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stack commented on HBASE-6894: ------------------------------ MS> I"ll fix the below comments on help screens on commit (They are not your issues -- I just saw them reviewing this): In alter help, this example does not illustrate the point that you can alter multiple familes at once: hbase> alter 't1', 'f1', {NAME => 'f2', IN_MEMORY => true}, 'f3' Lets not have two ways to do something: hbase> alter 't1', NAME => 'f1', METHOD => 'delete' hbase> alter 't1', 'delete' => 'f1' Should we explain CONFIG? Its not explained in create command. Question for you Sergey: How do I remove something from CONFIG? Maybe you can't just now. For another issue. Table attributes are currently anonymous... They look the same as a CF only w/o a NAME => attribute. Should they be named as in TABLE_ATTRIBUTES => {CONFIG {'x' => 'y', 'OWNER' => 'SOMEOWNER'}} METHOD => 'table_att' as analog for CF NAME => 'name' was ugly. I'm glad you removed that... just wondering if we should add something back to say what they are. I'm up for commit. This fixes a bunch of stuff. It unearths the fact that there is a load more work to do in here but that is not your fault. > Adding metadata to a table in the shell is both arcane and painful > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-6894 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6894 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Components: shell > Affects Versions: 0.96.0 > Reporter: stack > Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin > Labels: noob > Attachments: HBASE-6894.patch, HBASE-6894.patch, HBASE-6894.patch, > HBASE-6894-v2.patch, HBASE-6894-v3.1-squashed.patch, > HBASE-6894-v3-squashed.patch, HBASE-6894-v4-squashed.patch > > > In production we have hundreds of tables w/ whack names like 'aliaserv', > 'ashish_bulk', 'age_gender_topics', etc. It be grand if you could look in > master UI and see stuff like owner, eng group responsible, miscellaneous > description, etc. > Now, HTD has support for this; each carries a dictionary. Whats a PITA > though is adding attributes to the dictionary. Here is what seems to work on > trunk (though I do not trust it is doing the right thing): > {code} > hbase> create 'SOME_TABLENAME', {NAME => 'd', VERSION => 1, COMPRESSION => > 'LZO'} > hbase> # Here is how I added metadata > hbase> disable 'SOME_TABLENAME' > hbase> alter 'SOME_TABLENAME', METHOD => 'table_att', OWNER => 'SOMEON', > CONFIG => {'ENVIRONMENT' => 'BLAH BLAH', 'SIZING' => 'The size should be > between 0-10K most of the time with new URLs coming in and getting removed as > they are processed unless the pipeline has fallen behind', 'MISCELLANEOUS' => > 'Holds the list of URLs waiting to be processed in the parked page detection > analyzer in ingestion pipeline.'} > ... > describe... > enable... > {code} > The above doesn't work in 0.94. Complains about the CONFIG, the keyword we > are using for the HTD dictionary. > It works in 0.96 though I'd have to poke around some more to ensure it is > doing the right thing. > But this METHOD => 'table_att' stuff is really ugly.... can we fix it? > And I can't add table attributes on table create seemingly. > A little bit of thought and a bit of ruby could clean this all up. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira