That's a terrible gotcha rule. On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Cody Yancey <yan...@uber.com> wrote:
> In your table schema, you have KEYS and you have VALUES. Your KEYS are > text, but they could be any non-counter type or compound thereof. KEYS > obviously cannot ever be counters. > > Your VALUES, however, must be either all counters or all non-counters. The > official example you posted conforms to this limitation. > > Thanks, > Cody > > On Nov 1, 2016 7:16 AM, "Ali Akhtar" <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not referring to the primary key, just to other columns. >> >> My primary key is a text, and my table contains a mix of texts, ints, and >> timestamps. >> >> If I try to change one of the ints to a counter and run the create table >> query, I get the error ' Cannot mix counter and non counter columns in >> the same table' >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Cody Yancey <yan...@uber.com> wrote: >> >>> For counter tables, non-counter types are of course allowed in the >>> primary key. Counters would be meaningless otherwise. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Cody >>> >>> On Nov 1, 2016 7:00 AM, "Ali Akhtar" <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> In the documentation for counters: >>>> >>>> https://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.1/cql/cql_using/use_counter_t.html >>>> >>>> The example table is created via: >>>> >>>> CREATE TABLE counterks.page_view_counts >>>> (counter_value counter, >>>> url_name varchar, >>>> page_name varchar, >>>> PRIMARY KEY (url_name, page_name) >>>> ); >>>> >>>> Yet if I try to create a table with a mixture of texts, ints, >>>> timestamps, and counters, i get the error ' Cannot mix counter and non >>>> counter columns in the same table' >>>> >>>> Is that supposed to be allowed or not allowed, given that the official >>>> example contains a mix of counters and non-counters? >>>> >>> >>
