[HBASE-14804] HBase shell's create table command ignores 'NORMALIZATION_ENABLED' attribute

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0, 1.1.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 2.0.0
• Component/s: shell
• Labels: beginner
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jean-Marc Spaggiari
• Reporter: Romil Choksi
• Created: 13/Nov/15 01:22
• Updated: 30/Dec/15 17:20
• Resolved: 08/Dec/15 19:27

Description

I am trying to create a new table and set the NORMALIZATION_ENABLED as true, but seems like the argument NORMALIZATION_ENABLED is being ignored. And the attribute NORMALIZATION_ENABLED is not displayed on doing a desc command on that table

hbase(main):020:0> create 'test-table-4', 'cf', {NORMALIZATION_ENABLED => 'true'}
An argument ignored (unknown or overridden): NORMALIZATION_ENABLED
0 row(s) in 4.2670 seconds

=> Hbase::Table - test-table-4
hbase(main):021:0> desc 'test-table-4'
Table test-table-4 is ENABLED                                                                                                                                                                               
test-table-4                                                                                                                                                                                                
COLUMN FAMILIES DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                                                                 
{NAME => 'cf', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', TTL => 'FOREVER', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOC
KCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0'}                                                                                                                                           
1 row(s) in 0.0430 seconds

However, on doing an alter command on that table we can set the NORMALIZATION_ENABLED attribute for that table

hbase(main):022:0> alter 'test-table-4', {NORMALIZATION_ENABLED => 'true'}
Unknown argument ignored: NORMALIZATION_ENABLED
Updating all regions with the new schema...
1/1 regions updated.
Done.
0 row(s) in 2.3640 seconds

hbase(main):023:0> desc 'test-table-4'
Table test-table-4 is ENABLED                                                                                                                                                                               
test-table-4, {TABLE_ATTRIBUTES => {NORMALIZATION_ENABLED => 'true'}                                                                                                                                        
COLUMN FAMILIES DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                                                                 
{NAME => 'cf', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', TTL => 'FOREVER', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOC
KCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0'}                                                                                                                                           
1 row(s) in 0.0190 seconds

I think it would be better to have a single step process to enable normalization while creating the table itself, rather than a two step process to alter the table later on to enable normalization