[HBASE-1829] Make use of start/stop row in TableInputFormat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.2, 0.90.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Splits keep within the confines of star and end rows if provided.
• Assignee: Lars George
• Reporter: Lars George
• Created: 11/Sep/09 16:26
• Updated: 12/Oct/12 06:13
• Resolved: 09/Nov/09 19:36

Description

Since we can now specify a start and stop row with the Scan that is handed to the TIF we can reduce the splits to the regions that contain these rows. That allows to test large MR jobs on a single region for example.