Re: Representation of dynamically added columns in table (column family) schema using cqlsh

2013-07-23 Thread Shahab Yunus
See this as this was discussed earlier: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Representation-of-dynamically-added-columns-in-table-column-family-schema-using-cqlsh-td7588997.html Regards, Shahab On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Shahab Yunus wrote: > A basic quest

Re: Representation of dynamically added columns in table (column family) schema using cqlsh

2013-07-13 Thread Tristan Seligmann
See http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3 for more information. On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Eric Stevens wrote: > If you're creating dynamic columns via Thrift interface, they will not be > reflected in the CQL3 schema. I would recommend not mixing paradigms like > that, either

Re: Representation of dynamically added columns in table (column family) schema using cqlsh

2013-07-12 Thread Shahab Yunus
Thanks Eric for the explanation. Regards, Shahab On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Shahab Yunus wrote: > A basic question and it seems that I have a gap in my understanding. > > I have a simple table in Cassandra with multiple column families. I add > new columns to each of these column familie

Re: Representation of dynamically added columns in table (column family) schema using cqlsh

2013-07-12 Thread Eric Stevens
If you're creating dynamic columns via Thrift interface, they will not be reflected in the CQL3 schema. I would recommend not mixing paradigms like that, either stick with CQL3 or Thrift / cassandra-cli. With compact storage creates column families which can be interacted with meaningfully via Th

Representation of dynamically added columns in table (column family) schema using cqlsh

2013-07-12 Thread Shahab Yunus
A basic question and it seems that I have a gap in my understanding. I have a simple table in Cassandra with multiple column families. I add new columns to each of these column families on the fly. When I view (using the 'DESCRIBE table' command) the schema of a particular column family, I see onl