Very good question. From the shell, I'm not sure this is doable. From the java API, you will have to use Mutation.setTTL
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ttl JMS 2015-11-25 8:40 GMT-05:00 Shushant Arora <[email protected]>: > Thanks! > Whats the syntax to set it in shell and java ? > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > This? HBASE-10560 > > > > 2015-11-25 6:45 GMT-05:00 Shushant Arora <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > Can TTL of rows be set/updated instead of complete column family? > > > or > > > Can timestamp version of a cell be decreased ? Aim is to delete some > rows > > > whose timestamp > > > is set to old values so that it matches TTL of column family if tTL of > > > row/cell cannot be specified. > > > > > >
