// Once we return from the first call to next, we've run through and cached
// the topN rows, so we no longer need to start/stop a region operation.
firstTuple = iterator.next();
// Now that the topN are cached, we can resize based on the real size
long actualSize = iterator.getByteSize();
chunk.resize(actualSize);
} catch (Throwable t) {
ServerUtil.throwIOException(region.getRegionNameAsString(), t);
return null;
} finally {
region.closeRegionOperation();