Online merge is a bit dangerous. Lots of applications require that the table be set up pre-split. This is probably more common than the need for merging.
Having such a pre-split table collapse before it is full would be a disaster. It should be pretty easy to script taking a few regions off-line and then nuking them. 2011/2/8 Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> > An automatic online merge feature would be a nice contribution too. >
