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
