Sounds like I should give the auto-generate approach a try.
In essence it'll do the following:
- Tables without '.' will be moved into the default namespace.
- Tables with '.' will be move into new namespaces
- namespaces will be delimited by the last '.' in the table name
ie org.apache.hbase.MyTable, namespace = org.apache.hbase
- In both cases the oldTableName is the same as the fullTableName
- all existing apis and cli commands will be expecting full table names unless
explicitly stated
- a RenameTable tool will be provided to rename offline tables
Let me know if any clarification is needed.
-Francis
On May 8, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Stack wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> w.r.t. auto-generate option, we need some heuristics.
>>
>> e.g. would namespace.schemaname.tablename be supported ?
>>
>> The auto-generate option may create namespace name out of existing schema
>> name.
>>
>
>
> There is no schema name in hbase. James's convention up in phoenix at the
> hbase-level is a table name w/ a dot in it.
>
> This is already a difficult enough issue. No need to add complications.
>
> St.Ack
