Yuki Tawara created HBASE-20361:
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Summary: Non-succesisve TableInputSplits may wrongly be merged by
auto balancing feature
Key: HBASE-20361
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20361
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Bug
Components: mapreduce
Reporter: Yuki Tawara
TableInputFormatBase class offers users a mechanism to exclude specific splits
from returned list of TableInputFormatBase#getSplits through
TableInputFormatBase#includeRegionInSplit.
It also offers users a feature called "auto balancing" to mitigate data skew by
splitting large splits and merging small splits.
If a user overrides TableInputFormatBase#includeRegionInSplit, i th split and
i+1 th split may not be successive(i th split's end key is smaller than i+1 th
split's start key).
If he or she further enable auto balancing feature, non-successive splits can
be merged, which means excluded splits between merged non-successive splits
"revive".
To avoid such cases, we should not merge non-successive splits.
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