FYI, I submitted an enhancement ticket<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3660?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel> to JIRA about this. The ticket was resolved with the comment: "cli is kept around for backwards compatiblity at this point; cqlsh is 'the future.'"
Don ________________________________ From: Stephen Pope [stephen.p...@quest.com] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:34 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: Suggestion about syntax of CREATE COLUMN FAMILY I’d like to second this. I’ve been working with Cassandra for a good while now, but when I first started little things like this were confusing. From: Don Smith [mailto:dsm...@likewise.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 3:41 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Suggestion about syntax of CREATE COLUMN FAMILY Currently, the syntax for creating column families is like this: create column family Users with comparator=UTF8Type and default_validation_class=UTF8Type and key_validation_class=UTF8Type; It's not clear what "comparator" and "default_validation_class" refer to. Much clearer would be: create column family Users with column_name_comparator=UTF8Type and column_value_validation_class=UTF8Type and key_validation_class=UTF8Type; BTW, instead of "column_name_comparator", I'd actually prefer "column_key_comparator" since it seems more accurate to call column names "column keys." Don
