Boris, There is a quicker way but since we currently don't keep a count somewhere, it's always about doing a full table scan.
See how the count is implemented in the shell to learn of the quicker way. Specifically, look at bin/HBase.rb J-D On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boris Aleksandrovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to retrieving the number of rows in the table without doing a > complete scan and counting the number of returned results (via next())? > > -- > Thanks, > > Boris >
