[jira] [Resolved] (CASSANDRA-13116) Don't allow changing the primary key from int to varint

["Benjamin Lerer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13116?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Benjamin Lerer resolved CASSANDRA-13116.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

{{ALTER TYPE}} can cause a lot of problems. The plan is to remove it in CASSANDRA-12443.

> Don't allow changing the primary key from int to varint
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-13116
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13116
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Tom van der Woerdt
>            Priority: Critical
>
> Simply put :
> {code}
> cqlsh> create table foo (id int primary key, value text);
> [some inserts]
> cqlsh> select * from foo where id in (1, 128, 256, 65535, 65536, 16777215, 16777216, 2147483647);
>  id         | value
> ------------+-------
>           1 |  test
>         128 |  test
>         256 |  test
>       65535 |  test
>       65536 |  test
>    16777215 |  test
>    16777216 |  test
>  2147483647 |  test
> (8 rows)
> cqlsh> alter table foo alter id TYPE varint;
> cqlsh> select * from foo where id in (1, 128, 256, 65535, 65536, 16777215, 16777216, 2147483647);
>  id         | value
> ------------+-------
>    16777215 |  test
>    16777216 |  test
>  2147483647 |  test
> (3 rows)
> cqlsh> select * from foo;
>  id         | value
> ------------+-------
>         128 |  test
>    16777216 |  test
>           1 |  test
>  2147483647 |  test
>    16777215 |  test
>         256 |  test
>       65535 |  test
>       65536 |  test
> {code}
> This could really ruin someone's day...



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