its fine either way, i just wanted to know that its deleberate. it certainly doesnt cost much space.
an external sorter can work only on keytypes it understands, and our keys are compound and may include strings, floats, and ints. the length is no problem at all. On 6/26/06, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Sutter wrote: > However -> It still seems to me that the key length in the sequence file is > redundant. What if your keys are compound, containing, say, a combination of floats, ints and strings? Then the key may not include a length of the entire key entry. So you're seeking to optimize a special (if common) case. Doug
