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Subject: Re: Define keyspaces in cassandra 0.7
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Defining at runtime is, very intentionally, an absolute must.  It
would have been very simple and perhaps user-friendly to add a flag
that loads the schema specified in yaml when cassandra starts up.  I
decided against it when implementing the feature because I figured it
would have been a disservice if users were constantly over-writing
existing schema unintentionally.

Gary.


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:39, Boris Spasojevic
<boris.spasojevic@epfl.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can someone post an example of how to define keyspaces in Cassandra 0.7?
> My initial Cassandra node does not load the keyspaces defined at
> Cassandra.yaml. Is there a way to define the keyspaces at startup or is
> runtime defining an absolute must?
>
> thanks,
> BoriS
>
>