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From: Kallin Nagelberg <kallin.nagelberg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:43:46 -0500
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I tried that but I still see the row coming back on a list
<columnfamily> in the CLI. My concern is that there will be a pointer
to an empty row for all eternity.

-Kal

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Aaron Morton <aaron@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
> Deleting all the columns in a row via TTL has the same affect as deleting th
> row, the data will physically by removed during compaction.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On 08 Feb, 2011,at 10:24 AM, Bill Speirs <bill.speirs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think this is supported (but I could be completely wrong).
> However, I'd love to see this functionality as well.
>
> How would one go about requesting such a feature?
>
> Bill-
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Kallin Nagelberg
> <kallin.nagelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I have read about the new TTL columns in Cassandra 0.7. In my case I'd
>> like to expire an entire row automatically after a certain amount of
>> time. Is this possible as well?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Kal
>>
>