[CASSANDRA-5484] Support custom secondary indexes in CQL

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.5
• Component/s: Feature/2i Index
• Labels: cql3 index
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Reporter: Benjamin Coverston

Authors

Aleksey Yeschenko

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 16/Apr/13 21:31
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 03/May/13 16:41

Description

Through thrift users can add custom secondary indexes to the column metadata.

The following syntax is used in PLSQL, and I think we could use something similar.

CREATE INDEX <NAME> ON <TABLE> (<COLUMN>) [INDEXTYPE IS (<TYPENAME>) [PARAMETERS (<PARAM>[, <PARAM>])]

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-4027 cql: specify custom index type