This is what I'm talking about https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2231
The on-disk format is <(short)length><constituent><end byte = 0><(short)length><constituent><end byte = 0>... I would like to be able to input these kinds of keys into the CLI, something like set cf[key]['constituent1':'constituent2':'constituent3'] = val On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Sameer Farooqui <cassandral...@gmail.com>wrote: > Cassandra wouldn't know that the column name is composite of two different > things. So you could just request the column names and values for a specific > key like this and then just look at the column names that get returned: > > [default@MyKeyspace] get DemoCF[ascii('key_42')]; > => (column=CA_SanJose, value=50, timestamp=1305236885112000) > => (column=CA_PaloAlto, value=49, timestamp=1305236885192000) > => (column=FL_Orlando, value=45, timestamp=1305236885280000) > => (column=NY_NYC, value=40, timestamp=1305236885361000) > > > And I'm not sure what you mean by inputting composite column names. You > just input them like any other column name: > > [default@MyKeyspace] set DemoCF['key_42']['CA_SanJose']='51'; > Value inserted. > > > > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > >> What do you mean by composite column names? >> >> Do the data type functions supported by get and set help? Or the assume >> statement? >> >> Aaron >> On 17/05/2011, at 3:21 AM, David Boxenhorn <da...@taotown.com> wrote: >> >> > Is there a way to view composite column names in the CLI? >> > >> > Is there a way to input them (i.e. in the set command)? >> > >> > >