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Eric Newton commented on ACCUMULO-1346:
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Stepping back a bit... deleterows is about aging off a time-based row.
It can be used for other things... like maybe you need to delete some giant
section of a table. It adds a split, and it does unspeakable METADATA table
gyrations.
It's not a subtle tool.
"Ooops, I created a single row that holds half my table's data" is not a use
case. Deleting a single row with a billion entries is not a use case. Accumulo
can delete a billion entries in one hour on a silly 10 node cluster while
randomly killing servers every few minutes.
Delete rows is for hacking away whole tablets. It's a meat cleaver. Finesse
and precision is not it's purpose.
> deleterows should take a -r option
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1346
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1346
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: shell
> Affects Versions: 1.4.2
> Reporter: Mike Drob
> Assignee: Drew Farris
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: hackathon, hackation-5-2013
>
> deleterows only allows an exclusive begin row and an inclusive end row. This
> is difficult to use for deleting a single (large) row. It would be nice if a
> user could specify -r, similar to scan.
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