HBASE-1777 column length is not checked before saved to memstore

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hbase/trunk@828256 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1908  ROOT not reassigned if only one regionserver left
    HBASE-1915  HLog.sync is called way too often, needs to be only called 1x per
                RPC
+   HBASE-1777  column length is not checked before saved to memstore
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFile.java

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ public class HFile {
   /**
    * Maximum length of key in HFile.
    */
-  public final static int MAXIMUM_KEY_LENGTH = 64 * 1024;
+  public final static int MAXIMUM_KEY_LENGTH = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
   
   /**
    * Default blocksize for hfile.