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From: "Donald Smith (Created) (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-3660) Change syntax of cli for creating
 column families to be more intuitive
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Change syntax of cli for creating column families to be more intuitive
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                 Key: CASSANDRA-3660
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3660
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Tools
            Reporter: Donald Smith
            Priority: Minor


Currently, the syntax for creating column families is like this:

create column family Users
with comparator=UTF8Type
and default_validation_class=UTF8Type
and key_validation_class=UTF8Type;

It's not clear what "comparator" and "default_validation_class" refer to. Much clearer would be:

create column family Users
with column_name_comparator=UTF8Type
and column_value_validation_class=UTF8Type
and key_validation_class=UTF8Type;

BTW, instead of "column_name_comparator", I'd actually prefer "column_key_comparator" since it seems more accurate to call column names "column keys."

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