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stack commented on HBASE-1234:
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On, change of the key format, not hard. Not at the moment anyways before
commit.
Why you think your suggested key format better? Seems like timestamp sort
should prevail in all cases except maybe in case where we're doing a family
delete (family deletes could have a zero qualifier so they sort first rather
than change key format?)
Regards comparators, you'll need to use the right one dependent on context.
Byte comparator won't work if its a catalog table key.
I already changed KV to use Constructors rather than static creator methods
(this I did I think after you wrote above comment).
Thanks Erik
> Change HBase StoreKey format
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>
> Key: HBASE-1234
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1234
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: stack
> Assignee: stack
> Fix For: 0.20.0
>
> Attachments: 1234-v2.patch, 1234.patch
>
>
> HBASE-859 cleaned up keys removing the need of HRegionInfo being in the
> context comparing keys. This issue is about changing the format. Work done
> in HBASE-859 means changes have been localized to HStoreKey, in particular to
> comparators and parse routines. We should do this now since 0.20.0 will
> require rewriting all data.
> Things to consider:
> <row> <columnfamily> <columnqualifier> <timestamp> <keytype>
> Or leave off columnfamily altogether and just write it once into the hfile
> metadata (All key compares are done in the Store context so columnfamily can
> be safely left out of the equation; its only when the key rises above Store
> that the columnfamily needs appending).
> keytype is probably a byte. Types are delete cell, delete row, delete family,
> delete column? What else? Where should we put it? At the end? How should
> type sort? Or should it not be part of sort so its just the order at which
> we encounter the key?
> How are we going to support keys that go in out of chronological order?
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