getPos() method in RecordReader

[Prasad Chakka]

Hi,

I am currently using getPos() method of RecordReader to get the current
position of the row and use it in indexing. HADOOP-1230 removed this method
in the new RecordReader class in org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce package. I
didn't find any explicit reason for this in the JIRA. Are there any concerns
to adding this method back and possibly something like seek(pos)?

Thanks,
Prasad