From 8d7218bf31270b58a3a66e30bd4cbd69da04088b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Stack Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:45:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add link to good discussion on how deletes and versions interact -- thanks Harsh git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1373624 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/docbkx/book.xml | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/docbkx/book.xml b/src/docbkx/book.xml index 151a6c970bd..e04555d0de4 100644 --- a/src/docbkx/book.xml +++ b/src/docbkx/book.xml @@ -477,9 +477,10 @@ htable.put(put); tombstones themselves. . If the version you specified when deleting a row is larger than the version of any value in the row, then you can - consider the complete row to be deletedSee Lars Hofhansl's blog on - Deletion in HBase - for an update on how deletes work.. + consider the complete row to be deleted. + For an informative discussion on how deletes and versioning interact, see + the thread Put w/ timestamp -> Deleteall -> Put w/ timestamp fails + up on the user mailing list. Also see for more information on the internal KeyValue format.