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Jim Kellerman commented on HBASE-817: ------------------------------------- Why? For convenience? All truncate does is "disable <table name>", "delete <table name>", and "create <table name>"; possibly only saving the specification of the schema (HTableDescriptor) required to recreate the table. > Hbase/Shell Truncate > -------------------- > > Key: HBASE-817 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-817 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Adam Gerber > Priority: Minor > > Hbase Shell should allow for the truncation of tables, similar to the > functionality provided by HQL -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.