Unify Partitioners and AbstractTypes
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Key: CASSANDRA-1205
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1205
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Stu Hood
Fix For: 0.8
There is no good reason for Partitioners to have different semantics than
AbstractTypes. Instead, we should probably have 2 partitioners: Random and
Ordered, where the Ordered partitioner requires an AbstractType to be
specified, defaulting to BytesType.
One solution [suggested by
jbellis|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-767?focusedCommentId=12841565&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12841565]
is to have AbstractType generate a collation id (essentially, a Token) for a
set of bytes.
Looking forward, we should probably consider laying the groundwork to add
native support for compound row keys here as well.
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