Sylvain Lebresne created CASSANDRA-4851:
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Summary: CQL3: improve support for paginating over composites
Key: CASSANDRA-4851
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4851
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
Priority: Minor
Consider the following table:
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CREATE TABLE test (
k int,
c1 int,
c2 int,
PRIMARY KEY (k, c1, c2)
)
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with the following data:
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k | c1 | c2
------------
0 | 0 | 0
0 | 0 | 1
0 | 1 | 0
0 | 1 | 1
{noformat}
Currently, CQL3 allows to slice over either c1 or c2:
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SELECT * FROM test WHERE k = 0 AND c1 > 0 AND c1 < 2
SELECT * FROM test WHERE k = 0 AND c1 = 1 AND c2 > 0 AND c2 < 2
{noformat}
but you cannot express a query that return the 3 last records. Indeed, for that
you would need to do a query like say:
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SELECT * FROM test WHERE k = 0 AND ((c1 = 0 AND c2 > 0) OR c2 > 0)
{noformat}
but we don't support that.
This can make it hard to paginate over say all records for {{k = 0}} (I'm
saying "can" because if the value for c2 cannot be very large, an easy
workaround could be to paginate by entire value of c1, which you can do).
For the case where you only paginate to avoid OOMing on a query, CASSANDRA-4415
will that and is probably the best solution. However, there may be case where
the pagination is say user (as in, the user of your application) triggered.
I note that one solution would be to add the OR support at least in case like
the one above. That's definitively doable but on the other side, we won't be
able to support full-blown OR, so it may not be very natural that we support
seemingly random combination of OR and not others.
Another solution would be to allow the following syntax:
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SELECT * FROM test WHERE k = 0 AND (c1, c2) > (0, 0)
{noformat}
which would literally mean that you want records where the values of c1 and c2
taken as a tuple is lexicographically greater than the tuple (0, 0). This is
less SQL-like (though maybe some SQL store have that, it's a fairly thing to
have imo?), but would be much simpler to implement and probably to use too.
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