drop_all

Daria Barysheva

Definition

Deletes the tables matching the given regular expression. Can be applied only to disabled tables. At first it locates the tables matching the regex, requests confirmation of the operation, and then deletes them permanently.

Usage

drop_all '<table_regex>'
Arguments
Parameter Description

table_regex

A regular expression for searching tables

Examples

hbase(main):013:0> drop_all 't.'
t1
t3

Drop the above 2 tables (y/n)?
y
0 tables successfully dropped
2 tables not dropped due to an exception: t1,t3
Took 4.2576 seconds
hbase(main):014:0> disable_all 't.'
t1
t3

Disable the above 2 tables (y/n)?
y
2 tables successfully disabled
Took 4.4517 seconds
hbase(main):015:0> drop_all 't.'
t1
t3

Drop the above 2 tables (y/n)?
y
2 tables successfully dropped
Took 3.0036 seconds
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