Jonathan, I've upgraded to 0.8.0 and the problem got worse. Now, I can't delete any rows from the CLI, regardless of the type they're stored as.
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:56 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: How to delete UUIDs from the CLI? If you're not using 0.8.0 the cli deals poorly with non-string row keys. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Kevin <thebachel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently I'm using a client (Pelops) to insert UUIDs (both lexical > and > time) in to Cassandra. I haven't yet implemented a facility to remove > them with Pelops; i'm testing and refining the insertion mechanism. > > > > As such, I would like to use the CLI to delete test UUID values. It > seems, however, that I'm unable to delete UUID rowkeys and columns > with the del command. Is there something I'm missing? I have to use > "assume as" to list the rows in column families with UUID row keys, > but deleting the displayed row keys does not delete the entries. > > > > I can view columns with UUID values without "assume as" (provided > they're not contained in rows with UUID keys), but I am unable to > delete them from the CLI as well. Is it not possible to do this from > the CLI, or is there something I'm overlooking? -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
