This is because of the way with which filters and versions are checked in RS. We first do filter op and then apply version. The value filter might have filtered out latest cell but it is applied and succeed on older version and then only the version count begin.. There is an open issue in HBase jira which aims at solving this unexpected behavior.
-Anoop- On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Sreeram <sreera...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > When I scan with ValueFilter on a column, I see that it returns older > versions too if they happen to match the value in the ValueFilter. > > The table column family has the property VERSIONS set to 1. I had set > setMaxVersions to 1 in the scan object. > > I was expecting the value filter to return only the latest values for > the column, provided they match the filter. > > Is this the expected behaviour of ValueFilter? Any suggestions if I > must be setting any options to skip the older values from coming in > the result? > > Thank you > > Regards, > Sreeram
