On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > If by chance they have edits that don't fit the tables current time
> range, they'll fail to go in because first and last regions are read-only.
> I'm not sure I understand that phrasing. If the script modifies the
> left-most and right-most region (in terms of the key space) to have the
> empty row as start and end key respectively, won't any edits to the left or
> right of the tables current time range go in?
>
>
Here is more detail:

Say a table has the following regions:

empty_start_region->100
100-200
200-300
300->empty_end_region

The first and last regions would be read-only; i.e.  empty_start_region->100
and 300->empty_end_region.  Any edits in advance of 300 would fail because
the region was read-only.  Same for any edits in the range
empty_start_region->100.

Does that make sense?
St.Ack

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