Do those tombstone-d keys ever get purged completely ? I've tried shortening the GCGraceSeconds right down but they still don't get cleaned up.
On 23 April 2010 08:57, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#range_ghosts > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Carlos Sanchez > <carlos.sanc...@riskmetrics.com> wrote: >> I have a curious question.. >> >> I am doing some testing where I insert 500 rows to a super column family and >> then delete one row, I make sure the row was indeed deleted >> (NotFoundException in the get call) and then I ran a get_range_slices and >> the row indeed returned. The shutdown Cassandra and restarted it. I repeated >> the test (with inserting the rows) and even though I get the >> NotFoundException for that row, the get_rance_slices still returns it. Is >> this the expected behavior? How long should I wait before I don't see the >> row in the get_range_slices? Do I have to force a flush or change >> consistency level? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Carlos >> >> This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended >> recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which >> may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized >> review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an >> intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the >> original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to >> the original message. >> >
