see inline.

Thanks,

- Hua

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Hua Su <huas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My question is, does there exist any scanner interface that supports to
> get
> > "previous" data record in the table?
> >
> No.
>
> Previous would require seeking our backward in storefiles.  We have
> something that sort of does this already for the catalog tables and
> its an expensive call.
>
> Do you really need a previous?  You want to walk your table in reverse?
>

If it's too expensive to implement a native 'get previous' function, I can
use some workaround to achieve the similar function.


>
> St.Ack
>

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