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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:27:48 -0500
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Subject: Re: Does it make sense to add '-bt true' to createtable command?
From: Keith Turner <keith@deenlo.com>
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Adding an option to the createtable shell command to enable bloom
filters seems ok to me.

I do not think we should add another createTable method to
TableOperations.   Just have the shell set the bloom configs by making
additional API calls after it creates the table.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:14 AM, David Medinets
<david.medinets@gmail.com> wrote:
> While I love the flexibility of setting configurations using the shell
> command, it seems like bloom tables are useful enough to warrant
> special handling. If this option makes sense, I'll create a JIRA
> ticket.
>
> I also think that the following section of README.bloom should be
> expanded with the actual commands, unless you're trying to make the
> reader think? It's not obvious that the table names should be, nor
> even if three tables are needed instead of one. Another JIRA ticket?
>
> =A0* Insert 1 million entries using =A0RandomBatchWriter with a seed of 7
> =A0* Flush the table using the shell
> =A0* Insert 1 million entries using =A0RandomBatchWriter with a seed of 8
> =A0* Flush the table using the shell
> =A0* Insert 1 million entries using =A0RandomBatchWriter with a seed of 9
> =A0* Flush the table using the shell
>
> Accumulo does have an auto-flush feature? Why flush between each
> insert instead of at the end?