I think adding support for multi table scan over snapshots would be a nice 
feature to have. 


> On Mar 27, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Mains <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We're looking into using TableSnapshotInputFormat on a salted table, and we 
> need to push down conditions on the rest of the rowkey to each bucket (using 
> hive with my patch for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7805). 
> MultiTableInputFormat allows us to do this on HBase proper, but it seems like 
> this isn't yet supported on snapshots. There's nothing in either google or 
> JIRA discussing such a feature afaict, so I thought I'd ask here:
> 
> Would it be reasonable for HBase to support an equivalent of 
> `MultiTableInputFormat` over snapshots? Is there a better alternative that we 
> should be using instead?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andrew

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