[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-3237) refactor super column implmentation to use composite column names instead

["Sylvain Lebresne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-3237:
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I'm not really sure we need to really have 2 phases, and in any case I'm not convinced a startup scrub is the right approach.

I think that what we need is to write conversions functions for <CF with SC> to and from <CF with equivalent composite> and for requests on both kind of CF. With those, I think you can directly remove the use of SC internally, you just use those functions for 1) compatibility when sending/receiving to/from older nodes and 2) decode old SC format when reading old sstables. Of course that's much more easily said than done.
                
> refactor super column implmentation to use composite column names instead
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-3237
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3237
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Matthew F. Dennis
>            Assignee: Vijay
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: ponies
>             Fix For: 1.3
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>         Attachments: cassandra-supercolumn-irc.log
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> super columns are annoying.  composite columns offer a better API and performance.  people should use composites over super columns.  some people are already using super columns.  C* should implement the super column API in terms of composites to reduce code, complexity and testing as well as increase performance.

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