[jira] [Resolved] (CASSANDRA-4917) Optimize tombstone creation for ExpiringColumns

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4917?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jonathan Ellis resolved CASSANDRA-4917.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.0
         Reviewer: slebresne
         Assignee: Christian Spriegel
    
> Optimize tombstone creation for ExpiringColumns
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4917
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4917
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Christian Spriegel
>            Assignee: Christian Spriegel
>             Fix For: 2.0
>
>
> 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:
> {code}
> 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
> }
> {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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