Thanks Aaron,
This is the same as I've thought. But I'm wondering if there's come triggers
that can hash the column name in order to save disk space. Or do you think it's
better to have this feature?
Best,
Steve
On Aug 6, 2011, at 7:06 PM, aaron morton wrote:
> AFAIK it just makes it easier
AFAIK it just makes it easier for client API's to understand what data type to
use. e.g. it can give your code a long rather than a str / byte array .
Personally I'm on the fence about using it. It has some advantages to the
client, but given the server does not really need the information it f
Dear all,
I'm wondering what's the advantage of assigning column metadata when NOT using
secondary indices.
I've gone through the SSTable internal and found out it won't do such
conversion.Thus I think the only advantage we got via column metadata is a
data validation type, am I correct?
