Thanks for your quick answer, I have managed to change the column family. I am using hbase 0.20 now, I used hbase 0.19 some time ago, in my memory, the comression option is NONE, BLOCK...
Thanks - Xin ________________________________________ 发件人: [email protected] [[email protected]] 代表 stack [[email protected]] 发送时间: 2009年12月15日 14:16 收件人: [email protected] 主题: Re: Help on HBase shell alter command usage Are you using hbase 0.20? If so, there is no 'compress'. Its NONE, LZO, or GZIP (You'll have to build lzo yourself. See hbase wiki for how). See the shell help. It has examples of how to change parameters on column families. St.Ack 2009/12/14 Xin Jing <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > I want to change the column family property for a existing hbase table. > Setting one comlumn family COMPRESSION from 'none' to comress, and chagne > one column family IN_MEMORY from 'false' to 'true'. > > I want to use hbase shell to achieve that, but I cannot find the detailed > description on 'alter' command. Could anyone point me to a reference on > that? > > Thanks > - Xin >
