Or do we use some kind of demarcator b/w rows and columns and timestamps when building the HFile keys and the indices ?
Thanks Varun On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Lets say I have the following in my table: > > col1 > row1 v1 ------> HFile entry would be "row1,col1,ts1-->v1" > ol1 > row1c v2 ------> HFile entry would be "row1c,ol1,ts1-->v2" > > Now I issue a prefix scan asking row for row "row1c", how do we seek - do > we seek directly to row1c or would we seek to row1 first and then to row1c. > The reason being that the HFile keys are the same for both the keys. I > simply absorb one character from the column into the row. > > Thanks > Varun >
