I understand that tombstones are internal implementation detail ... yet, the fact remains in 0.6.2 that a key/col creation followed by a delete of the key/col will result in the key being returned in a get_range_slices call. If the CF is flushed and compacted (after GCGraceSeconds), the key will not be returned in the get_range_slices call.
David ... is this what you are referring to? Is there anyway to tell get_range_slices to return only keys that have a (any) column? -phil On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:03 AM, David Boxenhorn wrote: > Great! Thanks! > > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tombstones are internal to Cassandra and are never sent to the client. > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:20 AM, David Boxenhorn <da...@lookin2.com> wrote: > > I recently learned that when I get a key, I might get a tombstone. > > > > How can I know if a returned key is a tombstone? (I need to ignore them for > > my application.) > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://riptano.com >
