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paul cannon commented on CASSANDRA-4497:
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bq. How is it more complicated to document that replication_parameters is a map
like any other, than replication_parameters has its own one-off syntax that
only exists for historical reasons? I don't buy it.
It's not, but it is more complicated when we need to say "if you're using CQL 3
with Cassandra 1.0 or 1.1, then you need to do this. If you're using CQL 3 with
1.2 or higher, then you need to do this totally different thing. If you're
using CQL 2, then you do something else." I know, ideally we would have fully
separate documentation sets and fully separate cqlsh versions per major
Cassandra version, but people don't seem to be very good at referring only to
the right one.
bq. reduce the special case weirdnesses exposed to users, as above
I'm admittedly thick, but which weirdnesses are reduced here?
bq. reduce special case weirdnesses in our internal implementation (which is
also exposed to "power users" in the system KS). so much more pleasant to
"select replication_options from schema_keyspaces where keyspace_name = 'foo'"
and get a Map back.
I agree with that 100%, but this patch doesn't do that. It only changes the
dedicated syntax for setting keyspace and columnfamily options. I'd much prefer
getting real maps inside the system.schema* tables and leaving the cql syntax
alone when we can. It has been a real moving target, and swiping out the "first
command you do" from under everyone's feet seems like it might be discouraging.
> Update CQL pseudo-maps to real maps
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> Key: CASSANDRA-4497
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4497
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.2.0 beta 1
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
> Labels: cql3
> Fix For: 1.2.0 beta 1
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> Attachments: CASSANDRA-4497.patch
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>
> - compression_parameters
> - replication_parameters (combine strategy + options like we did compression)
> - anything else?
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