I meant lax mode not lax version.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM, David Boxenhorn da...@citypath.comwrote:
Could we have a strict mode that would enforce quoting terms (this would be
used in code) and a lax version that could be used in interactive mode,
where backward compatibility is not
I definitely vote for reserving words that are expected to be needed in the
future. It seems we have a pretty good chance of predicting most of the
syntactical needs for the next couple years (especially with suggestions
from common SQL variants), and the (hopefully) rare exceptions could get
I just ran into an issue where CQL queries that were written at the time
of 0.8.0 no longer work against 0.8.1. This was caused by r1130200
(CASSANDRA-1709) which introduced ALTER support. The queries in
question made use of unquoted terms for one of the newly added keywords
(type in this case
