createTable should be synchronous. If 3744 accidentally made it completely async that's a bug. But, as JD said, it should only be synchronous on the regions of the new tables, rather than blocking on regions-in-transition from other tables.
-Todd On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3744 has been fixed. > > FYI > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > Can you point to the issue where Todd did the revert? > > > > Thx, > > > > J-D > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > J-D recently expressed the idea of changing behavior of > HBA.createTable() > > to > > > be consistent with its javadoc. > > > Meaning, HBA.createTable() should be synchronous. > > > > > > Todd reported an issue which resulted in reverting my changes that > caused > > > HBA.createTable() to be synchronous. > > > > > > I want to see if we can reach consensus on how HBASE 3904 should be > > handled. > > > > > > We have 3 options: > > > 1. making HBA.createTable() to be synchronous in TRUNK > > > 2. pass initial region count in HTD > > > 3. add new method in HBA for synchronous table creation > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
