Very old. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-494
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > You are correct, but this is also a limitation with the Thrift API -- it's > not CQL specific. It turns out that deleting a slice of columns is > difficult. There's an old JIRA ticket somewhere that describes the issues. > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Courtney Robinson <sa...@live.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Looking at the CQL spec, it doesn’t seem to be possible to delete a range >> of columns for a given key without specifying the individual columns to be >> removed, for e.g. >> DELETE col1 .. col20 from CF WHERE KEY=<key|(key1,key2)> >> Am I correct in thinking so or have I missed that somewhere? >> > > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > Software Engineer, DataStax > Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com