By any chance is a TTL (time to live ) set on the columns...

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:56:19 -0700
Subject: 1.1.5 Missing Insert! Strange Problem
From: gouda...@gmail.com
To: user@cassandra.apache.org

Hi All,
I have a 4 node cluster setup in 2 zones with NetworkTopology strategy and 
strategy options for writing a copy to each zone, so the effective load on each 
machine is 50%.

Symptom:I have a column family that has gc grace seconds of 10 days (the 
default). On 17th there was an insert done to this column family and from our 
application logs I can see that the client got a successful response back with 
write consistency of ONE. I can verify the existence of the key that was 
inserted in Commitlogs of both replicas however it seams that this record was 
never inserted. I used list to get all the column family rows which were about 
800ish, and examine them to see if it could possibly be deleted by our 
application. List should have shown them to me since I have not gone beyond gc 
grace seconds if this record was deleted during past days. I could not find it. 

Things happened:During the same time as this insert was happening, I was 
performing a rolling upgrade of Cassandra from 1.1.3 to 1.1.5 by taking one 
node down at a time, performing the package upgrade and restarting the service 
and going to the next node. I could see from system.log that some mutations 
were replayed during those restarts, so I suppose the memtables were not 
flushed before restart. 


Could this procedure cause the row inser to disappear? How could I troubleshoot 
as I am running out of ideas.
Your help is greatly appreciated.


Cheers,=Arya                                      

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