[HBASE-5076] HBase shell hangs when creating some 'illegal' tables.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.92.0, 0.94.1, 0.94.2, 0.95.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Component/s: shell
• Labels: patch
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Liang Xie
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 20/Dec/11 15:46
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 18:30
• Resolved: 31/Aug/12 22:18

Description

In hbase shell. These commands hang:

create 'hbase.version','foo'
create 'splitlog','foo'

Interestingly

create 'hbase.id','foo'
create existingtablename, 'foo'
create '.META.','foo'
create '-ROOT-','foo'

are properly rejected.

We should probably either rename to make the files illegal table names (hbase.version to .hbase.version and splitlog to .splitlog) or we could add more special cases.