Might want to create a Jira ticket at issues.apache.org instead of submitting
the bug report thru email.
On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:11 AM, "Andrew Prendergast" <a...@andrewprendergast.com>
wrote:
> *DESCRIPTION*
>
> When creating a table in all ANSI-SQL compliant RDBMS' the VARCHAR datatype
> takes a numeric parameter, however this parameter is generating errors in
> CQL3.
>
> *STEPS TO REPRODUCE*
>
> CREATE TABLE test (id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY, col1 VARCHAR(256)); // emits Bad
> Request: line 1:54 mismatched input '(' expecting ')'
>
> CREATE TABLE test (id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY, col1 VARCHAR); // this works
>
> *SUGGESTED RESOLUTION*
>
> The current fail-fast approach does not create the column so that the user
> is 100% clear that the length parameter means nothing to NOSQL.
>
> I would like to propose that the column length be allowed in the grammar
> (but ignored by cassandra), allowing better ANSI-SQL client compatibility.
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