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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:02:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Stu Hood (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Updated: (CASSANDRA-767) Row keys should be byte[]s, not
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Stu Hood updated CASSANDRA-767:
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    Attachment: 0004-Extract-read-writeName.patch
                0005-Convert-IPartitioner-disk-key-format-to-bytes.patch
                0006-Bump-SSTable-version-to-c-remove-utf16-encoding-from.patch

0006 Now fully removes String support from Filter.

Sorry for the mixup: luckily one of our platforms was encoding Strings differently to expose this.

> Row keys should be byte[]s, not Strings
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-767
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-767
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Stu Hood
>            Assignee: Stu Hood
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.7
>
>         Attachments: 0001-Implement-compaction-benchmark.patch, 0002-Implement-a-legacy-sstable-test.patch, 0003-Store-bytes-in-DecoratedKey-and-cleanup-dead-code.patch, 0004-Extract-read-writeName.patch, 0005-Convert-IPartitioner-disk-key-format-to-bytes.patch, 0006-Bump-SSTable-version-to-c-remove-utf16-encoding-from.patch
>
>
> This issue has come up numerous times, and we've dealt with a lot of pain because of it: let's get it knocked out.
> Keys being Java Strings can make it painful to use Cassandra from other languages, encoding binary data like integers as Strings is very inefficient, and there is a disconnect between our column data types and the plain String treatment we give row keys.
> The key design decision that needs discussion is: Should we apply the column AbstractTypes to row keys? If so, how do Partitioners change?

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