The salt byte is the first byte in your row key and that's the max value for a byte (i.e. it'll be 0-255).
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Krishna <research...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > According to Phoenix documentation > >> "Phoenix provides a way to transparently salt the row key with a salting >> byte for a particular table. You need to specify this in table creation time >> by specifying a table property “SALT_BUCKETS” with a value from 1 to 256" > > > Is 256 the max value that SALT_BUCKETS can take? If yes, could someone > explain the reason for this upper bound? > > Krishna >