On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Thorsten von Eicken <t...@rightscale.com> wrote: > On 5/27/2011 6:05 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: >> >> But, it sounds like folks aren't really concerned about the >> consistency of the view as much as the scalability concerns, and I'm >> perfectly cool with ditching OFFSET in favour of a last-record marker. >> > THere's consistency and consistency. We need some form of consistency > and thus prefer no pagination, and marker-based pagination over > offset-based. Specifically, when iterating through all pages all items > in the collection must be returned, or said differently, the pagination > must ensure that no items get dropped because they moved from one page > to another while the iteration was happening. Marker-based pagination > achieves that. We don't need point-in-time consistency while iterating > through pages.
Fair enough. -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
