[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-12644) CREATE OR ALTER TABLE

["Jon Haddad (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jon Haddad created CASSANDRA-12644:
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             Summary: CREATE OR ALTER TABLE
                 Key: CASSANDRA-12644
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12644
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Jon Haddad


Similar to how tools like Puppet & Chef allow you to specify what you want rather than how you want it done, it would be nice to be able to give Cassandra this:

{code}CREATE OR ALTER TABLE stuff ( 
id int primary key,
name text,
city text,
state text);{code}

and it would look at the existing schema and work out that it needed to add fields that are missing.  This should only work in a non destructive fashion, that is, it should not remove fields, indexes, etc.  If a user attempts to change a table and the action would be destructive, they should get an error that they have to apply those changes explicitly.



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