On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Wojciech Indyk <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi!
> I need to describe my HBase tables with some text. I try to find a
> recommended solution, but I didn't. What I can propose is:
> in hbase shell:
> alter 'the_table', {CONFIGURATION => {'COMMENT' => 'Here some text
> what is stored in the_table'}}
> What do you think? Is it safe for HBase engine to put such property?
> desc 'the_table' looks good for me.
>
>
Yes. That will work. You can add arbitrary key/values on a table descriptor
(We tried to 'bless' an 'OWNER' property a while back to encourage folks to
add provenance on a table, useful in a shared cluster of hundreds or
thousands of tables, but it didn't stick).
St.Ack
> --
> Kindly regards,
> Wojciech Indyk
>
