Sounds like 1764:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1764
This was fixed in RC1.
- Tyler
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for the hint. This is the error that I get:
> ERROR [pool-1-thread-1] 2010-12-04 09:38:20,521 Cassandra.java (line 3596)
> Internal error processing system_update_column_family
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.apply(CFMetaData.java:665)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.db.migration.UpdateColumnFamily.<init>(UpdateColumnFamily.java:56)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.system_update_column_family(CassandraServer.java:863)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_update_column_family.process(Cassandra.java:3592)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor.process(Cassandra.java:2555)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:167)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
>
>
> Could it be because the column was not created when the column family was
> created?
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "internal error" means "there's an error in the server log"
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Jonathan,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the hint. I've tried it but it throws an error like this:
>> >
>> > [defa...@keyspace1] update column family Standard1 with
>> column_metadata=[{
>> > column_name:user, index_type:0, validation_class:UTF8Type,
>> > index_name:Standard1Idx }] and rows_cached=100;
>> > Internal error processing system_update_column_family
>> >
>> > Is there anything wrong with the syntax? I can not figure out what is
>> wrong
>> > with it using the error message.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Joshua.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It's part of "update column family:"
>> >>
>> >> [defa...@unknown] help update column family;
>> >> ...
>> >> - column_metadata: Metadata which describes columns of column
>> family.
>> >> Supported format is [{ k:v, k:v, ... }, { ... }, ...]
>> >> Valid attributes: column_name, validation_class (see
>> comparator),
>> >> index_type (integer), index_name.
>> >>
>> >> example:
>> >> update column family Foo with column_metadata=[{ column_name:Test,
>> >> validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:0, index_name:IdxName}] and
>> >> rows_cached=100 and comment='this is helpful comment.';
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi there,
>> >> >
>> >> > How do I set an index on a column in cassandra 0.7?
>> >> >
>> >> > This is what I am trying to do:
>> >> > [defa...@keyspace1] get Standard1 where user = 'jpartogi';
>> >> > No indexed columns present in index clause with operator EQ
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I can not find this in the CLI help nor the wiki. Maybe I am not
>> looking
>> >> > hard enough?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks heaps for your help
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > http://twitter.com/jpartogi
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jonathan Ellis
>> >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> >> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> >> http://riptano.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > http://twitter.com/jpartogi
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> http://riptano.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> http://twitter.com/jpartogi
>
