In that case, I think it's probably sufficient to let the users know the
risks of bulk importing and never bringing it online for compactions. It
seems like that's a risk some users might be okay with for their use case.
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 19:38 Dave Marion wrote:
> Yes, if the table is never
Yes, if the table is never brought online. I believe that Keith said that
the table could still be scanned when offline with existing MapReduce code
or the OfflineScanner, which presents an issue that is not currently
handled. I think we discussed today that the same thing could be achieved
with ta
What do you mean by "when not used in this manner"? What other way is
there to use that feature? Do you mean simply never being brought
online?
Would it be possible to support (external) compactions for an offline table?
I feel like that's a pretty useful feature to revert, and would want
to cons
Keith and I had a discussion today (that included some user input)
regarding table operations with the new OnDemand table concept. I have put
the notes up on the wiki at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=247828052.
One thing that came out of that is that we may want
