Hi, I'm trying to understand the append operation introduced in 0.94. Is there a documentation or a specification somewhere?
The javadoc for Append does not provide any detail. The HBase book doesn't mention this operation. I found some fragmented info in several JIRA issues, but nothing reliable. >From what I currently understand, this operation allows me to append bytes to an existing cell. Does this append by creating a new cell with a new timestamp? Does this update the cell while maintaining its timestamp? Assuming I have several versions already, may I choose which version to append to? Thanks in advance, C.
