Please see page 42 Data Types in the following document http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.1/pdf/cql31.pdf hth Lewis
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Nimi Wariboko Jr. <nimiwaribo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading my cluster from 1.2.16 to 2.0.6, when using the Cassandra > community Go driver (http://github.com/gocql/gocql), I’ve found that > columns that used to return the native TypeTimestamp (0x000D), now return > TypeCustom (0x0000) with the name > 'org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DataType’. As far as I can tell the > serialization format is identical to TypeTimestamp, but it is unclear why > Cassandra made the change, or how to reproduce it (if I create a new table, > Cassandra 2.0.6 will return TypeTimestamp). > > After studying the other drivers its clear that there are special cases > for the ‘org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.*’ types however I can’t seem to > find any documentation on what types exist and how to deal with them (other > than what’s in code). Can someone point me to a documentation and/or > explain these types? > > Thanks > > -- *Lewis*