My understanding is that it's safe... but considering "alter type" is going
to be removed completely (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12443), maybe not.

As for faster ways to do this: no idea :-(

Tom


On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Benjamin Roth <benjamin.r...@jaumo.com>
wrote:

> But it is safe to change non-primary-key columns from int to varint, right?
>
> 2017-01-11 10:09 GMT+01:00 Tom van der Woerdt <
> tom.vanderwoe...@booking.com>:
>
>> Actually, come to think of it, there's a subtle serialization difference
>> between varint and int that will break token generation (see bottom of
>> mail). I think it's a bug that Cassandra will allow this, so don't do this
>> in production.
>>
>> You can think of varint encoding as regular bigints with all the leading
>> zero bytes stripped off. This means the varint decoder will happily decode
>> the tinyint, smallint, int, and bigint types, but the encoder won't
>> necessarily re-encode to the same thing. Specifically, any int below
>> 8388608 will have a different encoding in a varint.
>>
>> There's a small performance impact with the varint encoding and decoding
>> scheme, but likely insignificant for any reasonable use case.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> cqlsh> select * from foo where id in (1, 128, 256, 65535, 65536,
>> 16777215, 16777216, 2147483647 <%28214%29%20748-3647>);
>>
>>  id         | value
>> ------------+-------
>>           1 |  test
>>         128 |  test
>>         256 |  test
>>       65535 |  test
>>       65536 |  test
>>    16777215 |  test
>>    16777216 |  test
>>  2147483647 <%28214%29%20748-3647> |  test
>>
>> (8 rows)
>> cqlsh> alter table foo alter id TYPE varint;
>> cqlsh> select * from foo where id in (1, 128, 256, 65535, 65536,
>> 16777215, 16777216, 2147483647 <%28214%29%20748-3647>);
>>
>>  id         | value
>> ------------+-------
>>    16777215 |  test
>>    16777216 |  test
>>  2147483647 <%28214%29%20748-3647> |  test
>>
>> (3 rows)
>> cqlsh> select * from foo;
>>
>>  id         | value
>> ------------+-------
>>         128 |  test
>>    16777216 |  test
>>           1 |  test
>>  2147483647 <%28214%29%20748-3647> |  test
>>    16777215 |  test
>>         256 |  test
>>       65535 |  test
>>       65536 |  test
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Benjamin Roth <benjamin.r...@jaumo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Few! You saved my life, thanks!
>>>
>>> For my understanding:
>>> When creating a new table, is bigint or varint a better choice for
>>> storing (up to) 64bit ints? Is there a difference in performance?
>>>
>>> 2017-01-11 9:39 GMT+01:00 Tom van der Woerdt <
>>> tom.vanderwoe...@booking.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Benjamin,
>>>>
>>>> bigint and int have incompatible serialization types, so that won't
>>>> work. However, changing to 'varint' will work fine.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Benjamin Roth <benjamin.r...@jaumo.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if there is a hack to change a "int" to a "bigint" in
>>>>> a primary key?
>>>>> I recognized very late, I took the wrong type and our production DB
>>>>> already contains billions of records :(
>>>>> Is there maybe a hack for it, because int and bigint are similar types
>>>>> or does the SSTable serialization and maybe the token generation require
>>>>> the tables to be completely reread+rewritten?
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>
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