Great, thanks stack! On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:54 AM Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Bryan Beaudreault < > bbeaudrea...@hubspot.com > > wrote: > > > In HBase 1.2.x and higher you can call setMaxResultSize on a Scan to > limit > > the impact of scans that are too aggressive, by bailing out at a certain > > size response. The client side will nicely splice together all of the > > isPartial responses to create a full one as well, pushing the danger to > the > > client side where it belongs. > > > > However, there doesn't appear to be any way to do similar on Gets, > despite > > Gets being backed by Scans under the covers. I do notice > > a setMaxResultsPerColumnFamily, but this seems much less straightforward > > than setMaxResultSize. > > > > Was there a reason that Gets did not get the same treatment that Scans > got? > > We regularly see issues where someone has a large row and does a > > too-aggressive Get against it. We're currently looking to build a wrapper > > using setMaxResultsPerColumnFamily or adding support for setMaxResultSize > > to Gets, but I want to make sure there wasn't a reason it was avoided in > > the first place. > > > > A simple case of Scan myopia/focus I'd say Bryan. Oversight. I don't see > any reason why we shouldn't do Get in same way. In fact it came up recently > in an internal conversation. The difficult part might the protocol going > back and forth adding in an incremental. A Get is a Scan but only after it > arrives at the server. I've not looked but hopefully it could be the same > as Scan. > > St.Ack >