I'll update the RefGuide with this. This is a good thing for everybody to know.
On 5/9/12 5:08 PM, "Jean-Daniel Cryans" <jdcry...@apache.org> wrote: >Just alter the families, the old store files will get converted during >compaction later on. > >J-D > >On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Otis Gospodnetic ><otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Based on the example on >>http://hbase.apache.org/book/snappy.compression.html and some >>search-hadoop.com searches I'm guessing it's not possible to switch an >>existing HBase table to use Snappy. >> i.e. a new table with snappy needs to be created and old data imported >>into this table. >> >> Is this correct? >> >> Thanks, >> Otis >> ---- >> Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - >>http://sematext.com/spm >
