Yes that was what I was trying to say.
thanks
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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 5 May 2011, at 18:52, Tyler Hobbs wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote:
> > It's no longer recommended to run nodetool compact regularly as it can mean
> > that some tombstones do not get to be purged for a very long time.
>
> I think this is a mis-typing; it used to be that major compactions
> were necessary to remove tombstones, but this is no longer the case in
> 0.7 so that the need for major compactions is significantly lessened
> or even eliminated. However, running major compactions won't cause
> tombstones *not* to be removed; it's just not required *in order* for
> them to be removed.
>
> I think he was suggesting that any tombstones *left* in the large sstable generated by
the major compaction won't be removed for a long time because that sstable itself will not
participate in any minor compactions for a long time. (In general, rows in that sstable will
not be merged for a long time.)
>
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> Tyler Hobbs
> Software Engineer, DataStax
> Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library
>
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