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Carl Yeksigian commented on CASSANDRA-8970:
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Sorry I missed this ticket. This looks good, I created CASSANDRA-10252 as the
follow up to use the same property for both {{COPY TO}} and {{COPY FROM}}.
> Allow custom time_format on cqlsh COPY TO
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> Key: CASSANDRA-8970
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8970
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Tools
> Reporter: Aaron Ploetz
> Priority: Trivial
> Labels: cqlsh
> Fix For: 2.1.x
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> Attachments: CASSANDRA-8970.patch
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> Original Estimate: 4h
> Remaining Estimate: 4h
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> When executing a COPY TO from cqlsh, the user is currently has no control
> over the format of exported timestamp columns. If the user has indicated a
> {{time_format}} in their cqlshrc file, that format will be used. Otherwise,
> the system default format will be used.
> The problem comes into play when the timestamp format used on a COPY TO, is
> not valid when the data is sent back into Cassandra with a COPY FROM.
> For instance, if a user has {{time_format = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%Z}} specified
> in their cqlshrc, COPY TO will format timestamp columns like this:
> {{userid|posttime|postcontent}}
> {{0|2015-03-14 14:59:00CDT|rtyeryerweh}}
> {{0|2015-03-14 14:58:00CDT|sdfsdfsdgfjdsgojr}}
> {{0|2015-03-12 14:27:00CDT|sdgfjdsgojr}}
> Executing a COPY FROM on that same file will produce an "unable to coerce to
> formatted date(long)" error.
> Right now, the only way to change the way timestamps are formatted is to exit
> cqlsh, modify the {{time_format}} property in cqlshrc, and restart cqlsh.
> The ability to specify a COPY option of TIME_FORMAT with a Python strftime
> format, would allow the user to quickly alter the timestamp format for
> export, without reconfiguring cqlsh.
> {{aploetz@cqlsh:stackoverflow> COPY posts1 TO '/home/aploetz/posts1.csv' WITH
> DELIMITER='|' AND HEADER=true AND TIME_FORMAT='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z;}}
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