I think its more akin of the typical 'truncate' command. Actually, if someone wanted to extend HBase Shell, I would imagine a simple Ruby er JRuby script could do this? (You would want to disable the table first)
Just a thought. On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > If there is a time consideration here, perhaps you want to do this because > the data isn't interesting after some time interval has elapsed but the > keyspace for new entries will be similar -- then consider using TTLs. It's > easy and they will do what you want, garbage collecting useless data while > not changing region boundaries. > > On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote: > >> Nive to see that it's already in progress ;) >> >> Tian-Ying, thanks for the idea. I will most probably give it a try! >> >> JM >> >> 2013/2/5, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>: >>> Looks like a little polishing would make the tool available in 0.96 :-) >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Kevin O'dell >>> <kevin.od...@cloudera.com <javascript:;>>wrote: >>> >>>> I am a bad person, but I have that JIRA in my name. I need to make the >>>> patch pretty. >>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5525 >>>> >>>> There is a patch there that works, it is just not pretty. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> To my knowledge there is no such tool. >>>>> >>>>> You can file a JIRA in case someone has bandwidth to work on such >> tool. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < >>>>> jean-m...@spaggiari.org <javascript:;> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there an easy way to empty a table but keep the regions? Truncate >>>>>> will remove everything even the splitting. But I want to keep the >>>>>> regions the way they are. I just want to clean them. Is there a >>>>>> simple >>>>>> way to do that with the shell or something like that? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> JM >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin O'Dell >>>> Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) The opinions expressed here are mine, while they may reflect a cognitive thought, that is purely accidental. Use at your own risk. Michael Segel michael_segel (AT) hotmail.com
