Did you commit the data? I'd recommend turning auto commit on for the connection before running the delete statement.
Thanks, James On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Michael Young <yomaiq...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is probably a newbie question, but has anyone run across a case where > a simple 'delete from tbl' fails to work? > > my_tmp_table has 29,728 rows > > I run: > delete from my_tmp_table; > 29,728 rows affected (0.08 seconds) > > select count(*) from my_tmp_table; > 'COUNT(1)' > '29728' > > No rows were deleted from this table. My table doesn't have > IMMUTABLE_ROWS=true, but even if it did I would expect delete to work. > > We use phoenix-4.7.0.2.5.0.0-1245 in HDP 2.5 release. > > Are there any checks I can do to identify the cause (without restarting > hbase, that is)? > > -Michael > > >