Re: ALTER default_time_to_live

2018-01-22 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Hello Vlad, I don't remember the context of the sentences, but I see no incompatibilities. I believe the misunderstanding comes from the word 'compaction' that is a bit large. In the first sentence it is about tombstone compactions. in sentence two it is about standard, regular compaction

Re: ALTER default_time_to_live

2018-01-18 Thread Vlad
Hi, thanks for answer! I've read article about TWCS, and I don't understand how claim "When rows reach their TTL (10 minutes here), they turn into tombstones. Our table defines that tombstones can be purged 1 minute after they were created.If all rows are created with the same TTL, SSTables

Re: ALTER default_time_to_live

2018-01-18 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
> > I set default_time_to_live for existing table. Does it affect existing > data? No, it sets a default TTL for the future writes (that is no guarantee, as it can be overwritten in any specific query). It seems data to be deleted, but after compaction, I don't see any disk > space freed as