I believe you're right!. The change to cli would be an easy fix, I imagine; for backwards compatibility, they'd probably want to allow either the old or new syntax for cli. But I understand their decision not to devote time to a deprecated tool. For cqlsh I hope it's not too late to deprecate the old, unclear syntax.
Don ________________________________ From: ehers...@gmail.com [ehers...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:20 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Suggestion about syntax of CREATE COLUMN FAMILY Doesn't CQL have the same issue? http://crlog.info/2011/09/17/cassandra-query-language-cql-v2-0-reference/#Column+Family+Options+(optional) http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/references/cql/CREATE_COLUMNFAMILY CREATE COLUMNFAMILY user_events (user text PRIMARY KEY) WITH comparator=timestamp AND default_validation=int; Do CQL enhancements also belong in the same jira project, or somewhere else? Ernie On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Don Smith <dsm...@likewise.com<mailto:dsm...@likewise.com>> wrote: 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<mailto:stephen.p...@quest.com>] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:34 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto: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<mailto:dsm...@likewise.com>] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 3:41 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto: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
