Thanks... any plans of raising number of bytes for salt value?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:22 AM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>

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