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Subject: Re: Creating secondary indices after startup
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This is not in beta2 but will be in 0.7.0
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1532)

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:30 AM,  <altanis@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to work out the new secondary index code on my own, as there
> is no documentation. I've seen the 'Cassandra explained' presentation and
> the tests related to index queries. What I'd like to know is
>
> 1) the basics of the secondary index mechanism (a short human-readable
> description, as the source is confusing me), and
>
> 2) how I can go about implementing support for creating indices on a live
> cluster (if it can be done)
>
> Alexander Altanis
>



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