FWIW I'd suggest opening a bug--this behavior is certainly quite unexpected
and more than just a documentation issue. In general I can't imagine any
desirable properties of the current implementation, and there are likely a
bunch of latent bugs sitting out there, so it should be fixed.

Todd

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:37 PM Terry Liu <t...@turnitin.com> wrote:

> Sorry for my typo. Obviously, I meant:
> "It appears that a single query that calls Cassandra's`now()` time
> function *multiple times *may actually cause a query to write or return
> different times."
>
> Less of a surprise now that I realize more about the implementation, but I
> agree that more explicit documentation around when exactly the "execution"
> of each now() statement happens and what implications it has for the
> resulting timestamps would be helpful when running into this.
>
> Thanks for the quick responses!
>
> -Terry
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Marko Švaljek <msval...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> every now() call in statement is under the hood "replaced" with newly
> generated uuid.
>
> It can happen that they belong to  different milliseconds in time.
>
> If you need to have same timestamps you need to set them on the client
> side.
>
>
> @msvaljek <https://twitter.com/msvaljek>
>
> 2016-11-29 22:49 GMT+01:00 Terry Liu <t...@turnitin.com>:
>
> It appears that a single query that calls Cassandra's `now()` time
> function may actually cause a query to write or return different times.
>
> Is this the expected or defined behavior, and if so, why does it behave
> like this rather than evaluating `now()` once across an entire statement?
>
> This really affects UPDATE statements but to test it more easily, you
> could try something like:
>
> SELECT toTimestamp(now()) as a, toTimestamp(now()) as b
> FROM keyspace.table
> LIMIT 100;
>
> If you run that a few times, you should eventually see that the timestamp
> returned moves onto the next millisecond mid-query.
>
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