Sorry that is: major_compact 'tablename'
Typing too fast... Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White) ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> > To: "user@hbase.apache.org" <user@hbase.apache.org> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, July 8, 2011 6:42 PM > Subject: Re: Enable BLOOMFILTER on existing tables > > You can update existing data through manually triggering compaction. After > you > make a change like this, go to the hbase shell and execute: > > major_compaction 'yourtablename' > > After major compaction all of the store files for the table will abide the > most > recent schema settings. > > Best regards, > > > - Andy > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via > Tom White) > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Weiwei Xiong <xion...@gmail.com> >> To: user@hbase.apache.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Friday, July 8, 2011 6:02 PM >> Subject: Enable BLOOMFILTER on existing tables >> >> Hi all, >> >> I want to enable the bloomfilter on some existing tables to speed-up > row-key >> existence checking. I altered the BLOOMFILTER from "NONE" to >> "ROW" for this >> purpose. >> >> But one think I am not clear is, will the setting change also take effect > on >> pre-existing rows? Or only rows to be inserted in future get the > BLOOMFILTER >> property? >> >> If bloomfilter change won't be applied to existing rows, is there any > other >> way to speed up the row-key existence checking? >> >> Thanks, >> ww >> >