Compaction assumes that the sstables it has as input are ordered
correctly (otherwise it would have to read the full row into memory to
re-sort). So it would have to be a new operation, and not feasible in
general for larger-than-memory rows. I don't think we'll ever add
this.
On Wed, Feb 23,
Today it is not possible to change the comparators (compare_with and
compare_subcolumns_with). I went through the discussion on thread
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/12466.
Does it make sense to atleast allow one way change i.e. from specific types
to generic type? For eg
