Re: Row deletion and get_range_slices (cassandra 0.6.1)

2010-04-23 Thread Ryan King
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:24 PM, David Harrison dave.l.harri...@gmail.com wrote: Do those tombstone-d keys ever get purged completely ?  I've tried shortening the GCGraceSeconds right down but they still don't get cleaned up. The GCGraceSeconds will only apply when you compact data. -ryan

Re: Row deletion and get_range_slices (cassandra 0.6.1)

2010-04-23 Thread David Harrison
So I'm guessing that means compaction doesn't include purging of tombstone-d keys ? Is there any situation or maintenance process that does ? (or are keys forever?) On 23 April 2010 17:44, Ryan King r...@twitter.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:24 PM, David Harrison

Re: Row deletion and get_range_slices (cassandra 0.6.1)

2010-04-22 Thread Jonathan Ellis
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#range_ghosts On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Carlos Sanchez carlos.sanc...@riskmetrics.com wrote: I have a curious question.. I am doing some testing where I insert 500 rows to a super column family and then delete one row, I make sure the row was indeed