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
