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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-4811: -------------------------------------- Hmm... The trunk version still has the backward seek stuff in there. I'm somewhat confused now. The 0.94 version is quite a bit older than the trunk patch. > Support reverse Scan > -------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4811 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4811 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Client > Affects Versions: 0.20.6, 0.94.7 > Reporter: John Carrino > Assignee: Liang Xie > Fix For: 0.98.0 > > Attachments: 4811-0.94-v3.txt, 4811-trunk-v10.txt, > 4811-trunk-v5.patch, HBase-4811-0.94.3modified.txt, HBase-4811-0.94-v2.txt, > hbase-4811-trunkv11.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv12.patch, > hbase-4811-trunkv13.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv14.patch, > hbase-4811-trunkv15.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv16.patch, > hbase-4811-trunkv1.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv4.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv6.patch, > hbase-4811-trunkv7.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv8.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv9.patch > > > All the documentation I find about HBase says that if you want forward and > reverse scans you should just build 2 tables and one be ascending and one > descending. Is there a fundamental reason that HBase only supports forward > Scan? It seems like a lot of extra space overhead and coding overhead (to > keep them in sync) to support 2 tables. > I am assuming this has been discussed before, but I can't find the > discussions anywhere about it or why it would be infeasible. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira