Re: possible 'coming back to life' bug with counters

2011-06-15 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
Let me point out that the current thread is about counter removal, not about counter TTL. Counter expiration have other problems, so that even if you do not care about incrementing a counter again after it expires, it will still not work for you (please look at the discussion on https://issues.apac

Re: possible 'coming back to life' bug with counters

2011-06-14 Thread Viktor Jevdokimov
What if it is OK for our case and we need counters with TTL? For us Counters and TTL both are important. After column is expired it is not important what value counter will have. Scanning millions rows just to delete expired ones is not a solution. 2011/6/14 Sylvain Lebresne > As listed here: ht

Re: possible 'coming back to life' bug with counters

2011-06-14 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
As listed here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Counters, counter deletion is provided as a convenience for permanent deletion of counters but, because of the design of counters, it is never safe to issue an increment on a counter that has been deleted (that is, you will experience back to life be

possible 'coming back to life' bug with counters

2011-06-10 Thread David Hawthorne
Please take a look at this thread over in the hector-users mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/hector-users/browse_thread/thread/99835159b9ea1766 It looks as if the deleted columns are coming back to life when they shouldn't be. I don't want to open a bug on something if it's already g