On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:24:28AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > Riak doesn't have tombstones (as far as I know) so, you have to make sure > all your nodes are up to do a delete. This, to me, seems like a misfeature. >
Please read my other responses in this thread, riak absolutely *does* have tombstones. And if you don't have all the primary nodes for a key up at the time of a delete, you'll write tombstones they just won't be able to trigger an actual removal of the key. Now, that said. 0.14 has several bugs in how delete works and so the behaviour is probably going to be unpredictable. To be perfectly honest, I recommend avoiding deletes where possible on 0.14. As you suggested, implementing tombstones at the application layer might be a better strategy until the next major riak release. Unfortunately, the changes were too extensive to be backported into the 0.14 branch. Andrew _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
