[HBASE-8378] add 'force' option for drop table

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.6.1, 0.95.0
• Component/s: shell, Usability
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
• Created: 18/Apr/13 21:47
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 06:01
• Resolved: 11/Jun/22 23:27

Description

Does this logic look familiar?

def drop_table(name):
  if (!admin.table_exists?(name):
    return
  if (admin.enabled?(name)):
    admin.disable_table(name)
  admin.drop_table(name)

Let's add a force option to 'drop' that does exactly this. We'll save 6 lines of code for thousands of developers in millions of scripts.