Re: COMPACT STORAGE in 4.0?

2016-04-11 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
As Jeremiah indicates, it's 3.0+ only. The docs should definitely reflect this On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 at 16:21, Jack Krupansky wrote: > Thanks, Benedict. Is this only true as of 3.x (new storage engine), or was > the equivalent efficiency also true with 2.x? > > It would be good to have an explicit

Re: COMPACT STORAGE in 4.0?

2016-04-11 Thread Jack Krupansky
Thanks, Benedict. Is this only true as of 3.x (new storage engine), or was the equivalent efficiency also true with 2.x? It would be good to have an explicit statement on this efficiency question in the spec/doc since the spec currently does say: "The option also *provides a slightly more compact

Re: COMPACT STORAGE in 4.0?

2016-04-11 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
As I understand it "COMPACT STORAGE" only has meaning in the CQL parser for backwards compatibility as of 3.0. The on disk storage is not affected by its usage. > On Apr 11, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith > wrote: > > Compact storage should really have been named "not wasteful stora

Re: COMPACT STORAGE in 4.0?

2016-04-11 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Compact storage should really have been named "not wasteful storage" - now everything is "not wasteful storage" so it's void of meaning. This is true without constraint. You do not need to limit yourself to a single non-PK column; you can have many and it will remain as or more efficient than "comp