[jira] [Comment Edited] (CASSANDRA-6910) Better table structure display in cqlsh

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis edited comment on CASSANDRA-6910 at 7/16/14 2:58 PM:
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Can you review, [~snazy]?


was (Author: jbellis):
Can you review, [~rstupp@pironet-ndh.com]?

> Better table structure display in cqlsh
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6910
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6910
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Tools
>            Reporter: Tupshin Harper
>            Assignee: Mihai Suteu
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: lhf
>         Attachments: cassandra6910.patch, screenshot-mihai.jpg
>
>
> It should be possible to make it more immediately obvious what the structure of your CQL table is from cqlsh. Two minor enhancements could go a long way:
> 1) If there are no results display the column headers anyway. Right now, if you are trying to do a query and get no results, it's common to need to display the table schema to figure out what you did wrong. Having the columns displayed whenever you do a query wouldn't get in the way, and would provide a more visual way than by describing the table.
> 2) Along with the first one, if we could highlight the partition/clustering columns in different colors, it would be much more intuitively 
> understandable what the underlying partition structure is.
> tl;dr: the forms below should each have distinct visual representation when displaying the column headers, and the column headers should always be shown.
> CREATE TABLE usertest (
>   userid text,
>   email text,
>   name text,
>   PRIMARY KEY (userid)
> ) 
> CREATE TABLE usertest2 (
>   userid text,
>   email text,
>   name text,
>   PRIMARY KEY (userid, email)
> )
> CREATE TABLE usertest3 (
>   userid text,
>   email text,
>   name text,
>   PRIMARY KEY ((userid, email))
> )



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