[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-995) Allow alter of catalog tables; currently fails because columnfamily is 'illegal'

[Cosmin Lehene (JIRA)]

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Cosmin Lehene commented on HBASE-995:
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[~saint@gmail.com], [~apurtell] still valid?

 Allow alter of catalog tables; currently fails because columnfamily is 
 'illegal'
 

 Key: HBASE-995
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-995
 Project: HBase
  Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: stack
  Labels: delete

 Turns out this ain't easy.  The .META. schema is hard-coded.  Moving it out 
 of 0.19.0.



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[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-995) Allow alter of catalog tables; currently fails because columnfamily is 'illegal'

[Harsh J (Commented) (JIRA)]

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Harsh J commented on HBASE-995:
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Stack, do you also recall what was the drive behind having such a 
functionality, given that we usually do not mess with the catalog tables?

 Allow alter of catalog tables; currently fails because columnfamily is 
 'illegal'
 

 Key: HBASE-995
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-995
 Project: HBase
  Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: stack

 Turns out this ain't easy.  The .META. schema is hard-coded.  Moving it out 
 of 0.19.0.

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