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  1. Apache Cassandra
  2. CASSANDRA-4917

Optimize tombstone creation for ExpiringColumns

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Normal
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0 beta 1
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      The goal of this ticket is to reduce the amount of tombstones created from ExpiringColumns.

      Currently tombstones will always stay a full gc_grace time, which is not neccessary for ExpiringColumns. We only need to ensure that ExpiringColumn and tombstone together live as long as gc_grace. If the ExpiringColumn's TTL>=gc_grace then we can create an already gcable tombstone and drop that instantly.

      My initial proposal was to use the ExpiringColumns creation-timestamp as deletiontime for the tombstone, but Sylvain pointed out that we should not mix local and client timestamps. So I changed it to this:

      public static Column create(ByteBuffer name, ByteBuffer value, long timestamp, int timeToLive, int localExpirationTime, int expireBefore, IColumnSerializer.Flag flag)
      {
          if (localExpirationTime >= expireBefore || flag == IColumnSerializer.Flag.PRESERVE_SIZE)
              return new ExpiringColumn(name, value, timestamp, timeToLive, localExpirationTime);
          // the column is now expired, we can safely return a simple tombstone
          return new DeletedColumn(name, localExpirationTime-timeToLive, timestamp);
          // return new DeletedColumn(name, localExpirationTime, timestamp); // old code
      }
      

      This was discussed on the mailinglist: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/repair-compaction-and-tombstone-rows-td7583481.html

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              christianmovi Christian Spriegel
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              Christian Spriegel
              Sylvain Lebresne
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