >> could have column name "92d21d0a-d6cb-437c-9d3f-b67aa733a19

Re: CQL support for compound columns

2011-12-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > That's to allow defining column names that are not text/utf8.  So you > could have column name "92d21d0a-d6cb-437c-9d3f-b67aa733a19f" be an > actual 128-bit uuid binary value internally, not its string > representation.  Put another way, thi

Re: CQL support for compound columns

2011-12-29 Thread Jonathan Ellis
That's to allow defining column names that are not text/utf8. So you could have column name "92d21d0a-d6cb-437c-9d3f-b67aa733a19f" be an actual 128-bit uuid binary value internally, not its string representation. Put another way, this would affect the CqlMetadata name_types map. However, we alre

Re: CQL support for compound columns

2011-12-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Gamma proposal update: > > The more I think about it the less happy I am with omitting support > for sparse columns.  Remember that dense composites may only be > inserted and deleted, not updated, since they are just a tuple of > values wit

Re: CQL support for compound columns

2011-12-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I've updated the wiki page at > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Cassandra2474 with a more in-depth > Background section that hopefully clears up where I'm going with this > sparse/dense business. > > Eric mentioned on IRC that he's uneasy

Re: Cassandra has moved to Git

2011-12-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Radim Kolar wrote: > git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git > > this still works? I'm not sure what the status of this is, or what the future holds for it. I would stick with http://git-wip.us.apache.org to be on the safe-side. -- Eric Evans Acunu | http://www.acu

Re: Cassandra has moved to Git

2011-12-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Dave Brosius wrote: >> doing >> >> git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git cassandra >> >> proceeded as a normal clone until the end when i received >> >> warning: remote HEAD refers to n

Re: CQL support for compound columns

2011-12-29 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I've updated the wiki page at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Cassandra2474 with a more in-depth Background section that hopefully clears up where I'm going with this sparse/dense business. Eric mentioned on IRC that he's uneasy about the PRIMARY KEY syntax implicitly using the first element of P

Re: Cassandra has moved to Git

2011-12-29 Thread Radim Kolar
git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git this still works?

Re: Cassandra has moved to Git

2011-12-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Dave Brosius wrote: > On 12/28/2011 02:55 PM, Eric Evans wrote: >> >> While this is something we had talked about for ages, the actual >> switch-over happened rather abruptly, and Cassandra's canonical >> repository is now hosted in Git. >> >> For instructions on

Re: Cassandra has moved to Git

2011-12-29 Thread Dave Brosius
On 12/28/2011 02:55 PM, Eric Evans wrote: While this is something we had talked about for ages, the actual switch-over happened rather abruptly, and Cassandra's canonical repository is now hosted in Git. For instructions on getting started, see https://git-wip-us.apache.org. We've also started