diff --git a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/MetaTableAccessor.java b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/MetaTableAccessor.java
index 7cf6bb13831..fc4ebc489f9 100644
--- a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/MetaTableAccessor.java
+++ b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/MetaTableAccessor.java
@@ -329,12 +329,7 @@ public class MetaTableAccessor {
     long regionId = Long.parseLong(Bytes.toString(fields[2]));
     int replicaId = fields.length > 3 ? Integer.parseInt(Bytes.toString(fields[3]), 16) : 0;
     return RegionInfoBuilder.newBuilder(TableName.valueOf(fields[0]))
-              .setStartKey(fields[1])
-              .setEndKey(fields[2])
-              .setSplit(false)
-              .setRegionId(regionId)
-              .setReplicaId(replicaId)
-              .build();
+      .setStartKey(fields[1]).setRegionId(regionId).setReplicaId(replicaId).build();
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestMetaTableAccessor.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestMetaTableAccessor.java
index 20e0edd4ebb..fae0ebc6a67 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestMetaTableAccessor.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestMetaTableAccessor.java
@@ -404,6 +404,29 @@ public class TestMetaTableAccessor {
         MetaTableAccessor.parseReplicaIdFromServerColumn(Bytes.toBytes(column6)));
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The info we can get from the regionName is: table name, start key, regionId, replicaId.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testParseRegionInfoFromRegionName() throws IOException  {
+    RegionInfo originalRegionInfo = RegionInfoBuilder.newBuilder(
+      TableName.valueOf(name.getMethodName())).setRegionId(999999L)
+      .setStartKey(Bytes.toBytes("2")).setEndKey(Bytes.toBytes("3"))
+      .setReplicaId(1).build();
+    RegionInfo newParsedRegionInfo = MetaTableAccessor
+      .parseRegionInfoFromRegionName(originalRegionInfo.getRegionName());
+    assertEquals("Parse TableName error", originalRegionInfo.getTable(),
+      newParsedRegionInfo.getTable());
+    assertEquals("Parse regionId error", originalRegionInfo.getRegionId(),
+      newParsedRegionInfo.getRegionId());
+    assertTrue("Parse startKey error", Bytes.equals(originalRegionInfo.getStartKey(),
+      newParsedRegionInfo.getStartKey()));
+    assertEquals("Parse replicaId error", originalRegionInfo.getReplicaId(),
+      newParsedRegionInfo.getReplicaId());
+    assertTrue("We can't parse endKey from regionName only",
+      Bytes.equals(HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW, newParsedRegionInfo.getEndKey()));
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testMetaReaderGetColumnMethods() {
     assertArrayEquals(HConstants.SERVER_QUALIFIER, MetaTableAccessor.getServerColumn(0));