ts is when the delete is performed, not the ts of the column you're deleting.
you need to provide a ts for every operation so that if there are multiple clients updating the same column at the same time, cassandra can decide who "wins." On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Mark Greene <green...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a particular reason why timestamp is required to do a deletion? If > i'm reading the api docs correctly, this would require a read of the column > first correct? > I know there is an issue filed to have a better way to delete via range > slices but I wanted to make sure this was the only way to do a delete. > Thanks in advance, > Mark -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
