[CASSANDRA-932] Use cfids instead of cfnames for major operations.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7 beta 1
• Assignee: Stu Hood
• Reporter: Gary Dusbabek

Authors

Stu Hood

• Created: 30/Mar/10 13:10
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 21/May/10 18:40

Description

CF.id() should be used in place of CF.name() for looking up column families.

In pragmatic terms this means that:

• maps that store CF or CFS should use id as the key.
• CF.name() should be eliminated and replaced by a toString() that includes the cfid and name.
• other things I can't immediately think of.

We might even go so far as to change the way we name the sstable files to use cfid instead of name. This would make renaming CFs a simpler (and quicker) operation.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-44 It is difficult to modify the set of ColumnFamliies in an existing cluster