[jira] [Comment Edited] (HBASE-20243) [Shell] Add shell command to create a new table by cloning the existent table

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

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Appy edited comment on HBASE-20243 at 3/23/18 9:56 AM:
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bq. I think it would be more convenient if we had a command to clone the table directly.
i think so too.
Edit: Because in one-off or evolving cases, unlike set pattern as you guys have, the only other way i can think of is snapshot + clone + truncate which is too many steps. (Or is there a another better way?)

But the command name sure is confusing, given what 'clone' has meant historically in hbase world; cloning a snapshot means both schema + data gets copied.
Can we please rename it to cloneTableSchema?


was (Author: appy):
bq. I think it would be more convenient if we had a command to clone the table directly.
i think so too.

But the command name sure is confusing, given what 'clone' has meant historically in hbase world; cloning a snapshot means both schema + data gets copied.
Can we please rename it to cloneTableSchema?

> [Shell] Add shell command to create a new table by cloning the existent table
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-20243
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20243
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: shell
>            Reporter: Guangxu Cheng
>            Assignee: Guangxu Cheng
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.1.0
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-20243.master.001.patch
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>
> In the production environment, we need to create a new table every day. The schema and the split keys of the table are the same as that of yesterday's table, only the name of the table is different. For example, xxxxx_20180321,xxxxx_20180322 etc.But now there is no convenient command to do this. So we may need such a command(clone_table) to create a new table by cloning the existent table.



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