Cassandra CLI: specify name of primary key

Question

Is it possible to specify a name of primary key via cassandra CLI, like via CQL:

create columnfamily test (
  my_key_name varchar primary key,
  value varchar);

By default, cassandra cli creates primary key with name 'KEY'

Answer 1

The attribute you're looking for is key_alias. Unfortunately, you can't currently set it through cassandra-cli, only cqlsh. I've opened CASSANDRA-4158 to fix this.