That is my understanding.
Cheers
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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 18/08/2011, at 12:36 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> What if the column is a counter ? Does it overwrite or increment ? Ie if the
>> SST I am loading has the exact
>
> What if the column is a counter ? Does it overwrite or increment ? Ie if
> the SST I am loading has the exact same setup but value 2, will my value
> change to 3 ?
>
> Counter columns only know how to increment (assuming no deletes), so you
> will get 3. See
> https://github.com/apache/cassandr
> If I SSTLoad data into that KS & CF that has the same key, it will rely on
> timestamps stored in the SSTable to overwrite value "1" or not, right ?
yes.
> What if the column is a counter ? Does it overwrite or increment ? Ie if the
> SST I am loading has the exact same setup but value 2, will
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/bulk-loading indicates that "it is
perfectly reasonable to load data into a live, active cluster."
So lets say my cluster has a single KS & CF and it contains a key "test"
with a SC named "Cass" and a normal subcolumn named "Data" that has value 1.
If I SSTLoad da
