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Andrew Kyle Purtell resolved HBASE-8378.
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Hadoop Flags: (was: Reviewed)
Release Note: (was: New optional argument to 'drop' shell command will
disable a table on user's behalf when necessary.)
Assignee: (was: Nick Dimiduk)
Resolution: Won't Fix
> add 'force' option for drop table
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>
> Key: HBASE-8378
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8378
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: shell, Usability
> Affects Versions: 0.94.6.1, 0.95.0
> Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: 0001-HBASE-8378-shell-add-force-option-to-drop.patch,
> 0001-HBASE-8378-shell-add-force-option-to-drop.patch
>
>
> Does this logic look familiar?
> {noformat}
> def drop_table(name):
> if (!admin.table_exists?(name):
> return
> if (admin.enabled?(name)):
> admin.disable_table(name)
> admin.drop_table(name)
> {noformat}
> Let's add a force option to 'drop' that does exactly this. We'll save 6 lines
> of code for thousands of developers in millions of scripts.
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