HBaseAdmin.createTable and modifyTable should have a family check
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Key: HBASE-3118
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3118
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Environment: 0.20.6, Linux, Java 1.6+
Reporter: Vaibhav Puranik
Currently HBaseAdmin.modifyTable does not check whether any family is supplied
or not. I can execute this method without supplying any families and that puts
the table in inconsistent state.
In my opinion, modifyTable should let you modifyTable without overwriting. But
looks like it doesn't do that. This can be very dangerous as you can end up
overwriting a table in production and loose data. But if we are going to keep
the behavior then at least some checks should be added to make it safer.
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