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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-10857: ---------------------------------------------- bq. The grammar is updated to support empty strings for identifiers, too. Note that if we do that (and I certainly wouldn't mind a better solution cause that's still ugly at the end of the day), I suggest still rejecting it when declaring columns/field (for table, MVs, UDT, function parameters, ...). We only want to solve our problem of selecting/inserting into that server-side defined column, but I doubt allowing user to create column with empty names is a good idea. > Allow dropping COMPACT STORAGE flag from tables in 3.X > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-10857 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: CQL, Distributed Metadata > Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko > Assignee: Alex Petrov > Fix For: 3.x > > > Thrift allows users to define flexible mixed column families - where certain > columns would have explicitly pre-defined names, potentially non-default > validation types, and be indexed. > Example: > {code} > create column family foo > and default_validation_class = UTF8Type > and column_metadata = [ > {column_name: bar, validation_class: Int32Type, index_type: KEYS}, > {column_name: baz, validation_class: UUIDType, index_type: KEYS} > ]; > {code} > Columns named {{bar}} and {{baz}} will be validated as {{Int32Type}} and > {{UUIDType}}, respectively, and be indexed. Columns with any other name will > be validated by {{UTF8Type}} and will not be indexed. > With CASSANDRA-8099, {{bar}} and {{baz}} would be mapped to static columns > internally. However, being {{WITH COMPACT STORAGE}}, the table will only > expose {{bar}} and {{baz}} columns. Accessing any dynamic columns (any column > not named {{bar}} and {{baz}}) right now requires going through Thrift. > This is blocking Thrift -> CQL migration for users who have mixed > dynamic/static column families. That said, it *shouldn't* be hard to allow > users to drop the {{compact}} flag to expose the table as it is internally > now, and be able to access all columns. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)