Re: nodetool repair and compact

I have just this been told that my first statement is inaccurate: If 'upgradesstable' is run as a routine operation, you might forget about > it and suffer consequences. 'upgradesstable' is not only doing the > compaction. I should probably have checked upgradesstable closely before making

Re: nodetool repair and compact

Hi, it will re-write this table's sstable files to current version, while > re-writing, will evit droppable tombstones (expired + gc_grace_seconds > (default 10 days) ), if partition cross different files, they will still > be kept, but most droppable tombstones gone and size reduced. > Nice

Re: nodetool repair and compact

you may use: nodetool upgradesstables -a keyspace_name table_name it will re-write this table's sstable files to current version, while re-writing, will evit droppable tombstones (expired + gc_grace_seconds (default 10 days) ), if partition cross different files, they will still be kept, but

Re: nodetool repair and compact

You’ll find the answers to your questions (and quite a bit more) in this blog post from my coworker: http://thelastpickle.com/blog/2016/07/27/about-deletes-and-tombstones.html Repair doesn’t clean up tombstones,