What's your table definition ? >> select '1228#16857','1228#16866','1228#16875','1237#16544','1237#16553' >> from myCF where key = 'all';
The output looks correct to me. CQL table return values, including null, for all of the selected columns. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27/04/2013, at 12:48 AM, Sorin Manolache <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-04-26 11:55, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote: >> Of course: >> >> From CQL 2 (cqlsh -2): >> >> delete '183#16684','183#16714','183#16717' from myCF where key = 'all'; >> >> And selecting this data as follow gives me the result above: >> >> select '1228#16857','1228#16866','1228#16875','1237#16544','1237#16553' >> from myCF where key = 'all'; >> >> From thrift (phpCassa client): >> >> $pool = new >> ConnectionPool('myKeyspace',array('192.168.100.201'),6,0,30000,30000); >> $my_cf= new ColumnFamily($pool, 'myCF', true, true, >> ConsistencyLevel::QUORUM, ConsistencyLevel::QUORUM); >> $my_cf->remove('all', array('1228#16857','1228#16866','1228#16875')); >> > > I see. I'm sorry, I know nothing about phpCassa. I use batch_mutation with > deletions and it works. But I guess phpCassa must use the same thrift > primitives. > > Sorin > > >> >> >> 2013/4/25 Sorin Manolache <sor...@gmail.com <mailto:sor...@gmail.com>> >> >> On 2013-04-25 11:48, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote: >> >> Hi, I tried to delete some columns using cql2 as well as thrift on >> C*1.2.2 and instead of being unreachable, deleted columns have a >> null value. >> >> I am using no value in this CF, the only information I use is the >> existence of the column. So when I select all the column for a >> given key >> I have the following returned: >> >> 1228#16857 | 1228#16866 | 1228#16875 | 1237#16544 | 1237#16553 >> >> -------------------+----------__--------+------------------+--__-----------------+------------__------ >> null | null | null | >> | >> >> >> This is quite annoying since my app thinks that I have 5 columns >> there >> when I should have 2 only. >> >> I first thought that this was a visible marker of tombstones but >> they >> didn't vanish after a major compaction. >> >> How can I get rid of these null/ghost columns and why does it >> happen ? >> >> >> I do something similar but I don't see null values. Could you please >> post the code where you delete the columns? >> >> Sorin >> >> >
