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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-1989:
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The default namespace is the empty string, similar to java's default package.
Namespaces allow tables to be fully qualified. So, tables in the default
namespace are fully qualified without a namespace prefix. The problem is, that
doesn't show up well in the shell when we list namespaces. The string
"(default)" was chosen as a placeholder, because we can't show an empty string
(Eclipse, and other IDEs do something similar to show the "(default package)").
Do you have a suggestion that is more intuitive? One option might be to have a
separate flag "--default-namespace" to expose it more obviously.
> Can't configure (default) namespace parameters from shell
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1989
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1989
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Chris McCubbin
> Fix For: 1.6.0
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> The shell has a problem with parentheses, this makes it impossible to, e.g.
> remove an iterator from the (default) namespace.
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