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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-2231:
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To be perfectly honest, I feel Ed's patch is a bit hacky to go into cassandra 
core (don't get me wrong, it's a neat hack). In particular the format of the 
column names is fairly complex and would have to be updated each time we want 
to add a comparator (not that add those every other day but still). 
I'm moreover not sure it gains much to go into cassandra tree, outside of 
putting the burden of maintaining it on Cassandra developers instead of Ed (and 
it's 1300 lines to maintain).
I don't know, I'm kind of +0 on adding Ed's comparator.

> Add CompositeType comparer to the comparers provided in 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2231
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2231
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Contrib
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.3
>            Reporter: Ed Anuff
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: 0001-Add-compositeType.patch, 
> edanuff-CassandraCompositeType-1e253c4.zip
>
>
> CompositeType is a custom comparer that makes it possible to create 
> comparable composite values out of the basic types that Cassandra currently 
> supports, such as Long, UUID, etc.  This is very useful in both the creation 
> of custom inverted indexes using columns in a skinny row, where each column 
> name is a composite value, and also when using Cassandra's built-in secondary 
> index support, where it can be used to encode the values in the columns that 
> Cassandra indexes.  One scenario for the usage of these is documented here: 
> http://www.anuff.com/2010/07/secondary-indexes-in-cassandra.html.  Source for 
> contribution is attached and has been previously maintained on github here: 
> https://github.com/edanuff/CassandraCompositeType

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