On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Roman Tkachenko <ro...@mailgunhq.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I'm positively going crazy :) > > Increasing gc_grace + repair + decreasing gc_grace didn't help. The > columns still appear after the repair. I checked in cassandra-cli and > timestamps for these columns are old, not in the future, so it shouldn't be > the reason. > > I also did a test: updated one of columns and it was indeed updated. Then > deleted it (and it was deleted), ran repair and its "updated" version > reappeared again! Why wouldn't these columns just go away? Is there any way > I can force their deletion permanently? > It sounds like you have done enough sanity checking of your use of Cassandra to consider filing this issue as a JIRA on the issues.apache.org JIRA. The fact that it seems to only affect a row that is being compacted incrementally is an interesting datapoint... =Rob