The default for versioning is 3, unfortunately the sub-section also cites (incorrectly) that the min is 0. That sub-section is trying to indicate the minimum legal value. I am working on clearing that entry up with another developer.
On 10/4/11 6:04 PM, "Micah Whitacre" <[email protected]> wrote: >Are you surmising that from the description of setting a minimum version? > >On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Doug Meil <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#schema.versions >> >> >> I believe if you set that to 0 it should disable the versioning. >> >> >> >> On 10/4/11 2:21 PM, "Micah Whitacre" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>I guess what I'm asking is there a way to set "infinite" or no max >>>bounds on versions (e.g. setMaxVersion(-1) possibly)? Or do I have to >>>call setMaxVersion(Integer.MAX_VALUE) or setMaxVersion(<some large >>>guess>)? If a large guess is the way to go, what sort of overhead >>>costs might we need to consider when finding the right balance point >>>between room to grow and the maintenance support cost of needing to >>>expand later? >>> >>>We plan on building MapReduce jobs to clean up versions based on some >>>conditions so the value shouldn't get that large but the conditions >>>for cleaning up those versions might be decided by other consumers of >>>the service. So having room to grow is ideal. >>> >>>On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Doug Meil >>><[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi there- >>>> >>>> re: "i don't care store them all" >>>> >>>> >>>> What do you mean? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/4/11 12:20 PM, "Micah Whitacre" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>>In reading the documentation all I've seen suggestions on how to set >>>>>the value and the default value. However I haven't seen any >>>>>indication how to set the value to "i don't care store them all" or if >>>>>there is a maximum bounds aside from Integer.MAX_VALUE. Does anyone >>>>>know? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Micah >>>>> >>>>>[1] - >>>>>http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HColumnDescrip >>>>>to >>>>>r. >>>>>html#setMaxVersions(int) >>>> >>>> >> >>
