On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > I think Jonathan mispoke.
I thought I was mistaken, but I was wrong. :) > You cannot change the 'compare_with' attribute of an existing column > family. You can, but it's up to you to make sure that the new type makes sense. Most frequently, you see this when changing from BytesType to something more structured. (If you screw up and specify a compare_with that is nonsensical for your data, just change it back.) -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
