That should work. File a Jira. While release of Cassandra are you using? There were some bugs is indexing for set collections; maybe that affected list as well.
Out of curiosity, does a SELECT with only "contains 'b'" work? Also, try using "set" rather than "list". -- Jack Krupansky On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, reader 1001 <007rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a simple table with an indexed list<text> field, but it shows > unexpected behavior when I query the list. Am i doing something incorrect? > > create table test (whole text PRIMARY KEY, parts list<text>); > create index on test (parts); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('a', ['a']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('b', ['b']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('c', ['c']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('a.a', ['a','a']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('a.b', ['a','b']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('a.c', ['a','c']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('b.a', ['b','a']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('b.b', ['b','b']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('b.c', ['b','c']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('c.c', ['c','c']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('c.b', ['c','b']); > insert into test (whole,parts) values('c.a', ['c','a']); > > This is expected behavior: > ------------------------------------------ > select * from test where parts contains 'a' ALLOW FILTERING; > > whole | parts > -------+------------ > a | ['a'] > b.a | ['b', 'a'] > a.c | ['a', 'c'] > a.b | ['a', 'b'] > a.a | ['a', 'a'] > c.a | ['c', 'a'] > > From the following query I expect a subset of the previous query result, > but it returns no data > --------------------------------------------------- > select * from test where parts contains 'a' and parts contains 'b' ALLOW > FILTERING; > > whole | parts > -------+------- > > > Thank you. >