Since storage_proxy provides access to the entire cluster, a local shard
reference is sufficient. Adjust query_processor to store a reference to
just the local shard, rather than a seastar::sharded<storage_proxy> and
adjust callers.
This simplifies the code a little.
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Having a varadic parameter being used in implicit sprint is not
very readable + makes it less intuitive when suddenly system keyspace
becomes more than one -> multiple sprints in the chain -> more confusion
or more execution paths.
Its not that horrible with some spread out sprint:s
We use boost::any to convert to and from database values (stored in
serlialized form) and native C++ values. boost::any captures information
about the data type (how to copy/move/delete etc.) and stores it inside
the boost::any instance. We later retrieve the real value using
boost::any_cast.
However, data_value (which has a boost::any member) already has type
information as a data_type instance. By teaching data_type intances about
the corresponding native type, we can elimiante the use of boost::any.
While boost::any is evil and eliminating it improves efficiency somewhat,
the real goal is growing native type support in data_type. We will use that
later to store native types in the cache, enabling O(log n) access to
collections, O(1) access to tuples, and more efficient large blob support.
