From 8289de0b3858917e47e479dbc98dd9b4073f577e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Boudreault <alan@alanb.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:10:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure we can connect to a Cassandra node version > 3

---
 cassandra/metadata.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cassandra/metadata.py b/cassandra/metadata.py
index 67b6b850..eb8896d4 100644
--- a/cassandra/metadata.py
+++ b/cassandra/metadata.py
@@ -2487,7 +2487,8 @@ class MaterializedViewMetadata(object):
 
 
 def get_schema_parser(connection, server_version, timeout):
-    if server_version.startswith('3'):
+    server_major_version = int(server_version.split('.')[0])
+    if server_major_version >= 3:
         return SchemaParserV3(connection, timeout)
     else:
         # we could further specialize by version. Right now just refactoring the