Ideally this would return the number of rows in the split's rowkey range. How do we get that without scanning/counting or sampling? This kind of metadata isn't available.
I thing this metadata could be helpful in a number of uses. Do you have any ideas where or how me might track that kind of thing? On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < [email protected]> wrote: > Interesting question here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10413 > > > public long getLength() { // Not clear how to obtain this... seems to be > used only for sorting splits return 0; } > > I did not looked at it, but any clue why it's like that? > > Thanks, > > JM >
