James, thanks for the explain. So my understanding is the Phoenix wraps around HBase client API to create a Pheonix table. Within this wrapper, it will call a "alter table" with the coprocessor when it create a phoenix table, right?
Also, do we need to restart RS after deploy the jar under hbase/lib? Our customers said it has to. But I feel it is unnecessary and weird. Can you confirm? Thanks Tian-Ying -----Original Message----- From: James Taylor [mailto:jtay...@salesforce.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 4:40 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: deploy saleforce phoenix coprocessor to hbase/lib?? When a table is created with Phoenix, its HBase table is configured with the Phoenix coprocessors. We do not specify a jar path, so the Phoenix jar that contains the coprocessor implementation classes must be on the classpath of the region server. In addition to coprocessors, Phoenix relies on custom filters which are also in the Phoenix jar. In theory you could put the jar in HDFS, use the relatively new HBase feature to load custom filters from HDFS, and issue alter table calls for existing Phoenix HBase tables to reconfigure the coprocessors. When new Phoenix tables are created, though, they wouldn't have this jar path. FYI, we're looking into modifying our install procedure to do the above (see https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix/issues/216), if folks are interested in contributing. Thanks, James On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Tianying Chang <tich...@ebaysf.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Since this is not a hbase system level jar, instead, it is more like user > code, should we deploy it under hbase/lib? It seems we can use "alter" to > add the coprocessor for a particular user table. So I can put the jar file > any place that is accessible, e.g. hdfs:/myPath? > > My customer said, there is no need to run 'aler' command. Instead, as long as > I put the jar into hbase/lib, then when phoenix client make read call, it > will add the the coprocessor attr into that table being read. It is kind of > suspicious. Does the phoenix client call a "alter" under cover for the client > already? > > Anyone knows about this? > > Thanks > Tian-Ying
