On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Aaron Cordova <[email protected]> wrote: > And just to be clear, since there are several definitions of key flying > around - in the following case: > > row1,colfam1,colqual1,4 -> valueA > row1,colfam1,colqual1,5 -> valueB > > These can coexist peacefully - although the versioning iterator might supress > all but k versions. > > in this case: > > row1,colfam1,colqual1,4 -> valueA > row1,colfam1,colqual1,4 -> valueB > > Accumulo should throw one away arbitrarily. I think what you mentioned, a > system iterator that performs this logic, would be a good implementation.
I am opposed to making this a system iterator. I like iterators seeing the data in sorted form, not "sort -u" :)
