< is a byte used for doing an ordering on rows that share the same prefix.
There was a presentation floating around on the specifics of the metadata table at one point. I believe that helps tablet information sort before the last tablet, which is suffixed with '~', to force it to sort after the other tablets. We'll probably get an Eric or Keith email soon laying down the law, but that's what I remember. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Dickson, Matt MR < [email protected]> wrote: > *UNOFFICIAL* > When looking up rfile references in the metadata table we normally see > *<tableid>*;<range> for the rowid. I've noticed some rowids are > *<tableid>*< eg. 3p< > > Is this because the table is small and hasn't been split or some other > reason? >
