Aah yep, you're right, that appears to be exactly the optimization I was
thinking would be possible, but hadn't encountered.
Of course the caveat is that it only works if you are deleting entire
partitions, then continuing to write to that partition after the fact. If
you do a partial delete (som
Look like skipping SSTables based on max SSTable timestamp is possible if
your have the partition deletion info:
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/SinglePartitionReadCommand.java#L538-L550
But it doesn't say nothing about iterating all cells in a sing
