[HBASE-12701] Document how to set the split policy on a given table

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: M Linville
• Reporter: M Linville
• Created: 17/Dec/14 04:14
• Updated: 17/Jun/22 18:34
• Resolved: 10/Feb/15 04:06

Description

Need to document in the ref guide how to set/change the region split policy for a single table user the API and the HBase shell as noted below as an example.
Using Java:
HTableDescriptor tableDesc = new HTableDescriptor("test");
tableDesc.setValue(HTableDescriptor.SPLIT_POLICY, ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy.class.getName());
tableDesc.addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor(Bytes.toBytes("cf1")));
admin.createTable(tableDesc);
Using HBase Shell:
create 'test', {METHOD => 'table_att', CONFIG => {'SPLIT_POLICY' => 'org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy'}},

{NAME => 'cf1'}

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-16076 Cannot configure split policy in HBase shell