RE: Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-19 Thread Zoltán Tóth-Czifra
July 18, 2012 8:33 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall Zoltan, It's actually a bit more complicated because the behavior is non-deterministic. If a compaction happens the delete marker may be removed, and if you add the rows back after t

Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-18 Thread Jason Frantz
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:26 PM > To: user@hbase.apache.org > Subject: Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall > > The deleteall marker will hide everything that comes before its > timestamp (in your case it's current time), if you just want to delete > specific values use de

Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Zoltán Tóth-Czifra wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer! So I understand it's the expected behavior...? Yeah, it's an edge case. > For me it doesn't explain why can't I re-add the exact same rows. As I mentioned, they are hidden by the delete marker. Basically,

RE: Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-18 Thread Zoltán Tóth-Czifra
pache.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:26 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall The deleteall marker will hide everything that comes before its timestamp (in your case it's current time), if you just want to delete specific values use delete inste

Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
The deleteall marker will hide everything that comes before its timestamp (in your case it's current time), if you just want to delete specific values use delete instead. Hope this helps, J-D On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Zoltán Tóth-Czifra wrote: > Hi, > > For a few days now I'm fighting w

Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-18 Thread Zoltán Tóth-Czifra
Hi, For a few days now I'm fighting with a very strange behaviour of Hbase. I hope you can explain it to me. In short: add rows with version, delete all rows, add the same rows again, old rows disappear. I create a table, add some rows, some of them with explicit timestamp. After this, I can r