On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dump table is actually a special case of map job, I'm not sure that it
> should be part of the client API. Rather it should be a separate
> utility class (a la the LoadData* classes) in the library. The same is
> true for the "restore" feature.
>

DUMP TABLE is going to be part of HQL, so that's why I was planning to make
it part of the API.  Also, the output is in the same format as SELECT, so
the restore will be done with LOAD DATA INFILE.


> DumpSpec seems too limiting, why not just use ScanSpec? Initially you
> can limit the ScanSpec to be full table only (empty intervals) and
> enhance later on using the get_scan_splits API.
>

Good point, if it's a separate API, there's no reason I can't use ScanSpec
and throw exceptions for unsupported predicates.

- Doug

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