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Robert Stupp commented on CASSANDRA-6710:
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Fair enough.
IMO the most important _con_ you mentioned is to learn CQL for newcomers as
well as for experienced people learning the amount of new features.
> Support union types
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-6710
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6710
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: API, Core
> Reporter: Tupshin Harper
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: ponies
> Fix For: 3.x
>
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> I sometimes find myself wanting to abuse Cassandra datatypes when I want to
> interleave two different types in the same column.
> An example is in CASSANDRA-6167 where an approach is to tag what would
> normally be a numeric field with text indicating that it is special in some
> ways.
> A more elegant approach would be to be able to explicitly define disjoint
> unions in the style of Haskell's and Scala's Either types.
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