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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-12462:
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Unfortunately this is not backwards compatible, so we could not add this to
0.98 (and maybe 1.0).
Maybe we can add a new command "delete_family" (or something) for this.
That way we can later also add "delete_version" (again, or something like this)
to delete a specific version of a cell (which is possible through the API, but
not the shell).
> Support deleting all columns of the specified family of a row in hbase shell
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> Key: HBASE-12462
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12462
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: shell
> Reporter: Liu Shaohui
> Assignee: Liu Shaohui
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-12462-v1.diff
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> Currently, HBase shell only support deleting a column of a row in a table. In
> some scenarios, we want to delete all the columns under a a column family of
> a row, but there may be many columns there. It's difficult to delete the
> columns one by one in shell.
> It's easy to add this feature in shell since the Delete have the API of
> deleting a family.
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