You probably put a string in there that was a number, and increment expects a 8 bytes long. For example, if you did:
put 't1', '9row27', 'columnar:column1', '1' Then did an increment on that, it would fail. J-D On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:42 AM, yeshwanth kumar <yeshwant...@gmail.com>wrote: > i am newbie to Hbase, > going through Counters topic, > whenever i perform increment like > > """incr 't1','9row27','columnar:column1',1""" > > it gives an > > ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.DoNotRetryIOException: > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.DoNotRetryIOException: Attempted to increment field > that isn't 64 bits wide > > looking for some help >
