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Doug Meil commented on HBASE-1989: ---------------------------------- Wow, this is from the way-back machine (2009). But I still think it's a good idea from a terminology standpoint to clear this up in the API > HBaseAdmin (et al.) not accurate with Column vs. Column-Family usage > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-1989 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1989 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Components: client > Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.90.1 > Reporter: Doug Meil > Assignee: stack > Priority: Minor > Attachments: hbase1989.patch > > > Consider the classes HBaseAdmin and HColumnDescriptor. > HColumnDescriptor is really referring to a "column family" and not a "column" > (i.e., family:qualifer). > Likewise, in HBaseAdmin there is a method called "addColumn" that takes an > HColumnDescriptor instance. > I labeled this a bug in the sense that it produces conceptual confusion > because there is a big difference between a column and column-family in HBase > and these terms should be used consistently. The code works, though. > -- 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