On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@yakaz.com> wrote: >> I agree that it is worth adding a support for counter as supercolumns >> in 1546 and that's fairly trivial, so I will add that as soon as possible >> (but please understand that I'm working on this for a good part during >> my free time). >> >> As for supercolumns of counters, there is what Jonathan proposes, but >> I'll add that encoding a supercolumns CF to a standard column CF is >> almost always a fairly trivial encoding. Worst case scenario it requires >> you to roll up your own comparator and it's slightly less convenient >> for client code. > > Supporting supercolumns to allow multiple counters per row, but > requiring encoding with a custom comparator for deeper nesting, seems > like a reasonable compromise to me.
I don't understand how this would work. -ryan
