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From: "Joshua McKenzie (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-12443) Remove alter type support
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Joshua McKenzie commented on CASSANDRA-12443:
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[~blerer] to review.

> Remove alter type support
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-12443
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12443
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Carl Yeksigian
>            Assignee: Carl Yeksigian
>             Fix For: 3.0.x
>
>
> Currently, we allow altering of types. However, because we no longer store the length for all types anymore, switching from a fixed-width to variable-width type causes issues. commitlog playback breaking startup, queries currently in flight getting back bad results, and special casing required to handle the changes. In addition, this would solve CASSANDRA-10309, as there is no possibility of the types changing while an SSTableReader is open.
> For fixed-length, compatible types, the alter also doesn't add much over a cast, so users could use that in order to retrieve the altered type.


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