[HBASE-6835] HBaseAdmin.flush claims to be asynchronous but appears to be synchronous

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Assignee: Gregory Chanan
• Reporter: Gregory Chanan
• Created: 19/Sep/12 01:58
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 18:30
• Resolved: 19/Sep/12 20:34

Description

Relevant comment:

   * Flush a table or an individual region.
   * Asynchronous operation.

but it looks like it's synchronous. In fact, it returns whether the flush ran or not:

message FlushRegionResponse {
  required uint64 lastFlushTime = 1;
  optional bool flushed = 2;
}

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-4198 Harmonize HBA flush, compact and majorCompact