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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:13:40 -0600
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Subject: Re: Dropping & Creating Column Families Never Returns
From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
To: user <user@cassandra.apache.org>
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"command never returns" means "it's waiting for the nodes to agree on
the new schema version."  Bad Mojo will ensue if you issue more schema
updates anyway.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Bill Speirs <bill.speirs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried to drop a column family and/or create one and
> have the command not return from the cli? I'm using 0.7.1 and I tried
> to drop a column family and the command never returned. However, on
> another node it showed it was gone. I Ctrl-C out of the command, then
> issued a create for a column family of the same name, different
> schema. That command never returned, but again in other host it showed
> it was there. I went to describe and list this column family and got
> this:
>
> [default@Logging] describe keyspace Logging;
> Keyspace: Logging:
> =A0Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
> =A0 =A0Replication Factor: 3
> =A0Column Families:
> =A0 =A0ColumnFamily: Messages
> =A0 =A0 =A0Columns sorted by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
> =A0 =A0 =A0Row cache size / save period: 0.0/0
> =A0 =A0 =A0Key cache size / save period: 200000.0/14400
> =A0 =A0 =A0Memtable thresholds: 0.5953125/127/60
> =A0 =A0 =A0GC grace seconds: 864000
> =A0 =A0 =A0Compaction min/max thresholds: 4/32
> =A0 =A0 =A0Read repair chance: 1.0
> =A0 =A0 =A0Built indexes: []
> [default@Logging] list Messages;
> Messages not found in current keyspace.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bill-
>


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Jonathan Ellis
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