[HBASE-15907] Missing documentation of create table split options

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Labels: documentation patch
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: documentation changes only - added section to Shell tricks and cross reference from region splitting section
• Assignee: ronan stokes
• Reporter: ronan stokes
• Created: 28/May/16 02:10
• Updated: 31/May/16 23:28
• Resolved: 31/May/16 20:54

Description

Earlier versions of the online documentation seemed to have more material around the split options available in the HBase shell - but these seem to have been omitted in the process of various updates.

Presplitting has minimal matches and only brings up references to presplitting from code.

However there are a number of options relating to creation of splits in tables available in the HBase shell

For example :

• create table with set of split literals
• create table specifying number of splits and a split algorithm
• create table specifying a split file