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Harsh J commented on HBASE-995: ------------------------------- Stack, do you also recall what was the drive behind having such a functionality, given that we usually do not mess with the catalog tables? > Allow alter of catalog tables; currently fails because columnfamily is > 'illegal' > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-995 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-995 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: stack > > Turns out this ain't easy. The .META. schema is hard-coded. Moving it out > of 0.19.0. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira