It's not supported, yet. Can you create a ticket on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA ?
You could try cqlsh http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/dml/using_cql Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 12/09/2012, at 11:29 AM, Yuhan Zhang <yzh...@onescreen.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to manually adding some double values into a column family. From > the Hector client, there's a DoubleSerializer. > but looks like the cli tool is not providing a way to enter floating point > values. here's the message I got: > > [default@video] set cateogry['1']['sport'] = float('0.5'); > Function 'float' not found. Available functions: bytes, integer, long, int, > lexicaluuid, timeuuid, utf8, ascii, countercolumn. > > Is there a way to insert floating pointer value from the cli tool? > > > Thank you. > > Yuhan