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Andrew Purtell resolved HBASE-3118.
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Resolution: Fixed
We sanity check descriptors passed in for admin actions now.
> HBaseAdmin.createTable and modifyTable should have a family check
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> Key: HBASE-3118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3118
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.20.6
> Environment: 0.20.6, Linux, Java 1.6+
> Reporter: Vaibhav Puranik
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> Currently HBaseAdmin.modifyTable does not check whether any family is
> supplied or not. I can execute this method without supplying any families and
> that puts the table in inconsistent state.
> In my opinion, modifyTable should let you modifyTable without overwriting.
> But looks like it doesn't do that. This can be very dangerous as you can end
> up overwriting a table in production and loose data. But if we are going to
> keep the behavior then at least some checks should be added to make it safer.
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