On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or do we use some kind of demarcator b/w rows and columns and timestamps > when building the HFile keys and the indices ? > No demarcation but in KeyValue, we keep row, column family name, column family qualifier, etc., lengths and offsets so the comparators on ly compare pertinent bytes. If you doing a prefix scan w/ row1c, we should be starting the scan at row1c, not row1 (or more correctly at the row that starts the block we believe has a row1c row in it...). St.Ack
