Yes it is possible. In the above documentation, you are trying to say that if you have the row keys 1..10, and you request a range of 5..8, you will not get a rowset [5, 6, 7, 8].
This is the documentation for fetching all rows from a column family .
Mostly you use get_range_slices with a blank start_key and no end_key. Depending on the number of rows specified in the counter, this may result in fewer all rows in the column family. In this case, you use the last row key from the previous result set as start_key for the next query.
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