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Yang Wang commented on HBASE-9756: ---------------------------------- Example : {noformat} hbase(main):009:0* create 't1', 'cf1' ERROR: Table already exists: t1! Here is some help for this command: Creates a table. Pass a table name, and a set of column family specifications (at least one), and, optionally, table configuration. Column specification can be a simple string (name), or a dictionary (dictionaries are described below in main help output), necessarily including NAME attribute. Examples: hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 5} hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1'}, {NAME => 'f2'}, {NAME => 'f3'} hbase> # The above in shorthand would be the following: hbase> create 't1', 'f1', 'f2', 'f3' hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 1, TTL => 2592000, BLOCKCACHE => true} hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', CONFIGURATION => {'hbase.hstore.blockingStoreFiles' => '10'}} Table configuration options can be put at the end. Examples: hbase> create 't1', 'f1', SPLITS => ['10', '20', '30', '40'] hbase> create 't1', 'f1', SPLITS_FILE => 'splits.txt', OWNER => 'johndoe' hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 5}, METADATA => { 'mykey' => 'myvalue' } hbase> # Optionally pre-split the table into NUMREGIONS, using hbase> # SPLITALGO ("HexStringSplit", "UniformSplit" or classname) hbase> create 't1', 'f1', {NUMREGIONS => 15, SPLITALGO => 'HexStringSplit'} hbase> create 't1', 'f1', {NUMREGIONS => 15, SPLITALGO => 'HexStringSplit', CONFIGURATION => {'hbase.hregion.scan.loadColumnFamiliesOnDemand' => 'true'}} You can also keep around a reference to the created table: hbase> t1 = create 't1', 'f1' Which gives you a reference to the table named 't1', on which you can then call methods. {noformat} > HBase shell help info would be better to display only when usage error > instead of any exception > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-9756 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9756 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: shell > Reporter: Yang Wang > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HBASE-9756.patch > > > When error occurred in HBase shell, no matter what error it is, the help info > will display. As help info is used to instruct how to use the command, so it > would be better to show help info only when the command is used in a wrong > way. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)