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@Todd Thanks for filing this one. I like the bit about unit tests to validate
they work according to the yet-to-be written doc.
> Define semantics of cell timestamps
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> Key: HBASE-2406
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2406
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
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> There is a lot of general confusion over the semantics of the cell timestamp.
> In particular, a couple questions that often come up:
> - If multiple writes to a cell have the same timestamp, are all versions
> maintained or just the last?
> - Is it OK to write cells in a non-increasing timestamp order?
> Let's discuss, figure out what semantics make sense, and then move towards
> (a) documentation, (b) unit tests that prove we have those semantics.
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