On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Yves Langisch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a few questions concerning compression:
>
> 1) What are the steps to change the compression algorithm (e.g. LZO -> 
> Snappy) for an existing table?

Change the schema, make sure you have the libs.

> 2) How can I copy one table to another (same structure, different 
> compression) in order to make some tests beforehand? Is there any simple 
> shell command for this task?

Look for the job named CopyTable.

> 3) Just to get some insight: Are the rows in the memstores already compressed 
> or does it happen during a flash only?

At flush.

J-D

Reply via email to