Jose, hbase-site.xml needs to be on the classpath in order for the config to get picked up. Regarding the empty key value see : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/phoenix-hbase-user/UWdBghSfePo/BmCxOUOPHn8J
-Thomas On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Jose M <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to Phoenix and trying it right now. I had installed it as Parcel in > Cloudera 5.4. > > I'm planning to use it with an already existant Hbase table (other systems > use it and I can't recreate it). I see that I can create it without problem > with the CREATE TABLE command. > > But in case I need to DROP the table afterwards (only from Phoenix), is > there any way to avoid removing the table also from Hbase? Cause I tried the > DROP TABLE command and the table is removed despite setting the > phoenix.schema.dropMetaData property in Phoenix hbase-site.xml with true or > false. > I'm using Phoenix from command line > (/opt/cloudera/parcels/CLABS_PHOENIX-4.3.0-1.clabs_phoenix1.0.0.p0.78/lib/phoenix/bin/sqlline.py) > and I set the property in > /opt/cloudera/parcels/CLABS_PHOENIX-4.3.0-1.clabs_phoenix1.0.0.p0.78/lib/phoenix/bin/hbase-site.xml. > > I also see that Phoenix add an extra column (named _0) with an empty value > in my column family. Is there any way to avoid that? > > Thanks in advance, > >
