TTL is enforced when compactions are running so there's no need to
rewrite the data. The alter is sufficient.
J-D
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kireet <kir...@feedly.com> wrote:
> I need to remove the TTL setting from an existing HBase table and remove the
> TTL from all existing rows. I think this is the proper command for removing
> the TTL setting:
>
> alter 't', {NAME => 'cf', TTL => '2147483647'}
>
> After doing this, do I need to rewrite all the existing data to remove the
> TTL for each cell, perhaps using the IdentityMapper M/R job?
>
> Thanks
> Kireet
>
