Thanks Enis! I entered a JIRA and submitted a patch: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15981
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:04 PM Enis Söztutar <enis....@gmail.com> wrote: > Disabling the table should not be needed. From the stripe compaction > perspective, deploying this in a disabled table versus in an online alter > table is not different at all. The "hbase.online.schema.update.enable" > property was fixing some possible race conditions that were fixed long time > ago. > > We should update the documentation. Mind creating a small patch? > Enis > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Bryan Beaudreault < > bbeaudrea...@hubspot.com > > wrote: > > > Thanks Ted, I have seen that and I have had it set for to true for years > > without issue. I was asking in this case because the docs for stripe > > compaction explicitly say to disable the table. I will test in our QA > > environment first, but would also appreciate input from anyone who has > done > > this without disabling the table first, for better or worse. > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:26 PM Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Have you seen the doc at the top > > > of ./hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/alter.rb ? > > > > > > Alter a table. If the "hbase.online.schema.update.enable" property is > set > > > to > > > false, then the table must be disabled (see help 'disable'). If the > > > "hbase.online.schema.update.enable" property is set to true, tables can > > be > > > altered without disabling them first. Altering enabled tables has > caused > > > problems > > > in the past, so use caution and test it before using in production. > > > > > > FYI > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Bryan Beaudreault < > > > bbeaudrea...@hubspot.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > We're running hbase 1.2.0-cdh5.7.0. According to the HBase book, in > > order > > > > to enable stripe compactions on a table we need to first disable the > > > > table. We > > > > basically can't disable tables in production. Is it possible to do > this > > > > without disabling the table? If not, are there any plans to make > this > > > > doable? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > >
