Online schema update is an experimental feature and has known issues, especially if the table has a region split under progress.
You can enable it by setting "hbase.online.schema.update.enable" to "true" in the configuration file(s) and restarting the HBase services. More here <http://hbase.apache.org/book/upgrade0.92.html#d2064e2639>. Aditya Kishore On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I use hbase 0.92 and I am trying to add a column family to hbase table > and I get the below error. > > ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableNotDisabledException: > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableNotDisabledException: test > > After disabling the table, I can add the column family. > > But in production environment, I will not be able to disable the table. > > Is there a way without disabling table, I can add the column family? > > Thanks >
