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Rustam Aliyev commented on CASSANDRA-7637:
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There's already so many places where inequality and equality operators just
return "Bad Request". From user experience point of view, it's not very
different. Error message/docs can refine usage.
Good thing about LIKE keyword is that it can be extended to other use cases in
future (e.g. ALLOW FILTERING).
> Add CQL3 keyword for efficient lexical range queries (e.g. START_WITH)
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-7637
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7637
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API
> Reporter: Rustam Aliyev
> Fix For: 3.0
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>
> Currently, if I want to perform range query on lexical type I need to do
> something like this:
> {code}
> SELECT * FROM profile WHERE profile_id = 123 AND
> attribute > 'interests.food.' AND
> attribute < 'interests.food.z';
> {code}
> This is very efficient range query. Yet, many users who are not familiar with
> Thrift and storage level implementation are unaware of this "trick".
> Therefore, it would be convenient to introduce CQL keyword which will do this
> more simply:
> {code}
> SELECT * FROM profile WHERE profile_id = 123 AND
> attribute START_WITH('interests.food.');
> {code}
> Keyword would have same restrictions as other inequality search operators
> plus some type restrictions.
> Allowed types would be:
> * {{ascii}}
> * {{text}} / {{varchar}}
> * {{map<text, *>}} (same for ascii) (?)
> * {{set<text>}} (same for ascii) (?)
> (?) may require more work, therefore optional
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