That's not precisely true.  See
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-44 for techniques that can
be used to modify the current column families.  Eventually this will be made
more dynamic.
Michael

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@almaden.ibm.com> wrote:

> You should be aware that Cassandra doesn't support changing column families
> without reloading the data.
>
>
> Jun
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>
>
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> PM---I can't reproduce this after cleaning out the data/ dire]Phillip
> Michalak ---08/20/2009 04:16:44 PM---I can't reproduce this after cleaning
> out the data/ directories (and commit logs) and restarting t
>
>
> From:
> Phillip Michalak <phil.micha...@digitalreasoning.com>
> To:
> cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org
> Date:
> 08/20/2009 04:16 PM
> Subject:
> Re: quorum read timeout
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> I can't reproduce this after cleaning out the data/ directories (and commit
> logs) and restarting the cluster. I suspect that I had gotten to an
> inconsistent state as I was playing around with the keyspace column
> families.
>
> I've updated the bug report with a comment to this effect, but have left it
> open for someone with more experience to close it out.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Phillip Michalak wrote:
>
>    Sure thing. Filed as *
>       
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-381*<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-381>
>
>        <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-381>Thanks,
>       Phil
>
>       On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>        Looks like a bug in TcpConnectionManager. Can you file a ticket?
>
>             thanks,
>
>             -Jonathan
>
>             On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Phillip
>             
> Michalak<*phil.micha...@digitalreasoning.com*<phil.micha...@digitalreasoning.com>>
>             wrote:
>                It's cassandra-0.4-beta1.
>
>                   Thanks!
>                   Phil
>
>                   On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>                    Is this 0.3 or 0.4/trunk?
>
>                         On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Phillip
>                         
> Michalak<*phil.micha...@digitalreasoning.com*<phil.micha...@digitalreasoning.com>>
>                         wrote:
>
>                               I'm running three Cassandra nodes in virtual
>                               machines.
>                               During a 'get' operation from
>                               Cassandra-remote directed at one of these
>                               nodes, I'm receiving the following output
>
>                               vad...@vadmin:~/cassandra$
>                               interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra-remote -h
>                               192.168.133.130:9160 get
>                               'MockElementLibrary' '0401318uuuuruepwdcznr'
>                               "ColumnPath('strings', None, 'id')" 2
>
>                               
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/thrift/Thrift.py:58:
>                               DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message
>                               has been deprecated as of
>                               Python
>                               2.6
>                                self.message = message
>
>                               
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/thrift/Thrift.py:99:
>                               DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message
>                               has been deprecated as of
>                               Python
>                               2.6
>                                self.message = iprot.readString();
>                               Traceback (most recent call last):
>                                File
>                               "interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra-remote", 
> line 93, in <module>
>                               
> pp.pprint(client.get(args[0],args[1],eval(args[2]),eval(args[3]),))
>                                File
>
>
>                               
> "/home/vadmin/cassandra-0.4.0-beta1/interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra.py",
>                               line 182, in get
>                                return self.recv_get()
>                                File
>
>
>                               
> "/home/vadmin/cassandra-0.4.0-beta1/interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra.py",
>                               line 201, in recv_get
>                                raise x
>
>
>                               
> thrift.Thrift.TApplicationException/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/thrift/Thrift.py:76:
>                               DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message
>                               has been deprecated as of
>                               Python
>                               2.6
>                                if self.message:
>
>                               
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/thrift/Thrift.py:77:
>                               DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message
>                               has been deprecated as of
>                               Python
>                               2.6
>                                return self.message
>                               : Internal error processing get
>
>                               The same 'get' operation from
>                               Cassandra-remote directed at another of
>                               these
>                               nodes, yields 'normal' output
>                               vad...@vadmin:~/cassandra$
>                               interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra-remote -h
>                               192.168.133.129:9160 get
>                               'MockElementLibrary' '0401318uuuuruepwdcznr'
>                               "ColumnPath('strings', None, 'id')" 2
>                               Traceback (most recent call last):
>                                File
>                               "interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra-remote", 
> line 93, in <module>
>                               
> pp.pprint(client.get(args[0],args[1],eval(args[2]),eval(args[3]),))
>                                File
>
>
>                               
> "/home/vadmin/cassandra-0.4.0-beta1/interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra.py",
>                               line 182, in get
>                                return self.recv_get()
>                                File
>
>
>                               
> "/home/vadmin/cassandra-0.4.0-beta1/interface/gen-py/cassandra/Cassandra.py",
>                               line 210, in recv_get
>                                raise result.nfe
>                               ttypes.NotFoundException:
>                               NotFoundException()
>                               Furthermore, querying the same column for
>                               (some) other keys is successful
>                               when no matter which node it is directed at.
>                               Looking at the log for the node that
>                               produced the error from the query
>                               above:
>
>                               DEBUG [pool-1-thread-22] 2009-08-19
>                               16:54:57,618 CassandraServer.java
>                               (line
>                               221) get
>                               DEBUG [pool-1-thread-22] 2009-08-19
>                               16:54:57,618 StorageProxy.java (line
>                               420) strongread reading data for
>
>                               
> SliceByNamesReadCommand(table='MockElementLibrary',
>                               key='0401318uuuuruepwdcznr',
>
>                               
> columnParent='QueryPath(columnFamilyName='strings',
>                               superColumnName='null',
>                               columnName='null')', columns=[id,]) from
>                               38...@null
>                               DEBUG [pool-1-thread-22] 2009-08-19
>                               16:54:57,619 StorageProxy.java (line
>                               427) strongread reading digest for
>
>                               
> SliceByNamesReadCommand(table='MockElementLibrary',
>                               key='0401318uuuuruepwdcznr',
>
>                               
> columnParent='QueryPath(columnFamilyName='strings',
>                               superColumnName='null',
>                               columnName='null')', columns=[id,]) from *
>                               38...@192.168.133.129*<38...@192.168.133.129>
>                               :7000
>                                WARN [MESSAGE-SERIALIZER-POOL:4] 2009-08-19
>                               16:54:57,619
>                               MessageSerializationTask.java (line 81)
>                               Exception was generated at :
>                               08/19/2009 16:54:57 on thread
>                               MESSAGE-SERIALIZER-POOL:4
>                               java.lang.NullPointerException
>                                at
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.net.TcpConnection.<init>(TcpConnection.java:83)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.net.TcpConnectionManager.getConnection(TcpConnectionManager.java:64)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.net.MessagingService.getConnection(MessagingService.java:306)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageSerializationTask.run(MessageSerializationTask.java:66)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
>                                at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>                               DEBUG [RESPONSE-STAGE:4] 2009-08-19
>                               16:54:57,622 ResponseVerbHandler.java
>                               (line 38) Processing response on a callback
>                               from *
>                               
> 65b1e352-a0a3-1a7f-138b-9bea3e1d7...@192.168.133.129
>                               
> *<65b1e352-a0a3-1a7f-138b-9bea3e1d7...@192.168.133.129>
>                               :7000
>                               ERROR [pool-1-thread-22] 2009-08-19
>                               16:55:02,619 Cassandra.java (line
>                               608)
>                               Internal error processing get
>                               java.lang.RuntimeException:
>                               java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException:
>                               Operation
>                               timed out - received only 1 responses from
>                               192.168.133.129:7000 .
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraServer.readColumnFamily(CassandraServer.java:100)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraServer.get(CassandraServer.java:226)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.Cassandra$Processor$get.process(Cassandra.java:602)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.Cassandra$Processor.process(Cassandra.java:560)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:252)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
>                                at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>                               Caused by:
>                               java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: 
> Operation timed out -
>                               received only 1 responses from
>                               192.168.133.129:7000 .
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.QuorumResponseHandler.get(QuorumResponseHandler.java:86)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy.strongRead(StorageProxy.java:435)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy.readProtocol(StorageProxy.java:330)
>                                at
>
>
>                               
> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraServer.readColumnFamily(CassandraServer.java:92)
>                                ... 7 more
>
>                               It appears to me that there is a timeout
>                               during the QuorumResponseHandler
>                               processing, stemming from a
>                               NullPointerException that occurs as part of
>                               the
>                               read process. I suspect that this
>                               NullPointerException has something to
>                               do
>                               with the second DEBUG [pool-1-thread-22]
>                               comment regarding strongread ...
>                               from 38...@null.
>                               Does anyone know why this might be
>                               happening?
>                               Thanks for any insight,
>                               Phil
>
>
>
>
>

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