Hi, I am trying to use compound primary key with cassandra and i am referring to: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cql-3-0
I have created a column family as: CREATE TABLE altercations ( instigator text, started_at timestamp, ships_destroyed int, energy_used float, alliance_involvement boolean, PRIMARY KEY (instigator, started_at) ); then tried: cqlsh:testcomp> select * from altercations; (gives me no results, Which looks fine). Then i tried insert statement as: INSERT INTO altercations (instigator, started_at, ships_destroyed, energy_used, alliance_involvement) VALUES ('Jayne Cobb', '7943-07-23', 2, 4.6, 'false'); (Sucess with this) Then again i tried: cqlsh:testcomp> select * from altercations; it is giving me an error: [timestamp out of range for platform time_t] I am able to get that work by changing '7943-07-23' to '2012-07-23'. Just wanted to know, why cassandra does not complain for {timestamp out of range for platform time_t} at the time of persisting it? -Vivek