This is fixed in trunk. There was a bug that was resetting other options to defaults.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Buttler, David [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Unexpected shell behavior -- changing one column family > attribute resets the others to the default > > Hi all, > I decided I didn't need to keep around extra versions for one of my > tables, so I went in to the shell and changed the VERSION attribute for > the column families to 1. I described the table and noticed that it > was no longer using compression. So I changed the compression > attribute, and now the version attribute is back to 3. This seems > counter-intuitive to me: if I specify only one attribute to change in > a table, I expect that the rest of the attributes to be unchanged and > not to revert to default. > > Dave > Version: CDH3 beta 3
