It's referring to an index of the cells within the partition (in a single sstable). It can have zero entries when there are very few cells in the partition.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:48 AM, nitin padalia <padalia.ni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > While Tracing is on, we see a trace message, > Partition index with <X> entries found for sstable <Y> > > What does it actually means? > > Does it mean in 'Partion Index' file has X partion key:offset entries > for SSTable Y? If so then when could X be 0? > > -- > Nitin Padalia > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>