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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-2231:
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Does this mean that I can have any number of components in my dynamic composite 
key and that "b" and "t" are aliases to BytesType and TimeUUIDType for the 
purpose of space efficienct? Using both or neither of those aliases is valid 
and the order in which I use them isn't mandated, correct?
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That is correct. The aliases are here only for space efficiency. No obligation 
of using them of any sort. 

> 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-and-DynamicCompositeType.patch, 
> 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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