Switching to user@ http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#datamodel
By column I guess you mean column qualifier. The addition of column qualifier in future writes can be performed based on existing schema. On application side, when row retrieved doesn't contain the new column qualifier, you can interpret as seeing default value of 2. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:07 PM, satishleo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a hbase newbie so posing this question, I need to add an integer > column > to hbase table with default value 2 and also need to back fill the column > value to 2 for the existing rows. > > could someone please let me know how to do this. > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-hbase.679495.n3. > nabble.com/adding-a-column-to-exiting-tables-tp4082097.html > Sent from the HBase Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
