Aditya Kishore created HBASE-6692:
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Summary: [shell] Cannot describe '.META.' or '-ROOT-' tables
Key: HBASE-6692
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6692
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Bug
Components: shell
Affects Versions: 0.94.1, 0.96.0
Reporter: Aditya Kishore
Assignee: Aditya Kishore
This got introduced as a side effect of HBASE-3313. Now it is not possible to
describe '.META.' or '\-ROOT\-' tables from HBase shell.
{noformat}
hbase(main):002:0> describe '-ROOT-'
DESCRIPTION
ENABLED
ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal first character <45> at 0.
User-space table names can only start with 'word characters': i.e.
[a-zA-Z_0-9]: -ROOT-
Here is some help for this command:
Describe the named table. For example:
hbase> describe 't1'
{noformat}
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