Thank you very much for your response. It is true that the older, previously existing nodes are not snapshotting the indexes that I had removed. I'll go ahead and just delete those SSTables from the data directory. They may be around still because they were created back when we used 0.8.
The more troubling issue is with adding new nodes to the cluster though. It built indexes for column families that have had all indexes dropped weeks or months in the past. It also will snapshot the index SSTables that it created. The index files are non-empty as well, some are hundreds of megabytes. All nodes have the same schema, none list themselves as having the rows indexed. I cannot drop the indexes via the CLI either because it says that they don't exist. It's quite perplexing. - Mike From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 3:58 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Secondary indexes don't go away after metadata change The secondary index CF's are marked as no longer required / marked as compacted. under 1.x they would then be deleted reasonably quickly, and definitely deleted after a restart. Is there a zero length .Compacted file there ? Also, when adding a new node to the ring the new node will build indexes for the ones that supposedly don't exist any longer. Is this supposed to happen? Would this have happened if I had deleted the old SSTables from the previously existing nodes? Check you have a consistent schema using describe cluster in the CLI. And check the schema is what you think it is using show schema. Another trick is to do a snapshot. Only the files in use are included the snapshot. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 2/03/2012, at 2:53 AM, Frisch, Michael wrote: I have a few column families that I decided to get rid of the secondary indexes on. I see that there aren't any new index SSTables being created, but all of the old ones remain (some from as far back as September). Is it safe to just delete then when the node is offline? Should I run clean-up or scrub? Also, when adding a new node to the ring the new node will build indexes for the ones that supposedly don't exist any longer. Is this supposed to happen? Would this have happened if I had deleted the old SSTables from the previously existing nodes? The nodes in question have either been upgraded from v0.8.1 => v1.0.2 (scrubbed at this time) => v1.0.6 or from v1.0.2 => v1.0.6. The secondary index was dropped when the nodes were version 1.0.6. The new node added was also 1.0.6. - Mike
