On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Was the change well accounted for in the changes.TXT or the readme.txt? > The news file says: "CQL3 is now considered final in this release. Compared to the beta version that is part of 1.1, this final version has a few additions (collections), but also some (incompatible) changes in the syntax for the options of the create/alter keyspace/table statements. (...) Please refer to the CQL3 documentation for details" That last sentence refers to http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.htmland yes, that should be in the news file but that same url was pointing to the 1.1 CQL3 doc before 1.2.0 was release so I didn't wanted to list it in the news file for the betas and rcs and I forgot to add back the link to that news file for the final, my bad (I'm sorry and I will add the link to the NEWS file for the next release). And of course having forgotten to update the max_threshold thing in said reference doc was infortunate but that's fixed now. Now I know you are not happy with us having made breaking changes between CQL3 beta in 1.1 and CQL3 final in 1.2. I'm sorry we did, but I do am happy with the coherence of the language we have in that final so I think that was probably worth it in the end. I do want to stress that the goal was to have a CQL3 final for which we won't do breaking changes for the forseable future. > > "// Note that isCompact means here that no componet of the comparator > correspond to the column names > // defined in the CREATE TABLE QUERY. This is not exactly equivalent to the > 'WITH COMPACT STORAGE' > // option when creating a table in that "static CF" without a composite > type will have isCompact == false > // even though one must use 'WITH COMPACT STORAGE' to declare them." > > > Confused > Granted that is not the cleanest thing ever and we could probably rename that isCompact variable but you do realize that is just an implementation "detail" that have no impact whatsoever on users. If you want to complain about bad names in the code, start with the class implementing keyspaces being called Table. -- Sylvain
