He has a good point on unit test coverage. Atomicity is not a concern for the use case mentioned in this email thread. :-) The two-scan approach doesn't seem to help as the second scan still goes through all the rows if my understanding is correct.
-Thomas On 2/24/12 10:54 AM, "Stack" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Pan, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just a quick heads-up. Ted pointed me to this jira: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5416 >> Max (the author) has confirmed that the patch provides what I want. :-) >> > >What do you think about what Mikhael says on the end? Have you tried >doing two scans; one for the work to do and then another to do the >work? > >St.Ack
