Github user sudheeshkatkam commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/592#discussion_r79663056 --- Diff: contrib/storage-hive/core/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/hive/schema/HiveDatabaseSchema.java --- @@ -78,17 +79,34 @@ public String getTypeName() { } @Override - public List<Pair<String, ? extends Table>> getTablesByNamesByBulkLoad(final List<String> tableNames) { + public List<Pair<String, ? extends Table>> getTablesByNamesByBulkLoad(final List<String> tableNames, final int bulkSize) { + final int totalTables = tableNames.size(); final String schemaName = getName(); - final List<Pair<String, ? extends Table>> tableNameToTable = Lists.newArrayList(); - List<org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table> tables; - try { - tables = DrillHiveMetaStoreClient.getTableObjectsByNameHelper(mClient, schemaName, tableNames); - } catch (TException e) { - logger.warn("Exception occurred while trying to list tables by names from {}: {}", schemaName, e.getCause()); - return tableNameToTable; + final List<org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table> tables = Lists.newArrayList(); + + // In each round, Drill asks for a sub-list of all the requested tables + for(int fromIndex = 0; fromIndex < totalTables; fromIndex += bulkSize) { + final int toIndex = Math.min(fromIndex + bulkSize, totalTables); + final List<String> eachBulkofTableNames = tableNames.subList(fromIndex, toIndex); + List<org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table> eachBulkofTables; + // Retries once if the first call to fetch the metadata fails + synchronized(mClient) { --- End diff -- why synchronized?
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