Cassandra CLI 'org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException'

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I'm on the latest version of Cassandra 1.1.2 and already have data in my Cassandra db. I want to update the meta data of a column family through:

update column family Comment with column_metadata = [{column_name: timestamp, validation_class: UTF8Type}];

(prior, timestamp was of IntegerType)

However, Cassandra-CLI returns: 'org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException'

When I try the command again, I get: 'org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe'

I'm running Cassandra on Ubuntu.

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can u check to see if cassandra server is running. Also, can you restart cli and reconnect to the running instance? – Chander Shivdasani

1 Answers

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It's possible that the data stored is not compatible with the timestamp field. The timestamp field is a 0 or 8 byte long representing the time since the Unix epoch.

I recommend checking the value in CLI to ensure that it's compatible first.