On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Andrew Thompson <and...@hijacked.us>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:24:28AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> > Riak doesn't have tombstones (as far as I know) so, you have to make sure
> > all your nodes are up to do a delete.  This, to me, seems like a
> misfeature.
> >
>
> Please read my other responses in this thread, riak absolutely *does*
> have tombstones. And if you don't have all the primary nodes for a key
> up at the time of a delete, you'll write tombstones they just won't be
> able to trigger an actual removal of the key.
>

  I'm very glad to be incorrect.  And this is excellent information.  So
thanks!


>
> Now, that said. 0.14 has several bugs in how delete works and so the
> behaviour is probably going to be unpredictable. To be perfectly honest,
> I recommend avoiding deletes where possible on 0.14. As you suggested,
> implementing tombstones at the application layer might be a better
> strategy until the next major riak release. Unfortunately, the changes
> were too extensive to be backported into the 0.14 branch.
>

Understood.  The behavior of 0.14 made me think we didn't have tombstones,
but then I guess one can always ask :-).

Dave


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