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Eric Evans commented on CASSANDRA-3031:
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with this patch applied new CF created via cqlsh are using new
org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.IntType type for int columns. Old applications
using CF created with old int type are unaffected. In python returned type to
old apps is int or long depending on value inserted. Patch is fully backward
compatible, i havent discovered any incompatibility yet.
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It is true that drivers should do the right thing insofar as they will continue
to see LongType schema and deserialize the 8 byte values to whatever makes
sense. However, an expectation is still being broken, and it's hard to imagine
all of the cases where this will blow up someones face.
Imagine someone that uses a schema written as CQL to setup new nodes.
Depending on the version it is applied to, they're going to get entirely
different and incompatible schemas.
> Add 4 byte integer type
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-3031
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3031
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 0.8.4
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Radim Kolar
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: hector, lhf
> Fix For: 1.0
>
> Attachments: apache-cassandra-0.8.4-SNAPSHOT.jar, src.diff, test.diff
>
>
> Cassandra currently lacks support for 4byte fixed size integer data type.
> Java API Hector and C libcassandra likes to serialize integers as 4 bytes in
> network order. Problem is that you cant use cassandra-cli to manipulate
> stored rows. Compatibility with other applications using api following
> cassandra integer encoding standard is problematic too.
> Because adding new datatype/validator is fairly simple I recommend to add
> int4 data type. Compatibility with hector is important because it is most
> used Java cassandra api and lot of applications are using it.
> This problem was discussed several times already
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.hector.user/2125
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2585
> It would be nice to have compatibility with cassandra-cli and other
> applications without rewriting hector apps.
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