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  1. HBase
  2. HBASE-1989

Admin (et al.) not accurate with Column vs. Column-Family usage

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.20.1, 0.90.1
    • 2.0.0
    • Client
    • None
    • Reviewed

    Description

      Consider the classes Admin and HColumnDescriptor.

      HColumnDescriptor is really referring to a "column family" and not a "column" (i.e., family:qualifer).

      Likewise, in Admin there is a method called "addColumn" that takes an HColumnDescriptor instance.

      I labeled this a bug in the sense that it produces conceptual confusion because there is a big difference between a column and column-family in HBase and these terms should be used consistently. The code works, though.

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        1. hbase1989.patch
          4 kB
          Lars Francke
        2. HBASE-1989.patch
          38 kB
          Lars Francke
        3. HBASE-1989-v1.patch
          38 kB
          Lars Francke

        Issue Links

          relates to

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. HBASE-2704 Cleanup HColumnDescriptor

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. HBASE-13645 Rename *column methods in MasterObserver to *columnFamily

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

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              larsfrancke Lars Francke
              dmeil Doug Meil
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