Re: Droping ColumnFamily in 0.6.x

2010-09-07 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I thought it went without saying that if you plan to drop a CF, you should stop using it before you drop it. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Rob Coli wrote: > On 9/7/10 10:09 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> >> flush, stop server, remove the data files, start server > > As I understand it, there a r

Re: Droping ColumnFamily in 0.6.x

2010-09-07 Thread Mark
I am using 0.6.5 so I guess its easy as draining and removing the data files. Thanks On 9/7/10 10:28 AM, Rob Coli wrote: On 9/7/10 10:09 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: flush, stop server, remove the data files, start server As I understand it, there a race here where a new Memtable can be creat

Re: Droping ColumnFamily in 0.6.x

2010-09-07 Thread Rob Coli
On 9/7/10 10:09 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: flush, stop server, remove the data files, start server As I understand it, there a race here where a new Memtable can be created before the server is stopped, unless you flush with "nodetool drain". This is relevant in some versions of 0.6.x (below 0

Re: Droping ColumnFamily in 0.6.x

2010-09-07 Thread Jonathan Ellis
flush, stop server, remove the data files, start server On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mark wrote: >  How can one trucate or drop a column family in 0.6.x? > > Thanks > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support htt

Droping ColumnFamily in 0.6.x

2010-09-07 Thread Mark
How can one trucate or drop a column family in 0.6.x? Thanks