Jon Haddad created CASSANDRA-12644: -------------------------------------- Summary: CREATE OR ALTER TABLE Key: CASSANDRA-12644 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12644 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Jon Haddad
Similar to how tools like Puppet & Chef allow you to specify what you want rather than how you want it done, it would be nice to be able to give Cassandra this: {code}CREATE OR ALTER TABLE stuff ( id int primary key, name text, city text, state text);{code} and it would look at the existing schema and work out that it needed to add fields that are missing. This should only work in a non destructive fashion, that is, it should not remove fields, indexes, etc. If a user attempts to change a table and the action would be destructive, they should get an error that they have to apply those changes explicitly. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)