Re: What happens to empty partitions?

Eventually compaction will remove the row when the sstable is merged/rewritten. On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 8:06 AM Tom Vernon wrote: > Hi, I'm having trouble getting my head around what happens to a partition > that no longer contains any data. As TTL is applied at the column level > (but not on

What happens to empty partitions?

Hi, I'm having trouble getting my head around what happens to a partition that no longer contains any data. As TTL is applied at the column level (but not on the primary key), if I insert all values with a TTL then all of those values will be tombstoned and eventually purged once they reach that