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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-4147: --------------------------------------------- I don't think this is specific to cqlsh, it's just that CQL doesn't know about null. For CQL3, CASSANDRA-3783 has some plan to add some null support. For CQL2, I'm not sure it's worth bothering adding it to the language (adding it to the grammar and adding code to handle it). Unless you have a good reason to? > cqlsh doesn't accept NULL as valid input > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-4147 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4147 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1.0.8 > Reporter: T Jake Luciani > Assignee: paul cannon > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.0.10 > > > cqlsh:cfs> insert into foo (key,val1,val2)values('row2',NULL,NULL); > Bad Request: unable to make long from 'NULL' -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira