On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Donal Zang <zan...@ihep.ac.cn> wrote: > Another thing I noticed is : if you first do insertion, and then build the > secondary index use "update column family ...", and then do select based on > the index, the result is not right (seems the index is still being built > though the "update" commands returns quickly).
That is correct. "describe keyspace" from the cli tells you when an index has finished building. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com