Gary to the rescue! Does it still count as being right even if you cannot prove it for yourself? ;)
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Gary Helmling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sorry Kristoffer, but I believe my previous statement was mistaken. I > > cannot find a location where the timestamp is taken into account at the > > StoreFile level. I thought the above statement about metadata from the > > HFile headers was correct, but I cannot locate the code that takes such > > information into consideration. > > > > I believe the filtering happens in StoreScanner.selectScannersFrom(), which > calls StoreFileScanner.shouldUseScanner() for each store file. See also > StoreFile.passesTimerangeFilter(), which does the check that the Scan's > time range is included in the time range from the store file metadata. > > So store files which fall completely outside of the Scan's min/max > timestamps should be excluded. >
