[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-8361) Bulk load and other utilities should not create tables for user

["Ashish Singhi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ashish Singhi commented on HBASE-8361:
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As [~apurtell] suggests. We can add -Dcreate.table=yes/no argument to the tool, default set to yes to avoid backward incompatibility. Based on this we can decide whether to create a table or not.
I will prepare a patch for this if no objection.

> Bulk load and other utilities should not create tables for user
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-8361
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8361
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapreduce
>            Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
>            Assignee: Ashish Singhi
>
> {{LoadIncrementalHFiles}} and {{ImportTsv}} will create a table with the default setting when the target table does not exist. I think this is an anti-feature. Neither tool provide a mechanism for the user to configure the creation parameters of that table, resulting in a new table with the default settings. I think it is unlikely that the default settings are what the user actually wants. In the event of a table-name typo, that means data is silently loaded into the wrong place. The tools should error when the destination table does not exist.



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