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Evan Weaver commented on CASSANDRA-139:
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The switch won't be silent, because we will drop the magic colons at the same
time. Anyway, now is the time to break things.
Re. routing order:
What we care about here is what knowledge the client can act on.
* It's important to know that a CF is a single a file with keys inside it,
because that's what lets you control column-major vs. row-major storage order.
* It is not important to know that a single key has all its column families on
the same host.
Hbase and Hypertable use routing order, but they also use the colons, so I
don't they are trustworthy API design models.
In the interests of not needlessly confusing the majority of developers who are
familiar with SQL but not BigTable, I think we should switch it.
> thrift API should use lists instead of colon-delimited strings to specify
> column path
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> Key: CASSANDRA-139
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-139
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Priority: Minor
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