Hi Roger, I think you are hitting: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6564
The above jira was fixed in HBase0.94.1 and later releases. CDH4.1.2 has HBase0.92.1 so it doesn't contains that fix. HTH, Anil Gupta On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Roger Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta
