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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-8340: ------------------------------------------- Ah ok yes I see, sounds like we may not need to change emptyCompressionContext in seek then. We still need to call next() in a loop tho. > WAL compression handling of seeks seems to be either inefficient or incorrect > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-8340 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8340 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > > In next(...): > {code} > if (compressionContext != null && emptyCompressionContext) { > emptyCompressionContext = false; > } > return ... > {code} > > In seek() > {code} > if (compressionContext != null && emptyCompressionContext) { > while (next() != null) { > if (getPosition() == pos) { > emptyCompressionContext = false; > break; > } > } > ... > reader.seek(pos); > {code} > So, seek will seek the file directly if either any next, or any seek, has > been called before. > I am not sure what this code is for, but my best guess is that it is to > populate the dictionary for compression. > If it is so, it would seem that one next() call (or even one seek() call) > would not be enough, and seek must always use next(), otherwise it is > incorrect. > If we assume that one next() is enough to be able to use reader.seek, as the > current code would seem to imply, then there's no need for the first seek to > call next() in a loop - it can call next once and then do reader.seek. > Note: even in case if all of this works fine because external usage creates > the object and does one seek before any next-s, and no seeks after (the only > bug-free pattern currently possible with both methods used if I'm not > mistaken), then the code needs to be tightened and bug potential removed. -- 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