I would think that the ideal suggested by Tianyang Chang is good. Though we may have to disable the table.
Regards Ram On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com>wrote: > I think its more akin of the typical 'truncate' command. > > Actually, if someone wanted to extend HBase Shell, I would imagine a > simple Ruby er JRuby script could do this? (You would want to disable the > table first) > > Just a thought. > > On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > > > If there is a time consideration here, perhaps you want to do this > because > > the data isn't interesting after some time interval has elapsed but the > > keyspace for new entries will be similar -- then consider using TTLs. > It's > > easy and they will do what you want, garbage collecting useless data > while > > not changing region boundaries. > > > > On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote: > > > >> Nive to see that it's already in progress ;) > >> > >> Tian-Ying, thanks for the idea. I will most probably give it a try! > >> > >> JM > >> > >> 2013/2/5, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>: > >>> Looks like a little polishing would make the tool available in 0.96 :-) > >>> > >>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Kevin O'dell > >>> <kevin.od...@cloudera.com <javascript:;>>wrote: > >>> > >>>> I am a bad person, but I have that JIRA in my name. I need to make > the > >>>> patch pretty. > >>>> > >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5525 > >>>> > >>>> There is a patch there that works, it is just not pretty. > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> To my knowledge there is no such tool. > >>>>> > >>>>> You can file a JIRA in case someone has bandwidth to work on such > >> tool. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > >>>>> jean-m...@spaggiari.org <javascript:;> > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Is there an easy way to empty a table but keep the regions? Truncate > >>>>>> will remove everything even the splitting. But I want to keep the > >>>>>> regions the way they are. I just want to clean them. Is there a > >>>>>> simple > >>>>>> way to do that with the shell or something like that? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> JM > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Kevin O'Dell > >>>> Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > - Andy > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > > (via Tom White) > > The opinions expressed here are mine, while they may reflect a cognitive > thought, that is purely accidental. > Use at your own risk. > Michael Segel > michael_segel (AT) hotmail.com > > > > > >
