[HBASE-2399] Forced splits only act on the first family in a table

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.92.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Labels: moved_from_0_20_5
• Assignee: Ming Ma
• Reporter: Jonathan Gray
• Created: 01/Apr/10 16:47
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:40
• Resolved: 19/Aug/11 04:02

Description

While working on a patch for HBASE-2375, I came across a few bugs in the existing code related to splits.

If a user triggers a manual split, it flips a forceSplit boolean to true and then triggers a compaction (this is very similar to my current implementation for HBASE-2375). However, the forceSplit boolean is flipped back to false at the beginning of Store.compact(). So the force split only acts on the first family in the table. If that Store is not splittable for some reason (it is empty or has only one row), then the entire region will not be split, regardless of what is in other families.

Even if there is data in the first family, the midKey is determined based solely on that family. If it has two rows and the next family has 1M rows, we pick the split key based on the two rows.

Issue Links

• is part of: HBASE-2375 Revisit compaction configuration parameters