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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:05:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: Row key: string or binary (byte[])?
From: Gary Dusbabek <gdusbabek@gmail.com>
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2010/4/15 Roland H=E4nel <roland@haenel.me>:
> Is there any effort ongoing to make the row key a binary (byte[]) instead=
 of
> a string?

Yes. It went into trunk last night. Please see
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-767.

Gary.

> In the current cassandra.thrift file (0.6.0), I find:
>
> const string VERSION =3D "2.1.0"
> [...]
> struct KeySlice {
> =A0=A0=A0 1: required string key,
> =A0=A0=A0 2: required list<ColumnOrSuperColumn> columns,
> }
>
> while on the current (?) SVN
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/interface/cassandra.thri=
ft
> it reads:
>
> const string VERSION =3D "4.0.0"
> [...]
> struct KeySlice {
> 1: required binary key,
> 2: required list<ColumnOrSuperColumn> columns,
> }
>
> Thanks for enlightening me. :-)
>
> Greetings,
> Roland
>
>