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Patrick McFadin updated CASSANDRA-7274:
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    Attachment: 7274-2.txt

You are right. Much simpler. Attaching updated patch.

> Better display table organization on desc table via primary key list
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-7274
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7274
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: G Gordon Worley III
>            Assignee: Patrick McFadin
>             Fix For: 2.0.8
>
>         Attachments: 7274-2.txt, 7274.txt
>
>
> In cqlsh, the desc table command does not make it sufficiently clear which 
> columns are part of the row key and which are clustering keys.
> A simple change to the primary key list, though, would make it easier to tell.
> Consider the following table definition:
> {code}
> create table my_table {
>   first_column text,
>   second_column text,
>   third_column text,
>   primary key (first_column, second_column, third_column)
> }
> {code}
> This table has a row key of first_column and clustering keys of 
> second_column, third_column. But if the user intended for the table to have 
> all three in the row key, the correct definition would be:
> {code}
> create table my_table {
>   first_column text,
>   second_column text,
>   third_column text,
>   primary key ((first_column, second_column, third_column))
> }
> {code}
> But this is a sufficiently subtle difference that the first may be mistaken 
> for the second or vice-versa.
> My suggested solution is to always wrap the row key in parentheses. This is 
> already supported by create table syntax, so it's just a matter of changing 
> desc table to display the create table statement with the primary key always 
> in parentheses, like so:
> {code}
> create table my_table {
>   first_column text,
>   second_column text,
>   third_column text,
>   primary key ((first_column), second_column, third_column)
> }
> {code}



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