I was adding new nodes to a vertica cluster and made a typo in creating the new projection and no the database will not go into K=1 mode.
Release : 3.7
Component : IM Reporting / Admin / Configuration
dadaemon on the Data Aggregator was running
Stop dadaemon on the Data Aggregator and create the projection again
CREATE PROJECTION daadmin.migration_status_super_b1( migration_id, last_start_time, last_failure_time, complete_time, last_status_message)AS SELECT migration_status.migration_id, migration_status.last_start_time, migration_status.last_failure_time, migration_status.complete_time, migration_status.last_status_message FROM daadmin.migration_status ORDER BY migration_status.migration_id, migration_status.last_start_time, migration_status.last_failure_time, migration_status.complete_time, migration_status.last_status_messageSEGMENTED BY hash(migration_status.last_start_time, migration_status.last_failure_time, migration_status.complete_time, migration_status.migration_id, migration_status.last_status_message) ALL NODES OFFSET 1;SELECT START_REFRESH();
then you can do after a minute at most...
SELECT MARK_DESIGN_KSAFE(1);