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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:41:45 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Todd Lipcon (Commented) (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HBASE-4489) Better key splitting in
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Todd Lipcon commented on HBASE-4489:
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bq. I think lack of unit test is not a gating item for this JIRA.

Why not? Lack of unit tests is what caused the bug in the first place. This is trivially testable.
                
> Better key splitting in RegionSplitter
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-4489
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4489
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.90.4
>            Reporter: Dave Revell
>            Assignee: Dave Revell
>         Attachments: HBASE-4489-branch0.90-v1.patch, HBASE-4489-trunk-v1.patch
>
>
> The RegionSplitter utility allows users to create a pre-split table from the command line or do a rolling split on an existing table. It supports pluggable split algorithms that implement the SplitAlgorithm interface. The only/default SplitAlgorithm is one that assumes keys fall in the range from ASCII string "00000000" to ASCII string "7FFFFFFF". This is not a sane default, and seems useless to most users. Users are likely to be surprised by the fact that all the region splits occur in in the byte range of ASCII characters.
> A better default split algorithm would be one that evenly divides the space of all bytes, which is what this patch does. Making a table with five regions would split at \x33\x33..., \x66\x66...., \x99\x99..., \xCC\xCC..., and \xFF\xFF.

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