i also noticed "unknown result" errors when my php thrift code was generated using a different version of thrift than cassandra uses.
after regenerating my php code from thrift-r917130 (for cassandra-0.6.0-rc1), the errors stopped. -keith On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:40 AM, vineet daniel <vineetdan...@gmail.com> wrote: > can you post the code > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Lee Parker <l...@socialagency.com> wrote: >> >> According to his docs, he says you need Cassandra >= 0.5.0. I guess it is >> possible that the included thrift files are targeted at 0.6, but I don't see >> the "batch_mutate" method which is part of 0.6. So I'm assuming that it >> should work fine with 0.5.0. >> I have now changed some of those entries in the configs and I have not >> seen the error in a while. So, it may have simply been that I was trying to >> do a query which was too large for the configured buffer to handle. >> For the time being, I would like to stick with 0.5 as it is the "stable" >> release and we are running this in a production environment. >> >> Lee Parker >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Pandra is probably targetting 0.6. >>> >>> If you're just starting, there's no reason for you not to use 0.6 over >>> 0.5 now. >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Lee Parker <l...@socialagency.com> >>> wrote: >>> > I'm using the thrift client which is packaged with Pandra and my >>> > cassandra >>> > version is 0.5.0 which is in the debian packages. How can i tell which >>> > version of Thrift i'm using? >>> > Lee >>> > >>> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Then you're probably using a client incompatible with the server >>> >> version you're using. >>> >> >>> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Lee Parker <l...@socialagency.com> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > If the connections are being made by individual PHP processes >>> >> > running >>> >> > from >>> >> > the command line, they shouldn't be using the same connection. >>> >> > Should >>> >> > my >>> >> > code close the connections after each query and open a new one? >>> >> > Here is the flow of what is happening when we get the error: >>> >> > 1. Get a set of items from remote API >>> >> > 2. Insert all of the items into the items CF. (usually anywhere from >>> >> > 2 - >>> >> > 200 >>> >> > items) >>> >> > 3. Query the correct index for all entries within a particular time >>> >> > frame >>> >> > (which is determined by the timeframe of the results of step 1) >>> >> > 4. Compare keys in index to keys of items inserted in step 2. >>> >> > 5. Insert new index columns for items which aren't already in the >>> >> > index. >>> >> > I am getting the "unknown result" error during step 3. >>> >> > Lee >>> >> > >>> >> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> >>> >> > wrote: >>> >> >> >>> >> >> unknown result means thrift is badly confused. You will get this >>> >> >> when >>> >> >> using the same thrift connection from multiple threads, for >>> >> >> instance. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Lee Parker <l...@socialagency.com> >>> >> >> wrote: >>> >> >> > I am a newbie with Cassandra. We are currently migrating a large >>> >> >> > amount >>> >> >> > of >>> >> >> > data out of MySQL into Cassandra. I have two ColumnFamilies. >>> >> >> > One >>> >> >> > contains >>> >> >> > one row per item and each item has roughly 12 columns. These are >>> >> >> > items >>> >> >> > from >>> >> >> > REST APIs like the Twitter API. Then I have a second >>> >> >> > ColumnFamily >>> >> >> > with >>> >> >> > very >>> >> >> > large rows and TimeUUID column names which contain the key of the >>> >> >> > items >>> >> >> > in >>> >> >> > the other ColumnFamily. So one ColumnFamily has lots of rows >>> >> >> > with a >>> >> >> > low >>> >> >> > number of columns per row, and the other has relatively few rows >>> >> >> > with >>> >> >> > a >>> >> >> > large (~500k) columns per row. >>> >> >> > I am getting rather frequent errors with "unknown result" from >>> >> >> > get_slice >>> >> >> > and >>> >> >> > multiget_slice calls from the index ColumnFamily. I am using >>> >> >> > Pandra >>> >> >> > for >>> >> >> > the >>> >> >> > calls. I can see that this is a generic exception thrown by the >>> >> >> > Cassandra >>> >> >> > Thrift package when it doesn't know what else to say. Is there a >>> >> >> > way >>> >> >> > to >>> >> >> > actually see what the result was in a more raw form from the >>> >> >> > Thrift >>> >> >> > protocol? >>> >> >> > One thought I had on why this is happening is that my results >>> >> >> > might >>> >> >> > be >>> >> >> > larger than the configuration settings. Does anyone have any >>> >> >> > good >>> >> >> > ideas >>> >> >> > on >>> >> >> > how to calculate what the ideal values of SlicedBufferSizeInKB >>> >> >> > and ColumnIndexSizeInKB should be? If these are too low, would i >>> >> >> > get >>> >> >> > a >>> >> >> > more >>> >> >> > descriptive error? >>> >> >> > Lee Parker >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> > >>> > >> > >