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Aditya Kishore commented on HBASE-6692:
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@Ted, thanks for having a look.
Yes, it works for ROOT and META both because the function I have used is
{code}
public static boolean isMetaTable(final byte [] tableName) {
return Bytes.equals(tableName, HConstants.ROOT_TABLE_NAME) ||
Bytes.equals(tableName, HConstants.META_TABLE_NAME);
}
{code}
> [shell] Cannot describe '.META.' or '-ROOT-' tables
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-6692
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6692
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: shell
> Affects Versions: 0.96.0, 0.94.1
> Reporter: Aditya Kishore
> Assignee: Aditya Kishore
> Fix For: 0.96.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE-6692_trunk.patch
>
>
> This got introduced as a side effect of HBASE-3313. Now it is not possible to
> describe '.META.' or '\-ROOT\-' tables from HBase shell.
> {noformat}
> hbase(main):002:0> describe '-ROOT-'
> DESCRIPTION
>
> ENABLED
> ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal first character <45> at 0.
> User-space table names can only start with 'word characters': i.e.
> [a-zA-Z_0-9]: -ROOT-
> Here is some help for this command:
> Describe the named table. For example:
> hbase> describe 't1'
> {noformat}
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