Question

I’m using Cassandra 1.1.0 with CQL 3.0.

When create table, the following error occurs.
I referred to http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3-evolutions

cqlsh:test> CREATE TABLE timeseries (
        ...   event_type text,
        ...   insertion_time timestamp,
        ...   event blob,
        ...   PRIMARY KEY (event_type, insertion_time)
        ... ) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY insertion_time DESC;
Bad Request: line 6:22 mismatched input 'ORDER' expecting '='

Is this invalid query?
Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The WITH CLUSTERING ORDER syntax was only added in Cassandra 1.1.1 (just released a few days ago), so it won’t work in 1.1.0.

Also, though, that example is missing some parentheses around the clustering definition. You want:

CREATE TABLE timeseries (
   event_type text,
   insertion_time timestamp,
   event blob,
   PRIMARY KEY (event_type, insertion_time)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (insertion_time DESC);

Hope that helps. I’ll let the author of that article know about the problem.