[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-8378) add 'force' option for drop table

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

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Andrew Purtell updated HBASE-8378:
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    Status: Open  (was: Patch Available)

Cancelling stale patch.
Close?

> add 'force' option for drop table
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-8378
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8378
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: shell, Usability
>    Affects Versions: 0.95.0, 0.94.6.1
>            Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
>            Assignee: Nick Dimiduk
>         Attachments: 0001-HBASE-8378-shell-add-force-option-to-drop.patch, 0001-HBASE-8378-shell-add-force-option-to-drop.patch
>
>
> Does this logic look familiar?
> {noformat}
> def drop_table(name):
>   if (!admin.table_exists?(name):
>     return
>   if (admin.enabled?(name)):
>     admin.disable_table(name)
>   admin.drop_table(name)
> {noformat}
> Let's add a force option to 'drop' that does exactly this. We'll save 6 lines of code for thousands of developers in millions of scripts.



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