[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-2480) Named keys / virtual columns

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

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-2480:
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Shouldn't this result in an error?

+        # try do insert/update
+        cursor.execute("INSERT INTO KeyAliasCF (KEY, username) VALUES (1, jbellis)")


> Named keys / virtual columns
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2480
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2480
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: API, Core
>            Reporter: Eric Evans
>            Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
>              Labels: cql
>             Fix For: 0.8.1, 1.0
>
>         Attachments: CASSANDRA-2480.patch
>
>
> With the completion of CASSANDRA-2396, it is now possible to attach a name to keys (column family-wide).  This could be utilized to introduce the concept of "virtual columns" in CQL. Here's how that would work:
> Typically you would use the CQL keyword {{KEY}} to specify a row key, for example:
> {code:SQL|title=CQL 1.0}
> INSERT INTO cf (KEY, name1, name2) VALUES (key1, value1, value2)
> -- or alternately
> UPDATE cf SET name1 = value1, name2 = value2 WHERE KEY = key1
> SELECT name1,name2 FROM cf WHERE KEY = key1
> {code}
> For CQL 1.1, that syntax would continue to work, but upon the completion of this issue it should also be possible to assign a name to the key and treat as if it were another column.  For example:
> {code:SQL|title=CQL 1.1}
> INSERT INTO cf (keyname, name1, name2) VALUES (key1, value1, value2)
> -- or alternately
> UPDATE cf SET name1 = value1, name2 = value2 WHERE keyname = key1
> -- Note how the keyname can now be used in the projection
> SELECT keyname, name1, name2 FROM cf WHERE keyname = key1
> -- And, there is no restriction on the order
> SELECT name1, name2, keyname FROM cf WHERE keyname = key1 AND name2 = value2
> {code}
> The semantics will be such that the existing behavior is maintained (read: when using the {{KEY}} keyword), but if the key is named, and the name is used in a {{SELECT}}, the key's name and value will be returned in the column results, sorted according to the comparator (_Note: we'll need to figure out what that means with respect to differently typed keys_).

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