[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-8951) Add smallint (and possibly byte) type

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

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Benjamin Lerer commented on CASSANDRA-8951:
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The cassandra patch is here: [cassandra patch | https://github.com/apache/cassandra/compare/trunk...blerer:8951]
The python driver patch is here: [python patch | https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/compare/master...blerer:CASSANDRA-8951]

I followed the way the existing types were done. I found that implementing them non-emptiable while everything else is emptiable is too confusing in my opinion.

> Add smallint (and possibly byte) type
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-8951
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8951
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
>            Assignee: Benjamin Lerer
>              Labels: client-impacting, docs-impacting, protocolv4
>             Fix For: 3.x
>
>
> We have {{int}} and {{bigint}}, but we don't have a {{smallint}} (2 bytes). I see no reason not to add it. And while we're at it, it doesn't cost much to add a {{byte}} type either.



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