[CASSANDRA-4170] cql3 ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE has no effect

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: Legacy/CQL
• Labels: cql3
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
• Reporter: paul cannon

Authors

Sylvain Lebresne

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 18/Apr/12 20:57
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 20/Apr/12 15:27

Description

running the following with cql3:

CREATE TABLE test (foo text PRIMARY KEY, bar int);
ALTER TABLE test ALTER bar TYPE float;

does not actually change the column type of bar. It does under cql2.

Note that on the current cassandra-1.1.0 HEAD, this causes an NPE, fixed by CASSANDRA-4163. But even with that applied, the ALTER shown here has no effect.