On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Radim Kolar <h...@sendmail.cz> wrote: > Sam, > > thank you for your detailed problem description. What is reason why delete > cant remove old counter value from memtable?
The reason is: even if it was doing this, incrementing after a deletion would still not work correctly. So we've avoided adding special casing in the code since it wouldn't fix anything. -- Sylvain > Because currently we need to > code workaround in our applications. > > It would be nice to copy your description of this problem to: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Counters > because it is more clear than existing text. >
