Re: Semantics of the split function

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Purtell
gnored, for that region. - Andy From: Naresh Rapolu To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 1:15:43 PM Subject: Semantics of the split function Hello, May I know the actual working/semantics of a call to split(

Semantics of the split function

2009-11-18 Thread Naresh Rapolu
Hello, May I know the actual working/semantics of a call to split(String tableNameOrRegionName)function in HBaseAdmin class. I mean, if all the data belonged to one region before the call to split function, what can be deterministically expected of the result ? How many regions are