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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:03:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: Rename tables or swap alias
From: Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com>
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There is currently no native support for renaming two tables in one atomic
action.

FYI

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Pat Ferrel <pat@occamsmachete.com> wrote:

> I use Spark to take an old table, clean it up to create an RDD of cleaned
> data. What I=E2=80=99d like to do is write all of the data to a new table=
 in HBase,
> then rename the table to the old name. If possible it could be done by
> changing an alias to point to the new table as long as all external code
> uses the alias, or by a 2 table rename operation. But I don=E2=80=99t see=
 how to do
> this for HBase. I am dealing with a lot of data so don=E2=80=99t want to =
do table
> modifications with deletes and upserts, this would be incredibly slow.
> Furthermore I don=E2=80=99t want to disable the table for more than a tin=
y span of
> time.
>
> Is it possible to have 2 tables and rename both in an atomic action, or
> change some alias to point to the new table in an atomic action. If not
> what is the quickest way to achieve this to minimize time disabled.

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