From 211553dd35d9a9da5e9b9142417c00bb7e89ca98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Meil <dmeil@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:11:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HBASE-4837 book.xml, schema design

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1204627 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/docbkx/book.xml | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/docbkx/book.xml b/src/docbkx/book.xml
index e24293964ce..f670a8e97bf 100644
--- a/src/docbkx/book.xml
+++ b/src/docbkx/book.xml
@@ -538,9 +538,9 @@ String table = "myTable";
 admin.disableTable(table);           
 
 HColumnDescriptor cf1 = ...;
-admin.addColumn(table, cf1  );      // adding new ColumnFamily
+admin.addColumn(table, cf1);      // adding new ColumnFamily
 HColumnDescriptor cf2 = ...;
-admin.modifyColumn(table, cf2 );    // modifying existing ColumnFamily
+admin.modifyColumn(table, cf2);    // modifying existing ColumnFamily
 
 admin.enableTable(table);                
       </programlisting>
@@ -548,6 +548,13 @@ admin.enableTable(table);
       <para>Note:  online schema changes are supported in the 0.92.x codebase, but the 0.90.x codebase requires the table
       to be disabled.
       </para>
+    <section xml:id="schema.updates"><title>Schema Updates</title>  
+      <para>When changes are made to either Tables or ColumnFamilies (e.g., region size, block size), these changes
+      take effect the next time there is a major compaction and the StoreFiles get re-written.
+      </para>
+      <para>See <xref linkend="store"/> for more information on StoreFiles.
+      </para>
+    </section>
   </section>   
   <section xml:id="number.of.cfs">
   <title>