Oh, discussing this here it seems I was to fast to answer. The Scan object will set Store.versionsToReturn() to the set max versions. So have also no idea what the issue is :)
Please rephrase. Lars On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > >>> The third is about the hbase shell, which implements an alter command, >>> that can change or add or delete a column family,but i remember the column >>> family cannot be changed after the table is created. I also want to know >>> default max VERSIONs, when i create a table i give the VERSION 2,later i put >>> three values for the same row+column and different timestamp, but i can get >>> values rather than only two. >> >> The column family can be changed, not sure what you are referring to. >> >> Default max versions is 3, the rest of the question is unintelligible. > > I think he means he has set Versions to 2 but sees more than those 2. > That is because the table has not yet been compacted. Run a major > compaction from the shell on that table and it will reduce the > versions to the enforced 2. Bottomline is, for a short period of time > (but can be hours, the default is < 24hrs), you may see more than the > set number of Versions. Think of it in terms of "Max. number of > versions to keep". > > HTH, > Lars >
