mismatched input ')' expecting EOF in CQL

Question

created keyspace and using CQL but getting an Error

CREATE KEYSPACE demodb
           WITH strategy_class = 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy'
  ...          AND strategy_options:replication_factor='1';

cqlsh:demodb> CREATE TABLE users (
      ...                 user_name varchar,
      ...                 password varchar,
      ...                 gender varchar,
      ...                 session_token varchar,
      ...                 state varchar,
      ...                 birth_year bigint,
      ...                 PRIMARY KEY (user_name)
      ...               );
Bad Request: line 1:163 mismatched input ')' expecting EOF

why am i getting this error,any help,thanks.

Solution

Cassandra 1.0 has CQL2, and your statement is only valid in CQL3. You should upgrade to 1.2.10 or 2.0.1 since 1.0 is very old and CQL2 is deprecated.