virajjasani commented on a change in pull request #2330:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/2330#discussion_r479731274
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File path:
hbase-balancer/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/MetaTableAccessor.java
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@@ -354,20 +354,6 @@ private static boolean isMergeQualifierPrefix(Cell cell) {
PrivateCellUtil.qualifierStartsWith(cell,
HConstants.MERGE_QUALIFIER_PREFIX);
}
- /**
- * Checks if the specified table exists. Looks at the hbase:meta table
hosted on the specified
- * server.
- * @param connection connection we're using
- * @param tableName table to check
- * @return true if the table exists in meta, false if not
- */
- public static boolean tableExists(Connection connection, final TableName
tableName)
- throws IOException {
- // Catalog tables always exist.
- return tableName.equals(TableName.META_TABLE_NAME) ||
- getTableState(connection, tableName) != null;
- }
-
/**
* Lists all of the regions currently in META.
* @param connection to connect with
Review comment:
`get(TableName tableName)` is a good candidate for returning
`Optional<TableDescriptor>`, but anyways nothing related to this change.
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