I just realized that I didn't answer the "how" part of your question. :)
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/contrib/py_stress/stress.py and http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/test/system/__init__.py both contain examples of how to use the system_* methods to manipulate keyspaces. Gary. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:46, Gary Dusbabek <gdusba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Defining at runtime is, very intentionally, an absolute must. It > would have been very simple and perhaps user-friendly to add a flag > that loads the schema specified in yaml when cassandra starts up. I > decided against it when implementing the feature because I figured it > would have been a disservice if users were constantly over-writing > existing schema unintentionally. > > Gary. > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:39, Boris Spasojevic > <boris.spasoje...@epfl.ch> wrote: >> Hi all, >> Can someone post an example of how to define keyspaces in Cassandra 0.7? >> My initial Cassandra node does not load the keyspaces defined at >> Cassandra.yaml. Is there a way to define the keyspaces at startup or is >> runtime defining an absolute must? >> >> thanks, >> BoriS >> >> >