[HBASE-6155] [copytable] Unexpected behavior if --starttime is not specifed but --endtime is.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.90.6, 0.92.1, 0.94.0, 0.95.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Assignee: Prasanna
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 02/Jun/12 23:58
• Updated: 05/Aug/14 20:11
• Resolved: 23/Dec/12 21:59

Description

If one uses copytable and specifies only an endtime, I'd expect to include all rows from unix epoch time upto the specified endtime. Instead, it copies all the rows.

The workaround for copies with this kind of range is to specify --startime=1 (Note not --starttime=0), which is also unintuitive.