Hey Ian, (how are things :) I just stumbled across https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4071.
-- Lars ________________________________ From: Ian Varley <ivar...@salesforce.com> To: "user@hbase.apache.org" <user@hbase.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 6:51 PM Subject: TTL for cell values Hi all, Quick clarification on TTL for cells. The concept makes sense (instead of "keep 3 versions" you say "keep versions more recent than time T"). But, if there's only 1 value in the cell, and that value is older than the TTL, will it also be deleted? If so, has there ever been discussion of a "TTL except for most recent" option? (i.e. you want the current version to be permanently persistent, but also want some time-based range of version history, so you can peek back and get consistent snapshots within the last hour, 6 hours, 24 hours, etc). TTL seems perfect for this, but not if it'll chomp the current version of cells too! :) Thanks! Ian
