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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-1605: -------------------------------------- I think I understand what you're saying now Chris. But what you want is a distributed Filter? To be able to properly limit (from the start, I assume?) you need to sequentially scan. So a single mapper would make this work. Can you clarify what exactly the behavior you're looking for is? You want the first N rows from the table? Or you want the first N rows from each region of the table? > TableInputFormat should support 'limit' > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-1605 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1605 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Reporter: Chris K Wensel > > Would be useful if TableInputFormat could be passed a 'limit' property value > that limited the total result set to the value of 'limit'. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.