On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Paulo Motta <pauloricard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (OP says:) So - isn't setting unchecked_tombstone_compaction to "true" a >> dangerous setting? Won't it cause resurrections? What is the use case for >> this knob, and when do I know I can set it to true safely? >> > To expand slightly on Paulo's great answer : The only time to really consider use this feature is if you have a reasonable suspicion that because of your write patterns that you will do less net work if you simply skip the pre-check. Like many other performance centric features whose use case seems difficult to grasp, it was likely added because of a single significant user who was in exactly that case. =Rob
