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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-2406:
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And on the unit test front, there are now several tests in TestFromClientSide 
that show the version update behavior.  I think we have out-of-order insertion 
tests as well.  Not sure if we have tests that show the delete case does not 
work.

> Define semantics of cell timestamps/versions
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-2406
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2406
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: documentation
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Pranav Khaitan
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.90.0
>
>
> There is a lot of general confusion over the semantics of the cell timestamp. 
> In particular, a couple questions that often come up:
> - If multiple writes to a cell have the same timestamp, are all versions 
> maintained or just the last?
> - Is it OK to write cells in a non-increasing timestamp order?
> Let's discuss, figure out what semantics make sense, and then move towards 
> (a) documentation, (b) unit tests that prove we have those semantics.

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