The only use case I can think of is to use a region observer to control access on a Region level by intercepting actions on the .META. table, but that seems far fetched.
I'll file a case and come up with a patch. -- Lars ________________________________ From: Stack <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; lars hofhansl <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 9:30 PM Subject: Re: RegionObserver and system tables (-ROOT-, .META.) Its one think mucking up your user-space tables but catalog tables are a different story. St.Ack On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote: >> That led me to question: Should a RegionObserver be allowed to interfere >> with the system tables? >> >> Opinions? >> >> > > I'd think no. > St.Ack >
