http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/tags/tombstone-delete-compact Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:23:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cant-delete-tombstone#post-1372 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:51:26 +0000 Anonymous 1372@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>@jbellis ok but I'm returning on this:<br /> "Here, we defined a constant, GCGraceSeconds, and had each node track tombstone age locally. Once it has aged past the constant, it can be GC'd during compaction"</p> <p>and I don't understand more. </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cant-delete-tombstone#post-1371 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:41:50 +0000 jbellis 1371@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#range_ghosts" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#range_ghosts</a> </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cant-delete-tombstone#post-1369 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:54:32 +0000 Anonymous 1369@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Hello<br /> So after a delete like this with cql on my node1:<br /> delete from valFamily where KEY = 'alexis....@....fr';<br /> my gc_grace_seconds is 60</p> <p>I wait for 2 - 3 minutes</p> <p>I run a nodetool node1 compact</p> <p>then I do a<br /> select * from valFamily;<br /> and then I have my row with only the key:<br /> KEY |<br /> alexis....@....fr |</p> <p>where am I wrong, I would expect to have no results.</p> <p>thank you </p>