Alter table with COMPACT STORAGE

Question

I had issues with reading a table from pycassa created with CQL3.

So followed this post Reading Cassandra 1.2 table with pycassa

Now trying to alter my table

ALTER TABLE tweets with COMPACT STORAGE ;

But getting an error.

Bad Request: line 1:32 missing '=' at 'STORAGE'

Answer 1

You cant alter the underlying storage model. You'll have to re-create the table and add the WITH COMPACT STORAGE parameter.

On a side note, why not use the newer cassandra python driver that supports cql3.