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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-6710: ------------------------------------------- > there is a very simple workaround with relatively little downsides: use a blob Agreed. I'm just not sure this is worth adding extra complexity for little benefit. > Support union types > ------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6710 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6710 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: API, Core > Reporter: Tupshin Harper > Priority: Minor > Labels: ponies > Fix For: 3.x > > > I sometimes find myself wanting to abuse Cassandra datatypes when I want to > interleave two different types in the same column. > An example is in CASSANDRA-6167 where an approach is to tag what would > normally be a numeric field with text indicating that it is special in some > ways. > A more elegant approach would be to be able to explicitly define disjoint > unions in the style of Haskell's and Scala's Either types. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)