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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:19:22 -0700
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Subject: Re: Start key must sort before (or equal to) finish key in your
	partitioner
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that would be reasonable

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:41 AM, David Boxenhorn <david@lookin2.com> wrote:
> Would it be better to use an SQL-style timestamp ("YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MMM")
> + unique id, then? They sort lexically the same as they sort
> chronologically.
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > OPP uses lexical ordering on the keys, which isn't going to be the
>> > same as the natural order for a time-based uuid.
>>
>> *palmface*
>
>


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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com