> There's nothing like that currently. Last discussion I remember is that > we decided against allowing binary keys at the client because we don't > know what other clients may expect when trying to get that item. > > We can certainly reconsider that, but it's not been needed thus far.
What the hell? I thought 50% of the whole point of the binary protocol was to make binary keys possible. It's a flag in most other clients. You know, like, that whole utf8 argument? Are you absolutely sure about this? > I might ask, are you doing sha1/md5 because you really need the sum of > something, or are you doing it to simplify what you use for your key? He's trying to reduce the bytes of the item to the absolute minimum.
