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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:25:53 -0600
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Subject: Re: [VOTE CLOSED] Release Apache Cassandra 1.2.0-rc1
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On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Question. 1.2.0-beta2
>
> Why does the thrift interface have 2 CQL methods?

To preserve cql2 compatibility.  cql3 pulls consistencylevel into the
method call instead of the query language.

> Is this something we are going to continue?

When necessary for compatibility, yes.

> I wish we could have done the cassandra 0.6.X -> 0.7.X
> migration this way:)

In retrospect, I agree.

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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
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