[jira] [Resolved] (CASSANDRA-8480) Update of primary key should be possible

["Aleksey Yeschenko (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8480?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Aleksey Yeschenko resolved CASSANDRA-8480.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Resolving as "Won't Fix" for now, since there is just no way to have it done in an acceptable way with the current architecture.

If that changes some day (our architecture) to make this possible, please, feel free to reopen the ticket.

> Update of primary key should be possible
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-8480
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8480
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: API
>            Reporter: Jason Kania
>
> While attempting to update a column in a row, I encountered the error
> PRIMARY KEY part thingy found in SET part
> The error is not helpful as it doesn't state why this is problem so I looked on google and encountered many, many entries from people who have experienced the issue including those with single column table who have to hack to work around this.
> After looking around further in the documentation, I discovered that it is not possible to update a primary key but I still have not found a good explanation. I suspect that that this is because it would change the indexing location of the record effectively requiring a delete followed by an insert. If the question is one of guaranteeing no update to a deleted row, a client will have the same issue.
> To me, this really should be handled behind the API because:
> 1) it is an expected capability in a database to update all columns and having these limitations only puts off potential users especially when they have to discover the limitation after the fact
> 2) being able to use a column in a WHERE clause requires it to be part of the primary key so what this limitation means is if you can update a column, you can't search for it, or if you can search on a column, you can't update it which leaves a serious gap in handling a wide number of use cases.
> 3) deleting and inserting a row with an updated primary key will mean sucking in all the data from the row up to the client and sending it all back down even when a single column in the primary key was all that was updated.
> Why not document the issue but make the interface more usable by supporting the operation?
> Jason



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