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
<zoltan.tothczi...@softonic.com> wrote:
> 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 retreive them with no problem. However, when I delete the cells
> in these rows (all of them), and add the exact same rows to the table again,
> the cell with the explicit timestamp is not stored!
>
> I wonder if you can reproduce it and then explain. Here is a script:
>
> ---- SCRIPT ----
>
> version
>
> create 'test_delete_1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 100}
>
> put 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', 'f1', '123', 1342631168000
> put 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', 'f1', '456'
>
> get 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', {TIMERANGE => [1342631167000,
> 1442631167000], VERSIONS => 10}
>
> deleteall 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', 'f1'
>
> put 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', 'f1', '123', 1342631168000
> put 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', 'f1', '456'
>
> get 'test_delete_1', 'row_xzy', {TIMERANGE => [1342631167000,
> 1442631167000], VERSIONS => 10}
>
> disable 'test_delete_1'
> drop 'test_delete_1'
>
> ---- END OF SCRIPT ----
>
> ...and the output:
>
> ---- OUTPUT ----
>
>
> $ hbase shell test_del.txt
> 0.90.4-cdh3u3, r, Thu Jan 26 10:13:36 PST 2012
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.5080 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.1750 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0100 seconds
>
> COLUMN CELL
> f1:
> timestamp=1342631583013, value=456
> f1:
> timestamp=1342631168000, value=123
> 2 row(s) in 0.0260 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0130 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0080 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0090 seconds
>
> COLUMN CELL
> f1:
> timestamp=1342631583071, value=456
> 1 row(s) in 0.0080 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 2.0400 seconds
>
> 0 row(s) in 1.0880 seconds
>
> ---- END OF OUTPUT ----
>
> Thanks!
