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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-2474:
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Well, the timestamp was not meant to be the key in my example and the event_id 
needs to be the last component for this to make sense (since it is not 
specified in the query) but ok..

Now, I don't understand how:
{noformat}
SELECT name AS (category, subcategory, *), value AS event FROM events WHERE key 
= <timestamp> AND category = <category> AND subcategory = <subcat>;
{noformat}
is fundamentally different from
{noformat}
SELECT <category>:<subcat>:<event_id>, value FROM events WHERE key = 
<timestamp>;
{noformat}
which is roughly the proposition from CASSANDRA-2025. And I mean fundamentally 
different, not just from a syntax point of view (I have nothing against using 
parenthesis). If if it just a syntax difference, then fine.

Or how
{noformat}
SELECT name AS (category, *), value AS event FROM events WHERE key = 
<timestamp> AND category > c1 AND category < c2;
{noformat}
is fundamentally different from
{noformat}
SELECT c1:*..c2:*, value FROM events WHERE key = <timestamp>;
{noformat}

Maybe giving an example of what is supposed to be the returned would start to 
show the differences, but so far it seems only a difference of syntax.  And the 
discussions above suggests that there is more than that underneath.


> CQL support for compound columns
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2474
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2474
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: API, Core
>            Reporter: Eric Evans
>            Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
>              Labels: cql
>             Fix For: 1.0
>
>         Attachments: screenshot-1.jpg, screenshot-2.jpg
>
>
> For the most part, this boils down to supporting the specification of 
> compound column names (the CQL syntax is colon-delimted terms), and then 
> teaching the decoders (drivers) to create structures from the results.

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