vinothchandar commented on a change in pull request #1396: [HUDI-687] Stop incremental reader on RO table before a pending compaction URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-hudi/pull/1396#discussion_r392043404
########## File path: hudi-hadoop-mr/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/hadoop/HoodieParquetInputFormat.java ########## @@ -116,6 +117,24 @@ return returns.toArray(new FileStatus[returns.size()]); } + /** + * Filter any specific instants that we do not want to process. + * example timeline: + * + * t0 -> create bucket1.parquet + * t1 -> create and append updates bucket1.log + * t2 -> request compaction + * t3 -> create bucket2.parquet + * + * if compaction at t2 takes a long time, incremental readers on RO tables can move to t3 and would skip updates in t1 + * + * To workaround this problem, we want to stop returning data belonging to commits > t2. + * After compaction is complete, incremental reader would see updates in t2, t3, so on. + */ + protected HoodieTimeline filterInstantsTimeline(HoodieTimeline timeline) { Review comment: lets move the code from `HoodieDefaultTimeline` here? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services