On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's feasible, but not entirely easy. Essentially you need to page > through the row since you can't know how large it is beforehand. IIRC > though, this breaks the current input format contract, since an entire > row is expected to be returned.
This is one scenario that https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2474 addresses, btw. (Once we update CFIF to accept a CQL query.) -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com