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Aleksey Yeschenko commented on CASSANDRA-12443:
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Yup.
Another similar, but more subtle problem is with dropping columns repeatedly.
Drop column foo (text), re-add it as foo (int), drop it again, and sstables
where foo was still text would cause real issues on reading.
> Remove alter type support
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> Key: CASSANDRA-12443
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12443
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Carl Yeksigian
> Fix For: 4.x
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> Currently, we allow altering of types. However, because we no longer store
> the length for all types anymore, switching from a fixed-width to
> variable-width type causes issues. commitlog playback breaking startup,
> queries currently in flight getting back bad results, and special casing
> required to handle the changes. In addition, this would solve
> CASSANDRA-10309, as there is no possibility of the types changing while an
> SSTableReader is open.
> For fixed-length, compatible types, the alter also doesn't add much over a
> cast, so users could use that in order to retrieve the altered type.
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