No such thing as "inserting a whole row", the new values will just be put on top of the others, and you will see some_value.
You would need to issue a deleteAll on that family before restoring the backup. J-D On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Michael Segel <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, > > Just wanting to be safe... > > Suppose I have a Column family that has the following columns: > foo and bar. > (CF:foo, CF:bar) > > So in my table I have a row: > > Row_key | CF:foo CF:bar > Alpha | foo_val1 bar_val1 > > > > Later, I update the row with new data including a new column CF:retz > So I have the following: > > Row_key | CF:foo CF:bar CF:retz > > Alpha | foo_valX bar_valX some_value > > > Later, I'm asked to restore the row from a back up. > > So when I re-insert the row with the row_key Alpha > ( Alpha | foo_val1 bar_val1) > > will I have : > Row_key | CF:foo CF:bar > > Alpha | foo_val1 bar_val1 > > or: > > Row_key | CF:foo CF:bar CF:retz > > > Alpha | foo_val1 bar_val1 some_value > > > I imagine that when I write out a column family, I'm inserting the whole row > so I wouldn't see anything in the column (CF:retz) but I want to do a sanity > check. > > Thx > > -Mike > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your > inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2
