Why isn't my TakeLimit honored by TableQuery?

Question

I'd like to fetch top n rows from my Azure Table with a simple TableQuery. But with the code below, all rows are fetched regardless of my limit with the Take.

What am I doing wrong?

int entryLimit = 5;

var table = GetFromHelperFunc();

TableQuery<MyEntity> query = new TableQuery<MyEntity>()
    .Where(TableQuery.GenerateFilterCondition("PartitionKey", QueryComparisons.Equal, "MyPK"))
    .Take(entryLimit);

List<FeedEntry> entryList = new List<FeedEntry>();
TableQuerySegment<FeedEntry> currentSegment = null;

while (currentSegment == null || currentSegment.ContinuationToken != null)
{
    currentSegment = table.ExecuteQuerySegmented(query, this.EntryResolver, currentSegment != null ? currentSegment.ContinuationToken : null);
    entryList.AddRange(currentSegment.Results);
}


Trace.WriteLine(entryList.Count) // <-- Why does this exceed my limit?

Answer 1

AFAIK Storage Client Library 2.0 had a bug in Take implementation. It was fixed in ver 2.0.4.
Read last comments at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2012/11/06/windows-azure-storage-client-library-2-0-tables-deep-dive.aspx

[EDIT] Original MSDN post no longer available. Still present on WebArchive: http://web.archive.org/web/20200722170914/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/windowsazurestorage/windows-azure-storage-client-library-2-0-tables-deep-dive