On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Sotirios Delimanolis sotodel...@yahoo.com
wrote:
So do we have to guarantee that the schema change will be backwards
compatible? Which node should send the schema change query? Should we just
make all nodes send it and ignore failures?
- Yes is the easiest
Hey all,
Assuming a cluster with X 1 application nodes backed by Y 1 Cassandra
nodes, how do you best apply a schema modification?
Typically, such a schema modification is going to be done in parallel with code
changes (for querying the table) so all application nodes have to be restarted.
Are you changing schema so frequently that you really need to automate this
process?
I guess not. Though, if such a (consistent) process existed, I'd love to use
it.
The single node solution will have to do. Because of the source code change, it
seems I still have to make sure that the patch