On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to be able to create a Scanner that returns RowResults that include
> some (or all) versions of each column.  It seems that Scanner is limited in
> that it returns RowResults that include only the latest versions.  Is there
> a reason for this limitation.  Is there a recommended way of working around
> this?
>

Hopefully fixed in hbase 0.20.0, out in next month or so (HBASE-52).



>
> For example, I could use the Scanner simply to iterate over the rows and
> then call Htable.getRow() on each row to retrieve all cell versions for each
> row.  However, I assume there'd be a significant performance penalty for
> doing something like this.


It would work but as you suggest, it'd cost.

St.Ack

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