Yeah, depends on getting in namespaces (or lacking that system tables) as well, which could be a little bit. And I'd like to wait until its been used a bit before we consider back-porting to HBase 0.94

Right now I wanted to roll it in here so phoenix folks can start using it with 0.94 (and hopefully find some bugs before it goes into hbase trunk :) and at the same time have a pretty easy upgrade path.