Re: Get column names without getting the data in them

2011-02-01 Thread Sasha Dolgy
ah i see ... apologies for the extra bytes On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Aaron Morton wrote: > Not at all. > > The question was about retrieving the column name without the column value. > That is not possible. > > Aaron > >

Re: Get column names without getting the data in them

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron Morton
Not at all. The question was about retrieving the column name without the column value. That is not possible. AaronOn 02 Feb, 2011,at 10:27 AM, Sasha Dolgy wrote:"Cassandra column families are schema-less and like SQL tables, they don't have a fixed number of columns per row.  In the same column f

Re: Get column names without getting the data in them

2011-02-01 Thread Sasha Dolgy
"Cassandra column families are schema-less and like SQL tables, they don't have a fixed number of columns per row. In the same column family, one row may have 5 columns, and another row, 10,000 columns. Every row can possibly have a different number / set of columns." are you saying the above is

Re: Get column names without getting the data in them

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron Morton
Not that I know of. Aaron On 2/02/2011, at 6:21 AM, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > I asked this on the hector list last week. Its possible but remember, each > row can have a different set of associated columns. > > On 1 Feb 2011 18:16, "Jeremiah Jordan" > wrote: > > Is there a way to query for col

Re: Get column names without getting the data in them

2011-02-01 Thread Sasha Dolgy
I asked this on the hector list last week. Its possible but remember, each row can have a different set of associated columns. On 1 Feb 2011 18:16, "Jeremiah Jordan" wrote: > Is there a way to query for column names or super column names without > also pulling down the data they contain? (Besides

Get column names without getting the data in them

2011-02-01 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
Is there a way to query for column names or super column names without also pulling down the data they contain? (Besides keeping a second index) I don't see an obvious way to do it from the Thrift API, but maybe I'm missing something. Thanks! -Jeremiah Jeremiah