Re: Removing columns from sstables

2023-02-22 Thread Claude Warren, Jr via dev
Close. It is still in the table so the v3.x code that reads system.local will detect it and fail on an unknown column as that code appears to be looking at the actual on-disk format. It sounds like the short answer is that there is no way to physically remove the column from the on-disk format on

Re: Removing columns from sstables

2023-02-22 Thread Erick Ramirez
When a column is dropped from a table, it is added to the system.dropped_columns table so it doesn't get returned in the results. Is that what you mean? 🙂 >

Removing columns from sstables

2023-02-22 Thread Claude Warren, Jr via dev
Greetings, I have been looking through the code and I can't find any place where columns are removed from an sstable. I have found that rows can be deleted. Columns can be marked as deleted. But I have found no place where the deleted cell is removed from the row. Is there the concept of comp