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Mubarak Seyed commented on HBASE-4991: -------------------------------------- bq.So, we are agreed that conceptually, whats going on here is region merging? Merge with two-regions-data Vs Merge-with-one-region-data We do merge just to cover META hole, isn't? IMO deleteRange is a task/function from cmdLine/API and we do use merge for an implementation (as part of the task) > Provide capability to delete named region > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4991 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4991 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Ted Yu > Assignee: Mubarak Seyed > Fix For: 0.94.0 > > Attachments: HBASE-4991.trunk.v1.patch, HBASE-4991.trunk.v2.patch > > > See discussion titled 'Able to control routing to Solr shards or not' on > lily-discuss > User may want to quickly dispose of out of date records by deleting specific > regions. -- 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