Yeah definitely a problem there. Can you create a JIRA for it?
On Sat., 24 Mar. 2018, 11:00 Duarte Nunes, <dua...@scylladb.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given the following table:
>
> cqlsh> create keyspace ks WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy',
> 'replication_factor': 1};
> cqlsh> create table t (p text, c int, v text, primary key (p));
> cqlsh> use ks;
>
> The following fails:
>
> cqlsh:ks> insert into t (p, c, v) values ('', 2, '');
> InvalidRequest: Error from server: code=2200 [Invalid query] message="Key
> may not be empty"
>
> However, MVs don't appear to have this restriction:
>
> create materialized view mv as select * from t where v is not null and p
> is not null and c is not null primary key (v, p);
> insert into t (p, c, v) values ('a', 2, '');
> select * from mv;
>
> v | p | c
> ---+---+---
> | a | 2
>
> I guess this is because an empty value can't be distinguished from null at
> the protocol level, but this distinction can
> be made internally.
>
> I think the behavior should be made consistent, if nothing else because
> querying the MV for the empty key is impossible:
>
> cqlsh:ks> select * from mv where v = '';
> InvalidRequest: Error from server: code=2200 [Invalid query] message="Key
> may not be empty"
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Duarte
>
>
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