Cassandra SE: Cryptic error message on SELECT from a badly formed table

I create a valid column family:

cqlsh:manual_test> create columnfamily cf1 ( rowkey int primary key, a int );

Then I create a Cassandra table which only has a column for rowkey, but not for `a`. I expected it to fail, but it works all right:

create table t1 (rowkey int primary key) engine=cassandra keyspace='manual_test' column_family='cf1';

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec)

Then I insert into the table. I thought now it would fail for sure, but it worked too:

insert into t1 values (1);

# Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Then I selected from the table. Since all the above worked, I thought it would work also, but it didn't:

select * from t1;

# ERROR 1928 (HY000): Internal error: 'Default TException. [predicate column_names and slice_range may not both be null]'

The error message is anything but clear, I can only guess what it's about because I made the mess myself. Since the table is basically non-functional, maybe it makes sense to forbid creating it in the fist place.

revision-id: psergey@askmonty.org-20121224043622-xn8g8y3vhtu1lb3w

revno: 3459

branch: 10.0-base-cassandra