Github user hsuanyi commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/461#discussion_r58758011 --- Diff: contrib/storage-hive/core/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/hive/schema/HiveDatabaseSchema.java --- @@ -72,4 +80,76 @@ public String getTypeName() { return HiveStoragePluginConfig.NAME; } + @Override + public List<Pair<String, ? extends Table>> getTablesByNames(final List<String> tableNames) { + final String schemaName = getName(); + final List<Pair<String, ? extends Table>> tableNameToTable = Lists.newArrayList(); + List<org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table> tables; + // Retries once if the first call to fetch the metadata fails + synchronized(mClient) { + final List<String> tableNamesWithAuth = Lists.newArrayList(); + for(String tableName : tableNames) { + try { + if(mClient.tableExists(schemaName, tableName)) { --- End diff -- There are two parts which makes the query slow. One follows from your point; The other is fetching partitions which turned out not used. [1] [1] https://github.com/apache/drill/blob/245da9790813569c5da9404e0fc5e45cc88e22bb/contrib/storage-hive/core/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/hive/DrillHiveMetaStoreClient.java#L236
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