On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Mark Greene <green...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why timestamp is required to do a deletion? Because a delete is just a write with a tombstone flag, and the write with the highest timestamp wins. > If i'm reading the api docs correctly, this would require a read of the > column first correct? No, if your column was created in the past and you want to delete it, use the current time as the timestamp, which should be higher than whatever the column's timestamp was. -Brandon
