Oh ok thanks guys. That all makes perfect sense. I mistakenly thought the timestamp was needed as a discriminator for the delete.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
