Oh, forgot, there is http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#getRowOrBefore(byte[], byte[]) See what happens if you pass it the empty byte array; i.e. the last row in a table (last logical row is an empty byte array as is first logical row)
St.Ack On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Weishung: > For max, you can enumerate the regions for your table. Start the scan from > the first row in the last region. > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > For min, you can write your own filter which extends FilterBase so that >> the >> > scan stops after seeing the first row. >> > >> >> Or just start the scan at the a row whose name is the empty byte array >> and kill the scan after the first return; the first return will be the >> first row in table. >> >> I don't know how to get the last row in a table, easily. >> >> St.Ack >> >
