I see. It is fairly misleading because it is a query that does not work at scale. This syntax is only helpful if you have less then a few thousand rows in Cassandra.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Is this query the equivalent of a full table scan? Without a starting >> point get_range_slice is just starting at token 0? > > > It is, but that's what you asked for after all. If you want to start at a > given token you can do: > SELECT * FROM videos WHERE videoname = 'My funny cat' AND token(video) > > 'whatevertokenyouwant' > You can even do: > SELECT * FROM videos WHERE videoname = 'My funny cat' AND token(video) > > token(99051fe9-6a9c-46c2-b949-38ef78858dd0) > if that's simpler for you than computing the token manually. Though that is > mostly for random partitioners. For ordered ones, you can do without the > token() part. > > -- > Sylvain
