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Jim Kellerman resolved HBASE-484.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
Other capabilities will soon exist that obviate the need for this change.
> Store HRegionInfo in META and ROOT as multiple cells instead of a binary field
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> Key: HBASE-484
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-484
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: master, regionserver
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Priority: Trivial
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> Right now we keep our HRegionInfos stored as a stream of bytes in a single
> column in the META and ROOT tables. This is convenient to build and write in
> code under normal circumstances, and we've made the shell deserialize the
> binary into human readable data for display purposes.
> However, we really don't have much flexibility to edit the info through the
> shell since it's binary. This means that when we need some latitude to reach
> in and tweak some stuff because of bugs or just for experimental purposes, we
> have to go and write custom tools in Java to achieve anything.
> One way to mitigate this problem would be to stop storing HRIs as binary data
> and start putting each field into separate first-class columns in META and
> ROOT. This would let us do whatever we want in terms of single-row operations
> in the shell. We wouldn't have to make a special case for reading the data in
> those circumstances then, either.
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