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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-10857:
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bq. The grammar is updated to support empty strings for identifiers, too.

Note that if we do that (and I certainly wouldn't mind a better solution cause 
that's still ugly at the end of the day), I suggest still rejecting it when 
declaring columns/field (for table, MVs, UDT, function parameters, ...). We 
only want to solve our problem of selecting/inserting into that server-side 
defined column, but I doubt allowing user to create column with empty names is 
a good idea.

> Allow dropping COMPACT STORAGE flag from tables in 3.X
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-10857
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: CQL, Distributed Metadata
>            Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko
>            Assignee: Alex Petrov
>             Fix For: 3.x
>
>
> Thrift allows users to define flexible mixed column families - where certain 
> columns would have explicitly pre-defined names, potentially non-default 
> validation types, and be indexed.
> Example:
> {code}
> create column family foo
>     and default_validation_class = UTF8Type
>     and column_metadata = [
>         {column_name: bar, validation_class: Int32Type, index_type: KEYS},
>         {column_name: baz, validation_class: UUIDType, index_type: KEYS}
>     ];
> {code}
> Columns named {{bar}} and {{baz}} will be validated as {{Int32Type}} and 
> {{UUIDType}}, respectively, and be indexed. Columns with any other name will 
> be validated by {{UTF8Type}} and will not be indexed.
> With CASSANDRA-8099, {{bar}} and {{baz}} would be mapped to static columns 
> internally. However, being {{WITH COMPACT STORAGE}}, the table will only 
> expose {{bar}} and {{baz}} columns. Accessing any dynamic columns (any column 
> not named {{bar}} and {{baz}}) right now requires going through Thrift.
> This is blocking Thrift -> CQL migration for users who have mixed 
> dynamic/static column families. That said, it *shouldn't* be hard to allow 
> users to drop the {{compact}} flag to expose the table as it is internally 
> now, and be able to access all columns.



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