Thanks for the heads up. This sounds like a bug. I've filed HBASE-12329 to track the problem in both the API and the shell. Please follow that ticket if you'd like updates.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12329 On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. > > Using shell, I did: > > hbase(main):001:0> create 't2', {NAME => 'f1'}, {NAME => 'f1'} > > The table got created - with 1 column family: > > hbase(main):002:0> describe 't2' > DESCRIPTION > ENABLED > 't2', {NAME => 'f1', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', > REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0 true > ', VERSIONS => '1', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL => > '2147483647', KEEP_DELETED > _CELLS => 'false', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', BLOCKCACHE > => 'true'} > 1 row(s) in 0.1000 seconds > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Sznajder ForMailingList < > bs4mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Is it allowed to provide two similar family names during the creation of > an > > HBase table? > > > > I was expecting that it is forbidden, **but** this call does not throw > any > > exception > > > > String[] families = {"cf", "cf"}; > > HTableDescriptor desc = new HTableDescriptor(name); > > for (String cf : families) { > > HColumnDescriptor coldef = new HColumnDescriptor(cf); > > desc.addFamily(coldef); > > } > > try { > > admin.createTable(desc); > > } catch (TableExistsException e) { > > throw new IOException("table \'" + name + "\' already > exists"); > > } > > > -- Sean
