Re: compaction does not reduce the number of regions

2010-02-11 Thread Stack
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Boris Aleksandrovsky wrote: > I noticed that compaction reduced the > size of the region, but did not reduce the number of regions. > Thats right. Once made, there is no going back currently, not unless you run a manual merge of regions (see the Merge tool under

Re: compaction does not reduce the number of regions

2010-02-11 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
Inline. J-D On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Boris Aleksandrovsky wrote: > Hi guys, > > We have a table which stored previously uncompressed data which we changed > to store GZ-compressed data. We performed a compaction on that table which > shrank its size three-fold. However, I noticed that co

compaction does not reduce the number of regions

2010-02-11 Thread Boris Aleksandrovsky
Hi guys, We have a table which stored previously uncompressed data which we changed to store GZ-compressed data. We performed a compaction on that table which shrank its size three-fold. However, I noticed that compaction reduced the size of the region, but did not reduce the number of regions. M