We are on 1.2.5 with a 4 node cluster (RF 3) and have a cql3 wide row table. each row has about 2000 columns. While running some test data through it, it started throwing rpc_timeout errors when returning a couple specific rows (with Consistency ONE).
After hunting through sstable2json results and looking at the source for it, it looks like these are Ranged Tombstones. I see there's a bug filed (and a patch) for this, but is there a way to clear out the tombstones? I have 'nodetool cleanup'ed, 'nodetool repair'ed and 'nodetool scrub'bed the table, but they just seem to linger as does the problem reading the rows in question. Is there a way I can clear this data out and move forward? Thanks, -Jeff
