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Mubarak Seyed commented on HBASE-4991:
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@Stack
bq. sounds like the command/api could also be named merge rather than
deleteRegion (You are not actually deleting the data, is that right?)?
We do delete the data of region (to be deleted)> The real confusion with the
terminology here is that merge makes 2 or more regions into one with data
remains same (but the start/end keys are different after the merge) but
deleteRegion makes one region (or multiple regions) data will be deleted from
HDFS (and make a single region in meta with modified start/end key).
For example:
We have three regions namely R1, R2, and R3
When we do merge R2 with R3 -> new region would be (R2R3)' and data of R2 and
R3 will be moved to (R2R3)'
so, in META it would look like
R1 -> start/end key, location
(R2R3)' -> modified start/end key, location
r4 -> start/end key, location
When we do deleteRange of single region (R2) -> new region would be (R1)',
meaning R1 end key be R2s end key, data of R2 will be deleted, and R1 data will
be merged with R1'
so, in META it would look like
(R1)' -> modified start/end key, location
R3 -> start/end key, location
Make sense?
> Provide capability to delete named region
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> Key: HBASE-4991
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4991
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ted Yu
> Assignee: Mubarak Seyed
> Fix For: 0.94.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE-4991.trunk.v1.patch, HBASE-4991.trunk.v2.patch
>
>
> See discussion titled 'Able to control routing to Solr shards or not' on
> lily-discuss
> User may want to quickly dispose of out of date records by deleting specific
> regions.
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