Something to keep in mind here -- which I don't think has been mentioned yet -- is the interplay with Bitcask. One may want to *actually* delete the key rather than store application-defined tombstones to keep from accumulating entries in Bitcask's in-memory keydir.
On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 6/23/2011 11:16 AM, Jeremiah Peschka wrote: > > > > The bigger question, though, is "Why do I want to store a completely > > empty record?" > > In the context of riak, the answer might be that record changes are > handled differently than record deletes. If you want the things that > happen to make concurrent changes and revived old versions eventually > consistent, you have to store something. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
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