Yes, it's a known issue. For more information on the topic see this support post from DataStax:
https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/204226339-How-to-drop-and-recreate-a-table-in-Cassandra-versions-older-than-2-1 Mark On 21 May 2015 at 15:31, Ken Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've been running into the reused key cache issue (CASSANDRA-5202) with > dropping and recreating the same table in Cassandra 1.2.18 so we've been > testing with key caches disabled which does not seem to solve the issue. > In the latest logs it seems that old SSTables metadata gets read after the > tables have been deleted by the previous drop, eventually causing an > exception and the Thrift interface shut down. > > At this point is it a known issue that one CANNOT reuse a table name prior > to Cassandra 2.1 ? >
