On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@yakaz.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Jesse McConnell > <jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> try LexicalUUIDType, that will distinguish the secs correctly >> >> imo based on the existing impl (last I checked at least) TimeUUIDType >> was equivalent to LongType > > It uses to be true that the TimeUUIDType comparator was only comparing the > timestamps of the UUIDs. But this was more a bug than anything else > since it made > different UUID collide and was fixed for 0.6 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-907). > > Now with TimeUUIDType, if two UUID have the same timestamps, they are ordered > by bytes order.
Naively for the whole UUID? That would not be good, given that timestamp within UUID is not stored in expected lexical order, but with sort of little-endian mess (first bytes are least-significant bytes of timestamp). -+ Tatu +-
