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Tyler Hobbs commented on CASSANDRA-6492: ---------------------------------------- Ah, I see. The main advantage of using a bytes-based page size is that it handles highly variable row sizes more safely and optimally. If we translate a byte-based page size into a row-based one using internal metrics, we lose most of those advantages. > Have server pick query page size by default > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6492 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6492 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: API > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Benjamin Lerer > Priority: Minor > > We're almost always going to do a better job picking a page size based on > sstable stats, than users will guesstimating. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)