Not after but only before hitting the prefix - I will check the startRow stuff - I could not find where the seek happens for that...
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was looking at PrefixFilter but going by the implementation - it looks > we > > scan every row until we hit the prefix instead of seeking to the row with > > the required prefix. > > > > I was wondering if there are more efficient alternatives which would do a > > real seek rather than scanning all rows. Would setting startRow and > stopRow > > - effectively seek to startRow and then perform the scan ? > > > > Are you saying the prefix filter keeps reading rows even though it has > passed out the prefix? I'd think it would return true out of > > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/PrefixFilter.html#filterAllRemaining()once > it had gone past rows with the prefix? > > St.Ack >
