I ran into this issue as well recently. Out of the box you can only specify one field as the row key, using HBASE_ROW_KEY as an argument to the importtsv program. I had to create my own ImportTsv class to add in the functionality to specify multiple fields as parts of the row key.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Vivek Krishna <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a TSV file like this : > a b c d e > > I want the rowkey to be a_d and the rest to be column fields. Is there a > way of doing this using importtsv out of the box or do I need to touch the > code? > > Viv >
