[HBASE-5041] Major compaction on non existing table does not throw error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.90.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.6, 0.92.0, 0.94.0
• Component/s: regionserver, shell
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Shrijeet Paliwal
• Reporter: Shrijeet Paliwal
• Created: 15/Dec/11 18:08
• Updated: 12/Oct/12 05:34
• Resolved: 07/Jan/12 04:36

Description

Following will not complain even if fubar does not exist

echo "major_compact 'fubar'" | $HBASE_HOME/bin/hbase shell

The downside for this defect is that major compaction may be skipped due to
a typo by Ops.