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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-4915:
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I think you may be seeing CASSANDRA-4858 -- we don't do pre-query sampling.
                
> CQL should force limit when query samples data.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4915
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4915
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0 beta 1
>            Reporter: Edward Capriolo
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When issuing a query like:
> {noformat}
> CREATE TABLE videos (
>   videoid uuid,
>   videoname varchar,
>   username varchar,
>   description varchar,
>   tags varchar,
>   upload_date timestamp,
>   PRIMARY KEY (videoid,videoname)
> );
> SELECT * FROM videos WHERE videoname = 'My funny cat';
> {noformat}
> Cassandra samples some data using get_range_slice and then applies the query.
> This is very confusing to me, because as an end user am not sure if the query 
> is fast because Cassandra is performing an optimized query (over an index, or 
> using a slicePredicate) or if cassandra is simple sampling some random rows 
> and returning me some results. 
> My suggestions:
> 1) force people to supply a LIMIT clause on any query that is going to
> page over get_range_slice
> 2) having some type of explain support so I can establish if this
> query will work in the
> I will champion suggestion 1) because CQL has put itself in a rather unique 
> un-sql like position by applying an automatic limit clause without the user 
> asking for them. I also do not believe the CQL language should let the user 
> issue queries that will not work as intended with "larger-then-auto-limit" 
> size data sets.

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