There is a ticket for that :)
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9218
Best regards,
Vladimir Rodionov
Principal Platform Engineer
Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com
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From: saint....@gmail.com [saint....@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stack
[st...@duboce.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 7:53 AM
To: Hbase-User
Subject: Re: How to change split policy of a specific existing table(not
global)?
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:04 AM, WangRamon <ramon_w...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi JM
> Thanks for your help, yes, as you said the syntax is totally correct as it
> can be executed in HBase Shell without any errors.
> By checking the source code of class HRegion which initialise the region
> policy from HTableDescriptor, not sure if that SPLIT_POLICY value can be
> dynamically changed after a table(and its first child region) is created?
>
> > 1) If you look in the Web UI, do you see you new attribute set for this
> > table?
> I don't know there is a specific UI which i can view the new attributes
> except the master-status UI, if that's the UI you are talking about, i can
> only see the MAX_FILESIZE property is set correctly:{NAME =>
> 'SPLIT_TEST_BIG', MAX_FILESIZE => '107374182400', FAMILIES => [{NAME =>
> 'f1'}]}
>
What JMS said.
Seems like you are looking at the right place in the UI.
After altering the table, if you do
hbase> describe "SPLIT_TEST_BIG"
... do you see the new attribute set?
If not, the shell must be not setting this attribute properly (bug).
St.Ack
> > 2) How have you verified that it doesn't work? What do you have on the
> logs?
> I use YCSB to insert data into that table, and i did saw there are some
> new regions created after i running the test for a while. And here is the
> LOG i get from one of the region severs:
> 2013-11-05 08:34:46,571 DEBUG
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy:
> ShouldSplit because f1 size=414926238, sizeToCheck=134217728,
> regionsWithCommonTable=1
> Any idea?
> ThanksRamon
>
> > From: jean-m...@spaggiari.org
> > Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:40:04 -0500
> > Subject: Re: How to change split policy of a specific existing table(not
> global)?
> > To: user@hbase.apache.org
> >
> > This seems to be correct.
> >
> > 2 questions.
> >
> > 1) If you look in the Web UI, do you see you new attribute set for this
> > table?
> > 2) How have you verified that it doesn't work? What do you have on the
> logs?
> >
> > JM
> >
> >
> > 2013/11/5 WangRamon <ramon_w...@hotmail.com>
> >
> > > Hi Folks
> > > I'm trying to change the default split policy of an existing table in
> > > HBase 0.94.6-cdh4.4.0. The way i think should work is by using HBase
> Shell,
> > > so i executed the following command in the SHELL:
> > > disable 'SPLIT_TEST_BIG'alter 'SPLIT_TEST_BIG', {METHOD => 'table_att',
> > > 'SPLIT_POLICY' =>
> > >
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy'}alter
> > > 'SPLIT_TEST_BIG', {METHOD => 'table_att', 'MAX_FILESIZE' =>
> > > '107374182400'}enable 'SPLIT_TEST_BIG'
> > >
> > > But it doesn't work, only the 'MAX_FILESIZE' property get changed, the
> > > table still uses the default split policy which is
> > > 'IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy', so can anyone tell me what
> is
> > > the correct way to do it, thanks!
> > > CheersRamon
>
>
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