Christof , can't you just use ASSUME for the CQL session?
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/references/cql/ASSUME Regards, Roshni On 03/08/12 2:26 PM, "Christof Roduner" <chris...@scandit.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I know that changing a CF's comparator is not officially supported. >However, there is a post by Jonathan Ellis that implies it can be done >(www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg09502.html). > >I assume that we'd have to change entries in the system.schema_* column >families. > >Has anyone successfully done this? > >We want to change the comparator from BytesType to UTF8Type to make the >move to CQL easier ("cannot parse 'foo' as hex bytes"). Our CFs were >created back in the Cassandra 0.6.x days and are too large to be easily >copied to new CFs with a new schema. > >Many thanks in advance. > >Christof This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. *** Walmart Confidential ***
