My advice is to use a scanner with explicit start/end key (best) or filters (still good), not temporary tables (not so good).
HBase 0.21 will have MultiGet, so that would be another option then. - Andy > From: Geoff Hendrey [...] > As I understand it, you have a table, and you need to do > some set of operations on a subset of the rowIDs in the > table. One idea (and I'm new to this too), would be to > create a temporary table, and write the rows > in question into it. Then you can use a TableMapper on the > temp table. [...]