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John Sichi commented on HIVE-2224: ---------------------------------- When you create the review board entry, be sure to specify the JIRA issue number so that it will populate the comments here with links and other info. > Ability to add_partitions, and atomically > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2224 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2224 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Sushanth Sowmyan > Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan > Attachments: HIVE-2224.patch > > > I'd like to see an atomic version of the add_partitions() call. > Whether this is to be done by config to affect add_partitions() behaviour > (not my preference) or just changing add_partitions() default behaviour (my > preference, but likely to affect current behaviour, so will need others' > input) or by making a new add_partitions_atomic() call depends on discussion. > This looks relatively doable to implement (will need a dependent > add_partition_core to not do a ms.commit_partition() early, and to cache list > of directories created to remove on rollback, and a list of AddPartitionEvent > to trigger in one shot later) > Thoughts? This also seems like something to implement for allowing HIVE-1805. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira