That's the way I thought it should work. When I setup a filter with data that I know shouldn't return any data I still get rows back.
-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Rawson [mailto:ryano...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:32 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Scan Question no, if you provide a list of columns in your Scan query and a particular row does not actually contain _that specific column_, then the filter does not see anything and nothing for that row is returned. -ryan On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Peter Haidinyak <phaidin...@local.com> wrote: > If I have a table where some of the columns might not have values in each row > and I do a scan with a CompareFilter.CompareOp.EQUAL type filter on one of > those columns will the scan bring back rows where there is no value in the > column I am comparing on? > > Thanks > > -Pete >
