Yes - very helpful - I seemed to have forgotten the grace seconds:) -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:06 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Question regarding tombstone removal on 0.6.4
does http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes and http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable help? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Dwight Smith <dwight.sm...@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > Hi > > > > I am running a three node cluster, everything works as expected. After > running my application for ~60K iterations, I stopped the application, then > performed > > Nodetool flush on my Keyspace, the a nodetool compact, repeating this for > each node in the cluster. > > > > Then I exported with sstabletojson on one of my CFs and upon examining the > json - all the entries had the tombstone flag true. > > > > This is correct, since all the application processes completed correctly, > and the entries should be removed. > > > > Now for the question: I understood that a nodetool compact would cause the > tombstone entries to be removed, is this true? > > > > Thanks > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any files attached may contain > confidential and proprietary information of Alcatel-Lucent and/or its > affiliated entities. Access by the intended recipient only is authorized. > Any liability arising from any party acting, or refraining from acting, on > any information contained in this e-mail is hereby excluded. If you are not > the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, destroy the > original transmission and its attachments and do not disclose the contents > to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the > information in any medium. Copyright in this e-mail and any attachments > belongs to Alcatel-Lucent and/or its affiliated entities. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any files attached may contain confidential and proprietary information of Alcatel-Lucent and/or its affiliated entities. Access by the intended recipient only is authorized. Any liability arising from any party acting, or refraining from acting, on any information contained in this e-mail is hereby excluded. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, destroy the original transmission and its attachments and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Copyright in this e-mail and any attachments belongs to Alcatel-Lucent and/or its affiliated entities.
