You can create columns without values. Are you talking about reading them back through the API ?
I would suggest looking at your data model to see if there is a better way to support your read patterns. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 6 Jun 2011, at 10:18, Patrick de Torcy wrote: > It would be definetely useful to be able to have columns (or super columns) > names WITHOUT their values. If these ones are pretty big or if there are a > lot of columns, that would generate traffic not necessarily needed (if in the > end you are just interrested by some column). > Moreover it doesn't seem to be a feature too difficult to implement (well, I > think...) > > Patrick
