Hello, we are currently using Cloudera CDH4.1.2 and have the following problem: Assume we have a column family in HBase that already contains data that we want to get rid of. In past versions of HBase it was possible to delete this CF and re-create it and it contained no data afterwards. Now in version 0.92.1-cdh4.1.2 if a CF is re-created with the same name, the data is still in this CF.
http://pastebin.com/svUuAQd1 shows a demo shell session with this behavior. Is the only way to keep a CF but to discard its data to "manually" put a delete on every value? Because the advantage of discarding and re-creating a CF with messed up data is that this was a very fast solution. Thanks.
