milleruntime commented on issue #1647: URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/1647#issuecomment-653182711
From @EdColeman Now sure if this helps - but there is a use case for having an empty tablet. If a user processes a data set and generates multiple tables, say data, metrics and errors - the ideal case would be that there are no errors (so an empty table). Rather than handling the logic of if the table does not exist, there must be no errors, it was simpler for their query / scan logic to have the empty table. The idea is that if there are issues, they could scan the errors to determine where things are going off the rails. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
