[CASSANDRA-7814] enable describe on indices

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.8, 2.2.0 rc2, 3.0 alpha 1
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Labels: doc-impacting
• Assignee: Stefania Alborghetti
• Reporter: radha

Authors

Stefania Alborghetti

Reviewers

Benjamin Lerer

• Created: 21/Aug/14 18:47
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 26/Jun/15 06:24

Description

Describe index should be supported, right now, the only way is to export the schema and find what it really is before updating/dropping the index.

verified in
[cqlsh 3.1.8 | Cassandra 1.2.18.1 | CQL spec 3.0.0 | Thrift protocol 19.36.2]

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-14534 cqlsh_tests/cqlsh_tests.py::TestCqlsh::test_describe is flaky
• relates to: CASSANDRA-9310 Table change response returns as keyspace change response
• links to: 2.1 patch
• links to: 2.2 patch
• links to: Dtests patch
• links to: Python driver patch