Thanks Aaron,

I created a script and everything went OK. I think that the problem is when you try to update a CF. Below, I try to change the column comparator and it complains that the 'comparators do not match'. Can you enlighten me on what that means? There is no data in the CF at this point.

[default@Keyspace1] create column family User3;
503dba20-924b-11e0-0000-f1169bb35ddf
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster
[default@Keyspace1] set User3['1']['name'] = 'mike';
org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'name' as hex bytes java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'name' as hex bytes at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:292) at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)

[default@Keyspace1] describe keyspace;
Keyspace: Keyspace1:
Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
    Options: [datacenter1:1]
  Column Families:
    ColumnFamily: User3
      Key Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
Default column value validator: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
      Columns sorted by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
      Row cache size / save period in seconds: 0.0/0
      Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400
      Memtable thresholds: 0.2859375/61/1440 (millions of ops/MB/minutes)
      GC grace seconds: 864000
      Compaction min/max thresholds: 4/32
      Read repair chance: 1.0
      Replicate on write: false
      Built indexes: []
[default@Keyspace1]

/** Here, I figure the error above is because it cannot find the column called 'name' because it's using the BytesType column name sorter/comparator, so I try to change it below. */

[default@Keyspace1] update column family User3 with comparator = UTF8Type;
comparators do not match.
java.lang.RuntimeException: comparators do not match.
at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:292) at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)
[default@Keyspace1]

What does "comparators do not match" mean?

Thanks,
Mike



On 6/8/2011 4:37 PM, aaron morton wrote:
Can you provide the cli script to create the schema and info on how many nodes 
you have.

Thanks

-----------------
Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 8 Jun 2011, at 16:12, AJ wrote:

Can anyone help?  The CLI seems to be having issues.  The count command isn't 
working either:

[default@Keyspace1] count User[long(1)];
Expected 8 or 0 byte long (13)
java.lang.RuntimeException: Expected 8 or 0 byte long (13)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:284)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)
[default@Keyspace1]
[default@Keyspace1] count User[1];;
Expected 8 or 0 byte long (1)
java.lang.RuntimeException: Expected 8 or 0 byte long (1)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:284)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)
[default@Keyspace1] count User['1'];
Expected 8 or 0 byte long (1)
java.lang.RuntimeException: Expected 8 or 0 byte long (1)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:284)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)
[default@Keyspace1] count User['12345678'];
null
java.lang.RuntimeException
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:292)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)
[default@Keyspace1]


Granted, there are no rows in the CF yet (see probs below), but this exception 
seems to be during the parsing stage.

I've check everything else, AFAIK, so I'm at a loss.

Much obliged.

On 6/7/2011 12:44 PM, AJ wrote:
The log only shows INFO level messages about flushes, etc..

The debug mode of the CLI shows an exception after the set:

[mike@mars ~]$ cassandra-cli -h 192.168.1.101 --debug
Connected to: "Test Cluster" on 192.168.1.101/9160
Welcome to the Cassandra CLI.

Type 'help;' or '?' for help.
Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit.

[default@unknown] use Keyspace1;
Authenticated to keyspace: Keyspace1
[default@Keyspace1] set User[1]['name']='aaa';
null
java.lang.RuntimeException
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:292)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatement(CliMain.java:217)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:345)
[default@Keyspace1]




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